Offset, Cardi B, and the Spectacle of Male Introspection
The Migos member’s solo album takes on the trappings of profundity as the rapper lists his struggles earnestly—and within limits.
One of the only genuinely funny SNL parodies of hip-hop came last year, when the show imagined a rap trio, The Friendos, in therapy. “I feel like every time I bring up emotional conflict, he wanna talk about the Lambo’,” Chris Redd’s chains-and-florals-wearing rapper told the bespectacled psychologist played by Cecily Strong. Kenan Thompson immediately hooted, in a clear send-up of Migos’s famous ad libs, “Lambo!”
It turns out that the Atlanta group satirized by the sketch was annoyed by it. “We didn’t like that skit, cause it was like total opposite of the Migos,” Offset . “Like, we rock with each other. We ain’t arguing. And then, I felt like it was interpreted like we was some dodo birds.”
