A late-August refresh with a point to prove. Offset has reloaded his third solo era with KIARI:OFFSET Deluxe, out 28 August 2025 via Motown.
Four new tracks, a rock-leaning BNYX® mix of Bodies with JID and Drowning Pool, and a run of tightly linked videos directed by SheShe Pendleton and Mikey Rare push the album into watch-as-you-listen territory.
“KIARI is me. I challenged myself as an artist and really put it all into the music. I took my time putting this project together,” Offset says, framing the drop as a statement rather than a tidy repack.
The deluxe lands with a clear headline: “Bodies (BNYX® Mix)” takes the Hot 100-charting single and drags it through heavier guitars and thicker low-end, doubling down on the Drowning Pool source without losing the snap that made the June release stick.
The Motown store page spells out the extras, including How Did We Get Here? with CeeLo Green, plus Athlete, History, and a returning Swing My Way. That brings the set to 23 tracks.
Bodies matters here for more than name recognition. The single debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the No. 1 most-added at Urban radio, per the label.
The original single credits Vinylz, FNZ, Cashmere Brown, and BoogzDaBeast on production; the deluxe’s BNYX® mix leans further into the metal-meets-choir menace while keeping the JID volley intact.
Offset has been blunt about why this record carries a different charge: “It feels very personal… how serious the moment in time is for me to prevail,” he told AP, and you hear that urgency in both the original version and the new mix.
Away from the single, the album’s through-line sharpens. Offset has said, “This is my album, so I gotta be straight raw,” a neat translation of the therapy-room motif that runs through the visuals.
That room shows up again and again in the new clips from Pendleton and Rare, who steer a minimal, concept-first look across a slate of videos that now covers most of the tracklist.
The result is a tidy ecosystem where the confessions on record are mirrored on screen.
The personal stakes are unmissable. Move On, which closes the non-deluxe sequence, is explicitly about the end of his marriage to Cardi B.
Offset has described the song as a peaceful goodbye, “It’s all love and peace… it’s a book that’s closed.”
That clarity helps the deluxe read less like a marketing add-on and more like a final chapter that widens the frame.
If the album’s name hadn’t already given it away, KIARI is built to show the man behind the alias.
Production credits stretch from Honorable C.N.O.T.E. and London on da Track to Fridayy, FNZ, Oz, and BoogzDaBeast, a roster that suits the record’s switch between chest-out flex and smoke-stained confession.
Offset’s line about personal stakes lands because the beats don’t try to overtalk him; they leave room for the scars and the shine to sit side by side.
The CeeLo Green link-up, How Did We Get Here?, is the other key signal in the deluxe package.
It tilts toward classic soul phrasing over Offset’s crisp cadences, a small detour that still fits the album’s larger arc of legacy and self-reckoning.
Bodies was already a conversation starter before today’s update. American press called it a hit, and the chart entry backs that up.
If you listened to Bodies as a blunt-force club record, the BNYX® mix nudges you to hear the bones a little differently, the sample feels like the room talking back, and the choir under the hook turns from support to a shadow that won’t leave.
Offset has spoken about pulling from life events on this album.
You can hear why he keeps returning to this track as the anchor: it balances hunger with a kind of weary pride, and the deluxe gives it a new coat without sanding off the grit.
The videos lock the world in place. The team of SheShe Pendleton and Mikey Rare runs through clips for Back in That Mode with YFN Lucci, Prada Myself with Teezo Touchdown, Favorite Girl with Ty Dolla $ign, Pills with YoungBoy Never Broke Again, plus the already-out Never Let Go, Professional, and “Bodies.”
It reads like a proper visual diary rather than a scatter of uploads.
If you want the cleanest snapshot of where Offset sits now, it’s in the mix of collaborators and the way he talks about the project.
He’s “always trying to rebrand and recreate,” as one radio stop teased, but the album’s centre of gravity is steady – grief, family, legacy, work. KIARI was the reveal; the deluxe is the underline.
Stream it below, then jump straight into the video suite to see how the therapy room looks when the camera refuses to blink.
If fans called Set It Off the proof of concept, this looks like the season where Kiari Kendrell Cephus refuses to tidy up the edges.
With a new mix that bites harder, a director duo threading the visuals into one room, and a closer that settles recent history without bitterness, the deluxe fixes the frame, showing KIARI with fewer distractions and more intent.
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