Zhamak Fullad / via publicist
It’s been less than a year and a half since OsamaSon dropped JumpOut, but it feels like the ascendant South Carolinian has been on a rocket to the moon ever since. He toured behind that album, then dropped the even-more-moshpit-ready psykotic, one of our top albums of 2025, and toured behind that record too. His set at this year’s Rolling Loud was titanic, he just modeled for Balenciaga, and hype for his next album NOCTURNAL is sky-high. Speaking more personally, I’d call OsamaSon the best rage rapper out – his music isn’t just “hard-knocking” or “banging,” but keenly aware of melody and negative space, every 808 and distortion filter calibrated just so.
Released to celebrate his birthday, “off that!” is a squiggly, bouncy track, instantly recalling the delirium of fan favorites “Slime U Out” and “Werkin.” At first blush, it might seem like business as usual, but everything about this track feels just a touch crisper and cleaner than his past work. Lil O’s squeaked flow, which burrows through unexpected cracks in the instrumental: “I’m in a big room right now I’m off them shits!” And the scuzzy beat, produced by 1st Class, Dayever, and Trisstt, swarms with tiny glistening gummy worms of ear candy: barely audible synthlines, a ghostly choir of OsamaSon’s own adlibs, ice endlessly shaking in a styrofoam cup. If this is what being NOCTURNAL sounds like, who needs the sun?
