Thirty years after Jodeci sang about wanting to freak you every freakin’ night, Offset and Don Toliver are running that line back.
Their new single “Every Night” opens on JoJo Hailey’s voice from the group’s 1995 hit “Freek’n You,” with Offset dropping ad-libs over the top before anyone raps a word.
The song is the latest preview of GMFU, the Offset album due October 23. Production comes from Jaasu, who keeps the Jodeci hook front and center instead of chopping it into something unrecognizable.
This is the first time Offset and Toliver have linked up since “WORTH IT” in 2023. That track came off Offset’s Set It Off album, and the pairing worked well enough that a second round always felt likely.
The original “Freek’n You” was never subtle, and “Every Night” doesn’t try to be either. If you know the Jodeci record, you already know what this one is about.
Offset handles the opening verse, rapping around more slices of the sample so the old hook keeps popping back in between his bars.
He leans into short, clipped lines like “Baby girl know we grown,” with the “every freakin’ night” refrain answering him like a backing singer.
Toliver takes the second verse somewhere warmer. He flies his partner out to Honolulu, working in a line about Waikiki and a joke about not wanting a “three-peat,” all delivered in the floaty melodic style that has made him one of rap’s go-to hook guys.
The two approach the beat in very different ways. Offset treats the sample as a rhythm to bounce against, while Toliver drifts over it, closer in spirit to the R&B source than to a typical rap verse.
For Jodeci fans, the flip carries its own weight. The North Carolina group, made up of brothers K-Ci and JoJo Hailey alongside DeVante Swing and Mr. Dalvin, built a reputation in the ’90s for R&B that was rougher and more openly sexual than a lot of what surrounded it.
“Freek’n You” came from the group’s 1995 album The Show, The After Party, The Hotel. Hearing JoJo’s vocal anchor a rap single three decades later shows how much that era still feeds the genre.
A hook this familiar can cut both ways. Some listeners will hear a beloved R&B record recycled and wish the beat had dug a little deeper, while others will hit replay because the chorus already lives in their heads.
The full lyrics are already up on Genius. With GMFU set for October 23, the bigger question is what else Offset has lined up for the rest of the tracklist.
