diff --git a/bot.py b/bot.py
index 3b0a779..a8e7262 100644
--- a/bot.py
+++ b/bot.py
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
+import asyncio
+from aioredis.client import Redis
 import discord
 from discord.colour import Color
 from discord.ext import commands
 import sys
+from signal import SIGINT, SIGTERM
 import json
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Sequence
 from discord import Message
@@ -11,6 +14,10 @@ from discord.ext.commands.errors import (
     ExtensionNotFound,
     NoEntryPointError,
 )
+import aioredis
+from aioredis import Redis
+
+from context import CustomContext
 
 
 class ChristmasBot(commands.Bot):
@@ -23,6 +30,9 @@ class ChristmasBot(commands.Bot):
         self.initial_cog_names: List[str] = self.config.get("cogs", [])
         self.colors: Dict[str, Color] = self.process_colours(config.get("colors", []))
 
+        self._redis_client: Redis = aioredis.from_url(
+            self.config["redis_url"], encoding="utf-8", decode_responses=True
+        )
         self.invite_link: str = ""
 
         super().__init__(
@@ -69,6 +79,9 @@ class ChristmasBot(commands.Bot):
             colour_dict[name] = Color(int(color, 16))
         return colour_dict
 
+    async def get_context(self, message: Message, *, cls=CustomContext):
+        return await super().get_context(message, cls=cls)
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     try:
diff --git a/config.json.sample b/config.json.sample
index 285e92c..f3ab845 100644
--- a/config.json.sample
+++ b/config.json.sample
@@ -2,13 +2,7 @@
     "token": "",
     "owner_ids": [194545408960102400, 190875175460405249],
     "prefixes": ["ck!"],
-    "database": {
-        "host": "",
-        "port": 3306,
-        "user": "",
-        "password": "",
-        "db": ""
-    },
+    "redis_url": "",
     "lavalink": {
         "host": "",
         "port": 2333,
diff --git a/context.py b/context.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c518260
--- /dev/null
+++ b/context.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+from aioredis.client import Redis
+from discord.ext import commands
+
+
+class CustomContext(commands.Context):
+    def get_redis(self) -> Redis:
+        return self.bot._redis_client
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 9095636..f08b96d 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -16,6 +16,21 @@ yarl = ">=1.0,<1.6.0"
 [package.extras]
 speedups = ["aiodns", "brotlipy", "cchardet"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "aioredis"
+version = "2.0.0"
+description = "asyncio (PEP 3156) Redis support"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+async-timeout = "*"
+typing-extensions = "*"
+
+[package.extras]
+hiredis = ["hiredis (>=1.0)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "async-timeout"
 version = "3.0.1"
@@ -258,7 +273,7 @@ python-versions = ">=3.6"
 name = "typing-extensions"
 version = "3.10.0.2"
 description = "Backported and Experimental Type Hints for Python 3.5+"
-category = "dev"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 
@@ -290,7 +305,7 @@ multidict = ">=4.0"
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = "^3.8"
-content-hash = "9ecfdbfb13478abd79ab060516a2001a0706019f52c946f63e5ebb308e01622f"
+content-hash = "3e8f3b5171be334aaa606cd70df03f9b0ac49cb2f78b69723ff49233ce9c1cd3"
 
 [metadata.files]
 aiohttp = [
@@ -308,6 +323,10 @@ aiohttp = [
     {file = "aiohttp-3.6.3-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:687461cd974722110d1763b45c5db4d2cdee8d50f57b00c43c7590d1dd77fc5c"},
     {file = "aiohttp-3.6.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:698cd7bc3c7d1b82bb728bae835724a486a8c376647aec336aa21a60113c3645"},
 ]
+aioredis = [
+    {file = "aioredis-2.0.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:9921d68a3df5c5cdb0d5b49ad4fc88a4cfdd60c108325df4f0066e8410c55ffb"},
+    {file = "aioredis-2.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:3a2de4b614e6a5f8e104238924294dc4e811aefbe17ddf52c04a93cbf06e67db"},
+]
 async-timeout = [
     {file = "async-timeout-3.0.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:0c3c816a028d47f659d6ff5c745cb2acf1f966da1fe5c19c77a70282b25f4c5f"},
     {file = "async_timeout-3.0.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:4291ca197d287d274d0b6cb5d6f8f8f82d434ed288f962539ff18cc9012f9ea3"},
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c560149..1291457 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ lavalink = "^3.1.4"
 humanize = "^3.12.0"
 "discord.py" = { git = "https://github.com/iDevision/enhanced-discord.py", branch = "2.0", extras = ["voice", "speed"] }
 uvloop = {version = "^0.16.0", optional = true}
+aioredis = "^2.0.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 black = {version = "^21.9b0", allow-prereleases = true}