The Breakfast Club - All The Smoke: Quavo: Cafeteria Moment That MADE Migos, Takeoff's Rap Genius & Working w/ Childish Gambino & Drake

Episode Date: June 29, 2025

The Black Effect Presents... All The Smoke! Quavo joins All The Smoke for a powerful conversation about his journey from Georgia to global fame and the work he’s doing to end gun violence through the Rocket Foundation. He reflects on his early days in music, playing quarterback, and how he met Offset in 8th grade after dropping a mixtape with Takeoff. The episode dives into Migos’ rise, their creative process, and how Takeoff’s legacy continues to inspire him. Quavo also opens up about his biggest lessons, producing with Zaytoven, working with Drake, and what the Rocket Foundation means to him today.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Welcome back to a special edition of All the Smoke coming to you live from the College Football Hall of Fame on behalf of the Rocket Foundation and my brother Quavo. Man, this is a long time coming, bro. We've been trying to connect for like four years to get you on the show and we're finally here. Man man really excited man of many hats. We've partnered in legends and talked about doing some other things. So why are we out here? What you got going on today?

We celebrate in the rocket foundation. We're doing the rocket foundation of course, but we celebrate my nephew birthday. We put it all in one calling the summit. And we just doing this for a purpose, Making sure to take off legacy, his name, stay alive and we gotta be frontlining and do something about it, you know, from the politics sides and the street side. So like, we just merging this together and building this big old foundation, this big old family, this big, you are not alone crew, this big superhero group.

Like, I feel like we just here to just embrace all that energy of like when you when you lose a loved one we here for you. Introduce us to who's to your right. My dog Greg Jackson you know I'm saying president of the Rockett Foundation I'm gonna break it down on how he you know started and came here and with me. Tell us a little bit about your background too Greg because we because we ran across paths, what year was that? 2022? Oh man, 2022, yeah. Straight out of the White House.

When I came into the White House, because I worked with a group. Advanced Peace. Advanced Peace, forgive me. We're out there in California. But yeah, tell us how you started, where you started with the Biden administration and how you moved your way over with Quavo.

Well, my work on this issue started in April of 2013. I was leaving the club with my cousins and just like so many moments, we got caught in the middle of a crossfire. Bullets rang out and I was hit. The bullet that hit me hit two arteries, nearly cost me my life. And I got within 30 minutes of dying from blood loss

and went through six surgeries, six months of recovery. But in that moment I just kept telling myself if I could ever get back on my feet, like I want to do everything I can to make sure no one else goes through what I went through. And since then unfortunately I've lost a couple mentees and a few friends to gun violence. It's just a huge issue that keeps raging forward. But I've been an outspoken activist for now over 12 years, fought to pass policy in Washington, D.C. We passed the first bill in 30 years on gun violence, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. And then shortly after that, I met Cuavo and, you know, unfortunately through tragedy, but he was determined to make it triumph,

you know, and to make sure that there's power in the loss that happened. And we went to the White House, he went to the White House, sat down with the vice president, we met with members of Congress and said, hey, we need a team that can help address this issue every day.

And President Biden and Vice President Harris answered and created the first ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention in 2023. I don't know if it was you that did it but I got hired and so I was a deputy director there for about a year and a half and in that job we moved 42 billion dollars into gun violence prevention. We did 54 executive actions and we fully implemented that big law that made gun trafficking a federal offense, added more money for victims of violence and really added more resources for mental health and youth Programs and a lot of the programs that now the rocket foundation is working with and so

It's been the honor of my life to to serve in the White House And and you know, I just thank God every day that he got me out of that hospital bed So what is the goal and you guys can take turns kind of telling, what is the goal of this because I know we're going to talk a little bit later on the panel, but you're kind of setting up a situation where people can get ahold of you, a coalition of athletes and entertainers and ecosystem where people having issues with gun violence, they can call you up and you got boots on the ground. Explain to us a little bit more about that situation.

Right, we just, like you said, it goes around the world. You know what I'm saying? It happens every day, it happens in all cities, man. I'm pretty sure y'all background, y'all had, you know what I'm saying, seen it or been in it. And so we just, you know, kind of becoming those big bros and those leaders who just like, you can get on the phone

and figure something out instead of going, retaliating in the streets and being like, doing it the wrong way. It's like we need to go to the big way. We need to go to the White House. We need to try to change some laws. We need to link up together and get front line and really like, and go hard about this.

Cause you see like other family members and they be wanting like change. They want like, they want something to be done. And you just can't, you know what I'm saying? You can't just leave the house and just crash out all the time. So like, I feel like I had to put like my patience, my time, my heart, even my ego, I had to sit aside.

You know what I'm saying? It's hard every time I do these summits, I feel like, like one, I was there. This is my nephew So I'm always like supposed to take care of him and bring him home at any situation. So Starting from like I said starting from this and the foundation is just it's the only way I think I know right now and Then I'm just looking for like I want to be that vessel. I want to be that answer I want to be that guy that you can call on that there's been through it too. So that's that vessel, I wanna be that answer, I wanna be that guy that you can call on that's been through it too. So that's what I'm at with, you know what I mean?

I wanna say this, I think it's a beautiful thing cause even with my situation with George Floyd, if I knew I had a group of people already set in place where I know I can call and I already got a team together where I know I can move with, what you're doing is very beneficial, bro. Because instead of having to get up and find people that's like-minded, that care about it,

you already have that. So when it's time to move, y'all already move at one time. That's a beautiful thing, bro. I gotta salute you for that. Appreciate it, appreciate it. Greg, we know, not to cut you off, we know that obviously having someone as big as Quavo

and him using his celebrity and his money and his platform, policy is what really moves the needle. And that's a space that you've been in. How important it is teaming up with someone like him and then also moving on the policy side as well to see actual change. Yeah, I mean, it's the policy, but it's also the resources, right?

Like what Quavo described and what Steve described, and is having those big bros to go to. There are thousands of organizations across the country that are doing this work, you know, Safe Streets in Baltimore, Advanced Peace in LA. New Era in Detroit. Yeah, Life Camp, yeah, Forest Detroit, Life Camp in New York, like, I mean, every city has local organizations that are working hard to do that. Hope Hustlers here, right?

But these organizations, most of them are underfunded. Most of them don't have the big communications team, and they're working every day to connect with folks in these hard times, but they don't have the support. And that's what makes Rocket such a big deal, because Quable can shine a light on these programs and strategies. We've already granted to over 10 organizations here locally to help them build their program, but more importantly, tell the story of how they're helping to save lives because the last three years

We've seen the steepest declines in homicides in american history 31 And the big difference was not the big laws It was the resources going to the community groups and they can expand and connect with more folks that are in need, right? And so we went from you know small organizations that didn't have resources to now they can expand and connect with more folks that are in need, right? And so we went from, you know, small organizations that didn't have resources to now they can get federal money, state money, city money, they're getting support from foundations, they're getting support from corporations, and that's because we're able to tell the story of how impactful they are. And I think that is something huge.

I mean, even this year in Atlanta, homicides are down 11%, right? So we know that if you pour into the community, and we know access to guns is a big problem, but if you pour into the community first, you can reduce violence by so much. And that's where policy meets culture, right? And policy meets the voice, and the way that we can change the narrative.

All right, that's one thing we did go to Kamala. There's a lot to stand standing, I don't understand about policies and laws, but I did ask her, how can we get the money and the funding to these real grassroots that we know that's doing the right work, you know what I'm saying? I think that's a big problem, because they want to do things to help out, but you don't know

the actual people that's doing the real work, because you're not in that situation, we know. You know what I'm saying? So some kind of way, the people that's willing to put the money in, they need to give the money to the right people to get to these grassroots organizations that's doing the real work. And just to fair by his awareness,

the term that we identify for these groups are Community Violence Intervention Organizations, or CVI. And these groups are doing everything from street outreach, some of them are doing therapy with families. Some are providing behavior change approaches, but also coaching a football team, right? Or working with young folks in sports or different actions. And they come in different styles, but at the end of the day,

they're focused on those who are most at risk and just supporting them, you know? So that in that tough moment of crisis, they don't have to turn to a gun or turn to harming somebody, you know, so that in that tough moment of crisis, they don't have to turn to a gun or turn to harm somebody, you know. That's why I work with the group Advanced Peace up in Stockton in Sacramento. They talk to the people that are most likely to be doing the shootings or being shot. Like they have the OGs that get out of prison and come back and talk, and we take them to games and raise funds and give them different experiences because

we could tell people to're blue in the face, put down the guns, but what are we replacing the guns with? Right. You gotta replace with opportunity. Right. You know what I mean? So until we really start doing that, that's when we start seeing change.

So, Greg, thank you for your time. We're gonna catch up with you a little bit later on the panel. And man, you can catch the rest of the panel conversation. Let's start from beginning, bro. The North. Yes, sir. I had a blessing to be called on the North.

Come hang with y'all a couple of times. Talk about your upbringing, and what does ATL mean and represent to you? I was originally born in Athens, Georgia. And by like sixth, seventh grade, we moved to Gwinnett. We called it the North. And shit, we were just some 5'30 young niggas just having fun, making music, doing sports and getting into it.

Yeah. Trying to figure that out. Yeah, trying to figure it out. You know, everybody stayed at my house. That's my crib. That's my crib. We called it Mama Huncho. Everybody stayed there. And downstairs, we had came up on this laptop

and like a Bluebird mic. And so I hooked it up downstairs and we had this like gymnastic mat, hooked that thing up downstairs and that thing you know we were just in there just recording, going crazy. Everybody called Mama Mama. You was raised by Mama, dad wasn't there.

Similar to my upbringing. A lot of people don't know the what a mother that's raising a whole bunch of kids and all the kids in the neighborhood what she go through on a daily basis, the sacrifices she make. Talk about, you know, what your mom meant to everybody around y'all because even, you know, some of your group mates said talked about how she was a father figure to everybody, and she gave everybody the real game. Yeah, she just let everybody inside.

The door was always open. Always, you can always get some food. The best cooking. Straight up raw uncut advice. Even like, you know, sometimes parents, other kids' parents had like strict ways on like, not letting you outside and do like, just crazy stuff.

You know what I'm saying? My mom would be like, how your parents not let you do this and that in the third? Sometimes the kids used to run away and just come stay at my house. Just because she was just so cool and caring, but at the same time she still ain't let you just do no nothing. You couldn't just be over there disrespecting the spot and I just felt like it was a level of respect and it was a level level of like okay We all growing up as young men. We got responsibilities, you know, I'm saying and she's just

Always instilled it and just always made sure we you know kept God first and watch for the haters Watch for the jealousy keep your brothers, you know what I'm saying, keep your brothers, everybody looking good. We share clothes, same shoes, same shirts. We gonna always make sure we look good together. So it was just that camaraderie of it, just togetherness. Like that was shoes on. Your sister said he didn't get whippin's like we did.

Oh no, I'm the only boy. I ain't really getting in trouble like that because I'm the only boy. I ain't really getting choked like that, because I was the only boy. She loved her only son. I think she get that from my grandmother, though, because my grandmother had five girls and one boy. And so they used to just always make sure the boy was straight.

Uncle Bo. I got one uncle. It's crazy. What kind of music did you listen to growing up? I know y'all all turned up and was rapping, we fired up around that time. I was out here when y'all was coming up. Shit, growing up we listened to Hot Boys a lot. I was a real big T-Pain fan. That's kind of how I get the tune and the melodies and shit.

Young L.A., J Money. They don't know how big they was. Yeah, that was huge to us. Gucci, of course. G-Z. But the shit that started the sauce and the wave, I feel like we go futuristic, legal, and new. They kind of gave us our template and palette

on where to go with the swag. Football, music, first two loves. But your first love was football. Quarterback, always had a ball in your hand as a youngster. Had the Gwinnett County record for the most consecutive passes. Completion 28 until somebody in the NFL, Taylor Hincky came and broke that record. Where'd you say he's at, Jelani? The Chargers?

With the Chargers? So a young up and coming NFL player broke your record. You could really play football. Talk to us about the passion of the quarterback position and kind of why we're here today at the College Football Hall of Fame. Of course, I always played sports growing up. Quarterback came real late to me.

I didn't play quarterback growing up. I played receiver, corner, little bit of tight end. And they would throw me at quarterback every now and then, like sprinkle me in, because I was left handed. I was just about to say everybody left handed thinks they sweet at quarterback. And I had that, like just that little itch in it, and then shit, like the first, I want to say ninth grade, we lost one of my, my third quarterback, I think he broke his collar bone.

My other quarterback, he was game banging. He just went across the street, got suspended. And then they were just like doing tryouts in ninth grade. So like anybody come up there. So I seen my, one of my buddies, he was a robber. See, he went down and he like, I got it, don't worry about it. I got it, he came down, neck broke, coming back. He, they like, nah, boom.

So I was kind of like, I want to say last, I'm just like, just like fuck it. I do it and when I went over there, it just natural. It's a click and then ninth grade I think I played JV. I got like most improved player that year and then like shit the next year I was I had to compete with a young man. He was his name was um Zay Briggs, I'll never forget you boy. You you still fight. He like His name was Zay Briggs, I'll never forget you boy. You still fight. He like, six, six, crazy, young, just had it all. Like, look him up top to bottom, had it all. Just like, he went out there.

But I don't think he was a quarterback. I think he was like a safety or something. But like, anyway, he was a cold-blooded athlete. He can do anything he wanted to do on that field. So, I guess spring game, he just ain't having him that day. He got him, they threw me out there, first player of the game, I threw ain't have it in him that day. They threw me out there, first player of the game, I threw a touchdown and it was all shit. First player of the game?

Yeah, I'll never forget it. We played Collins Hill. That's dope. What kind of influence did Mike Vick have on you once you became a quarterback? Of course I was at No. 7. Vick was my favorite player. I felt like when he left Atlanta, all the soul left Atlanta. So I ain't, it was kind of hard for me to be a Falcons fan again after that,

but now I'm back. Except for now I'm back. Yeah, now I'm back. Did you play any hoop or was just all football? I played ball, I played. That's what he called it. Yeah, I played basketball. I really was good in basketball.

Was like organized basketball or just playing around the neighborhood? I played little league growing up, middle school. And then when I got to high school, I could never like get over that spring progress report. Couldn't never get over it. Jack couldn't either. So like every time I pulled up, I would fail.

And so that's how they would cut me. And then I'd get mad and then do all spring sports. So I just to keep me like in school and doing my work, I went to play baseball for the first time. And I played pitcher in left field. And shit, that's what kept me with my grades. And I was rolling over to football and then shit. After that, right back again, I'm failing again.

It was just like a cycle, bro. Every December, I couldn't catch that basketball tryout report card flex so it just I was just like I'm just gonna be a spring football and Baseball guy, but I did it all though the athlete mindset is something we talked to Kobe about we recently talked to Ryan Coogler about about just How do you change that mindset from sports to business? And in your example, music, how to be an athlete help you transition into those spaces? Most definitely socially.

Help you learn how to be a leader, you know what I'm saying? Take charge, control the room. Go through ups and downs, you know what I'm saying? A lot of things don't go your way. You gotta be able to, you know what I'm saying, stand in it. And that's what I think in business. And then patience, patience. You know what I'm saying?

You want a lot. Even like when you're working out, you be thinking that you can go get big tomorrow, but you gotta stay at it. So like that football sports communicate with, you know what I'm saying? Having that coach, that father figure, that big brother, it kind of like shape you, get you ready for the outside world.

So that's why I be trying to like tell kids like, you should for sure do like all three sports to see whatever you want to do, you know what I'm saying? But that one, like if you're doing one sport right now, you better know you going all the way and like getting it together. But that's how I feel like it shaped me when this music Surpassed sports as far as man. This may be something I could do shit. I thought dropped out of high school. I had Plan a didn't work. I went playing B. That was music Yeah, and but I always always good moves always good

like we'll fuck around and just make songs for the school, they all love them. Make songs for the football team they all like. I passed my mix tape out in like eighth grade. Me and Tate, everybody laughed at us, you know what I'm saying? But they knew it was that. Only one nigga pulled up to the cafeteria like, hey bro, that mix me, Tay Hard. You mind if I get on?

And that was all set. Oh really? Yeah. That's how it happened? Yeah. In the cafeteria. That's crazy. That's crazy.

It was some of the- So they all knew it, but he was the only one that really showed love to it. Yeah. Yeah. That was it. That's crazy. But Tay though,

Tay always been- The one? Yeah, been the one. But he just no music front to back. You know what I'm saying? Like he used to get in trouble for singing the Tert album left him top to bottom. And he was a kid.

Like, and then coming to a cuss, doing all that cussing, man, mama came in there and took the whole CD in there. He was sick. But like, he was just such a student of the game. And like, he knew every word to every song. He knew my words to my songs. He knew, like he was just such a student of the game and like he knew every word to every song He knew my words to my songs. He knew Like he was just such a sponge. It was like it's crazy. I was blessed to Be in the studio with you Gucci the whole Migos

Or juice and dog. We were all in there at the same time. Yeah, and you were in the booth This is just a side call he was you was in the booth He came in there helped you with some stuff and we you were in the booth, this is how cold he was, you was in the booth, he came in there, helped you with some stuff, and we was all in there chilling. But when he went in there, all of us was in there like, this guy here, he just took that, he brought that present, he was the best every time I seen him in the studio. You know what I'm saying? He was like that, bro. Overly. Facts.

But chill though. Yeah, chill. Don't say a word. That's how he got his name though. Take Off was really called, his first, it was like that, bro. Overly. But chill though. Yeah, chill. Don't say a word. Yeah, that's how he got his name though. Take Off was really called, his first, it was like one take. You know what I'm saying? We started like, when we was rapping, I used to record on this thing called Windows Movie Maker. It was like a long time ago.

And like, you had to set it up to where like, I had to put the track up there where the movie reel would be and I would put, um, and it had like this narration thing so you could just narrate the reel, you get what I'm saying? So it's kind of like a song, you get what I'm saying? So, but you gotta like, but you started, you gotta keep going, you can't fuck up. Like if you fuck up, you gotta delete the whole thing. So like, I would be fucking up, You know what I'm saying? And like we had to start over, start over.

But when that man got on, one take every time. And then I take off, he got his name. That's dope. I was in the studio, or the night they did the LA leaker shit in LA. Remember that night and I brought you something? And I was just sitting there like,

dog, this shit is dope. Yeah, for sure. Just sit there and see it. We need to crack that strand. We need to get, we still, we got business plays and stuff going on. I want to go over here, man. These my guys, these the big bros for real.

Like, you know, cap. Like, seriously. Berkin. You're known as the leader of the Migos, but it was true that Takeoff was really the one that got you in the booth for the first time. He was the backbone. I feel like, man and him both was always

just fans of just music, you know what I'm saying? Like I said, bro, we used to ride on our glasses like soldiers. I used to be Crump Boy, he used to be, God damn, I forgot what his name was. Jaliski. I can't think of his name. I know he thought about it.

No, my name was Crump Boy. He used to be like Dope Boy, like four weeks even. Like we had to sweet, you know what I'm saying? Like we just always just been in that, but I was playing sports. So I thought that I would go and he was just like, nah. But we used to get pulled over, he was 14 years old. And I asked him what he did, he was like, I'm a rapper.

Cops would be like, yo, come in real quick, man. Come listen to this, man. Tell him what you do. He said, I rap rap straight up and and like so he always knew that we were gonna be a rapper and that's why I said that plan B didn't feel like no no hard job because you was already in the flow. Y'all been rapping back in the days y'all was putting socks over microphones. Socks over mics, overly, overly. Nail the mic to the wall, no mic stand. It's kind of like hanging off the corner of the wall

and then you just put like 10 socks over and then make it sound like a real mic. And this is like those stick mics at Walmart. Yeah, yeah. Y'all remember those desk mics, like the stick ones? You just get the rapping. Made it work. Had to.

With all that, y'all had to find a way to one take everything. We had to find a way to one take everything. And we just started getting good at what we, you know what I'm saying, all the time. Ad-libs, one take, verse one take. If not, you gonna mess up the whole song. What's crazy, I used to hate being at the end

cause I knew I'm gonna fuck up. So, if I'm at the end and you did your verse, you did your verse and I gotta come in and, and I fuck it up, you gotta start over. You know what I'm saying? So that was, I'll never forget that. That was a pressure to get you better though. Yeah, yeah.

Polo club, that was the polo club day. Polo club, P-O-L-O. Talk about it. Man, they had us burnt, that's why I said it. The J Futurists, the LA, you know what I'm saying, that whole ba-ba-ba world, we were bowed out, ooh, extra bow, ooh, polo club. He said it was burned out, big horses.

Oh God, the Pick One, the Rugby, the Levi, True Religions, it was a trim. Big horses. Oh God, the big one. The rugby, the Levi, true religions. It was tremendous. Couldn't tell you shit. Oh my God. The Polo Club mix tape was met with mixed feelings. It was mixed feelings about it. Why? I feel like it actually didn't have, it was another member and shout out to my boy Nick, man. Nick didn't make the cut, huh No he was just going hard he ended up doing like 15. Mm-hmm. You know what I'm saying he just took a different route but yeah it was just I think we was a little bit premature like we weren't ready yet I don't think we were ready I think I was like 17, 16 it was it was sparking but we weren't ready yet. I'm glad that we didn't take off because I thought because I was really thought we was ready like I'm like, it's crazy, but we were just brewing, brewing,

brewing, then that Migos shit came. It was just like, okay, Northside, Gwinnett, we got the Migos living here. We got the, you know what I'm saying? We the only, it's like black and brown. Everybody in the school, okay, cool, we Migo game. That's how we going, we going to Migos, black Migo game. You know what I'm saying? And think long little street scooter got damn J money

OJD we came in they were like oh yeah boy look just like y'all boy got it all it's already dressed we got it it's over with and it was just once we got that official stamp it was just we were gone, during this time, y'all figuring it out, y'all making the music, y'all growing, any OG step in and get y'all some game or y'all learned everything off experience. When we was recording, that's what, I'm glad, that's a good question.

You said, bro, we walked in the studio with other folks, I felt like we was ahead of them. You know what I'm saying? Cause of the punch-ins, because of the one takes, because of the, we was just punching in, punching in, punching in. So we walked in the studio, I was like, damn bro, we doing it right.

You ain't never, cause y'all, y'all pros, so y'all probably were 15, 16, doing mother fucking superstar NBA workouts that you don't even know that you was doing. Till you walked in over there to the gym, you like, oh damn, we shooting 350 shots, I do that every day, you know what I'm saying? We do in and outs, cross the pitch, you know what I'm saying?

So like, the formula was, we was making the formula, we was having the formula already, it was already ready, so when we walked in, we just looked like we was just plugging play. I'm gonna give you some names, tell me the first thing to come to mind or any good stories about them Outkast. The greatest group, greatest group of all time. Sure. What did that what did they mean to Atlanta and you growing up? First ones to kick the door down having something to say. The first verbal ones and not

you know saying unapologetically and the dungeon not, you know what I'm saying, unapologetically. And the dungeon, the basement, you know what I'm saying, all that. It's the same. It's just like the boys outside and like having, you know what I'm saying, telling them folks that nigga having something to say. Like nigga having swag. And they drip with just out of here, two different worlds. And that's how, of course, of course they, Andre, Andre Big Boy, Al Cadd, the whole Dungeon Family, you know,

they set the tone for sure for Atlanta. T.I. T.I. the goat, the king, king of the trap. You ain't no question about it. Yeah, that going down 316, Ryan, when we were moving from Aston to Gwinnett, that was our tape of motivation, because I swear I didn't want to leave Azzin.

I didn't want to leave at all. He might, too, might be my favorite rapper from around all time. For sure. We had that for a little too. Jeezy? The GOAT. Snowman.

Ad-lib King. He most definitely the ad-lib King. He dominated his era too. Especially out here in the A's. Little Scroppy. Trim. Young Nigga. I feel like he set the tone for that that Mosh Pit music. You know what I'm saying? Like that stuff that Cardi and Ken them doing. You know they were going headbustin' music a little bit young. They opened it up... I think they started leading that way. Soldier Boy.

He trim too. He one of the first ones that ever called Amigos over. He one of the first rappers that ever dealt with us. You know what I'm saying? Actually, that's how I met Trav at Soldier House. You know what I'm saying? Me and Trav went on to deal. You know he done said this shit in the...

I'm gonna say, you know he gonna go viral. He. You know he done said this shit in the pop and soul. I'm gonna say you know he gonna go viral. He ain't lying. Cause he wanna say he the first to everything. He ain't lying. The first rapper to pull up on him was J Money. Yeah. But the first big one for sure was Soulja. Yeah.

Yeah. Future. The Wizard, the GOAT 2. You know what I'm saying? That motherfucker, they all got infinity lives. You know what I'm saying? He gonna walk it down, you gonna do whatever. It's ready to roll.

What was your first international trip as Migos that just blew y'all mind? I wanna say something, ain't nothing niggas really went like that. Like Australia, it was crazy. Australia actually was one of the best times of my life, because we went from like Africa to Australia. What year was this about?

I want to say 20... Culture 2. 2017? 2018? 2019. For real? 2019? Yeah, and I end up like... We end up making Narcos in the studio, but we got kicked out the hotel because the flight was the next day. And so I guess we couldn't stay there.

So we just stayed in the studio from like six to six, like six a.m. to the next day. And it was this old man, man. I don't even know his name. I just heard him in like, in the other room just playing the saxophone. He was just playing the shit out the saxophone. I'm just like, bro, we need you to come play this shit.

I think we ended up doing Narcos and two player for the compilation tape. And I just think like those, that moment right there just was too dope for me. It's hard to explain, cause like it was, you know what I'm saying? It was just the studio fucked up. We couldn't, we like, it looked like you didn't have

no inspo then we found a major smash hit with this record. That's what I'm saying. At least expect it. Trav? Oh no, he the goat for sure. Trav, that's my brother. He, we feed off each other. It's like Batman and Robin when we get in there.

And we just, I just feel like he me and I feel like I'm him. You know what I mean? I want to ask you questions off of Q to the Streets. Classics. How was it making that album? I mean that song. Q to the Streets, Lucia pulled up. Resident Peace School. RP School. For sure. Thank you for just one of them nights in QC. Y'all was all in there when y'all made that?

Y'all was all in there when y'all made that? All in there. Oh, that's fire. Lucia came in. We was already working on one. Me, Scoob, we were doing like three on, I think. Flipper got on one. Timmy, what you think it is? Dolph.

Flipper, me, Flipper, we got on one. And then Lucia came in, I think like an hour later. And then I was just like, he pulled, we pulled. Who made the beat? June, June the Genie made that beat? Anyway, when I walked in there, I was just like, he pulled, we pulled, who made the beat? June, June the Genie didn't make that beat? Anyway, when I walked in, I was kind of like at the end of it, I'm like, man, I'm really ready to, you know what I'm saying, turn it in, but Lucia came in, so I'm just like, all right, cool, I gotta prep it and get it right.

So I walk in there, I'm just like, I got money way before the deal. Put my bitches in new pants. But I'm saying it like that. Lucy like, man, come on out, I got something to say right now, leave that. He go right in the, oh, I'll make like your whole life happen. And then after that, it was just magic. Magic.

But every time I get into like a, now I wanna say don't want to, but like not in the vibe. When you think you not in, I make a smash. Every time. Dolph. The GOAT. That my dog, I miss Dolph. For sure.

That nigga 1000. Always high spirited, always loving, always god damn laughing like a motherfucker. He just ready to work. I got some shit with Dolph too. Give you the shirt off his back. He motherfucker he's ready to work I got some I got some shit with dog too. Get his shirt off his back. He's a good dude overall though too. For sure, don't give him anything, buy you anything for real. Always done by the paper. Talk about the early days promoting at the promote Migos at the Pink Flamingo. What are you talking about? He said, you taking it back. That's where it started at.

That's crazy. That's where it started at. Because DJ Ray G, he used to be Cardi and set DJ, but he still set DJ. But he was in Pink Flamingo, and we had this song called Bando and Jumping Out the Gym. And we had Bando before we even got signed, before we even came up to the city.

Bando was the first song that like, started like brewing in the town anyway. But like to get the niggas to play the song, we would have to like go up there with the DJ, smoke a blunt with him, buy him two drinks of the blue motherfuckers. Y'all remember that, them blue motherfuckers? That and just smoke some weed.

And shit, he gonna spend it. But we gotta make sure he spend it prime time. Can't spend it when the lights come on, can't spend it when the vibe going down. We need this shit hot and fresh, like at the top of the top. And shit, I wanna say, before we hit Bando, we gave him like two records that weren't really catching. He wasn't moving the folks like that.

But when we dropped that motherfucking Bando, bro, that was our new light. It was coming up to us like, yo, this the one. And then so he start like, the DJ would like move spots. He like, yo, so Friday he would do like, Thursday he would do Pink for Me, or Friday he would do Obsession,

Saturday he would do Mansion. We would just follow him and that. You know what I'm saying? And every time he DJ, he would come with that blunt and that drink. And we all had money, we all had paper, you know what I'm saying? Fresh, deep as hell, pull up,

Camaro chargers back to back. Man, we 17, 18 years old. Then Key Motion, he shoot all videos, then he shot all the QC video. He was just out there with the camera like, yo, can I just shoot this shit? This like, yo, can I just shoot this shit? This shit look good, can I just shoot it? And then that's how it happened.

We was just going from club to club, following our DJ. And then that thing, you know, we put him on the tape, made him the DJ, he been on the road. Key Motion been shooting videos for Wham, and all the QC, City Girls, everybody, all the startup crew, ever since then, everything been like, you know what I'm saying, like good money.

Would you ever produce Amigos documentary? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. We actually working on that right now. We got a lot of footage. We got a lot. I was about to say, you mentioned all that footage. That's, people would love to see that.

We got a lot of footage. And we got some. Yes, Tammy. Oh, yes, kushups. We got a violator. We got new k Kushups. We got a violator. Yep, we got new Kushups. Kushups for Tammy. Yep. 10 of them.

That's Kushup there, Tammy. 10 of them. We got one roll for you, too. 10 good ones. Tell me if you agree with this statement. In Atlanta, a local hit can be a shortcut to the national stage. Absolutely.

Easy call. Easy. Easy. What was the first hit y'all heard on the radio that y'all did was like, oh shit. Bando, wasn't it? Bando for sure. Yeah. Bando, I'm talking about Bando was like,

Bando so beginning, it's like we used to do. Nobody lived, when that song came out, nobody, I don't care, we lived in a mansion or a broke down house or everybody lived in Bando in Atlanta. And ain't nobody knew what it was. And they didn't know what it was. Nobody knew what it was. Nobody knew what it was.

Nobody. But you lived in it. But like when we dropped that song, bro we had that battle. We dropped that song in Hot 107.9 where you be like, song number one or number two? Like we winning the battle every week. Yeah.

Winning the battle. Oh nah, we like that number one, man. Keep that band no going. All right, bet. Call the number one or two. Bando, man, that's it. And then bet, call number one or two. Bando man that's it. And then like, shit we was just like boom. And then I ran into, like I was saying

we were following Ray G around. So we go to the sessions and got down, why this song going on. I'm walking in the section, bump a nigga, I look him up and down. He look me up and down. it's Zaytova. We like, damn, this is Zaytova. He like, man, I ain't gonna lie, man, what's up, bro?

Y'all the band-o boys. We been looking, they used to call us band-o boys. We been looking for y'all. I'm like, who, who you talking about? He like, him and Gucci. So I want to say like, not even a week later, he got damn hit real and was saying, um, Gu I want us to come to the studio. But I was so mad at like, just rap because I felt like, I felt like we had did it.

I felt like we on the radio, we winning, goddamn this shit working. Everybody, we bando boys around the town. This nigga Gucci don't want to holla at us, man. What the hell? You know what I'm saying? damn, this shit working. Everybody, we band no boys around the town. This nigga Gucci don't wanna holla at us, man. What the hell, you know what I'm saying? I'm like, don't call me that bullshit, real. He like, man, no, for real. So I hit Zay, cause I got his number when he said

they were looking for us. I said, hey Zay, is this address right? He said, this motherfucker sound about right. And we jumped in the car, went straight to the East side and life everything then, it was the rest of history. Shout out to Goo Wop, it's my boy. Iconic line, got bricks like Shaq at the free throw. Basketball rappers always intertwined.

Give me some of your favorite lines you use, one or two of your favorite lines that you included with basketball players or the basketball game. I just did a new one. I say, little Bro pull up ball player Brandy James. You know what I'm saying? You got Lil Bro, you pull up ball player, go Brandy James. That's my favorite one right now. Yeah. The art of the musical group, rap group. Which rap group,

which rap or musical group inspired you and the Migos vision. Rap group? Yeah. Cause a lot of people rap, but everybody don't, conquer the whole aspect of it. The whole set up? Yeah, the entertaining part, the being able to deal with fans. I was just talking to Metro about this the other day, we were, St. Louis and Texas was kind of, it was dope.

With the swag and everything, top to bottom. I want to say, and then I seen like a clip from like the Cash Money Millionaires and they did, they used to all get on stage together back in the day. Yeah, it was crazy. That was it. Yeah.

And that would put us to that level like, all right, that's how we want to do it. You know what I'm saying? That's the bar. And then we always talk about like movement. Gotta have your movement right. Gotta explain, you got to get them what you're saying. You feel me?

You can't be right here rapping and just with your head down, you gotta, you know, add them words out. Yeah. They gotta feel it, paint that picture. What's the paper that I live? Mama. Mama!

Mama! I knew it. I knew it. Mama! The art of the hook. The hook god, yeah. Yeah, the hook god. Where'd that come from?

Beating them niggas to the studio, beating them to the booth. Making five, six songs while everybody go outside. Once that hook laid, we just stick it. Exactly. There wasn't none personally. I would just sit in the studio, bro, and make like five, six of them. And shit like three, two or three of them. They want them.

They want to get on them. But like, I used to just always work, always work, work, work, work. I made it kind of easy for the guys. You know what I'm saying? Because the writing the verses is easy. The book is always the hardest part. I just made it easy for the guys.

You know, the tape gonna come clean up everything. I'll sit, gonna chop it down, you know, so. How did the relationship between QC and you guys self start? It started when Guwop when Guwop had went in and we just felt like, when he had, like I said, when he came to sign us,

I was like changed instantly, boom. And like when he went to jail, it start trickling back to like that Northside shit. We were like, oh hell no, we can't go back. We just felt it. You feel what I'm saying? And I got a call from Pee Wee Longway. He was like, bro, pull up.

Just pull up. Real deal, M&M, just pull up. And I pulled up. He was talking about Pee, but a month before Gu went to jail, Gu put me in the car with P. He was like, I got my buddy, coming over here. Don't say nothing to him, don't look at him, don't say no words, y'all just get in the car and just ride.

So I'm like, what the hell type of fucking, oh, Jesus Lord, this is, we just, man, we just looking like, so we get in the car, but we ride, go through, this is, we just, man, we just looking like, so we get in the car, boom, we ride, go through, hit the city. We ain't say too much. He popped, he like, D my new artist amigo, got down, I want you to play the music.

He played the music in the car. PJ, Ryan, he don't pay no attention. He on the phone, getting on the phone. So I'm thinking he ain't, he ain't fucking with it. I get out the car, leave my getting on the phone. So I'm thinking he ain't fucking with it. I get out the car, leave my phone in the car. And he was like, I said, go out, I love my phone. He said, bro, you left your phone in the car? I just told you, don't do nothing crazy.

And then man call you. So I'm like, man, hell nah, woo woo. Fast forward, that's how I met him. So I get the call from Longway, Longway like, I'm like, all right, cool. And then shit, we walk in the studio, he had a brand new studio, ain't nobody recorded in it. He like, I just built this, I don't know what to do with it.

And so I hit, I hit Gu up, I hit Gu up, I'm like, we going their way. He like, all right, bet, that's the best bet. Four came in over with a trab bag full of money, and we're like, don't tell me I dug this up for nothing. I look down, I did like this. It's time to go. Yeah, rest is history. Culture album 2017 legendary debuts. Number one on the charts. The album has bad and

bougie t-shirts, slippery, get right which is the name of a few. Some legendary producers on the album as well, Metro Boomomer, Zay Tovam. Without hurting any feelings, which one of them boys is the hardest. Who you gonna have the best chemistry with? Zay Tovam. Zay Tovam started it all. From the church? Mmhmm. Mmhmm.

Zay Tovam of course. And he a good dude too, bro. What I like about Zay. He just struck again with the Wham Whammy. Yeah. He ain't gonna never, he gonna keep striking. You were notorious for recording his songs in 30, 40 minutes. What are your best memories grinding in the studio pumping out songs? Like the best memory that you had, you think about, you know you still got a long career left. But I noticed that one moment you sat in the studio and you was like,

Shit is dope. Yeah, like man I came still, still kind of surreal to me. Gotta go, gotta be that Versace moment. Gotta be Versace. We was all downstairs in the basement and we dropped the beat and bro, we was just, I was just, Versace, then set said Versace, take said Versace, and I said Versace again.

Then I went back in and I recorded it. Then I came out, I'm saying, are we, I think I'm saying Versace too much. And he like, nah. Hell nah, keep it just like that, we gonna do it just like this. And then that thing you know, goddamn, I met, we was in birthday bash,

and that boy Drake pulled up, said, bro, I love everything y'all doing from pronto, Versace, Bandone everything y'all doing from Pronto, Versace, Bando. He was like, send me either one of them. So I sent him two. I sent him Pronto and Versace. He sent back Versace.

Then he was gone. Take off. Yeah. What's it like working with Drake? Oh yeah, that boy the goat. That boy the goat. Like I said, I always cook up shit first. Like even with Drake, like even with Walk and Talk it,

Portland, out of these songs be cooked, like I cook them up and then I just, send them off. I send them off. And like shit just be, it's just great chemistry. I know what Drake would get on, you know what I'm saying? I know what a trap would get on. So I just tap in and shit like that when I sit in the

booth. You wrote any songs for the R&B artists? I want to say the biggest one we did was Ape Shit with Jay-Z and Beyonce for sure. That was light changing too, for real, set that up. I would love to write for R&B artists and get in that bag for sure. 2010 was a great year. It was the introduction of basically the rap scene in Atlanta.

I remember not too long ago, I followed you, posted a picture of you, Tate, Offset, Kwon, and Thug, when Thug was going through a situation. Looking back now, bro, a lot has changed. I know me growing up, a lot of people that I wish was here with me now, bro, a lot has changed. I know me growing up, a lot of people that I wish was here with me now, and the plans we had, everybody didn't make, you know what I'm saying? And some niggas didn't stay down. Some of them went the bullshit route, you know what I'm saying? To be here to now and seeing where it started and you here now, any reflection?

What? I'm still... A lot has changed. It's a lot of had changed. A lot has changed. And I just look back and just, I can only just thank God, you know what I'm saying, and just thank God that I'm still here. And just thank God for keeping my antennas connected, you know. Allowing me to do stuff like the Rocket Foundation. Because if I can erase it, if I can go back, you know what I'm going back to do.

Yeah, no question. It's just, I'm just trying to still figure out the, this formula, this answer, you know what I'm saying? That what God want me to do and what my nephew want me to do. I feel like before he left, we used to talk about like stuff like, like him, like us going to different worlds

and like tapping into like frequencies and energy. So like before he was gone, I already knew like, damn, he finna be up there really pulling one in for me. You feel me? So now I got to like, I got to keep my antennas clean. I can't be going too crazy, getting too drunk. You know what I'm saying? You gotta, because when you go to sleep,

you processing all this stuff. You know what I'm saying? He come to you in your dreams. So I just want to make sure I'm more, I'm super clear. And sometimes people be in the way of that. You know what I'm saying? Your buddies, your partners. And if they can't, you know, try to plug in

the same way you trying to plug in, it ain't no smoke. We just got to go on different paths. I will bring you to the top. Just let me go off and go fend for the team. I'm going to come back and grab the squad regardless. I can't never look at you. I never look at you on the side of no road and not do nothing for you.

You know what I'm saying? So we got to allow that space. You know what I'm saying? And that's where I'm saying? So we gotta allow that space, you know what I'm saying? And that's where I'm at. It feels great because, bro, I was, you know what I'm saying, like every night, you know, crying trying to figure out why this even happened. And now I'm like, okay, I see why and I'm in it and I got to stay in it and it's time to take charge.

You in it for a reason, bro. Almost three years now, I lost my little brother and my little sister two months apart. So it ain't gonna never get easy, but you got, that's our motivation to keep pushing. And let me say this too, cause I'm older than you, bro. Don't ever hesitate to cry because that's the only way we can show people that we love that's not here.

Yeah. To show them the way we love them in the physical. It's by dropping, you know what I'm saying? So I just, I see the strength in you and I see you pushing for them, bro. That's why I'm so admired by it. That's why I love talking to you, love being around you because a lot of people don't have that natural strength to keep pushing on. Yes, sir. You know what I'm saying? With everything that's on them. Yes, sir. You know what I'm saying? So you doing something that a lot of people are not built to do bro. So I understand you different and you here for a reason. Thanks. Yes sir. Let's talk about some of the Migos most iconic moments. Try to get them to be no shot of y'all on Bad and Bullshit. The best song ever after winning the Golden

Gold Award in Atlanta. How big was that? Man crazy. Our song was I want to say number three or number two. And when that man got on that Golden Gold Award. Our song was I want to say number three or number two and when that man got on that Golden Glover. He took off. We just needed that lad little extra push on that rockin' that thing made it number one. But Childs Gambino he from he from Stone Mountain he from Georgia from Atlanta from we said enough but um he always been a student of the game bro and he always like kept us in the loop. Like he's always just pull up, come to the studio and just soak it up and just, so like the skits for Atlanta.

Like, I don't know, man. I just think like we his formula to his whole setup, but in a good way. You get what I'm saying? The first season of Atlanta, y'all was the first rappers in there. Exactly, exactly. Yeah.

I'm just proud to just be a part of this whole flex, man. He keep it real and keep it solid. Look at my dab. Mm. 40 million views on the music video. I asked my daughter, I'd be in the car, but I'm still dabbing. Still dabbing.

I'm the dab daddy. I'm the dab. How you feel about that, even with Cam Newton? Man. I'm the dab. How you feel about that? Even with Cam Newton, made it famous. Man, I don't know the dab. I just feel like we should have just... That's, everybody knows OGD though. That's OGD.

Yeah. Lots of people don't know that. For sure. Overly. Overly. But the dab was always just drip. So when we said, look at my dab, it was like, look at my drip, look at my swag.

And we was on the stage, it's like, look at my drip, look at my swag. And we was on the stage, us, this was like the first QC group, us, Jose Guapo, Flipp Wu, even Duke, N.P.A., YSL, Duke. We used to be on the stage and like, we all had, Emmet Smith was the song, that Emmet Smith and Fuck the Rap Game was the song that we started like dabbing, but we all just dropped one time at the same time. So everybody, uh, uh, uh, you feel me? And so they would just like, what that is? Like man, we going to dab, you know what I'm saying?

So it was just like, it's the swag. And so shit just went goddamn nuts. And man, I wish I would have made them Christmas sweaters like 2 Chainz. Shit with the kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We made the killer out of it 2 Chainz. Shit with the kids. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I would make a killer out of them. Like we were just so young and just rockstar that.

We were just dropping sauce and leaving. You see what I'm saying? And I think like Dab is, that you could have made some real money off of that. It got so bad with everybody now, when they talk they. Yeah, yeah. It's a movement. It's a part of it.

Like that Bay Area shit when they be. I go, I go, I go. Like the high-speed movement. I'll tell you, Myze used to do this shit all the time, dawg. Myze was burned out with that shit. That's that lobby runnin' shit, man. That's all lobby runnin', a long way. Like you said, Myze, all them boys,

they been runnin' that lobby, man. That's lobby runnin' stuff, man. Straight up, for sure. Anyone else we didn't name that you feel was like a new level of fame, excuse me? Got to go with Richard's Kid. Yeah. Got to shout out to that boy, Richard's Kid.

He never gave up. Yeah. That motherfucker, he the real Finesse King. His story is insane. He come from a bag though, don't he? No. He don't? Hell no.

Okay, okay. I thought one of them, I don't know if it was Richard's Kid or one of them little kids, they say he came from a bag. No, Richard's from Haiti. Yeah. That boy came through with a skateboard, just running around the city. But how we met him, he got damn, he said he had a whole deal and then had it. That nigga just was lying like a motherfucker.

But I looked his shit up, he had more followers than us. He had a blue check and that nigga had loads of beats. So I'm like, man, bring your ass to the studio. And ever since then, he never left the basement. And then I walked him in, nigga gave him a deal, they gave a skip with deal. So any one of my homeboys we would walk in, they'd just give deals, give them money for just being a partner. Now you got an album with Wayne. You feel what I'm saying? Now you got an album. Oh partner. Now you got an album with Wayne. You feel what I'm saying?

Oh God. Now you got an album with Wayne. Now you got an album with Wayne and one with Kendrick. Oh God. That's crazy. When you sit back, obviously you're still young, but when you sit back and think, I think there's a lot of rappers, a lot of successful rappers, but y'all elevated from rappers to rock stars.

Like when you sit back and kind of think, have you been able to kind of sit back and process with everything else going on, just where you guys' space and history is? Yeah, I think I really had a lot of time to reflect like, now, you know what I'm saying? Cause I'm looking at the memories, you know what I'm saying? My boys and looking at my boys, I'm like, why ain't nobody tell us we was on that right there?

Like I felt like we was going so fast that if I felt like if someone would have just said, yo, you know after you get a number one song, this what happens. Or you know after you get a number one album, this what happens. Or you know after you do a tour, just the way after you do Drake stuff, this what happens. I think like we was running so fast that we didn't, I don't think we couldn't hear that or I don't think nobody even just said like, y'all three niggas coming for, you know what I'm saying?

And me looking back at that, that's what I feel like. I don't regret it, I just feel like we should have just locked down so we can sustain on what we was going, we only did Culture 3, we only did three albums. You know what I'm saying? And I just felt like it was more to the guys. You know what I'm saying? Still more to the guys.

We got a lot of shit in the vault. But I'm just saying like, I want that shit here. You know what I'm saying? Are you in a good space right now to work on music? Hell yeah. This shit sound good-hmm shit sound Shit sound good feeling good No, yeah, it's sounding great in 20 years when you look back And you guys are inducted into me. You hopefully won't be that long into the rock and roll or that

Was it the rock and roll hall of fame the rat hall of fame? What do you want people to know about your group the bigos? What do you want them to say about your group? What message? The boys was hungry. Them boys really came from nothing. Them boys keep God first. You know, always gonna keep the rocker alive. We wouldn't even be here if we weren't for the rocker. We love our mommas. And just, trancesetters, boy, them boys came through and changed the game. And we only needed three albums.

Crazy. You know what I'm saying? People really think about that. I didn't really think about it till you said it. Really only three albums. Quick Curtis, first thing to come to mind, let us know. One album you can listen to with no skips. One of my young niggas, wait, I'm going to Ken Carson.

I'm going to Ken Carson. I'm going to Ken Carson. Top five Atlanta athletes of all time. Top five Atlanta? Yeah, before you answer that, tell me how you got the title for your album that you finished out, Satchmo. Satchmo is just like my Renaissance shit. Renaissance man, they can do everything, multiple hats.

The trendsetter, the hook god, the hook king, the chrome god. Don't forget where this flavor came from. And then at the same time, Life, of course, is my favorite movie. And you know, Claude and Ray, it's kind of like play and take. You know what I'm saying?

So we just always had that vision. And when we be playing and shit, we see it like how Ray saw the boom boom. So I feel like that's a black thing. Like we do our ideas. we see that shit like that before we even got there. So that's how I feel about Satch. Now top five athletes of all time.

Top five athletes of Atlanta. Top five Atlanta. Shit, nigga Mike, get on me about that. I gotta go Cam New, gotta put the white in there. Ed Hall of Famer. Them two. Gotta go Josh. Josh Smith. I was just with Josh last night. Gotta go the white in the head, Hall of Famer. Them two. Gotta go Josh. Josh Smith.

I was just with Josh last night. Gotta go to North Side legend, Lou Will. Lou Will. He came from outside. And Quay. Quay, yeah. One of the greatest. I'm talking about him, man.

I'm talking about him. That's what she be. That's what she be. That's what she talk about. Yes, sir. MJ, Kobe, Bron, rank them. Oh, shit. Gotta do Bron. Bron, rank them. Oh, shit. Gotta do Bron.

Bron first. How old are you? I'm 34. That answer's total. Bron first. I like to see you. Bron first. Just a heavy second.

I go Kobe second. Ain't nothing wrong with it. He's second on my list too. I go Kobe second and MJ third only because 96, I was born in 91. You know? I don't know. He's second with my licks too. And MJ third, only because 96, I was born in 91, you know how, like I didn't get to, I didn't understand. Yeah, you ain't see that. You feel me?

But when I watched the clips, I understand why y'all calling, it was the only skilled guy that was doing everything. But like, if you put him a bunch of whole, like if everybody, I don't think he'd do the same thing. You put Jordan in the league now, he's gonna have his 45. I don't think so. Yeah, he would. I don't think so. Everybody do the thing. You put John in the league now, he's gonna have his 45. I don't think so. Yeah, he would.

I don't think so. Everybody do the same, they all eat. You got shade like all of them eat. The rules. Yeah, but you can't touch MJ. Oh, you can't touch him. Nah, he was super athletic. Magic can't touch MJ.

He fought through all his points. But I never, I'm sorry, Black, number two. Don't kill him. I'm sorry, Black. Don't kill me, Black. Number two, I go LeBron first, Black second, and then Kobe third. Long live Kobe, man. Rest in peace, Tahami.

Child crush. Ciara. Hey, she was cold. Everybody had one, mine was Monica. So everybody had one around that time. Yeah. I knew, I was from Atlanta. Yeah.

If it was one guest you could see on our show, who would it be? But. You have to help us get your answer on the show. You said what? Say it one more time. One more time. That can sometimes get confusing. Who would you like to see on our show?

But you gotta help us get them. On the show. Who do you think would be a good guess? It only took us four years to get you. Come on, man. Go on and tell Wayam to pull up, man. Oh, y'all want Wayam to see it? Yeah. Tell Wayam to pull up man.

Oh y'all want Wham? Yeah, tell Wham to pull up man. You go Wham. I say go Thug. Spider. No, that's even better. Go Spider. You gotta make the call.

We'll be back out here. We're fucking around though so we cool so he might do it. That's my boy. That's my business. That's my boy. Yes sir. We'll be back out here for Major League Baseball All-Star in July. Yeah, I'm playing in that.

Are you? The celebrity softball game? Uh-huh. That's dope. I'm playing in Mookie Betts got a game on Juneteenth at Dodger Stadium. I'm playing in. Before we get out of here. Get back to the aid, I'm glad.

We missed all your coaches. Gonna be dope. Legends. Scott, the partnership of business. Yes sir. Tell us how Legends does help you with your youth league and all your foundation stuff. Shout out to Legends. Yeah, speak to that partnership and Scott.

Since day one, Legends and Scott been, you know what I'm saying, like my family, they came in and did all my Huncho days. My Huncho days is what my pride, I put a lot of my pride into. I kind of like chilled off this year, but it's more like about like bringing the community, putting everybody in my town, bringing all my guys. I think Stacks came a year. We just, you know what I'm saying, just showing them that we all can be touched and felt and heard and reached, you know? And Scott is the main one that, you know, makes sure everything happen. He drip my guys, he drip the team, he drip Team Huncho, he drip anybody I want him to drip.

You know what I'm saying? He keep them straight, he keep them laced, he keep all the kids who coming in the draft laced and ledged and stuff. And his events, he throw crazy big events. Me and Matt, we threw one in LA at the Mamba Academy. That was incredible. We need to run that back by the way. Let's do it.

We had Floyd, Snoop. This nigga Snoop came in at the third quarter. Third quarter played in the old school high top Chuck Taylor. This came in and he got like six points. That was the best one actually. Six rebounds and left. That was the best one. That's it. He only played like one quarter and he bounced. Yeah. That shit was dope. They did that one and then I did another one. Out here, like one quarter and he bounced. Yeah. That shit was dope.

So they did that one and then I did another one. Out here, right? In Atlanta. Justin Bieber came. Yeah, Beez was here. So like, legends is... Yeah, we do it. Yeah, we legend it.

Quick funny story how we did it. So when Scott launched the brand, we were kind of thinking the faces of who could do what, who could do what. And I was just thinking young, up and coming, who was in LA. And I thought Kyle Kuzma. So we pitched Kyle Kuzma because he was hot with the Lakers at the time and his business manager passed I'm like let's go get Quavo. You just got to say Quavo. When I walked in there it was you Scott. Yeah. You said the same stuff. Yeah we said we set up a meeting at Capitol

Records. Yeah. We went and pitched him the whole idea of being the face of the brand and we was locked in. How long is it? Seven years? Seven years, yeah. About right when I finished playing, yeah. Yeah, I'm ready for Legends to go to Nike, man. Let's go, man. Let's lock in. Let's go big. That's how big it is. Let's go big.

Yes, sir. Well, man, we appreciate your time. Thank you. Excited to be here and get to the panel. That's a wrap, Quavo. All the smoke, all the... Yeah, yes, sir. So we here.

Before we get started, I wanna say one more, send some more love to Mama Take Off and mama honcho and we love you. We love you guys Praying for you guys Quavo To the rocket foundation talk to us a little bit about it Obviously, we know why we're here But talk to us about the inspiration behind it and the ultimate goal of the foundation I'm it's all power about a rocket, you know what I'm saying?

I don't wanna say lonely or the rocket. And we just, I'm just looking to be a vessel, you know what I'm saying, to my family and looking to prove and step with my chest up and my head held high for my nephew and just try to make change the best way I can. And that being said, I want to like, commoderate to all the guys that's in the community

that ever lost like someone doing gun violence. You got somewhere to come to. You got somewhere to, you know, talk to somebody and you got some people that's going to pull up front line with you, you know what I'm saying? So that's us. That's Rocket Foundation. Now, obviously, you being a superstar in this space, why was it important to use your voice, your platform, your resources? You said you want to create a hub of your peers, rappers,

athletes alike to be able to use all of our voices together to hopefully help with this gun violence. But why was that just, what was the key to that and what was it like also, I'm a two-part question, going to the White House? Obviously, you have a huge platform, you speak your mind, you use your resources, but we know that to get real change, it has to be policy driven. You've been able to do that with your partner, Greg, but tell us a little bit about that journey as well. It's a tough journey, you know what I'm saying?

But if you're going to do something about it, you got to start with the head, you got to start at the top. So only, and you can't go the opposite way, you can't go the street way. So I felt like being frontline, the political way, and just trying to get like change and policies and stuff going there, I feel like was a better approach. And I felt like we got a lot of stuff done and a

lot of grants and stuff, but most importantly, I'm just here just being an instrument for my boy, Tate. I'm definitely inspired by what you're doing in the Rocker Foundation. A lot of y'all don't know that George Floyd was like a close friend of mine, and I was able to experience some things and I was able to lead the biggest civil rights movement ever in history with 18 countries and all 50 states protesting at the same time for my friend. So what Quavo's doing is something that everybody should take serious because you don't want to have to wait till you lose somebody to stand up and do what's right.

So what Quavo's doing right now is bigger than music, it's bigger than anything he's ever done because he's doing something that's bigger than him. So y'all pay attention to this and not just what we saying, but watch all of his actions and what he's doing. It's bigger than what we talking. Okay. Music, let's touch on a little music.

Tell some of these kids out here, growing up, who inspired you musically? Growing up, who inspired me was Hot Boys, Cash Money, of course. Those like the foundation, you know what I'm saying? And then once I got older, as like a teenage, I started rocking out the futuristic way, you know what I'm saying? I was burnt out by the young LA, the J-Moneies, you know what I'm saying, the polo world. So we had came up with a group called Polo Club, you know what I'm saying, before the Migos.

So that was mainly my inspiration. Of course, Gucci Mane, Tip, Future, he was a little bit ahead of us and we would just look at them like rock stars and we got to get there. Being that you from this era and you from ATL, why you think it's so important that you continue to be involved with the youth and start these youth programs? Because it starts with them. You know what I'm saying? I'm wild ran.

I'm a young rich. You know what I'm saying? So I got to give back to my guys and it's important I give back to the youth. You know what I'm saying? I got my high school football team in here. Which my cousin coaches, Bayo. I got Huncho Elite in here, some of them guys in here, all my self-mosedum guys. And like, shit, that Huncho sign, that came from Huncho Day.

So it's important that I give back and just show them that yeah you can touch me even though this get big but we all come from nothing and we need each other. But also talk to us about I mean we were talking about in the back these programs that you're putting on these youth programs in the football space the basketball space the community events that shit takes a lot it's a lot of hard work and it's tiring and obviously they just see the star you in moving around. But tell us a little bit about what the process is of keeping these programs going and strong and getting kids opportunities.

You're telling us you got kids going to college now. Your first group was five years ago, so your freshmen are now going to be freshmen in college. How proud does that make you and what kind of work goes in behind that? Man, super proud. It would take a lot of work. Like I said, this is my first time, so I didn't really know what I was doing. I was just doing what I love because I love the game and I wish I had a big brother that can help me out with some cleats or some shoes or some jerseys or whatnot.

It started becoming a whole thing, so I'm just like, let's do it. We're gonna go hunt your elite but I gotta make sure I pay for everything make sure I pay for they travel they food they Everything everything everything even they off the field problems and stuff like that But I look at myself like cuz I ain't it was tough for me to a tough for me a moment I kind of like mr. Mr point when we moved to going to a situation where we didn't have enough for me to play. So I always just looked at that like, okay, I got to be here for these kids and do it for their youth, you know, do it for them.

Music obviously, heavy sports background, but music became center stage. Talk to us about you and Takeoff's early, just back and forth, musical passion, love, and how gifted he was and how you said he just had one of them brains where he spoke everything into existence. He knew y'all was gonna be stars when you guys were teenagers. Oh God, we was 14 years old.

It's a crazy story, but I think he was about 14. I had to be like 15, what, 17? 17, I'm 17, yeah. Okay, I'm three years old, I had to be like 15, 17? I'm 17, yeah. Okay, I'm three years old, I'm trippin'. All right, so then we get pulled over by the police and the police asking him what he do, he said, I'm a rapper.

At 14, he's a rapper. At 14 years old. And they was joking about it, but he was dead serious. And that's when I knew we was gonna be something, but at the same time, he used to be like, yeah, you can have that sport stuff. I'm going to go to the booth and record. And he always knew songs, left and right.

You know what I'm saying? He always did everything in one take. That's how he got his name, Take Off. You know what I'm saying? We would do songs in one flow. Sometimes I'd mess up the whole song. He's not messing up. He's not skipping a beat.

He's walking. And I just think like, he just, the young is in a sponge and a student of the game and know exactly what he wanted. He didn't have a plan B. He didn't play sports. And he barely went to school. But he knew how to rap. Yeah, that's my boy, Racket. We was outside talking. But stay in school. That's not good. Yeah, stay's my boy Rocky. We was outside talking. Staying school, that's not good. Staying school, whatever. Yeah, yeah, staying school.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We was talking outside about business and we was talking about taking the guns down and you was talking about you have to put something in the hands. You was talking about building the studio, showing them how to record. How important is it to say one thing but also give them something else to be positive and to go forward? Yeah, that's my dream.

My dream goal is to put community centers, the stuff that I had, back then it was basketball and after school programs, but now I'm thinking bigger game systems, streaming know saying streaming spots place, you know saying places where people can learn how to Make beats places where people can play the piano learn take piano lessons just some Extracurricular after school, you know saying so my goal is to start start there I don't I do want to do the courts and stuff

But I think like kids got they route when it comes to sports. I think like activities and learning how to be you know active in this world in this new streaming world and you know just doing classes like that so that's my main goal right now that I want to do for the youth. Obviously succeeded in music but you've also been all over TV and in the movie screen. Where does your passion from for acting come? Just Jack's all trades man. Just watching watching TV looking at looking at stuff and being like yeah, I can do that seeing if I can do it and then once I get into that

into the field of it, I'll be like, okay, I want to do it. You know, I'll never limit myself to nothing to just being a rapper or just being a once-for-athlete I always try everything just so I can see what I really want to do and it could be another Career after you get done doing what you're doing. You know I'm saying so that's why I always keep my arms and everything Who are some of the bigger actors you got a chance to work with so far? And I'm going to put you on the spot. What was your favorite project you worked on as far as acting?

I've been blessed to jump out there with the big guys. So I got John Travolta, Robert De Niro, John Malkovich, Queen Latifah. She was the first one who brought like emotion out of me and it's uh so I was just I would just learn on set and just Wing it, you know I'm saying and I just like I said, I was blessed to be around them and I'm just studying And being a student of the game. You got a favorite project you've worked on I saw you on Norcos I couldn't believe I was like, hold on Favorite project I got to say uh Praise this it's my favorite one I got to say, praise this.

It's my favorite one. Yeah, you looked a little bit too natural on Narcos, bro. Oh, Narcos was fire too. Narcos was great. Huncho weekend, talk about it. Huncho down the north. What we doing, what we doing? Huncho down the north, you know what I'm saying?

We bring all the kids, like I said, we bring all the kids from the town. We bring all the athletes, all my celebrity friends, we host a game. We either do flag football or basketball depending on what the weather like. And we put, we get shuttles if you don't got a ride, we get you picked up, we got booths, scholarship grants, we give out checks, and we just have fun. And this year I just took a break because I've been mainly focused on the Rocket Summit and Rocket Foundation, but I promise next year we'll be back

and there's going to be another energy and we're going to be back the ball in the half for fun. Talk about the album that's coming out. The album coming out this fall called Satchamo. And I'm ready for it. You talked to us a little bit and I asked, obviously with all the stuff that has gone on mentally, you're in the right space right now.

You feel like to really get out there and jump back into the music thing? Yeah, I'm ready. I'm always dropping hits every season, you know what I'm saying? So it ain't- Stay consistent. You know, I gotta stay consistent and whether I'm down or not, I still got to feed my people and make sure I got to lift somebody else up when they listen to my music. So I can't just be

super owning myself and just being in a shell with like this the best I ever felt and I feel like it's going back to like the essence, but I feel that power and I feel the power of taking the stool and I can hear them coming through me out the songs and it just feel like, and I got all the other stuff out the way and I can see clear. Sometimes you gotta get a lot of things out the way to move forward and go to the place you need to be,

young guys, you know what I'm saying? Some of your homeboys and stuff like that, y'all gotta figure stuff out. Sometimes you gotta do it by yourself to go up through there. And then you ain't leaving them, you just gonna come back and get them and tell them this how I was trying to do it if you didn't see the vision.

So I feel like this vision is going into this project, Satchmo, and I'm on one. I wanna talk to the youngsters that's here. I just wanna give y'all a quick message while we're here. I know we talking to Quay, and you know we here to honor the Rocker Foundation, but I wanna give y'all just some advice, because I wouldn't be myself if I didn't.

One, everything you need to be great, everything you need to be great and successful, is already in you, right? It's already in you. You don't need to look to social media. You only need to look outside yourself or the mirror for somebody to tell you great for you to believe it. When you wake up every morning, you look in that mirror

and tell yourself and believe you great. That's all the affirmation you need. When you looking for, through social media and everywhere, you looking for advice or positive stuff to look at, be careful of what you look at on the internet. Because everybody's not giving you positive advice, and everybody's not leading you the right way. So be careful what you watch and what you believe

and what you listen to. Because it's a lot of people out here we call the blind leading the blind. And it's a lot of people that don't want to see you ahead or see you do better than them. So always believe in yourself and believe that the confidence you need to be great is already in you and you don't need nobody Outside that mirror to tell you great. Appreciate you overly As you continue to push through for gun violence

Do we see in maybe 10 years you doing, in the next 10 years, more political work? Obviously you have a huge voice, a huge platform. When people like you put their heart and soul into projects like this, good things happen. With the success of this gun violence campaign and mission and foundation moving forward, can we expect more other projects in a similar space? I'm just doing what God asked me to do you know I'm saying he driving I'm just riding so you know I'm here to just complete the mission like I said I just

want to be connected and keep my antennas you know clear so I can speak to my guy and just make sure what it is he want me to do is just you know push forward but it ain't in my control. And if it's on a desk and it's in front of me, I'm open and I'm ready to do it. Love it. All right, we're going to take some questions now. Anybody got any questions for anybody up here, for Quavo, for myself, for Stac? Don't be scared.

My name Andrew and I'm from Cleveland, AB. I would wonder, you got a young boy number? You know what I'm saying? Nah. I do got a number. Yeah, tell him about me, I'm a big fan of him. Uh, hey. Huh?

And I wasn't. No, no, that was my real question, bro. He said, I ain't done, hold on. Yeah, and I like your, that little studio you did with Allset, Takeoff, and what's the other name? Oh, you, you. Y'all, you rapping in that studio, yeah, I mess with that, yeah. Thank you, Lil Bruh.

I appreciate you. Yes, sir. Thank you, Lil Bruh. Anybody else? Anybody else? G, we got you on the move, G. Hey, my name is Brianna. I'm with the Come Up Project and Sweet Soul. I'm trying to form as a do you in the future like see yourself changing

going more towards a message against anti-gun violence in your music like I feel like your voice like you you said, like that's the biggest blessing that the Most High gave you, you know, the money came from that. So do you see yourself using the original blessing as a way to also advocate for the exact thing that the Rocket Foundation is doing? Yeah and I feel like it's a 50-50 because I feel like I still got people around me or people that came from nothing, still living that, still going through that all the time, every day. So it's kind of like, it's like I have to still let these people know what's going on.

If I just go all the way left and don't let them know, then my guys won't be able to listen to me about what's going on out here outside for real. So I try to like, I outside for real so I try to like I try to like I try to like split it so I do I do represent you know I do like country records and records with Lana and records with Luke Bryan and I try to like take it to another on a country level, but like on an advocate side, I don't feel like I haven't checked that box with a record,

but I think I should do a few. I think it'll work. It's a good question. Anybody else? We got time for a couple more. Hey y'all, I'm Ashley Johnson. I am the founder of the Street Widows Foundation. I'm from Louisville, Kentucky,

but I lost my husband February 19th, 2020 in DeKalb County. He was shot and killed at a gas station. I also wanna raise up that he was the fourth person killed at that intersection in February of that year. My question is for you, Quavo. In your loss, when you had those feelings of vengeance, of wanting to get revenge for, or street justice for your loss,

what did you do with that? What did you do with those feelings? I feel like a lot of our kids deal with that. As a widow, I dealt with that. And especially with your platform, how did you deal with those feelings? I'm still going through that. And there ain't no timing on it. There ain't no timing on that, you know.

There ain't no timing on any of that you just asked for, so sometimes you can just be super patient and your revenge will come through God, and your revenge will come through triumph in politics, your revenge will come through going through the White House, your revenge will come with passing these laws, changing lives and other kids' lives. So like, you just gotta just sit in it and be ready for it. Your revenge gonna come. I wanna touch on that too. My brother was killed when I was six, my older brother was killed when I was 16.

And at that age, I was really in a different, I'm a totally different person now. But what the people around me who I provided for, who depended on me, forced me to not think that way. So when you have responsibilities, when you have people relying on you, then that, especially as a mother, I know you understand that. You got other people relying. It's easy for you to make the right decisions

and you're not being selfless. So I can see you right now. I see you're a strong black woman. I I can see you right now I see you a strong black woman I see you I see I know it's a lot of people that depend on you and you got to make those decisions For those people that depend on you and it's okay to feel that way. You know, I'm saying so you okay, you know, so You just it's gonna come trust me. Thank you. We have one last question here Hi, my name is dr. Cynthia Williams and I'm a grief and trauma therapist. The biggest thing I kind of wish that

when we get into this arena, we have so many youth around us, is just sharing that before they get to that anger spot, which takes them to want to pick the gun up, how important is it that now that we've had to deal with that loss for you all was devastating for you as a family but even myself being a mother who's buried a child finding that most people just don't talk about it enough right and therapy is so definitely needed but the biggest thing is empowering everybody

that touches the kid to make sure they have the therapy so that the kid knows how important it is for them to have it. How has the mental health factor changed for you, your mom, your sister? Everybody has known. We followed the story for so long but are y'all really okay? I mean, we just we're going through it still. It's only the second year, you know, so it's still fresh and every day is in and out. You know, it's like we damn near something. On these days like this, we really don't even wanna pull up. You feel me?

Because it's not fun. It's not great talking about this. You know what I'm saying? It's kinda, like I said, I was there and this is my nephew and my responsibility is to make sure we all get home ever since I was a child and it my nephew and my responsibility is to make sure we all get home ever since I was a child and it just couldn't happen that way and I feel like when I come up here I don't like it, you know, at all.

So I'm still in it but like I said, I'm not driving so I can't be acting out on me so I gotta act I gotta act for the folks and I gotta be here for my for my for my sister and my niece and my nephew and my mama so and I gotta maintain the house so you either gonna lose it all or you gonna act crazy you gonna go what you know I'm saying or you gonna stand up and be a man and just stay in it. We all right. Yeah, I think... Sorry, I know he said that was the last question, but I got this young man here, probably the youngest person who wanted to ask questions, so I couldn't say no. So please introduce yourself and you get the final question for the panel.

I'm Lyric, I am 10 years old, my birthday is February 10th, and what about kids like me? I used to do pro-tunes and yonkers, and I work in Roughriders, so what about more kids like me that do piano and drums? Well, we need to go ahead and get you in the studio, sir, with some big guys, and we got to hear your sound. I like that, and you just gotta keep working, and I think it's time to go, you know, so keep going at it

And if you already edit we gonna put you in the studio somewhere my guy. I love it. Yes, sir Thank you all. Thank you for your questions. Everyone. I think What I think at the end of the day the I mean from that question alone you see there there's interest There's want they just needs to be the resources. resources I mean we've touched on this before we you know we're telling the youth to put the guns down but what are we replacing the guns with we need to replace the guns with opportunities with resources and that's why you know it was so important for us to come here today because that's exactly what this foundation is doing so we want to thank everybody for coming out today Quavo you

and your entire family. I know it's not easy. We've all lost people and the courage and the strength and the will to keep pushing. Like you said, it's day by day. There's no manual on how to grieve or the right or the wrong way to grieve. So grieving your way, make sure you keep God first. We love everybody and thank you guys for coming out today. Yes, sir.

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