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F
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. And we're finally here, 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?
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Quavo
We celebrating the Rocket Foundation. We doing the Rocket foundation, of course, but we celebrate my nephew birthday. We putting it all in one, calling the summit. And we just doing this for a purpose, bro. Making sure to take our legacy, his name, stay alive, and we gotta be frontline and do something about it, you know, from the politics side and in 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 lose a loved one. We here for you.
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F
Introduce us to who's to your right.
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Quavo
My dog, Greg Jackson. You know what I'm saying? President of the Rocket Foundation. I'm let him break it down on how he started and came here with me.
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F
Tell us a little bit about your background too, Greg. Cause we ran across paths. What year was that?
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Greg Jackson
2022. 2022.
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H
Yeah.
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F
Straight out to the White House when I came into the White House.
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Greg Jackson
Cause I worked with a group, Advanced Peace.
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F
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 with Quavo.
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Greg Jackson
Well, my work on this issue started in April 2013. I was leaving the club with my cousins and just like so many moments, we got caught in the middle of a crossfire. Bullet sprang out and I was hit. The bullet hit me, hit two arteries, nearly cost 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 Quavo, and, you know, unfortunately, through tragedy, but he was determined to make it triumph, you know, and to make it. 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 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 serve in the White House. And, you know, I just thank God every day that he got me out of that hospital bed.
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F
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. 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.
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H
Right?
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Quavo
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 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, you know, 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 set aside, you know what I'm saying? It's hard. Every time I do these somethings, I feel like one. I was there. This is my nephew, so I'm always supposed to take care of him and bring him home in any situation. So starting from, like I said, starting from dissing the foundation is just. It's the only way. I think I know right now. And 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's been through it too. So that's where I'm at with it. You know what I mean?
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H
I want to say this, like, I think it's a beautiful thing because, like, even with my situation with George Floyd, like, if I knew I had a group of people already set in place where I know I can call and 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 want that care about it, you already have that. So when it's time to move, you're already moving one time. That's a beautiful thing, bro. I gotta salute you for.
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Quavo
Appreciate it. Appreciate it.
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H
Greg.
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F
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.
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Greg Jackson
I mean, it's the policy, but it's also the resources, Right? Like what Quavo described and what Steve described 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.
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H
Detroit.
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Greg Jackson
Yeah. Life Camp.
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Quavo
Yep.
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Greg Jackson
Force 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 a 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 Quavo 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.
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H
Right?
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Greg Jackson
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.
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H
That's one thing we did go to a commodity. There's a lot of standards I didn't understand about policies and laws like that. 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 organization that's doing the real work.
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Greg Jackson
And just for everybody's 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 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.
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F
You know, that's why I work with the group Advance Peace up in Stockton and 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, til we're blue in the face, put down the guns. But what are we replacing the guns with?
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H
Right?
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F
You gotta replace it with opportunity. 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.
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H
Let's start from the beginning, bro. The nauf.
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Quavo
Yes, sir.
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H
I had a blessing to be called on the North. Come hang with y' all a couple times. Talk about your upbringing and what does ATL mean and represent to you?
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Quavo
I was originally born in Athens, Georgia, by, like, sixth, seventh grade. We moved to Gwinnett. We call it the north and shit. We were just some 5:30 young niggas just having fun, making music, doing sports and getting in trouble.
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H
Yeah, Trying to figure it out.
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Quavo
I'm trying to figure it out. You know, everybody stayed at my house. That's mama crib. We call it mama honcho. 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. Next thing you know, we were just in there just recording, going crazy.
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H
Everybody called Mama Mama. You was raised by Mama. Dad wasn't there. Similar to my upbringing, a lot of people don't know 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 and the sacrifices she make. Talk about, you know, what your mom meant to everybody around y' all. Cause 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.
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Quavo
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 momma be like, how your parents not let you do this and that. And the third. And so sometimes we'll, like. The kids used to, like, run away and just come stay at my house. Just because, like, she was just so cool and caring. But at the same time, she still ain't let you just do no nonsense. 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 of, like, okay, we all growing up as young men. We got responsibilities. You know what I'm saying? And she just always instilled that 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, what she was on.
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H
Your sister said he didn't get whippings like we did.
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Quavo
Oh, no, I'm the only boy. I ain't really get in trouble like that. Cause I was the only boy. She loved her only son. I think she get that from my grandmama, though. Cause my grandmama 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.
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H
What kind of music did you listen to growing up? I know y' all all turned up and was rapping. We was fired up around that time. I was out here when y' all was coming up.
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Quavo
Shit, growing up, we listened to Hot Boys a lot. I was a real big T Pain fan. That kind of how I get the tune and the melodies and shit. Young La J Money, they don't know.
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H
How big they was.
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Quavo
Yeah, that was huge to us. Gucci, of course, Jeezy. But like, the shit that started the sauce in the wave. I feel like we go futuristic. Leland. That, like, kind of gave us our template and palette on where to go with the swag.
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F
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 Hinkey, came and broke that record. Where'd you say he's at, Jelani? The Chargers. Now 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.
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Quavo
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, a little bit of tight end. And they would throw me at quarterback every now and then, like sprinkle me in. Cause I was left handed.
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H
I was just about to say everybody, left hand, think they sweet at quarterback.
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Quavo
You know what I'm saying? So they. 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 third quarterback, I think he broke his collarbone. My other quarterback, he was gang 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 ride receiver, 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, fuck it, I do it. And when I went over there, it just natural, it just clicked. 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 nigga. 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, top to bottom, had it all. And 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 have it in him. That day they threw me out there. First play of the game, I threw a touchdown and it was all she did.
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H
First play of the game.
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Quavo
Yeah, I'll never forget it. We played Collins Hill.
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F
That's dope. What kind of influence did Mike Vick have on you once you became a quarterback?
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Quavo
Of course I would. Number seven. Vick was my favorite player. I felt like when he left Atlanta, all the soul left Atlanta. So, I mean, it was kind of hard for me to be a Falcons fan again after that. But now I'm back. Yeah, I'm back.
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F
Did you play any hoop or was it just all football?
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Quavo
I played ball. I played.
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H
That's really cold at.
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Quavo
Yeah, I played basketball. I really was good in basketball.
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F
Was like organized basketball or just playing around the neighborhood.
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Quavo
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. I could never get over it.
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F
Jackson.
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Quavo
Every time I. Every time I pulled up, I was feeling so that how they would cut me. And then I get mad and then do all spring sports. So just to keep me, like, in school and doing my work, I went to play baseball for the first time. And I played pitcher and left field and shit. That's what kept me with my grades. And I was rolling over to basketball. I mean, rolling over to football. And then shit, after that, right back again. I'm failing again. It was just like a. Like a cycle, bro. Like 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.
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F
The athlete mindset is something we talked to Kobe about. We recently talked to Ryan Coogler 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.
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Quavo
Those spaces, most definitely socially help you out, 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 got to be able to, you know what I'm saying, stand in it. And that's what I think in business. And patience, Patience, you know what I'm saying? You want a lot, even. Like, when you working out, you be thinking that you can go get big tomorrow, but you got to stay at it. So, like, that football, sports, communicating with, you know what I'm saying? Having that coach, that father figure, that big brother, it kind of like, shaped 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, see whatever you want. You know what I'm saying? But that one, like, if you 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.
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F
When did music surpass sports as far as math? This may be something I could do.
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Quavo
Shit, after I dropped out of high school, I had plan A. Didn't work. I went plan B. And that was music. Yeah, but we was always good. We was always good. Like, we would fuck around and just make songs for the school. They all love them. Make songs for the football team, they'll like it. I passed my mixtape 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 mixtape hard? You mind if I get on it? And that was offset.
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F
Oh, really?
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Quavo
Yeah, that's how it happened in the cafeteria.
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F
That's crazy.
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H
That's crazy.
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Quavo
It was some of it.
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F
So they all knew it, but he was the only one that really showed love to it.
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Quavo
Yeah, yeah. And that was it. But tape, though. Tape always been rapping. 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 a Turk album left and top to bottom. And he was a kid, like, nigga coming there, cussing, doing all that cussing, man. Mama came in there and took the whole CD in there, and 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 sponge. It was like. It's crazy.
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H
I was blessed to be in the studio with you. Gucci, the Ho, Migos, Juice and Dolph, we was all in at the same time. And you were in the booth. This just to see 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. Like, who? This guy here. Like, he just took that, he brought that present. Like, he was the best every. I seen him in the studio, you know what I'm saying? He was like that, bro.
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Quavo
Over the facts.
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F
But chill, though.
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H
Yeah, don't say a word.
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Quavo
That's how he got his name, though. Takeoff was really called his first. It was like one take, you know what I'm saying? Like, we started, like, when we was rapping. I used to record on this thing called Windows Movie Maker. It's like a long time ago. And, like, you had to set it up to where, like, you put the. I had to put the track up there where the movie reel would be. And I put. And it had like this narration thing so you can just narrate the real. 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. If you fuck up, you gotta delete the whole way through so like I would be fucking up. You see what I'm saying? And like we had to start over, start over. But when that man got on one take, one take every time and then I take off. He got his name.
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F
That's dope.
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H
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Quavo
I got it. No, I got it.
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Designer Shoe Warehouse
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Quavo
Don't be silly. You don't be silly.
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H
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Quavo
Rock, paper, scissors.
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H
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F
I was in the studio or the night they did the LA leaker shit in la. Remember that night? And I brought you some. And I was just sitting there like, this shit is dope.
- [26:21]
Quavo
Yeah, for sure.
- [26:21]
F
Just sit there and see it.
- [26:23]
Quavo
We need to crack that strand. We need to get. We still. We got business plays and stuff going on, bro. These are my guys. These are big bros. For real. Like, no Cap.
- [26:33]
H
Like, seriously, Birkin, 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.
- [26:41]
Quavo
He was the backbone. I feel like me and him both was always just fans of just music, you know what I'm saying? Like I said, bro, we used to write on our glasses like, Soulja. I used to be Crunk Boy. He used to be. God damn, I forgot what his name was.
- [26:55]
H
The light skinned one. I can't think of his name.
- [26:57]
Quavo
I know my name. Crump boy. He was wrong. He used to be like, dope boy. Like, four weeks even. Like, we had to switch. 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. He was just like, nah, bro. We used to get pulled over. He was 14 years old and 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 straight up. And, like. So he always knew that we were gonna be a rapper. And that's why I said the plan B didn't feel like no, no hard job, because dudes already doing the flow.
- [27:36]
H
Y' all been rapping. Back in the days, y' all was.
- [27:39]
Quavo
Putting socks over microphones, socks over mics overly over nailed. Nail the mic to the. 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 they make it like. And they make it sound like a real mic. And this is like. This is like those stick mics at Walmart.
- [28:02]
H
Yeah, yeah.
- [28:03]
Quavo
Y' all remember those desk mics? Like the stick ones? You Just get the rapping.
- [28:09]
H
Made it work.
- [28:10]
Quavo
Had to.
- [28:12]
H
With all that, y' all had to find a way to one take everything.
- [28:16]
Quavo
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 first, 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 at the end and I fuck it up, you gotta start over.
- [28:37]
H
Everybody gotta do that.
- [28:38]
Quavo
You know what I'm saying? So I'll never forget that.
- [28:41]
F
That was the pressure to get you better, though.
- [28:43]
Quavo
Yeah, yeah.
- [28:44]
H
Polo Club. That was Polo club day.
- [28:45]
Quavo
Polo club. P O, L O.
- [28:47]
H
Talk about it, man.
- [28:49]
Quavo
They had us burnt. That's why I said the J. Futuristic, the la, The. You know what I'm saying? That whole ba. We were bowed out. We were extra bowed. We were. Polo club.
- [29:00]
Greg Jackson
It was burned out.
- [29:01]
H
Big horses.
- [29:02]
Quavo
Oh, God. The big one. The rugby, The Levi. True religions. Trim.
- [29:08]
F
Couldn't tell you shit.
- [29:09]
Quavo
Oh, my God.
- [29:11]
H
The Polo Club mixtape was met with mixed feelings. It was mixed feelings about it. Why?
- [29:15]
Quavo
Cause it was. I felt like it actually didn't have. It was another member in there. Shout out to my boy Nick, man.
- [29:20]
F
Nick didn't make the cut, huh?
- [29:21]
Quavo
Nah, he had. He was just going hard. He ended up doing, like 15. 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 sparking. But we weren't ready yet. I'm glad that we didn't take off. Cause I thought. Cause I was really thought we was ready. I'm like, it's crazy. But we were just brewing, brewing, brewing. Then like, that Migo 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. We, okay, cool. We Migo gang. We going to Migos. Black Migos, you know what I'm saying? And like, I think Long live Street Scooter. Goddamn J Money Ogd. And we came in and they were like, oh, y' all boy look just like. Y' all boy got it all. It's already dressed. We ain't got it's over with. And it was just once we got that official stamp, it was just we were gone.
- [30:24]
H
When? During this time when y' all figuring it out, y' all making the music, y' all growing. Any OG step in and give y' all some game or y' all learned everything off experience when we was recording.
- [30:34]
Quavo
That's what. That's. I'm glad that's a good question. You said, bro, when 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. Cause of the one takes.
- [30:45]
H
Yeah.
- [30:45]
Quavo
Cause of the. We was just punching in, punching in, punching in. So when 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 motherfucking superstar NBA workouts that you don't even know that you was doing until you walked in over there to the gym. You like, oh, Damn, we shooting 350 shots. I do that at the crib every day. You know what I'm saying? We do in N outs, cross country. You know what I'm saying? So, like, the formula was. We was making a formula. We was having a formula already. It was already ready. So when we walked in, we just looked like we was just plug and play.
- [31:23]
F
I'm gonna give you some names. Tell me the first thing to come to mind are any good stories about them Outkast Greatest group.
- [31:30]
Quavo
Greatest group of all time, for sure.
- [31:33]
F
What did they mean to Atlanta and you growing up?
- [31:36]
Quavo
First ones to kick the door down, having something to say. The first verbal ones and 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 them boys outside and, like, having. You know what I'm saying, Telling them folks having something to say, like, nigga having swag. And they Drip was just out of here. Two different. Two different worlds. And that's how. Of course. Of course they. Andre and Andre, Big boy outcast, the whole Dungeon family, you know, they set the tone for sure for Atlanta, Ti Ti to go the king. King of the trap. Question about it, he had her going down 316, Ryan. When we were moving from Athen to Gwinnett, that was our tape of motivation. Because I swear, I didn't want to leave at. I ain't want to leave at all.
- [32:28]
H
He might tip. Might be my favorite rapper. From Atlanta all time, for sure.
- [32:31]
Quavo
He had up for there, too. Jeezy the Goat, Snowman, Ad lib king. He most definitely ad lib king.
- [32:40]
H
He dominated his era, too, especially out here in the 80s.
- [32:44]
Quavo
Little scrappy, trim, young nigga. 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 ahead bust some music. Lil John, they opened it up like it was just. I think they. They started leading that way. Soulja Boy, he trimmed, 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 Soulja House, you know what I'm saying? And me and Trav went on and did Hunt. You know, he done said this shit in Western.
- [33:23]
H
I'm saying, you know, it's gonna go viral.
- [33:25]
Quavo
Cause he ain't lying.
- [33:25]
H
Cause he want to say he the first everything.
- [33:28]
Quavo
The first rapper to pull up on him was Jay Money.
- [33:30]
H
Yeah.
- [33:31]
Quavo
But the first big one for sure was Soldier.
- [33:34]
H
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [33:35]
F
Future, the wizard, the Goat, too.
- [33:38]
Quavo
You know what I'm saying? That there got infinity life, you know what I'm saying? He gonna walk it down. He gonna do whatever. It's ready to roll. Plug and play.
- [33:48]
F
Plug and play.
- [33:49]
Quavo
Yeah.
- [33:51]
F
What was your first international trip as Migos? That just blew y' all mind.
- [33:56]
Quavo
I want to say something. Ain't no really went like that. Like, Australia was crazy. Australia actually was one of the best times of my life because we went from, like, Africa to Australia.
- [34:08]
F
What year was this about?
- [34:09]
Quavo
I want to say 20 culture two. 2017, 2018. 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. So I guess we couldn't stay there. So we just stayed in the studio from like, 6 to 6. Like, 6am 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. And 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 take. And I just think, like, those. That moment right there just was. 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 was fucked up. We couldn't. We, like. It looked like you didn't have no inspo there. And we found a major smash hit with this record. That's what I'm saying.
- [35:12]
H
You least expected travel.
- [35:15]
Quavo
Oh, no. He the goat for sure.
- [35:17]
F
Trav.
- [35:17]
Quavo
That's my brother. 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?
- [35:28]
H
I want to ask his questions. Off Key to the Streets. Classic. How was it making that album? I mean, that song.
- [35:35]
Quavo
Key to the Street.
- [35:36]
H
Lucci pulled up Rest in Peace School.
- [35:38]
Quavo
RP School for sure. Think it was just one of them nights in qc.
- [35:42]
H
Y' all was all in there when.
- [35:43]
Quavo
Y' all made that all in there.
- [35:44]
H
Oh, that's fire.
- [35:45]
Quavo
Lucha came in. We was already working on one. Me School. We were doing like three. I think Flippa got on one. Tell me what you think of this dolphin with a bit Flippa. Me. Flippa. We got on one. And then Lucci came in, I think like an hour later. And then I was just like. He pulled. We pulled. Who made the beat?
- [36:04]
H
June. June. The genes didn't make that beat.
- [36:06]
Quavo
Anyway, we. 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 right. So I walk in there, I'm just like, I got money way before the deal put my in the pan. But I'm saying it like that, Luci. Like, man, come on out. I got something to say right now. Leave that. He go right in the. Oh, I look like you're on, baby. And then after that, it was just magic. Every time I get into like a. I wouldn't say don't want to, but like, not in the vibe when you think you're not in big happen. I make a smash every time. Dolph the Goat.
- [36:50]
H
My dog.
- [36:51]
Quavo
That my dog. I miss Dolph for sure. That 1000. Always high spirited, always loving, always goddamn laughing like a. He just ready to work. I got some shit with Dolph, too.
- [37:06]
H
Yeah. Shirt off his back.
- [37:07]
F
Her just a good dude overall though, too.
- [37:09]
Quavo
Sure gon give anything. Buy you anything for real.
- [37:14]
H
Always been about his paper. Talk about the early days promoting that to promote Migos at the Pink Flamingo.
- [37:23]
Quavo
He said, you taking it back that's where it started at. That's crazy. That's where it started at. Cause DJ Ray G, he. He set in. He used to be Carti and set dj, but he still set dj, but he was in 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 them, 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 wasn't really catching. He wasn't moving the folks like that. But when we dropped that Bando, bro, that one I knew, like, they was coming up to us like, yo, this. This the one. And then, so he started, like, the DJ would, like, move spots. He like, yo, so Friday he would do, like, Thursday he'll do Pink Flamingo. Friday he'll do Obsession. Saturday he'll do Mansion. We were just following that, you know what I'm saying? 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 charges back to back. Man, we 17, 18 years old. And then Key Motion, did he shoot our videos? Name shot all the QC video. He was just out there with a camera, 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 would just go 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 QC City Girls, everybody. All the startup crew since. Ever since then, everything been like, you know what I'm saying? Like, good money.
- [39:25]
H
Yeah.
- [39:25]
F
Would you ever produce Amigos documentary?
- [39:28]
Quavo
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. We actually working on that right now. We got a lot of footage.
- [39:35]
F
You mentioned all that footage? That's. People love to see that.
- [39:37]
Quavo
We got a Lot of footage. Footage, man. We got some.
- [39:40]
F
Yes, Tammy.
- [39:41]
H
Oh, yeah. Cush ups.
- [39:43]
F
We got a violator.
- [39:44]
H
We gotta do cush ups.
- [39:45]
Quavo
Cush ups for Tammy.
- [39:46]
F
Yep.
- [39:47]
Quavo
10 cush up there, Tammy. Let's see. We got one roll for you too.
- [39:52]
H
10 good ones. Tell me if you agree with this statement. In Atlanta, a local hit can be a shortcut to the national stage.
- [40:00]
Quavo
Absolutely.
- [40:01]
H
Easy call.
- [40:02]
Quavo
Easy, easy.
- [40:04]
F
What was the first hit y' all heard on the radio like that y' all did was like, oh, shit.
- [40:07]
H
Bando, wasn't it?
- [40:08]
Quavo
Bando for sure.
- [40:08]
H
Yeah.
- [40:09]
Quavo
Bando, I'm talking about Bando was like, Bando. So beginning. It's like we used to do.
- [40:14]
H
Nobody lived when that song came out. Nobody. I don't care if you lived in the mansion or a broke down house or everybody lived in Bando in Atlanta.
- [40:22]
Quavo
And ain't nobody knew what it was.
- [40:26]
F
But she lived in it.
- [40:27]
Quavo
But like, when we dropped that song, bro, we had to battle. We dropped that song in Hot 179, where you'd be like, song number one and number two. Like, we winning the battle every week. Yeah, winning the battle. Oh, nah, we like that number one, man. Keep that Bando going. All right, Bet. Call the number number one or two. Bando, man. That's it. And then like, shit. We were just like, boom. And then I ran into it. Like I was saying, we were following Ray G around. So we go to obsessions and goddamn, why this song going on? I'm walking in the section, bump a nigga. I look him up and down. He looked me up and down. It's Zaytofer. We like, damn, this is Zaytove.
- [41:09]
H
Yeah.
- [41:10]
Quavo
He like, man, I ain't gonna lie, man. What's up, bro? Y' all the Bando boy. We been looking. They used to call us Bando boy. We been looking for y' all. I'm like, who you talking about? Like, him and Gucci? So I wanna say, like, not even a week later, he got damn hit Real and was saying Guad wanted us to come to the studio. But I was so mad at, like, just rap. Cause I felt like. I felt like we had did it. I felt like we on the radio, we winning. God damn, this shit working. Everybody. We Bando boys around the town. This nigga Gucci don't want to holler 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, nah, for real. So I hit Zay. Cause I got his number when I 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.
- [42:06]
H
Shout out, Guap. That'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. Basketball game.
- [42:20]
Quavo
I just did. I just did a new one. I say, little bro, pull up ball player Brianny James. You know what I'm saying? You got a little bro. You pull up ball player, go Brandon James. Yeah, that's my favorite one right now.
- [42:32]
H
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. Don't conquer the whole. The whole aspect. Yeah. The entertaining part, the often being deal with fans.
- [42:55]
Quavo
I was just talking to Metro about this the other day. St. Lord and Texas was kind of 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 when they. Did they. When they used to all get on stage together back in the day.
- [43:11]
H
Yeah, it was crazy.
- [43:12]
Quavo
That was it.
- [43:13]
H
Yeah.
- [43:13]
Quavo
And that would put us to that level. Like, all right, this is how we want to do it. You know what I'm saying?
- [43:17]
H
That's the bar.
- [43:19]
Quavo
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 what I'm saying? You just can't be right here rapping and just with your head down. You gotta, you know, act them words out.
- [43:32]
F
Yeah, they gotta feel it. Paint that picture.
- [43:34]
H
What's your favorite ad lib?
- [43:35]
Quavo
Mama. Mama.
- [43:41]
F
The art of the hook.
- [43:41]
H
The hook God.
- [43:42]
F
Yeah, the hook God. Where'd that come from?
- [43:44]
Quavo
Beating them to the studio, Beating them to the booth. How we going? Making five, six songs while everybody go outside.
- [43:50]
H
Once that hook laid, we represent.
- [43:53]
Quavo
It wasn't nothing personal. I would just. I just sit in the stool, bro, and make like five, six of them and like three, two or three of them. They want them and 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?
- [44:10]
H
Cause writing the verse is easy. The hook is always the hardest part.
- [44:12]
Quavo
Yeah, I just made it easy for the guys. You know, Tate gonna come clean up everything outset gonna chop it down, you know.
- [44:18]
F
So how did the relationship between QC and you got self start?
- [44:21]
Quavo
It started when Grew op had went in, and we just felt like when he had, like. Like I said, he. When he came and signed us, our life changed instantly. Boom. And, like, when he went to jail, it start trickling back to, like, that north side shit. We were like, oh, hell, no, we can't go back. We just. We just. We just felt it. You feel what I'm saying? And we just got. I got a call from Pee Wee Longway. He was just like, bro, pull up. Just pull up. Red Dead Eminem. Just pull up. And I pulled up. He was talking about P. But a month before Guad went to jail, P put me. I mean, Gua 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 J ride. So I'm like, what the hell type of OG Lord this is? We just.
- [45:22]
F
We.
- [45:23]
Quavo
Me and Tate, we just looking like. So we get in the car, but we ride, go through, hit the city. We ain't say too much. He popped. He was like, d, my new artist amigo got down. I want you to play the music. He played the music in the car. P.J. 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 with it. I get out the car, leave my phone in their car. And he was like. I said, go up. I left my phone. And he said, bro, you left your phone in the car? I just told you, don't do nothing crazy in the man call you. So I'm like, man, hell no. 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 goo up. I hit goo. I'm like, we going this way. He like, all right, bet. That's the best bet. Folk came in there with a trap bag full of money and was like, don't tell me I dug this up for nothing. I looked down, I did like this, and it time to go.
- [46:28]
H
Yeah. Rest is history.
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H
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H
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H
The Difference Culture Album 2017 Legendary debuts number one on the charts. The album has bad and bougie T shirts, Slippery Get Right, which is name a few some legendary producers on the album as well. Metro Boom and Zaytoven. Without hurting any feelings, which one of them boys is the hardest?
- [49:25]
F
Who you have the best chemistry with?
- [49:27]
Quavo
Zaytov. Zaytoven started it all from the church. Zaytoven, of course.
- [49:35]
H
And he a good dude too. That's what I like about Zay.
- [49:38]
Quavo
He just struck again with the wham whammy.
- [49:40]
H
Yeah.
- [49:40]
Quavo
He ain't gonna never. He gonna keep striking.
- [49:43]
F
Yeah.
- [49:43]
H
You were notorious for recording his songs in 30, 40 minutes. What are your best memories? Grinding the studio, pumping our song. Like the best memory that you had. You think about from, you know, you still got a long career left, but I know it's that one moment where you sat in the studio and you was like, shit is dope. Yeah, like, man, I came still. Still kind of surreal to me.
- [50:02]
Quavo
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 were just. I was just Versace then set say up Versace then take say at Versace. And I said, beside you again. Then I went back in and I recorded it. Then I came out. I'm saying. I think I'm saying Versace too much. They were like, no, hell no. Keep it just like that. We gonna do it just like this. And then anything, you know. God damn. I met. We was in Birthday Bash. That boy Drake pulled up, said, bro, I love 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 and he was gone.
- [50:52]
H
Take off.
- [50:52]
Quavo
Yeah.
- [50:53]
F
What's it like working with Drake?
- [50:55]
Quavo
Oh, yeah, that boy to go that way. Like I said, I always cook up first. Like, even with Drake. Like, even with Walkie Talkie Portland. How do these songs be cooked? Like, I cook them up and then I jet.
- [51:10]
F
Send them off.
- [51:11]
Quavo
I send them off and like, it should just be. It's just great chemistry. I know what Drake would get on. You know what I'm saying? I know what a travel get on. So I just tap in and shit like that when I sit on in the booth.
- [51:22]
H
You wrote any song for any RP artists?
- [51:24]
Quavo
I want to say the biggest one we did was Ape Shit with Jay Z and Beyonce, for sure. That was life changing too. For real. Set that up.
- [51:33]
H
Yeah.
- [51:34]
Quavo
But I would love to write for like R B artists and get in that bag. For sure.
- [51:39]
H
2010. 2010 was a great year. It was the introduction of basically the rap scene in Atlanta. You know, I remember not too long ago, you know, I followed you, posted a picture of you take Offset Quan and Thug when Thug was going to 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 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?
- [52:16]
Quavo
Well, I'm still a lot of change. There's a lot of change. 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?
- [52:39]
H
Yeah, no question.
- [52:40]
Quavo
It's just. I'm just trying to still figure out 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. Going to different worlds and like tapping into, like, frequencies and energy. So like before, before he was gone, I already knew, like, damn, he finna be up there really putting 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, you know, So I just want to make sure I'm super clear. And sometimes people being aware of that, you know what I'm saying? Your buddies, your partners, and if they can't 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 fan for the team. I'm gonna 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 gotta allow that space. You know what I'm saying? And that's what. And that's where I'm at. And 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 gotta stay in it. And it's time to, you know, it's time to take charge.
- [54:23]
H
You in it for a reason, bro. I was gonna say 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 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 him, 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.
- [54:57]
Quavo
Yes, sir.
- [54:57]
H
You know what I'm saying? With everything that's on them.
- [54:59]
Quavo
Yes, sir.
- [54:59]
H
You know what I'm saying? So you doing something that a lot of people are not built to do, bro. So understand you different, and you here for a reason. Appreciate it.
- [55:05]
Quavo
Thanks. Yes, sir.
- [55:06]
H
Let's talk about some of the Migos most iconic moments. Childish Gambino, shot of y' all out on Bad and Bougie, the best song ever after winning the Golden Globe award in Atlanta. How big was that, man?
- [55:17]
Quavo
Crazy. Our song was, I want to say, number three or number two. And when that man got on that.
- [55:23]
H
Golden Globe, oh, it took off.
- [55:25]
Quavo
We just needed that last little extra push on that rocking that thing made it number one. But Child Gambino, he from Stone Mountain, he from Georgia, he from Atlanta, he from, we say the north, but he always been a student of the game, bro. And he always, like, kept us in the loop. Like, he used to 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.
- [55:57]
H
Y' all was the first season in Atlanta. Y' all was the first rappers in it.
- [56:01]
Quavo
Exactly.
- [56:02]
H
Yeah.
- [56:03]
Quavo
I'm just proud to just be a part of his whole flex, man. He keep it real and keep it solid.
- [56:08]
H
Look at my dab. 40 million views on. 40 million views on the music video. Asking my daughter. I'd be in the car home and I'm still daddy the dab daddy. How you feel about that? Even with Cam Newton made a fan.
- [56:24]
Quavo
I just feel like we should have just.
- [56:25]
H
That's open. Everybody that's ogd.
- [56:28]
Quavo
Yeah, a lot of people don't know that for sure.
- [56:31]
H
Overly a lot of people don't know that.
- [56:33]
Quavo
But the dad was always just drip. So when we said look at my dad, it was like, look at my drip, look at my swag. And we was on the stage. Us this like the first QC group. Us, Jose Guapo, Flippa, even Duke, npa, ysl, Duke. We used to be on stage. And like, we all had Emmy Smith was the song that Emmy Smith and Fuck the Rap Game was a song that we started like dabbing, but we all just dropped one time at the same time. So everybody. You feel me? And so they were just like, what? That is like, man, we going down. 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 chain. Like we were just so young and just rock starred out. He was just. We just dropping sauce and leaving. You see what I'm saying? And I think like, dab is you could have made some real money on that, bro.
- [57:32]
H
It got so bad where everybody around when they talk, they.
- [57:35]
F
Yeah, it's a movement like that Bay Area shit. When they be. I go, I go, I go like the high school.
- [57:41]
H
I'm telling you, Mazzy used to do this shit all the time, dog. Mazzy was burned out with that shit.
- [57:46]
Quavo
That's that Lobby Runner shit, man. That's all Lobby Runner. Long way like you said. Mizer.
- [57:50]
H
All them.
- [57:51]
Quavo
Boy, they been running that lobby, man. That's lobby Running stuff, man.
- [57:54]
H
Straight up, for sure. Anyone else we did name that you feel was like a new level of fame. Excuse me.
- [57:59]
Quavo
Got to go. Richard kid. Yeah, got shot at. That boy, Richard Kid, he never gave up.
- [58:04]
H
Yeah, that.
- [58:05]
Quavo
He's a real finesse king. His story is insane.
- [58:10]
H
He come from a bag though, don't he?
- [58:12]
Quavo
No, he don't. Hell no.
- [58:14]
H
Okay, okay. I thought one of them lived. One of them. I don't know if it was original kid or one of them lived because they say he came from a bag. Nah.
- [58:19]
Quavo
Rich from Haiti.
- [58:19]
H
Yeah.
- [58:20]
Quavo
That boy came through with a skateboard just running around the city. But how we met him, he got down. He said he had a whole. He said he had a whole deal and didn't have it. That just was lying like a. But I looked his up. He had more followers than us.
- [58:36]
H
Yeah.
- [58:36]
Quavo
He had a blue check and that had loads of beats.
- [58:40]
H
Yeah.
- [58:41]
Quavo
So I'm like, man, bring your ass to the studio. And ever since then, he never left the basement.
- [58:46]
H
Yeah.
- [58:46]
Quavo
And then he walked in, I walked him in, gave him a deal. They gave Skipper. They gave Skipper a deal. So any. Any one of my homeboys would walk in. They just give deals or give him money for just being the partner.
- [58:59]
H
Now you got an album with Wayne.
- [59:00]
Quavo
You feel what I'm saying? Oh, God.
- [59:02]
H
Now you got oh, God.
- [59:03]
Quavo
Now you got an album with Wayne and one with Kendra. Oh, God.
- [59:07]
H
That's crazy.
- [59:08]
F
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. And process with everything else going on, just where you guys space and history is?
- [59:27]
Quavo
Yeah, I think I really had a lot of time to reflect, like now, you know what I'm saying? Cuz 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. 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 will happen. Or, you know, after you do a tour, just the way after you do the Drake stuff, this what happened. I think, like, we was running so fast that we didn't. I don't think we could. We couldn't hear that. Or I don't think nobody even just said, like, y' all three niggas come. You know what I'm saying? And I 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 in so we could 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?
- [60:36]
H
Yeah.
- [60:37]
F
Are you in a good space right now to work on music?
- [60:39]
Quavo
Hell, yeah. This shit sounding. This shit sounding good.
- [60:43]
F
It's feeling good.
- [60:44]
Quavo
No, for real. Yeah, it's sounding great.
- [60:46]
F
In 20 years, when you look back and you guys are inducted into. Hopefully it won't be that long. Into the rock and roll or the. 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 Begos? What do you want them to say about you group? What message?
- [61:01]
Quavo
Them boys was hungry. Them boys really came from nothing. Them boys keep God first, you know? Always gonna, always gonna keep. Always gonna keep the Rocket alive. We wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for the Rocket. We love our mamas and just trendsetters, boy. Them boys came through and changed the game. And we only needed three albums.
- [61:25]
F
Crazy.
- [61:26]
Quavo
You know what I'm saying?
- [61:27]
F
People really think about. I didn't really think about it till you said it. Really? Only three albums. Quick Herders. First thing to come to mind, let us know one album you can listen to with no skips.
- [61:36]
Quavo
I'm on my Young Wave. I'm going, Ken Carson. I'm going, Ken Carson.
- [61:42]
H
Top five Atlanta athletes of All Time.
- [61:44]
Quavo
Atlanta, yeah.
- [61:45]
H
Before. Before you answer that, tell me how you got the title for your album that you're going to drop.
- [61:50]
Quavo
Satchimo Satcho. Just like. 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 Clay and Tate, you know what I'm saying? So we just always just had that vision. And when we be planning shit, we see it. Like how Ray saw the Boom Boom Room. I feel like that's a black thing. Like, do our ideas. We see that shit like that before we even got there. So that's how I feel like, that's.
- [62:26]
H
What I feel about Sash, my top five athletes of all time.
- [62:29]
Quavo
Top five athletes. Atlanta.
- [62:31]
H
Atlanta, yeah.
- [62:32]
Quavo
Top five Atlanta. Shit. Nigga might get on me about that. I gotta go. Cam Newton. Gotta put Dwight in there. Hall Of Famer. Them two gotta go. Josh.
- [62:41]
H
Josh Smith.
- [62:42]
F
I was just with Josh last night.
- [62:43]
Quavo
Gotta go to Northside legend Lou Will.
- [62:46]
H
Lou Will.
- [62:46]
Quavo
He came from outside. And Quay.
- [62:50]
H
Quay. Yeah.
- [62:54]
F
She talk about.
- [62:56]
Quavo
Yes, sir.
- [62:57]
F
Mj, Kobe Braun. Rank em.
- [63:00]
Quavo
Shit gotta do Bron. Bron first.
- [63:04]
F
How old are you?
- [63:05]
Quavo
34.
- [63:07]
H
That answer.
- [63:08]
F
I like to. Yeah, I like to see Braun first. Just a heavy second.
- [63:14]
Quavo
I go Kobe second.
- [63:15]
H
Ain't nothing wrong with it. I go Kobe second on my list, too.
- [63:18]
Quavo
And MJ third. Only because 96. I was born in 91. You know how. Like, I didn't get to. I didn't understand. You didn't see that. Yeah, 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 hoe. Like, if everybody. I don't think he do the same thing.
- [63:37]
H
You put Jordan in the league. Now he's gonna average 45.
- [63:39]
Quavo
I don't think so. Him.
- [63:40]
H
Yeah, he would.
- [63:41]
Quavo
I don't think so. Everybody do the same. We all. They all eat. You got shade. Like, all of them rules.
- [63:46]
F
Yeah, but you can't touch him.
- [63:48]
Quavo
Oh, you can't touch him now. You can't touch him. He fought through all his points. Yeah, but I never. I'm sorry. Black number two. Don't kill me.
- [63:59]
H
I'm sorry.
- [64:00]
Quavo
Black. Don't kill me. Black number two. I go LeBron first, Black second. And then long live Kobe, man.
- [64:08]
F
Rest in peace.
- [64:08]
Quavo
The homie child crush, Sierra.
- [64:15]
H
Everybody has. Mine was Monica. So everybody had one around that time. Yeah, I know. I was from Atlanta.
- [64:20]
Quavo
Yeah.
- [64:20]
H
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.
- [64:26]
Quavo
You said what? Said one time.
- [64:27]
H
Just one more time. That. Cause sometimes you get confused. Who would you like to see on our show?
- [64:31]
F
But you gotta help us get him on the show. Who you think would be a good guess? It only took us four years to get you.
- [64:41]
H
Come on, man. Go on. Tell Wham to pull up, man.
- [64:43]
Quavo
Oh, y' all won't wear that shit.
- [64:44]
H
Tell Wham to pull up, man.
- [64:46]
Quavo
You go Wham. I say go Thug.
- [64:49]
H
That's Spider. No, that's even better.
- [64:52]
Quavo
Go Spider.
- [64:53]
H
You gotta make the call. So we cool? So he might do it. That's my boy.
- [64:58]
Quavo
More business. Yeah.
- [64:58]
H
That's my boy.
- [64:59]
Quavo
Yes, sir.
- [65:00]
F
We'll be back out of here for Major League. The Baseball All Star.
- [65:03]
Quavo
Yeah, I'm planning that.
- [65:03]
F
Oh, are you the celebrity sophomore game? 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.
- [65:12]
Quavo
Bring it back to the eight. I'm glad we missed all year at Kohler Legends.
- [65:17]
F
Scott, the partnership of business. Tell us how Legends is. Legends does helps you with your youth league and all your foundations.
- [65:25]
Quavo
Shout out to Legends.
- [65:26]
F
Yeah, speak to that partnership and Scott.
- [65:29]
Quavo
Since day one, Legends and Scott been, you know what I'm saying, like my family, they came in and did all my honcho days. My honcho 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 Stack 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 dripped my guys. He dripped the team. He dripped Team Huncho. He dripped anybody. I want him to drip. You know what I'm saying? He keep them straight. He keep them lazy. Keep all the kids who coming in the draft lacing Legend stuff. And his events. He throw crazy big events. Me and Matt, we threw one in LA at the Mamba Academy.
- [66:21]
F
Academy.
- [66:21]
Quavo
That was incredible. We need to run that back, by the way.
- [66:24]
F
Let's do it.
- [66:25]
Quavo
We have Floyd, Snoop.
- [66:27]
F
This nigga Snoop came into the third quarter, third quarter. Played in the old school high top Chuck Taylors. Came in and got like six.
- [66:34]
Quavo
That was the best one, actually.
- [66:35]
F
Six rebounds and left. He only played like one quarter. And he bounced.
- [66:40]
Quavo
Yeah, that was dope, that one. And then I did another one out here, right in Atlanta. Justin Bieber came.
- [66:45]
F
Yeah. Bees was here.
- [66:46]
Quavo
So, like, Legends is.
- [66:47]
F
Yeah, we do it.
- [66:48]
Quavo
Yeah, we let you do it.
- [66:49]
F
It's a funny story how we did it. So when Scott launched the brand, we were kind of thinking of 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. Cause he was hot with the Lakers at the time. And his business manager passed. I'm like, let's go get Quavo. And Scott's like, quavo, Quavo.
- [67:07]
Quavo
When I walked in there, it was you, Scott.
- [67:09]
F
Yeah.
- [67:10]
Quavo
You said the same stuff.
- [67:11]
F
Yeah, 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.
- [67:17]
Quavo
How long that is? What, seven years now.
- [67:19]
F
Seven years. Yeah. Right about right when I finished playing. Yeah, yeah.
- [67:22]
Quavo
I'm ready. I'm ready for Legends to go Nike, man. Let's go, man.
- [67:25]
F
Let's lock in.
- [67:27]
Quavo
That's how big it is.
- [67:28]
F
Let's go big.
- [67:29]
Quavo
Yes, sir.
- [67:30]
F
Well, man, we appreciate your time. Thank you. Excited to be here and get to the panel. That's a wrap, Quaker.
- [67:36]
Quavo
All the smoke all up, yeah.
- [67:37]
F
Yes, sir. So we here. Before we get started, I want to say one more. Send some more love to Mama Takeoff and Mama Honcho.
- [67:44]
H
And we love you.
- [67:45]
F
We love you guys. Praying for you guys. Quavo, 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.
- [68:00]
Quavo
It's all powered by the rocket, you know what I'm saying? I want to say long live the rocket. And we just, 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 Commodore, 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 gonna pull up front line with you, you know what I'm saying? So, and that's us, that's Rocket Foundation.
- [68:39]
F
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.
- [69:18]
Quavo
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, 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. 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, like, I'm just here just being an instrument for my. For my boy Tate.
- [69:51]
H
I'm definitely inspired by. 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. Civil rights movement ever in history, with 18 countries in all 50 states protested 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. Right? So what Quavo's doing right now is big. It's bigger than music. It's bigger than anything he's ever done because he's doing something that's. That. That. That. That's bigger than him. So y' all pay attention to this. And not just what we saying, but look, watch all of his actions and what he's doing. It's bigger than what we talking.
- [70:34]
Quavo
Okay, music.
- [70:37]
H
Let's touch on a little music. Tell some of these kids out here growing up, who inspired you musically?
- [70:43]
Quavo
Growing up, who inspired me was Hot boys, Cash Money. Of course, that was like the foundation, you know what I'm saying? And then once I got older, as like a teenager, I started rocking out the futuristic wave, you know what I'm saying? I was burnt out by the young la, the J Moneys, 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 man, Tip Future, he was a little bit ahead of us. And we would just look at them like rock stars, and we gotta get there.
- [71:21]
H
Being that you from this area, you're from atl, why you think it's so important that you continue to be involved with the youth and start these youth programs?
- [71:30]
Quavo
Because it start with them, you know what I'm saying? I'm yrn. 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 school high school football team in here which my cousin coaches Bayou. I got Huncho Elite in here, some of them guys in here, all my seven on seven guys and like shit, that sign, 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.
- [72:07]
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H
Wasn't that delicious?
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Quavo
So good.
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Quavo
I got it. No, I got it. Seriously.
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Designer Shoe Warehouse
I insist. I insisted first.
- [73:46]
Quavo
Don't be silly. You gonna be silly?
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H
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iHeart Podcast
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Quavo
Rock, paper, scissors, Shoot.
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H
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F
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 of. 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. I mean, how proud does that make you? And what kind of work goes in behind that, man?
- [75:17]
Quavo
Super proud. But it take a lot of work. And like I said, this was my first time, so I ain'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, you know what I'm saying, help me out with some cleats or some shoes or some jerseys or whatnot. And it started becoming like a whole thing. So I'm just like, do it. We gonna go hunt your elite. But I gotta make sure I pay for everything. Make sure I pay for their travel, they food, they everything, everything, everything. Even they off the field problems and stuff like that. But I look at myself like. Cause I ain't. It was. It was tough for me, too. It was tough for me at Mama. I kind of like missed the point. We moved to Gwinnett to a situation we ain't had no. You know what I'm saying? Enough for me to play. So I always just. Just looked at that like, okay, I got to be here for these kids and do it for the youth, you know, do it for them.
- [76:09]
F
Music, obviously heavy sports background, but music became center stage. Talk to us about you and takeoffs 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.
- [76:28]
Quavo
Oh, God. We was 14 years old. It's a crazy story, but he. 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'm tripping. All right, so then we. We get pulled over by the police, and I'm the police asking him what he do. He said, I'm a rapper at 14 years old. And they was joking about it, but he was dead serious. And that when I knew we was gonna be something, but at the same time, he used to be like, yeah, you can have that sports stuff. I'm gonna 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, takeoff, you know what I'm saying? Like, we would do songs in one flow. Sometimes I mess up. Mess up the whole song. He not messing up. He not skipping a beat. He walking. And I just think, like, he just the youngest and 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.
- [77:36]
H
We was outside talking.
- [77:36]
Quavo
Stay in school. That's not good. Stay in school.
- [77:40]
H
We was talking outside about business and when, you know, we was talking about taking the guns and guns down, and you was talking about, you have to put something in the hands. You was talking about building a 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.
- [78:02]
Quavo
Yeah, that's my dream. My dream goal is to, like, put community centers. The stuff that I had. Like, back then, it was basketball and, you know, after school programs, but now I'm thinking, like, bigger, like, game systems, you know, I'm saying streaming spots, place. You know, I'm 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 what I'm saying? So my goal is to start. Start there. 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.
- [78:51]
F
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?
- [79:00]
Quavo
Just jacks of all trades, man. Just watching tv, 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 feel of it, I'll be like, okay, I want to do it. You know, I don't never limit myself to nothing, to just being a rapper or just being a one sport 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 what I'm saying? So that's why I always keep my arms and everything.
- [79:35]
F
Who are some of the bigger actors you got a chance to work with so far? And I'm going to put you, you on the spot. What was your favorite project you worked on as far as acting?
- [79:43]
Quavo
I've been blessed to jump out there with the big guys. So I got John Travolta, Robert Dairo, John Malkovich, Queen Latifah. She was the first one who brought like emotion out of me. And it's so I would just, I would just learn on set and just wing it, you know what 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.
- [80:07]
F
You got a favorite project you've worked on? I saw you. Oh yeah, Norco's. I couldn't believe. I was like, hold on, favorite project.
- [80:13]
Quavo
I got to say, praise this, it's my favorite one.
- [80:20]
H
You looked a little bit too natural on Narcos, bro.
- [80:22]
Quavo
Oh, Narcos was fire too. Narcos was great.
- [80:26]
H
Honcho weekend talk about it. What we doing?
- [80:30]
Quavo
What we doing, Honcho 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 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 it's gonna be another energy and we're Gonna be back to ball and a half of talk about the.
- [81:10]
H
Album that's coming out.
- [81:11]
Quavo
The album coming out this fall called Satchimo, and I'm ready for it.
- [81:21]
F
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 thing space right now. You feel like to really get out there and jump back into the. Into the music thing?
- [81:33]
Quavo
Yeah, I'm ready. I'm always dropping hits every season, you know what I'm saying?
- [81:36]
F
So it ain't stay consistent.
- [81:38]
Quavo
You know, I gotta stay consistent. And whether. Whether I'm down or not, I still got to feed my people and make sure I gotta lift somebody else up when they listen to my music. So I can't just be super owning myself and just being in a. In a shell. But 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 taking the stew. And I can hear them coming through me out the songs, and it just feel. It feel like. And I got all the other stuff out the way, and I can see clear. Sometimes you got to get a lot of things out the way to, you know, 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 got to 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 Satchamo, and I'm on one.
- [82:36]
H
I want to talk to the youngsters that's here. I just want to give y' all a quick message while we here. I know we talking to Que. And you know, we here to honor the Rocker Foundation. But I want to give y' all just some. Just some advice. Cause I wouldn't be myself if I did 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 and 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.
- [83:52]
F
As you continue to push through for gun violence, do we see in maybe 10 years you doing 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 this similar space?
- [84:17]
Quavo
I'm just doing what God asked me to do. You know what 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 the desk and it's in front of me, I'm open and I'm ready to go. Do it.
- [84:43]
F
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 Stack. Don't be scared.
- [84:50]
Quavo
My name Andrew and I'm from. I'm from Cleveland Avenue. I wonder you got a young boy number. No, I do. I do. Got to know. Yeah, y' all tell them about me. I'm a big fan. And I wasn't.
- [85:08]
iHeart Podcast
No, no, that was my real question.
- [85:10]
F
He said I ain't done. Hold on.
- [85:11]
iHeart Podcast
Yeah, and I like your.
- [85:13]
Quavo
That little studio you did with Offset, 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, little bro. I appreciate you.
- [85:27]
F
Yes, sir.
- [85:28]
Quavo
Thank you.
- [85:30]
F
Anybody else? Anybody else? G? We got you on the move, G.
- [85:34]
iHeart Podcast
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 he said, like that's, 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?
- [86:09]
Quavo
Yeah, and I feel like it's a 5050 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 they, 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 try to like, I try to like split it. So I do, I do reckless, 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 the 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.
- [87:07]
F
That's a good question. Anybody else? We got time for a couple more?
- [87:11]
iHeart Podcast
Hey, I'm Ashley Johnson. I am the founder of the Street Widows Foundation. I'm from Louisville, Kentucky, but I lost My husband February 19, 2020 in DeKalb County. He was shot and killed at a gas station. I also want to 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 laws, 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 like with your platform. How did you deal with those feelings?
- [87:55]
Quavo
I'm still going through that. You know, there ain't no timing on it. You know, it ain't no timing on any of that. You just asked for, so. So sometimes you can just be super patient and your revenge will come or through God or. 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 in other kids lives. So like you just gotta just sit in it and be ready for it. Your revenge gonna come.
- [88:26]
H
I want to touch on that, too. My brother was killed when I was sick. My older brother was killed when I was 6. And at that age, I was really in a different. I'm a totally different person now. But what the people who. Around me, who I provided for, who depended on me, forced me to not think that way, you know? So when you have responsibilities, when you have people relying on you, then that. That. That is. 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 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.
- [89:05]
Quavo
And it's okay to feel that way. You know what I'm saying? So you. Okay. You know, so you just. It's gonna come. Trust me.
- [89:12]
Greg Jackson
Thank you. We have one last question here.
- [89:15]
iHeart Podcast
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 in, people 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 need it. 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?
- [90:08]
Quavo
I mean, that's what I'm saying. We just. We going through it still. It's only the second year, you know, so. So it's still fresh, and every day is in and out, you know? You know, it's like we damn near some on these days like this, we really don't even want to 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 kind of 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 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. I'm still in it. But like I said, like, I'm not. I'm not. 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 got to maintain the house. So you either going to lose it all, you gonna act crazy, gonna go, what, you know, I'm saying, are you gonna stand up and be a man and just stay in it? We all right?
- [91:17]
F
Yeah, I think.
- [91:19]
Greg Jackson
Sorry, we. I know we said that was the last question, but I got this young man here, probably the youngest person who wanted to ask questions. I couldn't say no. Come on, please introduce yourself, and you get the final question for the panel.
- [91:31]
iHeart Podcast
I'm lyric.
- [91:32]
Quavo
I am 10 years old. My birthday is February 10th.
- [91:36]
iHeart Podcast
And what about kids like me? I used to do protunes and Yonkers, and I work in Rough Riders.
- [91:45]
Quavo
So what about more kids like me that do piano and drums? Well, we need to go in and get you in the studio, sir, with some big guys. We got to hear your sound. I like that. And you just got to keep working, and I think it's time to go, you know, so keep going at it. If you already edit, we gonna put you in the studio somewhere. My guy.
- [92:04]
F
I love it.
- [92:05]
Quavo
Yes, sir.
- [92:06]
Greg Jackson
Thank you all. Thank you for your questions, everyone.
- [92:08]
F
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. 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 here. Yes.
- [92:54]
Quavo
Appreciate y' all.
- [92:55]
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Quavo
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Quavo
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Annabe
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