![]() ![]() In 2013, Migos released Versace, their first mainstream hit. I’d wait for Quavo to get back from football practice and I’d play my songs for him.” “Just making something and creating for me … I was getting my own pleasure out of it, because it’s what I liked doing. I was grinding, which is just what I loved doing,” Takeoff told the Fader in 2017. “Growing up, I was trying to make it in music. In 2008, Takeoff, Quavo and Offset – Takeoff’s cousin – began rapping under the collective name Polo Club, and in 2011, the trio released Juug Season, their debut mixtape as Migos. In his book Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story, Joe Coscarelli says that Takeoff “put the most early hours into the craft of rapping” of the three members of Migos, and was greatly inspired by Lil Wayne’s rap group the Hot Boys, as well as the Tupac, Biggie and OutKast albums they would buy at the local flea market. ![]() Raised with Quavo – his uncle, but only three years older than him – by Quavo’s mother Edna, he began rapping from an early age. Takeoff was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia, in 1994. ![]() Gucci Mane, who often collaborated with Migos responded to the news with “R.I.P.” while Ja Rule wrote: “this shit has to STOP … sending love to friends and family.” Lloyd Banks called him a “very dope artist gone too soon” and Ugly God tweeted that Migos “changed the whole cadence of rap”. ![]()
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