![]() You got the sense the trio - particularly Quavo, whose raspy stutter-step triplets became contentiously referred to as the “Migos flow” - could read a takeout menu over some Zaytoven flutes and turn it into a hit. In short, it wasn’t so much about the words themselves as the ways Migos said them, in act after act of peerless semantic alchemy. So we was prepared by the time it came for real.” At one point in their teens, the three were attending different schools, so they’d strategically trade clothes, acting like they were new: “This week he wear that, then I’m wearing that the next week,” Offset recalls. If your Jordans was fake, the whole school gonna get on you - girls, everybody saw it. “But at our school, you weren't cool if you ain't had the cool clothes, so you gotta go get it. “We had an era where we wasn't getting paid, before the Versace and all that,” says Offset. And if the Migos’s earlier, handsome, but not-so-wealthy days weren’t documented for the public eye, it’s only because they’d already had a crash course in faking it till you make it. Their absurdly opulent video for a Drake-less “ Versace” cost $100,000, with a majestic cameo from Donatella Versace herself. (Young Rich Niggas), became an instant breakthrough success in 2013, that the trio had been swathed in luxury silks and vintage designer chains since exiting the womb. It appeared, when Migos’s third mixtape, Y.R.N. (Sometimes she even gets her own “Mama!” ad-lib, prominently deployed on “T-Shirt.”) The three boys were raised together in Quavo’s mom’s house when they rap, as they often do, about advice from “Mama,” they are referring to her. Born in Athens, Georgia, the family moved to Lawrenceville - a quiet-seeming Gwinnett County suburb 30 minutes north of Atlanta, inconspicuously a thriving distribution hub for Mexican cartels - when Quavo was in middle school. Quavo, the oldest member at 25 and unofficial-but-official group leader, is Takeoff’s uncle and Offset’s cousin, but the trio have always thought of themselves more like brothers. You could rarely find them apart even before Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff - respectively, Quavious Marshall, Kiari Cephus, and Kirshnik Ball, names destined for real-life mythology (or as one Twitter user put it, regarding Takeoff's birth name, “the sound that happens when you draw a sword”) - officially became the Migos. But also: Hurricane Migos.įinga Licking emergencies are one of the rare occasions on which you will catch the three Migos apart, not out of professional obligation but sheer force of habit. Meanwhile, the album's second and best single, “ T-Shirt,” cracks the top 20 songs of the Hot 100. The month after CULTURE’s release sees temperatures across the country hit forebodingly unseasonal highs, meaning t-shirt weather for usually snowbound cities.Solely thanks to Migos, we once and for all have a confirmed spelling of “boujee.”.Offset, the deepest Migo, is currently rumored to be dating Cardi B, stripper turned rapper turned Love & Hip Hop star and probably our nation’s greatest living feminist.Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, and a few hundred “let’s build” types proceeded to pound slices at tables that start at $10K a pop. In what I presume was the only actually fun moment of New York Fashion Week this February, Migos follow their performance at bad and douchey Meatpacking District celeb haunt 1OAK by sending out bottle service trays towering with free pizza for the whole club.Plot twist: Before dropping out senior year, a young Quavo played starting quarterback for the Berkmar High School Patriots. The Falcons nearly clinch the victory over the New England Patriots, but lose in overtime. Wide receiver Julio Jones dons cleats custom-painted in homage to CULTURE’s album art (which, in turn, is like a better version of the album art for The Beatles’ Revolver, but that’s a story for another time). The Atlanta Falcons make it to the 2017 Super Bowl.After Donald Glover’s Atlanta wins Best TV Series at January’s Golden Globe Awards, he takes the stage to exclaim: “I really wanna thank the Migos, not for being in the show, but for making ‘Bad and Boujee.’ That’s the best song ever.” Glover follows up backstage after correcting a reporter who pronounces it “ My-goes,” yet somehow does not have the microphone smitten from his hand by divine thunderbolt: “Honestly, that song’s just fly.Seven separate songs from CULTURE crack the Billboard Hot 100 after the album’s release, not including Quavo’s features on other artists’ charting singles.Two weeks after we meet, CULTURE debuts at the top of the Billboard 200 - another milestone for the trio - with 131,000 album-equivalent units sold in its first week.
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