Fans listen to music that they have to listen to because it’s just the shit that’s out and none of the heavyweights is dropping rapidly no more. I felt like Bruce Wayne just watching the screens and watching the world just going into chaos. Quavo: “Tony Stark.” We got, “Look at This.” It’s a lot of records. Were there any particularly memorable studio sessions for this project? And then also give him that real raw Migos sound with a couple of those bangers in there.
And with this album, we just wanted to give them all elements of that hip-hop, slow R&B feel, melodic Quavo, rap Quavo, melodic Takeoff, rap Takeoff. We had the foundation of the album, but we wanted to just add more little key little moments that an album needs, like just the slow moments, the real hip-hop moments. Quavo: Well, definitely when we got a date, it started getting to crunch time.
We recording our way up through the whole time.Īt what point did y’all realize, “Okay, let’s do this album, these songs that we’re recording are for the album?” We got the project wrapped up and it’s ready to go 100% done, like my boy Khaled would say. How long have y’all been recording songs for this project? This whole album’s about catering to the fans and giving them that good Migos music. And this is all about catering to the fans. It was a snippet that I had put out two years ago and they just been asking for it. What made you choose to release “Nothing Changed” as the single in front of the album? It was loud, like he said, it was in a loud place, so I heard little piece by piece and he was just like, saying, “Whatever y’all want to do, we rocking with it. I was at the crib, he actually called me and Rae got on the phone. It’s funny that we named the album kind of after y’all.” And he was just like, “Man, that shit dope.” So we just chopped it up and I told him, “Bro, we’ve been rockin’ with for the longest. I thought it was spontaneous, I thought was there for a reason. It was one of the days we named the album, and then he just walked right into the building, and I was like, “Damn, look at this.” And I thought it was a blessing. Quavo: We was in Atlanta at a sports bar. What was that conversation with Raekwon like when you told him the title? And Takeoff came up with the name Only Built For Infinity Links, and told us the reason why and I was just like, “Man, it’s crazy because the modern-day Cuban link is the Infinity link.” And then on top of that, it made sense because Wu-Tang was a group and then them boys did a duo track. We wanted to pay homage and let them know that we next up. Quavo: Also, we wanted to put this dynamic duo pack together. I’ll say about crunch time almost, not at the end, but right before. How did you come up with the idea to name the album Only Built For Infinity Links? Quavo and Takeoff talked to Rolling Stone about Only Built For Infinity Links, the rise of trap, and playing in Drake’s next basketball tournament. Takeoff Said It Was 'Time to Give Me My Flowers' Days Before He Was Killed When Quavo speaks on the album, he says, “this whole album’s about catering to the fans and giving them that good Migos music.” This project is a part of the Migos universe, not the start of a new chapter altogether. Quavo and Takeoff say they were intentional about the project’s title as an homage to Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, where Raekwon and Ghostface Killah united for a de facto collab album that was still firmly under the Wu-Tang Clan flag. During our conversation, they finish each other’s sentences and augment the others’ ideas like the close family members they are. They say their pivot as Unc & Phew, a reference to Quavo being Takeoff’s uncle, is about building on the chemistry they’ve always had. During our recent Zoom conversation, the two Migos members stressed that the group is still intact, just on an indefinite hiatus. Offset so far has been mum on the subject, and Quavo mentioned an issue of “loyalty” between the “three brothers” during his and Takeoff’s appearance on The Big Facts podcast, but didn’t expand much further. Last month, he filed a lawsuit against the label over ownership of his solo recordings, accusing QC of “knowingly violating” his rights to his own music. The same might have been said of Quavo and Takeoff’s newest album Only Built For Infinity Links, released today, were it not for ongoing tension between Offset and label Quality Control Music. When the members of Atlanta rap group Migos each dropped individual solo albums in the past - Quavo and Takeoff in 2018, Offset in early 2019 - there wasn’t much doubt about the future of the rap trio who’d collectively conquered commercial heights.
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