Offset Says He And Quavo Still Need Time To Heal: “We Still Ain’t Heal”
Offset is not interested in performing a reunion for the cameras. The Migos rapper says his reconciliation with Quavo has been happening privately, on their own time, while the two continue to grieve Takeoff — and it is nowhere near finished.
“I was there to support my brother,” Offset told DJ Whoo Kid on Shade 45, in an interview shared by SiriusXM on November 10. He explained that the two had already been speaking privately for some time before fans saw them together at Quavo’s September album celebration.
The public moments — the September appearance, and the two standing side by side at the 2023 BET Awards to honor Takeoff — have not meant the grief is behind them.
“We still ain’t heal,” Offset said. “It’s just building with your family. Some stuff don’t go out the house.”
Takeoff, Quavo’s nephew and the third member of Migos, was killed in a Houston shooting in November 2022. In the years since, Offset and Quavo have mostly worked apart, and Offset made clear he does not feel their relationship is something that needs to be explained to everybody while they work through the loss.
The music, though, is starting to reflect the repair. Offset appears on “Away,” a track from Quavo’s QRÖMELIFE, which arrived October 2 with Pharrell Williams as executive producer. And Quavo is among the features revealed for Offset’s GMFU, which arrives Friday, November 13.
Quavo has previously discussed working on new Migos music and a Takeoff project, saying he wants future Migos work to honor Takeoff and benefit his estate, with the recordings Takeoff left behind central to those plans. Offset’s latest comments suggest the two are pooling recordings while they figure out how a group continues when its third member can no longer join them in the studio.
For now, the message from Offset is patience — theirs, and everybody else’s.
Should the Migos story get one final chapter as a group, or is the solo music the better tribute to Takeoff?
Reporting: Offset’s interview with DJ Whoo Kid on Shade 45, shared by SiriusXM on November 10.
