All The Smoke: Quavo: Cafeteria Moment That MADE Migos, Takeoff's Rap Genius & Working w/ Childish Gambino & Drake

All The Smoke

The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts

Basketball, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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The Black Effect Presents... All The Smoke!

Quavo joins All The Smoke for a powerful conversation about his journey from Georgia to global fame and the work he’s doing to end gun violence through the Rocket Foundation. He reflects on his early days in music, playing quarterback, and how he met Offset in 8th grade after dropping a mixtape with Takeoff. The episode dives into Migos’ rise, their creative process, and how Takeoff’s legacy continues to inspire him. Quavo also opens up about his biggest lessons, producing with Zaytoven, working with Drake, and what the Rocket Foundation means to him today.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast. 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 Cuevo.
0:38.3	Man, this is a long time coming, bro.
0:40.0	We've been trying to connect for like four years to get you on the show.
0:43.1	And we're finally here, man, really excited.
0:46.1	A man of many hats, we've partnered in legends and talked about doing some other things.
0:50.6	So why are we out here?
0:52.6	What's you got going on today?
0:53.9	We're celebrating the rocket foundation we're doing the rocket foundation of course but we
0:57.5	celebrating my nephew birthday we're putting it all in ones calling the summit and
1:01.9	we're just doing this for a purpose we're making sure to take our legacy his name
1:06.4	stay alive and we got to be front-line something about it, you know, from the politics
1:11.8	sides and in the street side. So like we just merging this together and building this big old
1:19.0	foundation, this big old family, this big, you are not alone crew, this big superhero group.
1:23.8	Like I feel like we just here to just embrace all that energy of like when you
1:29.2	when you lose a loved one we're here for you introduce us to who's to your right my dog
1:33.5	Greg Jackson you know I'm saying president of the Rockett Foundation I'm let them break it
1:37.5	down on how he you know yeah started and came here and with me tell us a little bit about
1:42.5	your background too great because we ran across past.
1:44.9	What year was that?
1:46.1	Oh, man.
1:47.0	22.
1:47.2	22, yeah.
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