Quavo: Takeoff's Death 'Eased' Friction With Offset

Quavo says the shooting death of his nephew and Migos groupmate Takeoff dissolved the tensions that had divided him from fellow group member Offset.

"I feel like it eased it a little bit," Quavo said in a video interview with Complex. "It threw out all the things that I was upset about or that we had friction about. I don't know on his end; I'm just talking for me. I feel like it was enough just for me to say, 'All right, cool. Whatever.' 'Whatever you're going through, I go through it with you. And whatever I'm going through, I hope you understand what I'm going through.'"

Takeoff died in November 2022 at the age of 28. He was shot at a bowling alley in downtown Houston.

The three members of the hip-hop trio grew up together and began releasing music under the name Migos in 2011, starting with their first mixtape, "Juung Season."

Quavo, now 34, told Complex that the loss hardened him in a specific way. "As long as I understand whatever everybody be going through and that I can't control or can't be upset or emotional about… that's where that chrome outer layer comes from… That part of me losing my brother and understanding that it can't get no tougher than that," he said. "So, whatever that's in front of me that I got to deal with to make my life more easier… and to give these fans what they want, I'm going to do it."

The remarks give the clearest account yet of how grief reshaped the internal dynamics of one of Atlanta's most commercially dominant rap groups. Quavo frames the reconciliation as unilateral — a personal decision to release grievance rather than a negotiated settlement — and locates its origin in the finality of Takeoff's death.

His response to the loss has extended well beyond the group's internal relationships. In 2022, following Takeoff's death, Quavo established the Rocket Foundation, an organization dedicated to honoring his late nephew's legacy and combating gun violence in Atlanta and beyond.

That work earned him Variety's Hitmakers Humanitarian of the Year award in 2024, recognizing his gun control advocacy.

"I felt like it's a crisis that goes on everywhere, and me being a figure and a person who speaks to the youth, I feel like turning my tragedy into triumph," Quavo told Variety.

The Complex interview positions the Rocket Foundation and the softened relationship with Offset as two halves of the same reckoning: a refusal to let friction, or grief, go unspent. Whether the repaired bond points toward new music from the surviving Migos members remains unaddressed — but for Quavo, the terms of engagement have permanently changed.