Quavo – Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty
Quavo sits down in an open interview ‘Conversation For The Fans’ and talks about life after losing Takeoff and how he’s coping.
As we approach the one-year mark of the passing of Takeoff, his uncle Quavo is still adjusting to life after his passing. His current focus has been on his upcoming tribute album Rocket Power which will arrive on August 4th. Quavo has never been one for many interviews but has decided to set up his own interview with Jamie Crawford-Walker to address the fans. ‘Conversation For The Fans’ may just be the most vulnerable moment in his career. One of the first topics was the name Rocket Power which has a deeper meaning for Huncho.
“Just being fueled by my brother, Take, and bottling in all these emotions—all the pain, all the hard times, all the times I cried and all the times I just made music to pull up and try to play songs and he’s not there. I’m just trying to get this fuel from above and this fuel from the sky and call it ‘rocket power.’”
Quavo opened up unapologetically about not having Takeoff by his side in a way that anyone who has lost a loved one can relate to.
“I miss him a lot and I love him,” he said. “He know I love him. That’s what we always know. So when you see me and you see me smiling or something like that, you don’t gotta never think, like, I forgot about him or I’ll forget about him. I think about him all the time. Sometimes I cry myself to sleep. I just know he’s here. If I can’t feel him, I just know he’s around.”
When it comes to the topic of unreleased Takoff music Huncho confirms a post-humous album while revealing there are 1,000 unreleased tracks.
“I don’t know what I’m doing,” Quavo said in the interview, available in full below. “I feel like I’m just floating. I’m a grown man and I just feel like I’m here for a reason. And once I get my job done, we all gotta go. I’m just here until the job is done so I can get back with my boy.”
Without a doubt, Takeoff is smiling proud of Quavo and Offset for pushing forward while making amends. We can rest assured Takeoff’s name and legacy will live on. You can watch the full conversation below.
