Quavo has explained in a new interview the reason why Takeoff wasnât featured on Migosâ hit anthem âBad & Boujee.â
Speaking to Elliott Wilson and B. Dot during the latest episode of the Rap Radar Podcast, Huncho chalked the omission up to timing and the song being a rush job.
âI just think it was just timing,â Quavo said. âWe was just tryna get something out. We was actually pissed off because we ainât have no music out a couple months before that little wave.â
He added that the group was going through litigation with their previous label 300 Entertainment at the time, and because of this they made the decision to leak âBad & Boujeeâ on SoundCloud.
Quavo also admitted that he wasnât actually supposed to be on the song either as it was originally a Lil Uzi Vert and Offset record, but he recorded his vocals at the last-minute.
âI wasnât even finna be on it. It was gonna be Set and Uzi,â Huncho added. âI had to do my verse on some quick, fast, rush shit. It was just everybody running to the song and trying to get it done.â
Migos earned their first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with âBad & Boujeeâ in 2017. The Lil Uzi Vert-assisted anthem spawned an array of memes in response to Takeoffâs viral, âDo it look like I was left off âBad & Boujee'â response to Akademiks in June 2017.
âBad & Boujeeâ was nominated for Best Rap Song at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards and the record received a shout-out from Donald Glover at the 2017 Golden Globes, who dubbed it the âbest song ever.â The Metro Boomin-produced hit boasts over 800 million streams on Spotify and the video has over a billion views on YouTube.
Meanwhile, the ATL trio have been facing break-up rumors over the past few months.
Offset unfollowed the other group members on Instagram back in May. Quavo and Takeoff have recently released music together while Set is teasing a solo album and has a Baby Keem-produced single â54321â arriving on Friday (August 19).
Migosâ last album Culture 3 was released in June 2021, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 130,000 total album-equivalent units sold in the first week.