OFFSET: A lot of groups, they get put together. But we don’t even think of each other as a group. I don’t think I’m in a group with two other guys, where I don’t know their moms and their grandmas, their aunties, and I don’t know where they came from. This is my immediate family. These are the only people I know. That’s why we be around each other so much. I don’t know nobody else.

TAKEOFF: Growing up, I was trying to make it in music. I was grinding, which is just what I loved doing. I didn't have nothing else to do. In my spare time, I'd record myself. Find a beat, pulling em up. Just making something and creating for me. Just listening to the songs I made for myself, so I could rap to em, even if I didn’t put them out. I was getting my own pleasure out of it, because it's what I liked doing. I’d wait for Quavo to get back from football practice and I'd play my songs for him.

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OFFSET: We learned at a young age. Two years before “Versace,” we got some equipment somehow, and we downloaded software on Yahoo, it was free. We didn’t know nothing. Quavo was always more advanced with recording at first, honestly. He taught me. And we learned how to rap. Quavo and Takeoff were always having songs, in sixth and seventh grade. I’d record Quavo, Quavo would record me, we’d record Takeoff — like that. We didn’t have no money.

QUAVO: We've all been brothers ever since middle school. The Nawf, that’s the Northside. It’s outskirts, it's secluded. If we came out of there, we wanted to make sure we screamed that to the fullest and put it on the map. It's not like a part of Atlanta, but we made it a part of Atlanta.

TAKEOFF: People think that you're gonna come out, be a one hit wonder, and finished. You gotta prove em wrong.

QUAVO: When we first came out with "Versace," people got it, but they didn't get it all the way. They just thought: fashion.. But if you listen to it, we're still talking about some stuff. The young generation know who we are. They already understood our lingo. The other crowd, they had to grow with us.

TAKEOFF: We built so much in North Carolina, South Carolina. I think we've been to the Carolinas the most. We hit those a lot, when we were first coming in. It doesn't matter the venue. Wherever it's at, as long as there's people there that came there for us, who came to support us and really like our music, we go in there. You might go to a club to host, but we might do a couple songs cause we love what we do.

QUAVO: We took it one step at a time. We had the buzz from our hood and Atlanta, then the state of Georgia and the states around us. We was trying to take over our state, and trying to take over the United States. New York started fucking with us real heavy. It got to the fact that research said New York was on us more than Georgia and more than the South even. But we never got discouraged about any of the projects we put out because it was all a warm up. It was all leading to this.

