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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Back it up the best moments from the week.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
K that's just kidding about for thirteen perusengers, this is
a G five.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
I know there's not a challenge of any one. I
guess some members with me. And it's Kenan Australia's home
of hip hop and R and B done nothing, chamber of.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
The change really in today as we have one of
the hottest, freshest, craziest rap Duway from Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah, I mean, these guys are game changes in hip hop.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
Yeah, it's wild with what they're doing right now, especially
with the latest album drop. Super excited for this one.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We're talking to Kwavo and take off. Welcome to the
show Boy.
Speaker 6 (00:34):
It's happening. Fellers saying there now doing.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah, we're doing good. We're doing real good man.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
First and foremost, I mean this album eighteen songs of
absolute cracker, only built for Infinity Links.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It's just amazing. Man. Did you guys know that this
album was going to be as hot as it is?
Speaker 7 (00:51):
I already knew it was gonna be a smith as you.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (00:57):
We put in hard work, a lot of hard work.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
So the crazy thing about it is eighteen songs like
when you guys released the track list, you don't hear
that these days, you don't hear eighteen songs on the album.
And I know obviously you guys would have had to
cut out a lot of a lot of tracks. I
just didn't make it. Did you plan for it to
be this big or were you guys planning to have
like ten songs on album? And you're like, no, no, no,
we gotta keep these songs on there.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Man, we knew we had to come. You know what
I'm saying. We've been you know what I'm saying, they've
been home before a minute. You know what I'm saying.
We let them starving for a minute, so we had
to give them a great meal. So we really want
to do more than that. But we know eighteen now
you got such a short titchu span, you know. So
we gave them enough. But you know enough that we
were you know what I'm saying, We was out of
the kitchen so long, so we had to give them
(01:40):
a little bit about I love that.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
That's his dope.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I love that, man, and boy, we love it over
here in Australia. One thing about this album, there's a
special link that you guys have been talking about all
across different podcasts and stuff like that, called the Infinity Link.
It's something that you guys have adopted as I guess,
like your partnership in the New Duo. We tried to
do the link this morning. I know you know you
(02:03):
did it.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Yeah, yeah, no, no I can't.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I just want to know, can you.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Guys give us a lesson on how to do this
thing properly because we're trying. I think it's the other hand?
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Is that right? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
We got it?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Got so you take it right from index finder and
point it out to the other to the other person,
and well you will see it online anyway.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Talking about the Infinity Link, obviously you know we know,
we know it's a chain link. Any of you boys,
we're in the Infinity Link right now.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
We got I put the jury on upstairs, and I
put it up right now.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I ain't got it on me, yeah, can you said?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
I looked around.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I'm like, oh man, can we just can we just
fact check this real quick? Are we one hundred percent
sure that the Infinity Link is stronger than the Cuban Link?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Is that one hundred percent factual?
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Boys?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Little fat facts.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
You know what, because I did, I did chuck it.
I did chuck it in Google and Google saying it's
a Cuban link. But I'm like, you know, Quaver and
take Off, you gotta whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
We're gonna trust that whatever Quaver and Takeoff say, that's
what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's Cuban and you know infinity is you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
So yeah, and that perfectly describes the connection that you
guys have. Obviously we recently found out that it's uncle
nephew relationship between the both of you.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Is that legit?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:21):
For sure?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Three years is what separates you. How was it Takeoff
growing up with the uncle noan? He had your back
the whole time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I mean a man, it really felt like my you
know what I'm saying, my brother, you know what I'm saying.
I mean, you know, he's right by my side.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I wanted to find out when the duo was created
Quaver and Takeoff, did you ever think of, like, you know,
other names other than just Quaver and Takeoff. Maybe like
he was playing on the whole uncle and nephew thing.
Maybe just unk few Because I saw I saw one
of the songs in Brackets had unk few on it.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
No, that was that was originally was going to be.
That was just like the moment that we wanted to
create for the song Hotel Lobby and Yeah, but there's
always been a due since we've been growing up, Like
just growing up.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's just always been me.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
And him just just moving around and then us just
making music and making noise around the house and you know,
just doing all kind of recording. And we got songs
years and years and years in our old laptop, old videos,
and we'll probably release later that y'all gonna see that.
It's gonna trip y'all out that we was just always
trying to wrap and make it.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Noah, I'll confute just come from you know what I'm saying,
him being and me being few. It ain't even really
no thought them name that we're just gonna say, you
know what I'm saying, Yeah, I ain't even no creative process.
It's just that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yeah, keeping it keeping it simple that it was real quick. Yes,
I mean the relationship between uncle and and Few. I
mean you give him an os whooping if he if
he's at a line quite right?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Is that what was guy's on band? The Uncle ain't
nobody to give me.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Nah, that'll be even find that.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
One I want to ask on the jewet thing is well,
obviously obviously myself and Ken wear a duo, but Ken's
name always comes first and everything. When we look at Spotify,
we look at the headlines, it's always Quavo and then
take off. Right, How did you guys come to that
agreement because me and him were butting heads for a
very long time.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Is who comes first? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (05:08):
Yeah, I guess because I'm older and now just.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
That was before T and alphabet.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah yeah, just like that, and that's the same with
us days before, and I'm older as well. So that's
literally how we came to the Greek. Thank you for
solidifying that, boys, I appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Damn.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
It's always it don't matter. It don't matter, like you've
seen it all over the years with the album covers
and how we play around on music and who do
hooks and it don't matter, it does have, don't matter
who bring that chicken home? Man, Just go out and
go get to kill and bring that ship to the table.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
We gonna eat and break it down.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
You know what.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I agree with that, And I was gonna mention as
well when you look at a lot of jewels and
hip hop that have, you know, from the nineties, two thousands,
and then you know further on to now. Usually when
it comes to a duo, there's always he's a favorite,
and there's always one person that's picked over the other.
Like essentially when you look at like Ray Shrimmid for example, right,
it's like Swale kind of took the crown.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
But when it comes to you boys, you can't, you
can't pick. It's so equal.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
It's like you see the birth of you on under
you and that's and that's what's what's great about it.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
I mean, yeah, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we do
good man, But just not to take away from nobody
to do us. I feel like everybody, if you're in
a duo or a group, you just sometimes just missed
that you know factor. So it's always just that one
two punch. We just feel like, you know, you need
you need your left hand and your right hand in
a box and Matt, if you shoot, if you shoot
(06:36):
the left, you gotta shoot the right just as hard.
Or you can set somebody up with left and and
and haymaking and knock them out with it. Right, it's
just all about how you want to just set it up, man, Yeah,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
So like that, Quaver, I was on your TikTok the
other day and I saw that a freshly cooked steak
came out of it came out of a golden box.
While you were sitting down, everyone was singing giving you
this stike?
Speaker 7 (06:59):
What's having by this take about that steak?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
We was at to take off about this steak. I
was recording it.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
So you bought that steak? How much it looked like
the stake was with like five hundred K. How much
do you spend on that stake for your boy?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I don't know, man, I think what the steak was,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I know it was something like a ten thousand steaks.
I think I'm thinking it was just celebrating. We were
celebrating for the album. Now, yeah, I mean why not? Yeah,
I mean we did good. So I got a gold
steak and they come out with it like a little
They do like a little introduction and do like a
little you know what I'm saying, Like a little little
(07:33):
song and they tell you what song you want to play,
So it's like a little cool thing.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Yeah, shout out in the Miami what there was Poppy
Steak man, shout out to the thousand dollars stakes there,
Poppy Steak. Shout.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
We're gonna have to get a learning and go down
to Poppy Steak.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
The price gotta go up now because we just shouted
them out.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Probably, maybe maybe we'll get a free one because they
shout it out on the shot.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You know, how do you take your stake? By the way,
that came out medium? Read right?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Noll dude, what what do you like?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
No pink?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
No pink? You over cooked? Nah?
Speaker 6 (08:04):
I gotta, I gotta, I gotta say that's as it's
going to be medium.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
It's not. It's not if you know how to season. Yeah,
I guess you know how to. It's how we order
our steak.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Season well well done, well done, But but we tell
them to leave the juices we don't like. Drive well done,
don't cook the fucking.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Love out the well. You know, you gotta, you gotta.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
It's a point to where it's just right over the
peak and it'd be like nice and well done and
still juicy. Just get mad and think well done and
burn your steak.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Fair enough, we'll try it we'll try it your way.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
But there's one controversy that we face here in Australia,
and it's a lot of people like using ketchup on steak.
Now I'm against that. I feel like you're ruining a
steak with ketch up. Would you ever order ketch up
with your steak?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I can't even see how that takes.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
That's bad.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Huh. We talk about meat love right now.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Yeah, we ain't talking about no meatload, no meatload.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
We start stay away from that love meat love. Yea
when I love the singer meetlof too.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Now listen, uh you guys, I saw
a video as well, you run. You once wrapped a
children's book live on there. You just flick through the
pages as you were rapping. Are we going to see
anything like that from you guys? Because it was dope
the way you did it. Are we going to see
any children hip hop stuff from you guys in the future?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Now?
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Yeah, we're in the works right now. We got some
stuff going on with the animation side for the kids.
You know, we love the kids, a lot of kids,
take a load of kids.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
We do it all for the kids. We got our
crew overy here called the Wiggles maybe.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I mean when if you guys ever do come back down,
we could try and link you up with the Wiggles
and get get something banging over there.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
We know a few of them.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Yeah, shout out to Wiggles, Man Wiggles and the Migos Maniggle,
Let's get it.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I DJ and I took with a lot of artists
that come down and I open up the show for him. Quaver,
take off. When you guys are back in Australia' gonna
tr get on that tour. I'm gonna personally say the
boys wanted me on there. Yeah, yeah, and then and
then I'll come rock and watch your guys rock out
some stadiums.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Your dream come true. We're gonna let you go. It's
gonna make it happen.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Man done. Don I love that?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Locked in Quaver and take Off Infinity Baby, let's set.
I signed one more time baby, That's what it's all about.
Make sure you cop the album. We're gonna play this
song Hotel, Hotel lobby. What's the most important thing about
this song? You want the OSSI used to hear right now?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Oh you know what to do?
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Get the lobby jumping when we say the lobby. The
lobby is the club. The lovey is the house. The
lobby is the.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Room where you at.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
The lobby is the couch is standing on the lobby.
Crank that motherfucker up, Turn it up, run it back again.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Take this ship to the moon. Let's go. What's staying
in this quavo and it's the rocket? Take off on
Cato with Keenan.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Yes, Hey, we appreciate you boys, Thank you so much
for joining us.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
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Speaker 4 (10:53):
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