Migos are best known for their 2016 Lil Uzi Vert collaboration Bad and Boujee, which peaked at No 1 in the US, as well as Top 10 hits MotorSport, with Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, and Walk It Talk It, with Drake. The song was notable for popularising the triplet flow – Migos’ signature rapid-fire cadence – within modern rap, and was eventually remixed by Toronto rapper Drake, who would go on to have a long-running association with all three members of the group. In 2013, Migos released Versace, their first mainstream hit. I’d wait for Quavo to get back from football practice and I’d play my songs for him.” “Just making something and creating for me … I was getting my own pleasure out of it, because it’s what I liked doing. I was grinding, which is just what I loved doing,” Takeoff told the Fader in 2017. “Growing up, I was trying to make it in music. In 2008, Takeoff, Quavo and Offset – Takeoff’s cousin – began rapping under the collective name Polo Club, and in 2011, the trio released Juug Season, their debut mixtape as Migos. In his book Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story, Joe Coscarelli says that Takeoff “put the most early hours into the craft of rapping” of the three members of Migos, and was greatly inspired by Lil Wayne’s rap group the Hot Boys, as well as the Tupac, Biggie and OutKast albums they would buy at the local flea market. Raised with Quavo – his uncle, but only three years older than him – by Quavo’s mother Edna, he began rapping from an early age. Takeoff was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia, in 1994. Beef Produced by Instroġ4.Gucci Mane, who often collaborated with Migos responded to the news with “R.I.P.” while Ja Rule wrote: “this shit has to STOP … sending love to friends and family.” Lloyd Banks called him a “very dope artist gone too soon” and Ugly God tweeted that Migos “changed the whole cadence of rap”. Celebrate ft Tshwarelo Produced by Instroġ3. Truth Be Told ft Genocide Produced by Battlekatġ1. Lerato Le Mosa ft Ntjapedi Produced by Instroĩ. Love for the music Produced by Rustic Ras and Battlekatħ. I Work (My 9 to 5) Produced by Battlekatĥ. theREASONing by Romeo Produced by Battlekatģ. That’s why I apply the name Reason to my music.” It’s clear that where music is concerned, wisdom comes from the mouths of babes. Everything we go through leads us to that destination. “I believe in a higher power and that it has placed everyone on this earth to fulfill our destinies. This view is expressed in his stage name, which borrows from his motto: “everything happens for a reason.” The lead single from his imminent album is called “Testify”, produced by the young and musical genius Instro.Ī firm favourite among hip-hop heads, and their girlfriends no doubt, this Art Director by profession is a permanent fixture in hip-hop and believes he was destined for it. This rapper’s highly anticipated album, “The Reasoning”, boasts the production talent of Battlekat who brought us Zubz’s “Listener’s Digest”, H2O’s “Amanzi Mmtoti” as well as Mizi, Rastic Ras and Ootz The Afronaut. Reason enlisted the likes of producers Battlekat, PH, Hoodlum and others for his own mixtapes. Next Reason worked with ProVerb, Tumi, Zubz, HHP, Infa from Skwatta Kamp, Mawe2, Nthabi, Anvils, Maggz, Genocide and Beats Against Beats on many other projects. The two later collaborated on Pro-Verb’s MaNuScript album on a track titled “Street Music”. His work on YFM saw him form a close musical relationship with hip-hop icon Pro-Verb. A regular guest on these famed sessions and a subject of many articles in Hype Magazine, newspapers like The Star, appearances on TV shows like Shiz Niz and a role in SABC 1’s, it’s clear Reason is a staple of the industry. The rapper who has been at it since 1999 was also “Emcee of the Month” in March 2006 on YFM’s hip-hop show “Rap Activity” hosted by Lee Kasumba. His accolades include being named South Africa’s hip hop journal, Hype Magazines King Of The Bedroom and their Top 5 Hottest Unsigned Rappers in the country. With his first mainstream appearance on Gauteng’s popular radio station YFM in 2005, Reason delivered ill jingles on ‘The Unrestricted Freshest Breakfast Show” hosted by the legendary DJ Fresh and side kick Mr.T. However, it wasn’t always freestyles and battles with this Tembisa-born and Katlehong-raised rapper. Reason’s come-up is that of most South African rappers: the tall rhyme-spitter started out slaying many an emcee in rap battles. Having broken into the music industry as a youngin, this now 23-year-old has a starpower (and longevity) that belies his age. You’d be forgiven for thinking this is hip-hop artist Sizwe “Reason” Moeketsi’s moniker.
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