Quavo Causes Stir Online As Fans Think He’s Dissing Offset Over TakeOff Tribute Tattoo
Quavo hasn’t been seeing eye to eye with Offset for some time, and his latest post has fans speculating that he decided to take a public shot at his TakeOff tribute tattoo.
On Thursday (April 20), Quavo took to Instagram with a carousel of random photos – but the caption was what had people talking.
“Rocket Power It’s In You. Not On You!” he wrote, referencing TakeOff’s Rocket Man nickname. However, fans thought it could be a dig at the fact Offset just got a huge tattoo of the late Migos rapper on his back – which would signify being “on” him.
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“I hope this isn’t a subliminal message,” one fan wrote. “Set loves Take so it’s in him AND on him. You said you would ask yourself, ‘What would Take do?’ Do you think he would be out here beefing with Set?”
“Disappointing and unnecessary caption unc,” another added.
Others weren’t so convinced, however, and felt like he was simply paying homage to his nephew – no more, no less.
Quavo’s own mother Edna commented, clarifying that the quote was something that TakeOff loved to say. “One of my grandson takeoff favorite quotes it!!” she wrote. “has to be in u not on U….We give God Praise for giving IT!! to Quavo and Takeoff LL TAKEOFF the rocket man.”
The public sighting cames less than two weeks after Quavo declared the Migos “can’t come back” in his new song “Greatness.” Throughout the track, Quavo shouts out his sister (TakeOff’s mother), his own mother, and his label QC, but never addresses or mentions Offset directly.
“Greatness” serves as Quavo’s second musical offering since TakeOff’s death following the somber “Without You,” which he released in January.
The 31-year-old performed the song alongside the Maverick City Music choir at the 2023 Grammys Awards earlier in February, which saw him hold aloft Take’s chain as a photo of his late nephew filled the giant onstage screen behind him.
Quavo Teases New TakeOff Tribute ‘Honey Bun’
The performance allegedly further sowed discord between the surviving Migos members, with TMZ reporting that Quavo and Offset got into a fight backstage at the Grammys after the former refused to let the latter join him onstage.
Offset refuted the report by tweeting: “What tf look like fighting my brother yal niggas is crazy,” but a video that emerged days later showing Cardi B yelling at multiple people backstage lent credence to the story.
Cracks in the Migos’ close-knit relationship began to appear months before TakeOff was shot and killed outside a Houston bowling alley on November 1. Rumors of the group disbanding circulated last May after fans noticed Offset and Cardi had unfollowed both Quavo and TakeOff on Instagram.
That same day, Quavo and TakeOff announced they had formed a new duo called Unc & Phew — a nod to their familial ties — and were readying their first single, “Hotel Lobby.” The song eventually landed on their Only Built For Infinity Links album, which dropped just weeks before TakeOff’s murder.