Georgia Rapper Quavo Announces His Graduation From High School on Instagram

Quavo of the Georgia-based hip-hop trio Migos announced that he graduated high school on May 22 via Instagram, which features a smiling Quavo wearing a blue cap and gown.

Quavo had dropped out of Berkmar High School, to pursue his music career.

Many congratulated Quavo on Twitter for returning to high school, despite having a successful music career.

Aww I’m proud of the fact that Quavo finished hs even with all the fame and money

— WHAT THA FREAK (@foxyslimm) May 22, 2020

In his Instagram message, Quavo said that he would celebrate the occasion by dropping a new song and “Need It” appeared on Vevo soon after.

Migos – Need It (Visualizer) ft. YoungBoy Never Broke AgainMusic video by Migos performing Need It (Visualizer). © 2020 Quality Control Music, LLC, under exclusive license to UMG Recordings, Inc. http://vevo.ly/mUPo1a2020-05-22T04:00:03Z

Quavo Set Records When He Was A Quarterback at Berkmar

GettyNEWARK, NEW JERSEY – OCTOBER 26: Quavo performs onstage during the Power 105.1’S Powerhouse 2019 presented by AT&T at Prudential Center on October 26, 2019 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images for 105.1)

Quavo went from backup to starting quarterback for Berkmar High School’s football team, the Berkmar Patriots, according to Bleacher Report.

The Patriots didn’t win often, going just 1-9 during the 2009 season when Quavo was on the field. However, Quavo’s former coach, John Thompson, said that had little to do with Quavo, who he described as a competitor and good football player. Quavo led the county in passing yards and set game records for completions, Thompson said.

Quavo did win the homecoming game, going 19-of-25, passing for 201 yards scoring three touchdowns, according to the Gwinnette Daily Post.

Thompson told Bleacher Report that he could hear Quavo singing even then. “‘Coach, I got you with the grades, but I just want to get out of here and make music’” Thompson said Quavo told him. “He was adamant: He was going to be successful in the music industry.

Quavo Quit High School To Pursue Music with The Group Migos

Migos is composed of Quavo and Offset, who are cousins, and Takeoff, who is Quavo’s nephew. The group specializes in trap music with a “bass-heavy Southern variant of hip hop,” according to Biography.

Takeoff’s dream was always rap, while Quavo described himself as a “sports fanatic” in an interview the trio gave to The Fader. Quavo was in eighth grade when he and Takeoff recorded the mixtape Crunk Boy, according to Biography.com. However, it took Quavo two years before he decided that music would be worth it.

“We never took music serious till we dropped the first mixtape, my 10th grade year. I didn’t finish high school,” Quavo told The Fader. According to what Quavo told Rolling Stone, life was getting rough in his neighborhood, especially because they were out in the streets at the same time that Mexican drug cartels appeared in his hometown of Gwinnett County.

After the group’s song, “Versace,” blew up, Quavo said it represeted a huge turn in their lives: “I made a million dollars out of $4,000,” he told Rolling Stone. Since then, the group has collaborated with various stars including Drake, Sean Kingston, 2 Chainz and Chance the Rapper.

Although Migos started out being distributed by Quality Control, the group made a distribution deal with 300 Entertainment, Rolling Stone reported.

“When you drop a song and wake up in the morning and hear the song you dropped last night, that’s the best feeling,” he told The Fader. “The song will tell you then.”

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