Key Takeaways:

• The crossover between music and sports activities continues as Quavo and Trae Young workforce up for “Switching Stages.”
• Young stepped into the studio to document advert libs with Quavo teaching him by way of the method.
• The session ended with Quavo hinting at including one other Atlanta rapper to the observe, presumably 2 Chainz.

Rappers need to be ballplayers and ballplayers need to be rappers, or no less than buddies. That dynamic is in impact in a brand new video collection kicked off by NBA star Trae Young and Quavo.

The Atlanta Hawks guard and Migos rapper linked up for “Switching Stages” from Billboard and The Players’ Tribune. As the title suggests, the present options the pair interacting of their pure components. The first episode begins with Young and Quavo taking part in a recreation of HORSE on the basketball courtroom earlier than hitting the recording studio. There, Quavo guided the All-Star level guard by way of making a tune — nicely, its advert libs.

“Want me to be a part of it?” Ice Trae requested, and his rapping homie was completely with it.

“Oh yeah, I need you on some ad libs or something,” Quavo mentioned. “Whatever you want to do. If you want to pop off the intro, that’ll be hard. You talk some s**t on the intro.”

There’s an enormous distinction from capturing a basketball and stepping in a document sales space. Trae was clearly conscious of this when he mentioned, “I don’t want to mess it up.”

But Quavo had confidence he may do it. “Nah, you ain’t gonna mess it up. You ain’t going to do nothing but add some more sauce to it,” he mentioned. “I got to have Ice [Trae] on it … We got a good beat, we got a great engineer. Only thing I gotta do is just sit in and just let the words work. Whatever tools and whatever tips you need from me, go ahead and ask me now, because I need you with all the s**t so you can go in there and go crazy.”

The interplay is hilarious as Quavo takes on the function of engineer and truly coaches Young by way of the method. At one level the athlete requested concerning the theme and Quavo advised him, “We just here to talk about what we [are] doing. We flexing, we boasting, we scoring 50 points, we having 20 assists, know what I’m saying?”

As Young bought extra comfy within the sales space, it was clear he understood the project as Huncho bopped alongside to his vocals. Quavo even expressed his intent to get one other Atlanta rapper, like a 2Chainz, to hop on the tune. Sounds just like the mission was completed.