Offset opens his new album with Quavo, four years after Migos lost Takeoff

The first thing you hear on Offset’s new album, after Offset himself, is Quavo.

GMFU, Offset’s fourth solo album, arrived on Friday 13 November through Motown Records, and it is streaming in Australia now. It runs to 18 tracks. Quavo raps on the opening song, “R4W”, and comes back on track three, “Why Not”, alongside Atlanta rapper Loe Shimmy.

For fans of Migos, that is the headline. For most of the past five years, the Atlanta trio’s surviving members recorded apart.

Why does a Quavo feature matter so much?

Migos were Quavo, Offset and Takeoff, and for the second half of the 2010s they were one of the most influential groups in rap, with a triplet flow copied across the genre. By 2022 the group had splintered: Quavo and Takeoff released a duo album, Only Built for Infinity Links, without Offset in October that year.

Weeks later, on 1 November 2022, Takeoff was shot dead in Houston. He was 28. Offset and Quavo kept working on separate tracks in the years that followed.

Offset’s label describes his verse on Quavo’s recent single “Away” as their first collaboration in five years. GMFU goes further: two songs, one of them the album’s opening statement.

Who else is on it?

The guest list mixes established names with newer ones. Don Toliver is on “Every Night”, one of two songs released before the album. Gunna joins Offset on “Spit Propane”. Tommy Richman features on “One Way Flight”. Underground rappers ApolloRed1 and OsamaSon share “Misfits!”, and singer Larissa Lambert closes the album on “Hating On Me”.

The other pre-release single, “Something I Need”, sits at track 11. The title track arrives at 14.

Behind the boards are Southside, FNZ, Jaasu, Turbo, Pooh Beatz and Go Grizzly, some of the most in-demand names in trap.

What is Offset trying to say?

When he announced the album, Offset made clear it was personal. “For too long I let people speak on my name, my life, my career,” he said, adding: “I came from nothing. I made history. I lost people.”

He has also said he had been caught up in things that did not matter and wanted to get back to the music, which he called the reason he came into the game.

That framing matters because Offset’s public life has often been louder than his records. GMFU is his attempt to make the music the main story again.

Where does it fit in his career?

Offset, born Kiari Cephus, released his first solo album, Father of Four, in 2019; it went gold. Set It Off followed in 2023 and KIARI in 2025. His biggest solo-era hit remains “Taste” with Tyga, which is certified diamond in the United States, and his label says his solo music has passed 2 billion streams there.

GMFU is his first album since KIARI and his first full project to put Quavo back beside him.

Can Australian fans see him live?

Not yet. No tour has been announced for the album, in Australia or elsewhere. His label says he is lined up to perform a new GMFU song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in the United States.

Why it matters beyond the fan base

Migos reunions have been the subject of speculation since Takeoff’s death. Two shared songs on a solo album are not a group reunion, and neither rapper has announced one. But in an industry where who appears on whose record is read as a statement, Offset choosing to open his album with Quavo is the strongest signal yet that the two are back on the same side.