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There’s a reason they called themselves Migos, and it’s all over Culture III - The A.V. Club
Jun 11, 2021 1 min, 14 secs
Individual members Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff may have been keeping busy with a bevy of solo releases and guest appearances in the ensuing time, but it’s been three and a half years since Culture II, which took the near-unanimous praise of Culture and fractured it a dozen ways, leaving fans wondering if they could recapture the magic that suffused the first installment of their album triptych.

Nearly all of them are massive stars in their own right, people whose individual track records would make them a tremendous get for any other project: Drake, Cardi B, Polo G, Future, YoungBoy Never Broke Again… hell, even Justin Bieber turns up for a surprisingly respectable hook delivery on “What You See.” Add to that a pair of rare and powerful posthumous appearances by Juice WRLD and Pop Smoke (both of whom died in the past year and a half), and you have an album in which the guest talent is arguably just as much a draw as the main act.

And yet, despite the strength of nearly every guest appearance, the best parts of Culture III are the songs where it’s just Migos by themselves in the recording booth, pushing each other to ever-greater heights.

Look, it’s worth noting just how good the tracks with the guest appearances are, if only to highlight what an impressive feat it is that the Migos-only tracks maintain an intensity and insularity that push them into the forefront of Culture III.

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