Released:May 20,2022
Only Built for Infinity Links is the only studio album by American hip hop duo Unc &Phew,consisting of Quavo and Takeoff. It was released through Quality Control Music and Motown on October 7,2022. The album contains guest appearances from Mustard,YoungBoy Never Broke Again,Young Thug,Gunna,Summer Walker,Birdman,and Gucci Mane. [1] It was the last project released in Takeoff's lifetime as he was shot and killed just 25 days after the album's release on November 1,2022.
Quavo and Takeoff worked on the album over a two-year period and "modeled elements of the cover art" on Kanye West and Jay-Z's collaboration for Watch the Throne (2011) as well as Outkast’s album Stankonia (2000). The title is a reference to Raekwon's 1995 debut album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... ,with Takeoff claiming that Raekwon approved of the title,as well as a reference to the "unbreakable bond" that Quavo and Takeoff have as uncle and nephew,respectively. [1] The album was notably made without input from Offset of Migos despite no formal split of the trio;Quavo also stated in an interview that he would like to see his and Takeoff's career "as a duo". [2] [3]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 70/100 [4] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [5] |
Clash | 8/10 [6] |
HipHopDX | 3.7/5 [7] |
Pitchfork | 7.0/10 [8] |
Slant Magazine | [9] |
Only Built for Infinity Links received positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic,which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications,the album received an average score of 70,based on six reviews,indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [4]
AllMusic praised the album,writing that the duo "delivers the unfazable personality and triplet flows that made their group famous." [5] Robin Murray of Clash praised the album's variety and the two artists' creativity,describing it as "packed with highlights" and calling it a "record that blazes with life". [6] Similarly, HipHopDX 's Peter Berry wrote,"Offset or no Offset,Quavo and Takeoff's stylistic DNA holds steady. It's home-grown. It's theirs,and it's as potent as ever." [7]
Only Built for Infinity Links debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200 chart,earning 33,000 album-equivalent units (including 2,500 copies in pure album sales) in its first week. [10] The album also accumulated a total of 41.1 million on-demand streams of the album's songs. [10]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Two Infinity Links" |
| 2:09 | |
2. | "Tony Starks" |
|
| 2:28 |
3. | "Hotel Lobby" |
|
| 2:22 |
4. | "Bars into Captions" |
|
| 2:47 |
5. | "See Bout It" (with Mustard) |
| 3:00 | |
6. | "To the Bone" (with YoungBoy Never Broke Again) |
|
| 4:43 |
7. | "Not Out" |
|
| 2:57 |
8. | "Chocolate" (with Young Thug and Gunna) |
|
| 3:28 |
9. | "2.30" |
| Zaytoven | 3:26 |
10. | "Look @ This" |
|
| 3:16 |
11. | "Mixy" (with Summer Walker) |
|
| 4:30 |
12. | "Messy" |
|
| 2:57 |
13. | "Nothing Changed" |
|
| 3:19 |
14. | "Integration" |
| Atake, DJ Durel | 3:27 |
15. | "Big Stunna" (with Birdman) |
|
| 3:37 |
16. | "Us vs. Them" (with Gucci Mane) |
|
| 3:36 |
17. | "Hell Yeah" |
|
| 3:33 |
18. | "Tools" |
|
| 3:39 |
Total length: | 59:14 |
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