Three Men from Atlanta and the East Side Gallery

Migos have been making hip-hop look easy for about a decade. Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff built their sound out of Atlanta trap—stacked triplet flows, offhand menace, an almost sculptural approach to rhythm—and tracks like "Stir Fry" and "Bad and Boujee" ended up everywhere, which is where they belong. When Culture II dropped at the start of March, it was the kind of double album that makes you feel the week differently.

A few weeks later, they came to Berlin. The schedule was packed—press, radio, the usual promotional grind—but they still played a club show at Huxleys Neue Welt. Sold out immediately, obviously. Migos in a venue that size is not something that happens often; they normally play arenas.

Between appointments they managed a meeting with Jérôme Boateng, Antonio Rüdiger, Leroy Sané, and Julian Draxler—four members of the German national squad in town for a friendly against Spain—at the East Side Gallery, that long surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall painted over by artists after reunification. All four are fans, and all four showed up at Huxleys that night. A video diary from the trip captures most of it: three guys from Atlanta wandering around a city that has its own complicated relationship with walls and what comes after them.