Death of Takeoff, member of the Migos trio, shot dead

CULTURE – A member of Migos is dead. Takeoff, who formed the famous hip-hop trio alongside rappers Quavo and Offset, died on Tuesday, November 1, first reported the American media TMZ. The 28-year-old rapper, real name Kirshnik Khari Ball, was fatally shot in a bowling alley in Houston, United States, around 2:30 a.m.

According to information from TMZ, Takeoff and Quavo were playing dice when an altercation broke out, until an individual opened fire, reaching on Takeoff. He was declared dead on the spot. Two other people at the scene were hit and taken to hospital. Quavo was not injured.

Rain of tributes

In the wake of the announcement of this disappearance, a shower of tributes to the deceased rapper swept on Twitter. “I remember Takeoff as a very down to earth and cool guy,” wrote boxer Chris Eubank Jr. “I can’t believe I have to say this again about another young black star killed for no reason, something really has to change in the industry. »

In the same vein, rappers Ja Rule, YG, TOO Tracey et Russ Diemonthe journalist Jemele HillYouTuber Jake Paul or the host DJ Akademiks all had a thought for the 28-year-old rapper. Many of them denounce in particular violence by firearms.

Stacey Abrams, a black candidate who is currently campaigning to become Georgia’s first African-American governor, hailed a man “born and raised in Gwinnett County” who has “influenced hip-hop and all culture beyond the imaginable”.

In the same way, all the team sports teams in Atlanta, including Migos and Takeoff, have had a word for the missing rapper: the Falcons in American football, the Hawks in basketball or even the Braves in baseball. .

In France, rap journalism star Mehdi Maïzi and rapper Pit Baccardi have also published tributes to Takeoff.

Triplet flow and planetary tubes

As the British media recalls The Guardian, Takeoff was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia in 1994. He began rapping with Quavo and Offset, his uncle and cousin, respectively, in 2008 under the collective name Polo Club. In 2011, the trio released Juug Season, their first mixtape as Migos.

Since then, the trio has had an immense impact on rap, in the United States and elsewhere. With the famous triplet flow “, a way of rapping on a ternary rhythm popularized by Migos, Takeoff and his associates indeed made Atlanta the center of the world of hip-hop in the mid-2000s. Versace » et « Hannah Montana “to the planetary tubes” Bad and Boujee (their first number 1 hit on the US charts), “ Motorsport » or « Slippery », they accumulate billions of listens on the different platforms.

their scrapbooks « The Rich Nation » (2015) et « Culture II » (2017) from the Motown and Capitol Records labels were big hits, followed in 2021 by ” Culture III » and their latest title “ Messy ».

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