The young American rapper Takeoff was shot dead on Tuesday, November 1 in a bowling club in Houston, Texas, at the age of 28. This was reported by the TMZ site.
Takeoff, real name Kirshnik Khari Ball, was spending the evening with one of his band members, when at around 2:30 a.m. police were called to a shooting at a bowling club with a deceased person, according to TMZ . Two other people were injured and hospitalized. The TMZ site even released screenshots of the crime scene where we can see a body lying on the tiled floor and several people at his bedside.
Born on June 18, 1994, Takeoff was known for being part of the rap group Migos with his uncle Quavo and his cousin Offset, now married to American rapper Cardi B. The group Migos, originally from Atlanta, made know in 2013 with his tube Versace that Canadian rapper Drake had remixed.
But it’s the title Bad and Boujee in 2016 which propelled them to the top of the charts thanks to the hip hop production company Coach K which popularized rap from the southern United States. their scrapbooks Yung Rich Nation (2015) and Cultivation II (2017) were big hits, followed in 2021 by Cultivation III and their latest title Messy.
(With AFP)