Takeoff: Tributes to Migos rapper shot dead in Houston at 28



33 mins successful the pastSharenearShare pageCopy hyperlinkAbout sharingImage supply, Getty ImagesImage caption, Takeoff changed into the youngest subordinate of the groupBy Mark SavageBBC Music Correspondent

Hip-hop stars and fans person paid tribute to US rapper Takeoff from the chart-topping instauration Migos, aft helium turned into changeable useless astatine the property of 28.

The musician, existent sanction Kirshnik Khari Ball, go killed successful Houston connected Tuesday.

Ja Rule, Kid Cudi, Khalid and Dave posted tributes connected societal media, adjacent arsenic Rick Ross known arsenic him a "younger legend".

Migos person been 1 of the astir influential agencies of their technology, pioneering a benignant of rapping successful choppy, staccato triplets referred to arsenic the "Migos glide".

The band, who divided earlier this year, scored respective planetary hits unneurotic with Bad and Boujee, Versace and Walk It Talk It.

Image supply, Getty ImagesImage caption, Takeoff, Quavo and Offset of Migos be the BET Awards 2021

• 'Tell maine this ain't actual' - effect to Takeoff's demise

The taking pictures passed disconnected astatine astir 02:30 adjacent clip (07:30 GMT) connected a balcony retired of doors the 810 Billiards and Bowling Alley, wherein Takeoff had reportedly been playing cube on with his uncle and bandmate, Quavo.

Police stated forty to 50 guests person been astatine a backstage solemnisation erstwhile a idiosyncratic opened fire. When they arrived, officials said they determined a monolithic assemblage and a idiosyncratic with a gunshot coiled to the apical oregon neck. He became suggested dormant connected the scene.

Police said antithetic quality beings were injured and person been driven to aesculapian instauration successful idiosyncratic cars.