TKorStretch: Family of rapper stabbed at Notting Hill Carnival release music

Like truthful galore young mums, O'shian Edwards sings and plays euphony to her babe lad portion he's successful the bath.

But it means a batch much to the 22-year-old due to the fact that she's playing songs to small Ta'khali by his murdered dad.

O'shian was six months large erstwhile her fellow Takayo Nembhard was stabbed to decease astatine Notting Hill Carnival past year.

The 21-year-old rapper - amended known arsenic TKorStretch - was with his sister and friends successful a ample assemblage erstwhile helium was attacked.

O'shian says having TK's euphony has truly helped her bring up four-month-old Ta'khali connected her own.

"It's precise important due to the fact that he's not going to get to conscionable him," she tells Newsbeat.

"It's conscionable truly bully to cognize that he'll get immoderate signifier of thing due to the fact that helium didn't get to spot him.

"His euphony helps me, conscionable adjacent listening to it immoderate days portion I'm bathing Khali.

"He's ever successful the inheritance somewhere, truthful it's conscionable bully for him to ever beryllium around."

At the clip of his murder, TK's euphony had been streamed much than a cardinal times and played connected BBC Radio 1Xtra.

The Bristol rapper besides went viral connected TikTok and was speaking to large grounds labels astir signing a deal.

His household are present releasing his archetypal album, a six-track EP called Rising, six months aft helium was killed.

O'shian says TK was "very passionate astir his music" and took each accidental helium could to get his songs retired there.

"He was decidedly rising, that's wherefore his EP is called that," she says.

"For maine it's a signifier of comfortableness to cognize that his euphony is inactive getting released, due to the fact that that's thing that helium wanted.

"So the information that he's not present and it's inactive happening, it's conscionable truly bully to spot and to spot that his fans inactive privation to perceive his music."

TK's dada Vince Nembhard utilized to instrumentality his lad to each workplace session, video sprout and vigor interview.

He says helium struggled to perceive to his euphony aft the execution but decided to merchandise the medium due to the fact that it was what TK wanted.

"I couldn't perceive to his euphony astatine the time, it was truthful hard," helium tells Newsbeat.

"But past I'm reasoning that's what helium wanted, truthful I person to bash it for him, I was determination with him each the time.

"So I went astatine his gravesite and I stood determination and spoke with him. And I said 'look I privation to enactment your EP retired for you due to the fact that I cognize that's what you wanted'."

The household accidental the astir important happening astir releasing TK's euphony is truthful his bequest tin unrecorded connected for Ta'khali.

"His lad is going to turn up [and] his dada won't beryllium successful the parkland to footwear a shot with him," Vince says.

"I request to marque definite erstwhile helium grows up, helium person thing to beryllium arrogant of.

"So I'm reasoning I'm going to enactment this euphony retired truthful erstwhile his lad grows up helium tin accidental my dada was going to beryllium a star, that's my dada helium was talented."

TK was attacked successful Ladbroke Grove successful westbound London during Notting Hill Carnival and died aboriginal successful infirmary connected 29 August.

Four radical person since been arrested connected suspicion of his murder, but no-one has been charged.

O'shian says she would've been astatine the carnival with TK if she wasn't large and was messaging him earlier helium was stabbed.

"I past spoke to him astir fractional 8 and past we got the telephone a fewer hours later," she says.

"I conscionable thought erstwhile helium didn't reply maine helium was conscionable having amusive really."

O'shian had known TK since she was 16 and says it's been hard bringing up Khali without him.

"I would accidental that the worst portion has astir apt been Takayo not being capable to spot his lad thrive and spot each the antithetic benignant of milestones that he's achieving.

"But it's bittersweet due to the fact that I emotion having my lad here."

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