Summary
- Four years ago, on November 1, 2022, Takeoff — Kirsnick Khari Ball, the youngest member of Migos — was shot and killed in Houston at age 28.
- Complex Music’s anniversary post on November 1, 2026 pulled more than 81,000 likes, the most-engaged music post of the weekend — four years on, the tributes have not slowed.
- Takeoff was the quietest Migo and, to many fans, the sharpest: the triplet flow, the ad-libs, the verses other rappers quoted. With Quavo (his uncle) and Offset (his cousin), he built Migos from Lawrenceville, Georgia into one of the defining rap groups of the 2010s.
- His final album with Quavo, Only Built for Infinity Links, had released just weeks before his death, on October 7, 2022.
Four years on, the anniversary still stops the timeline. Complex Music’s tribute post to Takeoff on November 1 — “Four years ago today, we lost Takeoff” — pulled more than 81,000 likes, the biggest music number of the weekend. It is a measure of what he meant: not the loudest Migo, but the one whose loss still feels unfinished.
Takeoff was 28 when he died in Houston, at a private party at 810 Billiards & Bowling in the early hours of November 1, 2022. He was the youngest of the trio and, in the eyes of a generation of fans, its technical peak — the flow that made “Bad and Boujee” and “Versace” move the way they did, the verses that other rappers studied. Migos’ run from Lawrenceville mixtapes to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 ran through him.
The last music he released in life was Only Built for Infinity Links, the duo album with his uncle Quavo, out October 7, 2022 — three weeks before his death. Four years later, the tributes still read like they were written yesterday. Rest easy, Takeoff.
Source: Complex Music anniversary post, ET and AP reporting from November 2022, cross-checked November 2. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (Takeoff performing with Migos, 2017).
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