Quavo Vows to Keep Takeoff’s Name ‘Alive’ As He Mourns Nephew After Death: ‘I’ll Never Leave You’

Quavo, 31, is mourning the decease of chap Migos subordinate Takeoff, who was changeable and killed astatine a bowling alley successful Houston connected the greeting of Nov. 1. Quavo, who was Takeoff’s uncle, remembered the chap rapper successful a heartbreaking tribute shared connected Instagram. Quavo posted the tribute connected Nov. 12, 1 time aft friends and household celebrated Takeoff’s beingness with a memorial service successful Atlanta.

“It’s truthful hard to archer you I’mma miss you due to the fact that you’re ever with me,” Quavo wrote. “And we did everything together. Since we were kids you been by my side, lookin up astatine me, them eyes waiting connected maine to marque the adjacent move, past you followed up close down me. You ever made definite I did it archetypal truthful you tin bash it close with me. You ne'er competed with me, we were ever connected the aforesaid team. You hated playing against me.”

Quavo recalled Takeoff being the “most unbothered idiosyncratic successful the world,” and said helium was idiosyncratic who ne'er got huffy oregon raised his voice. However, helium besides pointed retired that his nephew was ever the “funniest” idiosyncratic successful the room, arsenic well. He called Takeoff his “angel” and said helium was “proud” to beryllium his uncle. “You volition proceed to nonstop your blessings down from heaven,” helium wrote. “And I volition proceed to support your sanction live arsenic agelong arsenic I live.”

Quavo and Takeoff formed Migos with Offset in 2008. They released their debut azygous “Versace” successful 2013, followed by 4 workplace albums and galore mixtapes. As a solo artist, Takeoff released 1 workplace medium that came retired successful 2018, positive 5 singles. Migos collaborated with different artists specified arsenic Offset’s woman Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Travis Scott.

In October, Takeoff and Quavo released an medium without Offset, amidst reports that the radical had broken up. Although they ne'er confirmed an authoritative breakup, Takeoff and Quavo hinted that they had parted ways with Offset due to the fact that helium wasn’t loyal. “I conscionable consciousness similar we privation to spot our vocation arsenic a duo, you cognize what I’m saying?” Quavo told Big Facts successful October. “We conscionable came from a loyal family. We’re expected to instrumentality together. Sometimes erstwhile s*** don’t enactment out, it’s not meant to be.” In the aforesaid interview, Takeoff added, “We ever family, [thought]. Ain’t thing going to change.”

Quavo and Takeoff (Photo: MediaPunch/Shutterstock)

Quavo and Takeoff had conscionable released a euphony video connected Oct. 31, hours earlier Takeoff’s death. The brace were reportedly unneurotic at 810 Billiards & Bowling successful Houston wherever Takeoff was changeable and killed, per TMZ. Photos and videos from the country amusement a man, presumably Takeoff, connected the ground, being tended to by Quavo. Houston constabulary confirmed that the shooting vitim was pronounced dormant connected the country aft being changeable successful the caput oregon neck