Takeoff (The Migos) Killed In Houston

[Finesse]

Late night, people high off substances, adrenaline, money and ego. Plus females were watching...........
It's only takes but 30 seconds.
People would be surprised how fast it goes down.

It was definitely over the women. nikka tried to play Quavo infront of the chicks and he wasnt going for it.

I completely understand him too.

I hate when nikkas try that shyt. Straight cornball shyt. I can just imagine how corny that it is for a rapper too.

nikkas love trying to punk or get the one up on rappers. Especially infront of the women. So they can look cooler/harder/more real than the "p*ssy ass rap nikka".

In reality the Migos should of just not been in the spot. You gave the opportunity for too many nikkas to try you and pump they chest to look cool for the bytches.

 

[Buggsy Mogues]

A lot of young people are making money in a lot of other genres of music and none of them are getting murdered.
A lot of young black men are making money as famous athletes, streamers, social media stars, etc and none of them are being murdered.
So what is it about rap that’s leading to the death of all these talented young black men? There’s not an easy answer but it’s a question that needs to be explored when rap is the common denominator.

It has nothing to do with rap music as a genre.

Where we run into a problem is w/ these brothers buying into the lifestyle that they rap about. They feel they need to live that life 24/7 because that is what gets promoted, that is what sells. That's not the fault of rap, that's the fault of a culture that perpetuates it.

These record labels get these young men twisted into horrible contracts, throw money up front at them, but they have no structure in place to help them live life. They rap about something they aren't living, so they start trying to live it. They don't hire real security, they have gang members and homies on the payroll instead.

You don't see Joe Pesci going from filming Goodfellas to carrying out hits on people, right?

Personal accountability does have to come into play here, but a lot of what Kanye has said about the record labels and ppl who run them is the God's honest truth. The people paying rappers only want to bleed money out of them until they're gone, and then they find someone else. These young brothers are getting thrown into situations with no structure, no direction, and no one to point them as to where to go.

 

[Stick Up Kid]

We as a community have 3 major issues

PTSD/undiagnosed mental health problems
Lack of affordable mental health help
A love for money over life

When a nikka robbed me few weeks ago in Jersey City, I wasnt thinkin, damn, if only son was able to diagnose his mental health.

these nikkas is just bums, lazy, lookin to make a quick $$ to get some designers and buy bottles for I.G.

 

[Knucklehead]

But what did rap have to do with Takeoff getting killed though?

This had nothing to do with rap. A lot of these rappers who are killed are not killed because of rap

I’m a massive Migos fan and been fukked up all day over this. Haven’t shared any of this with any of my coworkers because I know If I did their response would be “oh another rapper killed what a surprise” and they wouldn’t be wrong. If it were an athlete or literally any other type of person besides a rapper this wouldn’t be the case. It’s not all a coincidence.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

Honestly one of the last people I expected to get killed in hip hop, he wasn't a drill artist talking about killing his opps, was super mainstream to the point you'd think their security was 100 and thorough. It proves anyone can be got sadly...

 

[Easy-E]

Man you know it’s different.

This rap shyt is toxic and we all know it and movies are FAKE. Actors aren’t out pretending they are the characters they play in movies and inviting a lifestyle of violence.

So, Biggie homie Gutta really kidnaping nikkas and throwing them over the bridge ???

Ja Rule really got 100 guns, 100 clips?

That's really the best argument you have? I thought the issue wasn't the content, but, how the content effects people?

People made a huff for 15 minutes about how that Jeffrey Duhmer show made ppl, who actually live through that, felt.

Plenty of slasher flicks based off real life murders.

 

[Sbp]

I watched a documentary on how the hell’s angels and other biker gangs was basically security for a lot of rockstars in the 70s and they had a system of checking in. But something went sideways with them and somebody got hurt and they stopped fukking with them. I think it was something involving The Grateful Dead idk

They killed a black dude at Altamont. A free concert for the Rolling Stones.

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

I’m a massive Migos fan and been fukked up all day over this. Haven’t shared any of this with any of my coworkers because I know If I did their response would be “oh another rapper killed what a surprise” and they wouldn’t be wrong. If it were an athlete or literally any other type of person besides a rapper this wouldn’t be the case. It’s not all a coincidence.

Nah I feel what you saying and you not lying. I was just stating more on the side of rap being a scapegoat for shyt.

This same scenario and shooting could've happened in some other neighborhood in Houston with someone else

 

[Chip Skylark]

They killed a black dude at Altamont. A free concert for the Rolling Stones.

This! That’s exactly what it was! I can’t remember where I watched it though

 

[num123]

It has nothing to do with rap music as a genre.

Where we run into a problem is w/ these brothers buying into the lifestyle that they rap about. They feel they need to live that life 24/7 because that is what gets promoted, that is what sells. That's not the fault of rap, that's the fault of a culture that perpetuates it.

These record labels get these young men twisted into horrible contracts, throw money up front at them, but they have no structure in place to help them live life. They rap about something they aren't living, so they start trying to live it. They don't hire real security, they have gang members and homies on the payroll instead.

You don't see Joe Pesci going from filming Goodfellas to carrying out hits on people, right?

Personal accountability does have to come into play here, but a lot of what Kanye has said about the record labels and ppl who run them is the God's honest truth. The people paying rappers only want to bleed money out of them until they're gone, and then they find someone else. These young brothers are getting thrown into situations with no structure, no direction, and no one to point them as to where to go.

People have known what goes on at record labels for decades, but people still go and sign the worst deals ever. I cant blame someone for giving out bad deals to people promoting degeneracy if people are still taking them. It would not be a problem if people stop dealing with them. It is 2022, you can go independent or sign with smaller labels.

 

[Slim Charles]

shyt sad AF. Here in the UK, obviously some people have guns, but it's pretty rare. In the US too many people have a gun. I know this is an obvious statement but this incident illustrates the problem

I know US at the point of no return given the amount of guns in circulation, but in UK this ends up in a fist fight, or perhaps a knife gets pulled out in an extreme case or in the most rare case a gun. If someone got a gun on them, it's too easy for something that should escalate into at most some punches getting thrown, to a weapon getting drawn that can with one pull of a trigger blow someone's brain's out. shyt is just alien to me.

We can talk hip hop, poverty, mentality. But when guns are so accessible it's too easy for a trip to the ER for a broken nose instead be a homicide. I know this argument is somewhat irrelevant given the culture of guns in the US, but as an external observer, it's depressing how easily someone getting hot headed ends in death. Of course that can happen anywhere, but the risk level is naturally so much lower when no one packing a fukking gun

 

[JustCKing]

1 - conditions for violence are the same, drugs, scarcity of opportunity, poor self esteem

2 - is dependent on individuals, and how that's executed varies wildly

3 - they are equally uneducated

4 - they own lots of guns too

honestly, not sure where this conversation is even going at this point. the black community has a problem, and rappers usually revel in that element and those problems. this conversation doesn't need to meander beyond that - show me 5-6 white notable artists who have met the same fate over the past 24 months and i'll gladly change my tune

I don't have to show you 5-6 notable white artists to make the point that none of this has anything to do with rap. Why? Because the homicide rate in their community isn't as high. They don't statistically have the same challenges as we do, which is why it's crazy to bring up the Black community having a problem and then asking why the same isn't happening to 5-6 notable white artists.

It has nothing to do with reveling an element especially in this case.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Smh I was at day party four or five years ago where a good dude who didn’t have anything to do with the altercation got shot in the head in the cross fire when idiots started shooting….was on a rooftop with only one way up and down and had to walk pass him as he lay lifeless on the ground…the senselessness of it all and how little life is valued is giving me flashbacks

 

[OmegaK2099]

This sucks, I'm gonna spin Only Built for Infinity Links this whole week.