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Cardi B and Offset arrived to pay tribute to Takeoff on the State Farm Arena on Friday, November 11. The pair had been each in attendance to pay their respects to the late rapper, after he was killed at age 28 on November 1. The “Bodak Yellow” rapper and her husband, each 30, had been seen in first photographs on the occasion wanting extraordinarily somber. In one picture posted to Twitter, which you’ll be able to SEE HERE, Cardi wore outsized sun shades as she sat subsequent to Offset, who additionally wore shades to the memorial. Both wore head to toe black. In one other picture posted to the platform, which you’ll be able to SEE HERE, Cardi was seen strolling within the enviornment with a bodyguard as she clutched a small purse. She wore her hair lengthy round her shoulders and completed the mournful look with a dramatic blue manicure and black stiletto heels.

During the providers, Offset was visibly overcome as he took to the rostrum in a video clip. “[Takeoff] changed the culture of music forever,” he stated, combating again tears. “Lord, give us some strength. Just give us some strength… I don’t want to question you, God, but I just don’t get it. I don’t get you sometimes. And I believe in you, Father.”

After Takeoff’s demise, Offset paid tribute to the late rapper by altering his profile picture on Instagram to an image of him, however remained silent. Cardi additionally honored her husband’s former bandmate by retweeting a video from Complex Music of Takeoff talking a few touching reward that Offset and Quavo gave to him. “My dudes gave me this ring,” Takeoff stated within the video. “It’s always going to stay with me, too. I ain’t never going to take it off.”

Takeoff’s sudden and tragic demise got here after months of hypothesis that Migos had damaged up after Offset unfollowed each his fellow members of the group, who’re his cousins, on Instagram. Quavo and Takeoff launched a collaborative file with out the “Ric Flair Drip” star early in October known as Only Built For Infinity Links. Quavo had additionally hinted on the break up in an October interview with the Big Facts podcast. “This ain’t got nothing to do with no label, no paperwork, no [Quality Control Music], nothing. This got something to do with the three brothers. And s***, it is what it is. Right now, we gon’ be the duo ’til time tell,” he stated.

After Takeoff’s passing, a variety of stars took to their social media to share tributes to him, together with the likes of Beyoncé and Drake. Drake, who toured with Migos in an intensive world tour, had shared that he needed to keep in mind the great instances that he had with the late star. “I got the best memories of all of us seeing the world together and bringing light to every city we touch,” he wrote on Instagram. “That’s what I’ll focus on for now. Rest easy space man Take.”

Following the rapper’s demise, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner additionally promised to carry the one that shot him to justice. “I do want to extend my condolences to the mom of Takeoff, to all the family members of Takeoff, to the families and friends,” he stated in a press convention. “It doesn’t matter how famous you are. … Anybody who loses his or her life is a life lost and there are family members and friends who are grieving as a result.” The Harris County Medical Examiner introduced that he died from “penetrating gunshot wounds of head and torso into arm,” and his demise was reported to be a murder.