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Takeoff
Hip-hop Trendsetter
akeoff wasn’t the biggest celebrity to come out of Migos, the Atlanta rap trio known for its swift ascent to the top of the charts in the early 2010s—but he was perhaps the group’s best rapper. His effortlessly agile delivery had a long-reaching influence on trap music, a regional subgenre that would come to define modern American pop. Takeoff, whose real name was Kirshnik Khari Ball, was shot to death in Houston on Nov. 1 after a