Quavo and Offset Honor Late Migos Member Takeoff at 2023 BET Awards in 1st Performance Since His Death

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Quavo and Offset paid tribute to their late bandmate, Takeoff, with a surprise performance at the 2023 BET Awards.The rappers — who founded the hip-hop trio Migos with Takeoff in 2008 before splitting in 2022— took to the awards show stage to perform the group’s hit song “Bad and Boujee” on Sunday, June 25, seven months after Takeoff was killed in a Texas shooting.In addition to a graphic of a rocket launching and turning into the late music star, the pair ended the tribute by crossing their arms to form the letter “T” in honor of Takeoff.

The emotional performance earned the duo a standing ovation from the crowd.Quavo, 32, and Offset, 31, later took to Instagram to share behind-the-scenes photos and videos of their BET Awards appearance, with both musicians captioning their respective posts, “Do this s—t for the fam cuz this s—t bigger than me.”Sunday’s performance came four months after the former bandmates reportedly got into a physical fight at the 2023 Grammy Awards.

According to TMZ, an altercation broke out backstage after Quavo allegedly prevented Offset from joining him for the ceremony’s In Memoriam segment, during which he sang “Without You,” a song he wrote for Takeoff.Offset seemingly denied the rumors via Twitter, writing on February 6, “What tf [it] look like fighting my brother [y’all] n—s is crazy.”Takeoff (real name Kirshnik Khari Ball) died at the age of 28 in November 2022 following a shooting at a Texas bowling alley.

At the time, TMZ reported that the Houston Police Department arrived on the scene to discover three people had been shot at a private party, at which Quavo was also in attendance.