Takeoff, part of the chart-topping Atlanta rap trio Migos, died early Tuesday morning after a shooting outside a bowling alley in Houston. He was 28 years old. A representative for Migos who was not authorized to speak publicly confirmed the death to the Associated Press. Two other people were injured and taken to hospitals, according to the outlet, and no arrests have been announced as of press time.

As a member of Migos, Takeoff, born Kirshnik Khari Ball, played a role in the rewiring of rap and pop music that took place in Atlanta throughout the 2010s. The origins of the group were familial, with Quavo, Takeoff’s uncle, and Offset, Quavo’s cousin, rounding out the group. Takeoff and Quavo grew up together with Quavo’s mother, and Takeoff was the first of the eventual trio to commit to rap. “Growing up, I was trying to make it in music. I was grinding, which is just what I loved doing. I didn’t have nothing else to do,” Takeoff told The Fader in 2017. “I was getting my own pleasure out of it, because it’s what I liked doing. I’d wait for Quavo to get back from football practice and I’d play my songs for him.”

Migos rapped in skittering, punchy cadences that would come to be emulated across pop music. “They love the fast, the triplet, the stuttering flow,” Takeoff told The Fader. Of the three rappers, he often occupied the subtlest role, exuding a quiet ease, and he embraced the dynamic. “I may sound like I’m the oldest, but I’m the youngest,” he told the magazine. “I am the laid-back one. I don’t say too much. Quavo and Offset—I don’t talk as much as they talk. I observe the scene.”

In 2013, Migos broke into the national rap spotlight with their single “Versace,” which Drake would eventually add a verse to and which Billboard described as one of the defining songs of the last decade. A few years later, international stardom arrived with the No. 1 single “Bad and Boujee.” For all the artistic and commercial achievement, though, in some ways Takeoff had just been beginning. With more than a decade of rap under his belt, multiple microgenerations of Atlanta music had sprung up underneath him, and he and Quavo had recently embarked on a new path as a duo. (Murmurs of a Migos breakup have been circulating for months, and Quavo recently told DJ Scream, “I just feel like we want to see our career as a duo because we just came from a loyal family.”)

Earlier this year, Takeoff and Quavo initiated that new era with a characteristically sticky single “Hotel Lobby.” Last month, they released a joint album Only Built for Infinity Links. The duo appeared on the podcast Drink Champs last month, and Takeoff took stock of his trajectory and where he was headed. “I’m chill, I’m laid-back,” he said. But “it’s time to give me my flowers.”