Cardi B Recalls Moment Offset Found Out About Takeoff’s Death

In Cardi B's latest interview with Jason Lee for REVOLT, the "UP" rapper recalled the horrifying morning Offset found out that his cousin and groupmate was killed.

"We were in bed. We were supposed to go to LaLa [Anthony]’s party in New York, and my daughter threw up all over my costume,” she told the Hollywood Unlocked CEO. "Halloween was over ’cause it was just so much throw-up on the costume and I ain’t have nothing to wear."

She added: "So we just fell asleep, and out of nowhere, Offset’s phone kept ringing, my phone kept ringing. Offset picked up the phone and he was just like, 'No!' He’s screaming and screaming. He’s screaming like, 'No! No! No! No!'"

"I’m like, 'What’s going on?' And he’s like, 'TakeOff is dead.' I smacked him and said, 'Don’t say that!' And then he’s just like screaming and throwing things, throwing up, running all over. And I was so scared, I was crying so much. It was terrible."

Cardi B detailed that Takeoff's untimely death took a great toll on the household as any minor bad occurrence that would happen during that time would "trigger" them.

"It was just such a sensitive time in my home," she said. "I just feel like everything was so triggering, like any little bad thing, any little diss, any little whatever the crap to me was just so triggering. It was a lot."

Takeoff, born Kirsnick Khari Ball, was shot and killed in Houston on Nov. 1 outside of a bowling alley. Police believe that Takeoff was an innocent bystander when a dice game that his uncle and group mate Quavo was involved with got heated, and shots began to fire. Quavo was unharmed that night, but the autopsy revealed that Takeoff was hit by stray bullets in his head and torso. He was 28.

Cardi previously opened up about Takeoff's death via a voice note on Twitter.

"We’re living our life normally, but deep down inside our hearts have been so heavy," she said. "I feel like if we talk about how we really feel or what muthaf------ really been going through, y’all will start saying, 'Oh, sympathy.' And we don’t want no sympathy. We ain’t no charity case."

"But no lie, I have been feeling so hopeless trying to make my husband happy," she explained. "Trying to make him crack a smile, seeing him randomly cry, see him trying to distract his mind completely, schedules been changing, trying to keep up with work after everything that he’s been going through these past couple of weeks."

Cardi's full video interview with The Jason Lee Show will be premiering Jan.17 at 10:00 p.m. ET on Revolt.

Earlier this morning, we reported on the tragic and senseless death of rapper Takeoff from Migos. Takeoff, whose real name was Kirshnik Khari Ball, was killed in an early morning shooting in Houston.

Gossip site TMZ reported on the story. They noted that law enforcement sources, and multiple witnesses, said that the fatal incident occurred shortly after 2:30 AM when police got the call for a man shot at a bowling alley called 810 Billiards & Bowling Houston. According to their reports, Takeoff and Migos' Quavo were there playing dice when an altercation broke out and that's when someone opened fire, shooting Takeoff. They reported that he was shot "either in the head or near to his head." They said that he was pronounced dead on the scene. Takeoff was 28 years old.

TMZ also posted photos that were slightly blurred but which showed Takeoff lying on the ground.  Many were upset that TMZ and others shared horrifying footage. The writer Kimberly St. Julian-Vernon tweeted, "I think it’s disgusting that TMZ monetizes the deaths of Black men: Kobe’s accident, now Takeoff’s murder." Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill said, "No human being or their family deserves to have published the kind of crime scene photos I glimpsed. A disgrace TMZ." Writer Rotimi Adeoye expressed, "I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. TMZ is disgusting. Posting death photos is beyond cruel. They did the same exact thing when Kobe died."

Rapper Cadence Weapon tweeted, "TMZ posted Takeoff’s dead body when reporting his murder. Would they do the same for a white country artist? Or would they be more respectful? Where does the impulse to film and post a lifeless dead Black body come from? Maybe this is why Black death has become so normalized." A twitter account called NBA Slime said, "TMZ y’all gotta stop showing “EXCLUSIVE” footage of people’s last moments Please man! Getting the scoop is enough, you guys don’t need to show that stuff anymore! It’s getting sick! You know what you’re doing and you know it’s wrong! Stop doing it!!!" See more reactions below.