Quavo

preventing gun violence becomes very serious.

Less than a year after his cousin and former bandmate Takeoff

shot, fatally shot

in Houston, the “Walk It Talk It” rapper met with the vice president

Kamala Harris

And

other

members of Congress this week to advocate against gun violence.

Takeoff, whose real name

what is Kirshnik Khari Bal

,

died after being something

shot multiple times on November 1, 2022, outside a bowling alley in Houston. Takeoff was an innocent bystander who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, Houston police said at the time

of his death

.

He is 28 years old

was pronounced dead at the scene.

Heey was 28.

Quavo joined a Congressional Black Caucus panel to discuss the issue. He was accompanied by his sister and Takeoff’s mother, Titania Davenport.

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I feel like your calling comes at the least expected times… You don’t think that nothing is going to happen,” he told the caucus.

according to the

Associated press. “I have to stand my ground and hit a home run. I have to do something about it so it won’t happen to the masses, especially in our culture. I don’t want this to happen to the next person. I want to knock this one percentages down.

Democratic

Sen.

Rafael Warnock

,

D-Ga.;

Rep.

Lucy McBath

,

the Georgian Democrat

who lost her son to gun violence

;

And

Greg Jackson

from the Community Justice Action Fund attended the panel

was centered around focused on

Community-led intervention strategies against gun violence.

We need to do better with gun control, Quavo continued. We need to figure out how to prevent incidents like this from happening to people who go somewhere and think they can hurt someone when they shouldn’t.

The “Bad and Boujee” artist pondered two main questions: how do we use guns safely, and how do we keep them “out of the hands of people who make bad decisions.”

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In a half-and-half kind of place. Even the police have guns,” he said. “Sadly, some people in our culture and loved ones have lost their lives due to police brutality. It’s all about choices and how we can put a filter on who can use these weapons.

Jackson praised Quavo for using his status as a cultural figure to pressure lawmakers to advocate for change

find an important one

problem.

That’s what we need, Jackson said

the AP said

. If we want to change gun violence, we must change behavior as aggressively as we focus on safety, ownership, and access. But we can’t change our behavior when our communities don’t have the resources they need, and our youth are overlooked and forgotten.

Takeoff’s mother is suing the Houston bowling alley where he was killed before heading to Capitol Hill.

Quavo

had in 2022

helped create the Rocket Foundation, an organization focused on financing

programs that are

“

programs that are

saving lives through proven, community-based solutions to prevent gun violence.” The charity was founded in Takeoff’s honor

in 2022

.

The thing Quavo emphasized most during his lecture

Wednesday

was the need for more resources in underfunded communities.

“I feel like after I go to the White House, I need resources,” he said. I need a bag of goodies so I can take it back and say

,

Here, this is for culture. We have that extension cord. We are connected to that kind of environment. I don’t think anyone else of our stature is that connected. In order to change things we need resources.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.