When the 28-year-old Grammy-nominated rapper Takeoff was killed by gunfire outside of a Houston club in 2022, it rocked not just the Atlanta community, but changed the trajectory of many of his family members' lives.
At the Fortune Impact Initiative in Atlanta on Tuesday, Tatiana Davenport, Takeoff's mother, and Edna Maddox, his grandmother, discussed how losing their family member spurred them to establish the Rocket Foundation, which is committed to ending gun violence in America. The rapper Quavo, Takeoff's uncle and fellow member of the hip-hop group Migos, is also behind the initiative, and the foundation has disbursed nearly $300,000 in grants to prevent gun violence since it was set up in late 2022.
