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00:00Houston goons attack Jay Prince for his son's involvement in Takeoff's murder.
00:07Houston goons went at Jay Prince over his son's role in Takeoff's murder. The streets have been
00:12loud and the Prince family name is back in the middle of the Takeoff case. Here's what really
00:17happened. The Houston streets turn on the Prince's. It didn't start with a warning. It didn't start
00:22with a conversation. It started with whispers, then threats, and then suddenly Houston was on
00:27fire. Because behind the polished interviews, behind the carefully crafted statements, behind
00:32the so-called respect that surrounded one of the most powerful families in hip-hop, something darker
00:37was brewing. Something people were too scared to say out loud. Until now. Because what you're about
00:41to hear isn't the version you've been fed. This is the version they didn't want to go viral. And the
00:46most disturbing part? It all traces back to one name, Jay Prince, and one tragedy that the world
00:52still hasn't fully processed. The death of Takeoff. But here's where it gets uncomfortable. On November
00:571st, 2022, Takeoff was shot and killed outside 810 Billiards and Bowling in downtown Houston. He was
01:0328 years old. He was in Houston with his Uncle Quavo for a private party connected to the Prince
01:08family. The party was hosted at a venue tied to Jay Prince Jr., son of James Prince, the founder of
01:14Rap-A-Lot Records. Over 30 people were in the room that night. The gathering started as a celebration.
01:19It ended with Takeoff on the ground, struck by a stray bullet during a dice game dispute.
01:24Nothing should have happened. What do you say to that? What I would say to that is, you know,
01:29I have a track record. Prince family have a track record of 30 plus years of, you know what I
01:35mean,
01:35honoring and loving on our guests. That is Jay Prince Sr. speaking on the night Takeoff died.
01:43He framed it as an attack on his hospitality, not the fault of his family. Since that night, the streets
01:47of Houston and the wider rap world have not moved on. Street voices, podcast hosts, and YouTube
01:52commentators have kept the Prince family in their mouths. The name Houston Goons gets thrown around
01:57in these conversations as a label for local street figures who have questioned the Prince family's
02:02role that night. In February 2023, three months after Takeoff's death, Jay Prince Sr., Jay Prince Jr.,
02:08and Mike Prince sat down with Gilly DaKid and Wallow on million dollars worth of game.
02:13The family laid out their version of the night. They blamed a Migos associate named Willie Bland,
02:17also known as Migo Bands, for starting the physical altercation. They brought paperwork to the
02:21interview. They said Migo Bands was cooperating with police.
02:25Check it out now. Holy! Now, the Mob Ties press tour has started, people. Okay? If you guys don't
02:30know, you had the Prince family, pretty much Jay Prince Jr., Jay Prince himself, and Mike Prince.
02:35They appeared in a million dollars worth of game where basically Jay Prince pretty much gave it raw.
02:40Okay? He said, yo, this would have not happened if Quavo's homie didn't literally jump the gun.
02:47Kyle Marksman broke down what the Prince family said on that podcast. The message was clear. The
02:52Princes were pointing a finger at Quavo's own circle. They said the homie who came with Quavo
02:56pulled out a weapon first. They said Takeoff would still be alive if that had not happened.
03:01Boozy also weighed in on the interview. He said he only watched the clips. He said he did not like
03:05to see an OG speak that way on an open case. I didn't watch the whole interview. I didn't watch
03:10the
03:10whole interview because I don't really like to see OG talking like that. That reaction from Boozy set the
03:15tone for how the streets took the interview. Many thought the Prince family said too much.
03:19Others thought the family had the right to defend their name. Either way, the conversation around
03:23Takeoff's death shifted from grief to finger pointing. Then came the April 2026 incident at
03:28Confessions Restaurant in Upper Kirby Houston. A birthday dinner turned into a shooting. NBA.
03:34Youngboy affiliate Ben 10 and another man were shot. Detroit rapper All Star Jr. was identified as
03:39the shooter, acting in what he said was self-defense. Jay Prince Jr. was in the building that night.
03:44Videos spread across social media. YouTube titles called it Houston Goons vs 4KT.
03:50Street commentators tied the event back to the Takeoff party in 2022. The narrative being pushed
03:55online was simple. Jay Prince Jr. was present at another event where people got shot. His father's
04:01name got dragged in because of it. Then on April 15th, 2026, a video surfaced on X. The post was
04:07shared
04:07by My Mixtapez with over 2.2 million views. In the video, Jay Prince Sr. walks through a Houston
04:13hood at night alongside Alabama rapper Honeycomb Brazy and a small group of men. Brazy films
04:18narrates. He calls it a walk through the trenches. The timing of the video raised eyebrows. It came
04:32days after the confession shooting and weeks after Clark's new legal team was announced. To some,
04:37it looked like a statement. The streets had been talking. The son's name had been in the headlines.
04:41And now the father was walking through the hood at night with cameras rolling.
04:45Breaking Down What Happened to Takeoff
04:47To understand why people keep bringing up the Prince family name in connection with Takeoff's
04:52death, you have to walk through the night itself. The events at 810 Billiards and Bowling on November
04:571st, 2022 are the foundation of every rumor, every accusation, and every street conversation that
05:03has followed. Takeoff, born Kirshnik Karibol, was the quiet one in Migos. He was the youngest of the
05:09trio, Quavo's nephew, and widely considered the most musically gifted of the three.
05:13By the fall of 2022, Migos had effectively disbanded because of internal tension. Takeoff
05:18and Quavo had leaned into working as a duo. They released their joint album, Only Built for
05:23Infinity Links, in October, 2022. Just hours before he was killed, they dropped a new single called
05:29Messy. Takeoff was 28. He had no street beefs. He was not known for drama. Takeoff was in Houston
05:34with Quavo for a private gathering at the bowling alley. The venue sits at 1210 San Jacinto Street
05:40in downtown Houston. According to police affidavits released in December 2022, the party had over 30
05:46people in attendance. The early parts of the night were described as calm. There was smoking. There
05:50was basketball talk. There was a sense of a celebration among close associates. Things shifted
05:55around 2.40 a.m. A dice game broke out on the third floor area of the venue. The affidavit
06:00described
06:01it as a lucrative game. Real money was on the table. Quavo joined the game at some point,
06:05and, according to accounts from witnesses, lost a significant amount of cash. That is where the
06:10argument started. The dispute was not between Takeoff and anyone else. Takeoff was not playing
06:14dice. He was standing nearby. The official sequence, according to court documents, unfolded like this.
06:20Quavo got into a verbal exchange with several people in the game. Names that came up included Cameron
06:25Joshua, Christopher Watkins, and Willy Bland, also known as Migo Banz, an associate who traveled with the
06:30Migo's camp. At some point, someone was believed to have reached for a gun. Quavo threw a punch at
06:36Cameron Joshua. Willy Bland shoved Christopher Watkins. The tension jumped from loud to physical
06:40in seconds. Quavo then turned to walk away. That is when the gunfire started. Shots came from at least
06:46two weapons. Shell casings were later recovered from the first floor of the venue. Takeoff, standing as a
06:52bystander with no involvement in the argument, was struck by stray bullets. He collapsed immediately.
06:57Chaos followed. People scattered. Videos captured during the aftermath showed people moving near
07:02Takeoff's body in the panic. One of those videos became a central piece of the controversy that
07:06would follow. In it, figures were seen stepping near or around the fallen rapper. That footage
07:11would later be used by street commentators to question who cared about Takeoff and who did not.
07:16Jay Prince Jr. and Mike Prince were both inside the venue at the time. In their million dollars worth
07:21of game interview, the brothers gave their account of where they were when the shooting started.
07:25Jay Prince Jr. said he was inside paying the bill when he heard the shots. Mike Prince said he moved
07:30toward the wounded after hearing gunfire. The family said they stayed with Quavo for hours after the
07:34shooting. Two other people were wounded that night and taken to the hospital. Takeoff was pronounced
07:38dead at the scene. Houston police responded fast. Surveillance footage was pulled from the venue.
07:44Fingerprints were taken from objects left behind. Phone records were requested. Vehicle information was
07:49cross-referenced. Within a month, the investigation had a suspect. That suspect was Patrick Xavier Clark,
07:55known as DJ Pat. He was 33 at the time of the shooting. Video showed him holding a wine bottle
08:00in one hand and firing a weapon with the other toward the group where Takeoff stood. Fingerprints
08:04on the wine bottle matched. His phone data placed him at the scene. A vehicle tied to him was spotted
08:09leaving the area. Clark was arrested on December 2, 2022. He was charged with murder under Texas law on the
08:15basis of deadly conduct. A grand jury returned a formal indictment in May 2023. He pleaded not guilty.
08:21Cameron Joshua, the other man in the Dice Game argument, was also arrested. He was charged with
08:26being a felon in possession of a weapon. Prosecutors made clear early on that he was not the shooter who
08:31killed Takeoff. His case was dismissed in December 2023. No one in the Prince family has been charged in
08:36connection with Takeoff's death. No charges. No arrest warrants. No indictments. The only person who has
08:41been formally charged with pulling the trigger that killed Takeoff is Patrick Xavier Clark.
08:45That is the factual core of the story. Everything after that is narrative, opinion, and rumor.
08:51Who was really in the Dice Game and who walked away?
08:54The real weight of this story sits in the people who were around Takeoff when he died.
08:58Each name that comes up carries its own baggage, its own theories, and its own role in the rumor mill
09:03that has grown over the past three and a half years. The Prince family has spent that time trying
09:08to direct attention away from themselves and toward one man in particular. That man is Willy Bland.
09:13He goes by Mego Bands on the streets. According to the Prince family, he is the reason Takeoff died.
09:18In their million dollars worth of game interview, the family laid it out directly. They said Mego
09:22Bands was the one who escalated the physical part of the dispute. They said he shoved one of the
09:27men at the Dice Game. They said he pulled the metaphorical trigger on the entire situation before
09:31a single bullet was fired. The commentary on Kyle Marksman's video broke it down further.
09:48The Prince family was essentially making the case that their family did nothing wrong. They brought
09:53paperwork with them. That paperwork they claimed was police documentation identifying Mego Bands as
09:58someone who had spoken to authorities. The accusation was serious. Calling someone a snitch in hip-hop culture
10:20is a declaration. It can follow a person for the rest of their career. The Prince family chose to make
10:25that call on camera, on a major podcast, with paperwork in hand. This is where the narrative
10:29splits. Some listeners heard the Prince family and thought they were telling the truth. They had
10:33documents. They had names. They had a consistent story. Others heard the same interview and pushed
10:38back on what they saw as a strange move for someone like Jay Prince Sr. Boozy was one of those
10:43voices.
10:43I mean, the one thing that kind of surprised me — I know people that are close to Jay Prince,
10:52and they all say that this is like one of the smartest dudes they know. Like, Jay Prince thinks
10:56of his s— three, four steps ahead. Boozy pointed out what many were thinking.
11:00Jay Prince had a track record of never getting pulled into drama. He moved quietly. He played chess
11:05while others played checkers. For him to sit on camera and discuss an open murder case was off-pattern.
11:10This is still an open murder case. Which, to me, knowing Jay Prince's history is like,
11:16oh, I'm surprised he even was going to say anything about this.
11:20Then Boozy raised another point. He said he did not even understand why it was a surprise that a
11:24security person spoke to police. He brought up that Mego Banz was cooperating with the police. I think he
11:30even brought out the paperwork. That was like the security dude with the short dreads. You know what I'm
11:36doing? He brought out the paperwork? Brought out the paperwork. But that was security. And honestly,
11:42I'm like, why would that surprise anybody? Like, why would you be surprised that the person that was
11:50hired to protect the people there after a shooting and a murder occurs, why would you be surprised if
11:57that person cooperates? Boozy made it clear he was not picking a side. He said he had love for both
12:02camps.
12:02He said it was a lose-lose. The interview also triggered another problem. Offset, Takeoff's cousin
12:12and former Migos member, took it personally. Part of what Jay Prince said on the podcast touched on
12:17Offset directly. Prince suggested Offset was not as close to Takeoff as he let on. That set off a
12:22public back and forth that spilled onto social media. Jay Prince went on Instagram after the podcast dropped.
12:27In a video that ran across the hip-hop blog circuit, he addressed Offset head-on.
12:31But, uh, this Offset dude, I ain't gonna leave him out. You know, I'm just real like this because,
12:38you know, you know, to be throwing rocks and hiding their hand, right? They be throwing rocks and
12:44hiding their hand. I don't like them kind of individuals. You know, and the truth of the matter is,
12:49you know, one can dance and different things in front of these different cameras. You wasn't really
12:58right there with Takeoff when he was alive. You know what I mean? So, for you to be taking these
13:05positions that you've taken, don't ever put me in no position where, you know, I have to defend myself.
13:12You know what I mean? That wouldn't be healthy for you. That was the sharpest the Takeoff-adjacent drama
13:17has ever gotten between two public figures on the outside of the case. Offset responded.
13:21The internet had a field day, but the core issue remained unsolved. Takeoff was gone.
13:26His killer had not been convicted and the streets kept talking.
13:30Jay Prince Jr. and the Confessions restaurant shooting
13:33By the time 2026 rolled around, the Takeoff case was still unresolved. Patrick Clark's trial
13:38had been set for November 2026. The Prince family had moved on publicly. They kept their
13:43businesses running. They kept their names out of any fresh drama for the most part.
13:46Then came April 2026. On or around April 8, 2026, a gathering took place at Confessions
13:53Restaurant in the Upper Kirby area of Houston. Upper Kirby is an upscale neighborhood.
13:58Confessions had become a popular spot for birthday dinners and late-night gatherings in the Houston
14:02entertainment world. That night, the restaurant was hosting a birthday celebration connected to a man
14:07referred to online as OG3. Jay Prince Jr. was in attendance. That much is confirmed by his own
14:13statements and by multiple videos that circulated on social media after the incident. At some point
14:17during the night, an altercation broke out. The details are still being pieced together in real
14:21time, but the basic framework is this. A group that included NBA Youngboy affiliate Ben 10 and
14:27another man, referred to as Dead End Ron in some coverage, was at the restaurant. So was Detroit
14:32rapper All Star Jr., who was connected to T Grizzly's circle. What happened next is disputed. The version
14:37that spread across YouTube and Instagram went like this. A group allegedly attempted to approach All
14:42Star Jr. to try to take his chain. The situation escalated into a physical confrontation. Gunfire
14:48broke out. Ben 10 and Dead End Ron were struck multiple times. All Star Jr. was identified as the
14:53one who fired back. Ben 10 was critically injured. That is the point where the narrative splits again.
14:57Some voices online said the ones who came to the restaurant with bad intentions were the ones
15:01connected to Jay Prince Jr. Others said Ben 10's group was the aggressor. Videos from inside and
15:07outside the restaurant circulated, but none of them showed the full sequence of events from start
15:11to finish. Finesse two times addressed the situation in a long live stream.
15:16Man, what the f*** is going on, man? Chat, what the f***? Man, I woke up to all kind of
15:22crazy
15:22s*** going on. What happened now, man? Tell me what? Tell Big Father what happened, man. What the f***
15:28you think what gonna happen if a s*** pull up and try to take my chain? Oh my god, y
15:34'all got way too
15:35much s*** going on, bruh. Y'all got way too much s***. Finesse two times came off as frustrated with
15:41the
15:42whole situation. He talked about wanting to step back from the industry noise. He talked about already
15:47having done his time, already been to jail, already having proven what he needed to prove.
16:03Finesse also said he did not personally know the people involved. He said he hated to see it
16:08because of the broader picture of young black men fighting each other.
16:11I don't even know that young s***. I just know I hate to see that s***.
16:15Cause it, man, we black and we got potential. I f*** that young s*** for some of them.
16:21You know what I'm saying? I don't know him to not like them. You know what I'm saying? But so
16:25far so
16:26good in my eyes. Finesse's take was that all of this was avoidable. He framed the incident as
16:30something tied to energy and what you put out in the world.
16:33I believe in the law of attraction. What you give is what you get. If I set out every day
16:41to hurt somebody, I might eventually hurt them. I'm not looking for trouble. Oh, but if I bump into
16:48trouble, I don't mind, we're gonna crash. Jay Prince Jr. responded to the wave of online
16:53speculation with his own Instagram statement. He said he was at the restaurant alone. He said the
16:58gathering was organic, not a setup. He said he did not know All Star Jr. personally and had never
17:03sent anyone to attack him. He said he would never hurt a young person, referencing All Star Jr.'s youth.
17:07No Prince family member has been charged in connection with the Confessions restaurant
17:11shooting. The Houston Police Department is investigating it as a combination of robbery
17:15attempt and mutual combat based on the reporting available. No full arrest roster has been made
17:20public as of mid-April 2026. Beyond the Confessions incident, the Prince family had another piece of
17:26news cycle attention. In March 2026, it was reported that Patrick Clark had hired new attorneys.
17:31The new team included Kent Schaffer, Anthony Osso, and Dan Cogdell. All three had previously
17:36represented Jay Prince Sr. on various legal matters over the years. The internet took that news and
17:41ran with it. Conspiracy theories spread about what the connection meant. Some said it proved the Prince
17:45family had influence over the case. Others said it was standard practice. Lawyers change clients in
17:50Houston all the time. High-profile attorneys serve high-profile clients. The overlap was not unusual in a
17:56city the size of Houston. Still, the combination of the Confessions shooting and the legal team news
18:01created a perfect storm for YouTube titles. The phrase, Houston goons attacked Jay Prince,
18:06started appearing in thumbnails and video descriptions. The narrative being sold was simple.
18:10His son was at two events connected to violence. The streets were finally coming for him. Payback was
18:15on the way. The facts on the ground did not match that narrative. No physical assault on Jay Prince Sr.
18:21has been reported by Houston police. No ambush. No shooting. No beating. The word attack was being
18:26used in the way that YouTube commentators use it to describe a wave of criticism, street talk,
18:31and online backlash, not a literal physical confrontation. That brings us to the walk through
18:36the hoods. What the video really showed and the final verdict. On April 15th, 2026, the My Mixtapez
18:43X account posted a 12 second clip. The clip went viral fast. Within 24 hours, it had over 2.2
18:50million views.
18:50More than 3,500 likes and hundreds of replies and quote posts. The caption read that Jay Prince was
18:57outside at 61 walking through the hoods in Houston. The video itself was filmed in split-screen style.
19:03On one side, a still photo of Jay Prince Sr. in a white suit giving a thumbs up. On the
19:07other side,
19:08shaky handheld footage of Prince walking down a Houston street at night. Alabama rapper Honeycomb
19:13Brazy was the one filming. A small group of men walked alongside them.
19:25Overlay text on the video read that Prince and his circle were still walking through the hood
19:29and that they were good. It was a statement of presence. A statement of safety. A statement of
19:34influence. Some of the visuals in the background added layers to what Brazy was trying to say.
19:38Men stood outside in casual clothing. A person was visible in a wheelchair. Bikes leaned against walls.
19:44The streetlights cast the scene in that familiar warm glow. It was not a stage set. It was a real
19:50Houston neighborhood, filmed on a real night. The reaction to the video broke across clear lines.
19:55Supporters called it a show of respect. They said it proved Prince still had the love of the streets.
20:00They said anyone else at his wealth level would be surrounded by security in a bulletproof vehicle,
20:04not walking through the hood with a rapper filming him on a phone. They pointed to Honeycomb
20:08Brazy's presence as a signal that Prince had real street protection, not hired guards. Critics saw it
20:13differently. They called the video corny. They called it clout chasing. They said a 61-year-old
20:18multi-millionaire had no business walking through any hood at night. They said it glorified the same
20:23street culture Prince had built his empire to escape from. They said it was a performance,
20:27not a reality. Some of the replies tied the video directly to the confession shooting and the takeoff
20:32case. They framed it as a message to the streets. They said Prince was showing his son's critics that the
20:37family was not shaken. They said it was a public rebuttal to every YouTube title claiming the Prince family was
20:42under attack. And that brings the full story into focus. What has happened is an ongoing wave of
20:46online criticism and street-level commentary. YouTube gossip channels, podcast hosts, and ex-users
20:52have spent years discussing the Prince family's proximity to takeoff's death. That commentary got
20:57louder after the confession's restaurant shooting in April 2026. It got louder again when Patrick Clark's
21:03new legal team was revealed to include attorneys with ties to Jay Prince Sr. The phrase Houston goons,
21:09in the context of this story, is best understood as a label for that wave of online and street-level
21:14voices. Some of those voices come from Houston. Some come from other cities. Some come from known
21:19rap commentators. Others come from anonymous accounts. None of them have carried out a physical
21:23attack on the Prince family. As for Jay Prince Jr.'s involvement in takeoff's murder, the facts are
21:28clear on that too. He has never been charged with any crime connected to the shooting. He has never been
21:33named as a suspect. He has never been identified by police as having fired a weapon that night.
21:37His role, as documented by police affidavits and court filings, was as a host of the gathering where
21:43the dice game took place. That is it. No charges. No indictment. No arrest. Patrick Xavier Clark is
21:48still the only person charged with murder in the takeoff case. His trial is set for November 9th,
21:532026, with jury selection beginning November 5th. Cameron Joshua's weapons case was dismissed in December
21:592023. No one else has been charged. So the answer to the question in the title is that there has
22:04been no
22:04physical attack on Jay Prince from Houston goons over his son's role in takeoff's murder. What there
22:10has been is an ongoing conversation, debate, and criticism. The walk through the hood was Prince's
22:15response to that criticism. Not a response to an ambush. Not a response to a bullet. A response to
22:20noise. The deeper story is one of perception. The Prince family has built an empire in Houston.
22:25That empire has invited scrutiny for decades. Every event that happens within their orbit gets examined
22:30through the lens of their reputation. When takeoff died at a party connected to their name,
22:35that reputation got tested. When the confession shooting happened, it got tested again. And when
22:40Jay Prince Sr. walked down that street with a camera rolling, he was making a choice about how to manage
22:45that reputation moving forward. That is the real story behind the headlines.
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