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The ntroversial artist recently had his album but at number one. (Vio: Amber Fergon/The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div><div class="grid-body"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-hSmMVC-isLuf2-false"><div class="wpds-c-jUMcim wpds-c-jUMcim-ibVGacg-css hi-for-prt mb-sm"><div class="PJLV PJLV-ieDMgMI-css flex ems-center" nfig="[object Object]" data-qa="article-actns"><div class="wpds-c-mfMEg"><div class="wpds-c-kSOqLF wpds-c-hnjNCH wpds-c-kSOqLF-bywHgD-variant-primary wpds-c-kSOqLF-biynoz-nsy-pact wpds-c-kSOqLF-hZSyid-isOutle-te wpds-c-kSOqLF-ejCoEP-in-left wpds-c-kSOqLF-futx-cv wpds-c-hnjNCH-eNNUQD-cv wpds-c-hnjNCH-jGqLyO-cv"><div id="gift-share" data-ttid="gift-share" class="PJLV PJLV-ieGzigK-css hi-for-prt"><button aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expand="false" aria-ntrols="gift-share-drawer" role="button" tabx="0" aria-label="Share this article" id="gift-share-drawer-ntrol" data-ttid="gift-share-drawer-ntrol" class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-gsmDXe wpds-c-gsmDXe-dTGBTO-placement-ActnBar foc-highlight"><svg xmlns=" fill="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 16 16" class="wpds-c-fBqPWp wpds-c-fBqPWp-idCxsxc-css " aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img"><path fill="currentColor" d="M8 .6v3.8h.1c-4.4 0-7.3 4.5-6.9 8.8.1.8.2 1.2.2 1.2l.2 1 .4-1.3c.8-2 2-4 6.2-3.9H8v4l7-6.9L8 .6Zm1 11.3V9.3h-.9c-3 0-4.8.5-6.2 2.9.5-3.3 2.7-6.8 6.2-6.8H9V3l4.5 4.4L9 11.9Z"></path></svg></button></div><span aria-hidn="te" class="wpds-c-fBEbFG">Share</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="teaser-ntent grid-center"><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Jahseh Dwayne Onoy was small — he reportedly barely tipped 125 pounds on a sle — but he led wh his fists. Vlence radiated off him.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I’ve been fightg sce I was a kid,” he once <a href=" target="_blank">said</a>.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="db dn-ns mr-neg-gutter ml-neg-gutter mb-md hi-for-prt" data-qa="subscribe-promo"><div data-orientatn="horizontal" role="separator" class="wpds-c-dbVHzF wpds-c-dbVHzF-hDkAcj-variant-flt"></div><a class="pt-sm pb-sm flex ems-center bold font-xxxs font-xxs-ns jtify-center" href=" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="lor:#166dfc;borr:none"><svg class="ntent-box" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" xmlns=" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img"><tle>Wp</tle><path d="M11.055 8.728l-1.018-1.019-.782.782v6.292l1.782 1.564.018-.019v-7.6zm-4.11.236L5.674 7.71l-.836.855v6.237l1.545 1.327.564-.636V8.964zm2.656 9.074l-2.528-2.182-1.927 2.182-2.619-2.255v-3.564h-.509c-.454 0-.672.273-.745.636H1.09a2.89 2.89 0 0 1-.091-.69c0-.473.2-1.71 1.527-1.71V7.691c0-1.073-.709-1.127-.709-2.054 0-1.037.982-2 2.782-2.637l.164.145c-.6.291-1.09.655-1.09 1.437 0 1.2 1.163.89 1.163 2.782v.727l2.127-2.236 2.237 2.2 2.109-2.2 2.036 2v6.728l-3.745 3.455zm11.108-9.625l-1.073-.982-.964 1.018v6.6c.855.11 1.491.4 2.019.964l.018-.018V8.413zm-2.382.418l-.528.545v10.237l.528.492V8.83zm1.49 9.055c-.308-.382-.69-.709-1.145-.836v3.782l-.036.018-1-.927-2.11 1.945-.036-.018V16.96c-.636.145-1.327.545-1.854 1.2l-.146-.091c.127-1.4.818-2.436 2-2.837v-3.545h-.382c-.527 0-.89.363-.963.763h-.219c-.054-.145-.127-.381-.127-.836 0-.891.6-1.564 1.582-1.564h.11V8.085l-.655-.582-.51.51-.254-.237 2.018-2.073 1.71 1.564V9.05l.527-.564v-2.09h.345v1.727l2.273-2.419L23 7.576v7.91l-3.182 2.4z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg><span class="mr-xs ml-xs gray-darkt flex ems-center">Get the full experience.<span class="ml-xs subs-theme blue">Choose your plan</span></span><svg class="ntent-box" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" xmlns=" style="fill:#166dfc" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img"><tle>ArrowRight</tle><path d="M7.664 1.25l6 6a1 1 0 010 1.414l-6 6L6.25 13.25 10.499 9H2V7h8.585L6.25 2.664 7.664 1.25z" fill-le="nonzero"></path></svg></a><div data-orientatn="horizontal" role="separator" class="wpds-c-dbVHzF wpds-c-dbVHzF-hDkAcj-variant-flt"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">When Onoy was 6, he tried stabbg a man who was msg wh his mom, he would <a href=" target="_blank">later boast</a>. As a juvenile offenr a South Florida lockup, he btally beat a gay mate, a story he gleefully <a href=" target="_blank">told terviewers</a>.</p></div></div><div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">As he mounted the hip-hop hierarchy unr the name XXXTentacn, the rapper <a href=" target="_blank">brawled</a> wh ncertgoers and tossed <a href=" target="_blank">verbal barbs</a> at megastar Drake. He allegedly <a href=" target="_blank">turned his fists</a> on his girliend for nothg more than hummg another rapper’s track.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Yet all the vlence did ltle to hamper Onoy’s rise om the SoundCloud unrground to rad. In March, his send stud rerd “?” buted at <a href=">No. 1</a> on Billboard’s 200 album chart. The succs, however, me as he awaed trial Broward County, charged wh domtic battery by strangulatn, false imprisonment and aggravated battery of a pregnant woman. His accer — Geneva Ayala — recently documented the horrific abe to the <a href=">Miami New Tim</a>.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">That brief, turbulent reer end Monday wh a burst of gunfire. As The Washgton Post <a href=" target="_blank">reported</a>, two armed assailants cut down the 20-year-old rapper as he was shoppg for motorcycl at a alership Deerfield Beach, Fla. No arrts have been ma. Law enforcement has suggted the shootg may have been an attempted robbery.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">Rapper XXXTentacn fatally shot South Florida at age 20</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Onoy’s early ath will likely do ltle to still the ntroversy stirred up by his improbable nnonball to the mastream. The rapper’s populary put pop mic a moral bd, a hip-hop versn of the ongog bat swirlg around film directors Roman Polanski and Woody Allen: How n you celebrate the work of an artist acced of such plorable acts?</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="width:225px;m-height:358px" class="center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter w-50-ns fl-ns float-left mt-xs mr-lg-mod" width="225" height="300" layout="fixed"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But for Onoy, vlence and legal problems did not ri after his succs, the way Tupac Shakur was nsumed by the mythology he celebrated his vers. The South Florida native’s rootls life was marked by rage om the start.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Onoy was raised Broward County, Florida’s send largt unty by populatn, sandwiched between Miami-Da to the south and Palm Beach to the north. The regn is enomilly diverse, tracts of megamansns bbg shoulrs wh neighborhoods of dilapidated low-slung bungalows. The rapper has said his parents were Jamain. On his Tumblr page, Onoy also claimed Egyptian, Indian, German and Italian anctry.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The same eclecticism was reflected Onoy’s mil tast. When hip-hop magaze XXL splashed <a href=" target="_blank">him on the ver</a> of s 2017 “Frhman Class” issue, a ndown of risg talent, he was asked to name the artists who fluenced him. His tast ran toward rock and punk — Kurt Coba, Papa Roach, Cage the Elephant and even Coldplay. “I’m really to multi-genre thgs that aren’t jt based around rappg self,” he told the magaze. “I’m more spired by artists other genr bis rap.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In many of the mug shots featurg Onoy related to his long list of legal troubl, tattoos stand out. A tree was ked directly to his brow between his ey. An trite elephant head vered his neck. And across Onoy’s slight cht: “Cleopatra,” a nod to his mother Cleopatra Bernard. After givg birth to Onoy at 17 or 18, acrdg to the New Tim, Bernard was a touch-and-go prence her son’s life.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“My mom jt had hard,” Onoy told the hip-hop podst <a href=" target="_blank">No Jumper</a>. “Raisg a kid was her last prry, so what she did, she passed me om hand to hand to people that uld re for me. Durg that, I wasn’t put suatns that were the bt.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But Onoy found the trouble he uld e wh his fists was an easy way to pull his mother’s attentn. “I chased her,” the rapper said his No Jumper s-down. “I ed to beat” kids at school, he explaed, g the n-word, “. . . jt to hear my mom yell at me or talk to me.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The vlent outbursts got Onoy expelled om middle school, then land him for a perd of time a group home, acrdg to New Tim. By 12, he was maly livg wh his grandmother. “My grandma really feels like my mom,” the rapper told the paper. “My mom almost feels like more of a sister.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In high school, Onoy’s outbursts led to arrts for armed robbery, burglary, posssn of oxydone, posssn of a firearm and ristg arrt. While servg a stt a juvenile tentn facily, he not only beat up a gay mate, as he would later claim, but also met a fellow mate named Stokeley Clevon Goulbourne, the New Tim reported. When both were released, they began makg rap songs together — Goulbourne as Ski Mask the Slump God, Onoy as XXXTentacn.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="gift-share-le" data-ttid="gift-share-le" class="PJLV PJLV-ilotWTr-css hi-for-prt"><button aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expand="false" aria-ntrols="gift-share-drawer" role="button" tabx="0" aria-label="Share this article" id="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-le" data-ttid="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-le" class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-gsmDXe wpds-c-gsmDXe-goNocI-placement-Inle foc-highlight"><div data-ttid="gift-share-terstial-trigger" class="wpds-c-kPqOkS wpds-c-kPqOkS-jtSXsT-hasSubsText-false"><span class="wpds-c-hBJqc"><span class="wpds-c-dzSncg">Share this article</span></span><span class="wpds-c-eCvK"><span class="wpds-c-enedHQ wpds-c-enedHQ-cCdK-isShown-false">Share</span><svg xmlns=" fill="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img" class="wpds-c-fBqPWp wpds-c-fDHGth"><path fill="currentColor" d="M8 .6v3.8h.1c-4.4 0-7.3 4.5-6.9 8.8.1.8.2 1.2.2 1.2l.2 1 .4-1.3c.8-2 2-4 6.2-3.9H8v4l7-6.9L8 .6Zm1 11.3V9.3h-.9c-3 0-4.8.5-6.2 2.9.5-3.3 2.7-6.8 6.2-6.8H9V3l4.5 4.4L9 11.9Z"></path></svg></span></div></button></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">SoundCloud, the mic streamg service that allows artists to upload tracks, beme the duo’s primary platform. As Post mic cric <a href=" target="_blank">Chris Richards noted</a> March 2017, the se“is makg popland a more mocratic place,” providg a space “where dissint sounds n rise up om the digal margs and make a more ronant noise.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><a href=" target="_blank">Acrdg to Vulture</a>, Onoy began postg songs to the service March 2014. In December 2015, he upload “Look at Me,” a track that would eventually spill onto the Billboard charts 10½ months later.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But 2016 was chaotic. At the end of the prev year, Onoy was charged wh home vasn robbery and aggravated battery ( March 2017, he plead no ntt to the charg and received probatn, acrdg to <a href=" target="_blank">urt rerds</a>). Acrdg to New Tim, his relatnship wh Ayala also began reeng om one vlent episo to another. Ayala told New Tim on one ocsn Onoy threatened to asslt her wh a barbecue fork and a wire barbecue bsh.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“He told me to pick between the two, bee he was gog to put one of them up my vaga,” she later told prosecutors a posn ced by New Tim.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Terrified to leave the relatnship, Ayala stayed and alleged that she suffered abe throughout summer 2016. She was attacked “every three or four days,” she told New Tim. “[H]e beat her at tim, choked her, broke cloth hangers on her legs, threatened to chop off her hair or cut out her tongue, prsed kniv or scissors to her face, and held her head unr water,” acrdg to the paper.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“His favore thg was to jt backhand my mouth,” Ayala told New Tim.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The vlence allegedly ntued after Ayala disvered she was pregnant October 2016. That same month, Onoy was arrted and later charged wh aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, domtic battery by strangulatn, false imprisonment and wns tamperg.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">He has sce repeatedly nied the domtic abe allegatns.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But none of the gome legal charg slowed the rapper’s rise. Bee of the groundswell of support on SoundCloud, as well as praise om rap stars like Danny Brown and A$AP Rocky, Onoy’s profile ntued to balloon. “Look at Me” land on the Billboard Hot 100 list Febary 2017. In the meantime, the rapper bounced between jail and hoe arrt as his var crimal charg churned through the urt system. When Onoy’s first album was released that Augt, buted at the No. 2 slot on the charts.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The artist’s nasty personal history — and his cln on XXL’S “Frhman Class” ver — sparked nunciatns. “XXXTentacn is Blowg Up Behd Bars. Should He Be?” Pchfork asked an <a href=" target="_blank">article</a> on Onoy’s crimal history. “You should not be able to beat up a pregnant woman and still have a reer,” mic cric Tom Breihan wrote on <a href=" target="_blank">Stereogum</a>. “We should not ntue to make him famo.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In the last months of his life, Onoy seemed to try to steer himself down a different path. He spoke onle often about spirg his fans and makg up for his past mistak. Last Febary, he <a href=" target="_blank">posted a song</a> dited to survivors of the adly school shootg Parkland, Fla.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“[F] ollow your dreams, and know that even though you have lost, you have guardian angels watchg over you,” he wrote to the survivors on Soundcloud. “Day and day out, the last thg they want is for their liv to be lost ve [sic[, make them proud! live full, healthy, geni liv!”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">When Miami New Tim reporter Tarpley Ht recently tracked down Onoy, he was livg both unr the cloud of his legal trouble and the lap of luxury. 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SHOCKG FOOTAGE OF XXXTENTACN BRAGGG ABOUT NEARLY BEATG A GAY MAN TO ATH PRISON FOR LOOKG AT HIM EMERG
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF XXXTENTACN: ABE, HOMOPHOBIA AND HIP-HOPIN MEMORIAMTHE 20-YEAR-OLD RAPPER WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON MONDAY. HE LEAV BEHD A PLITED LEGACY.STEREO WILLIAMSUPDATED JUN. 19, 2018 8:16AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 19, 2018 6:45AM EDT MPI04 / MEDIAPUNCHTWENTY-YEAR-OLD RAPPER JAHSEH DWAYNE ONOY, AKA XXXTENTACN, WAS KILLED BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, ON MONDAY AS HE WAS LEAVG A MOTORCYCLE ALERSHIP. ONOY WAS REPORTEDLY GUNNED DOWN BY TWO MEN A DARK SUV JT BEFORE 4 P.M. WHAT IS BEG CHARACTERIZED AS AN APPARENT ROBBERY. THE NEWS IS A SHOCKG END TO A TROUBLED LIFE AND NTROVERSIAL REER, AND THERE HAS BEEN A WI RANGE OF EMOTNS OM FANS, ARTISTS AND MENTATORS THE WAKE OF ONOY’S ATH.FROM THE MOMENT HE BEME A KNOWN FIGURE HIP-HOP, XXXTENTACN HAS DRAWN SRN AND PRAISE ALMOST EQUAL MEASURE. THE PRAISE WAS OFTEN OM FANS AND NTEMPORARI WHO SEEMED TO RELATE TO HIS DARKLY PERSONAL MIC; THE SRN WAS OM A LARGE NUMBER OF OTHERS WHO ULDN’T STOMACH THE GRISLY, CEL HISTORY OF THIS SOUNDCLOUD RAPPER WHO WAS NOW BEG TOUTED AS THE NEXT BIG THG.IN LIGHT OF HIS MURR, A NUMBER OF NOTABL OFFERED NDOLENC AND PRAISE FOR XXXTENTACN. “RT PEACE,” TWEETED KANYE WT. “I NEVER TOLD YOU HOW MUCH YOU SPIRED ME WHEN YOU WERE HERE THANK YOU FOR EXISTG.” JINNA SHARED: “R.I.P @XXXTENTACN NO ONE N BE SO SELF-RIGHTEO THAT THEY ARE HAPPY WHEN A YOUTH DI. THE YOUNG STILL HAVE THE PABILY TO REFORM. GOD BLS THE KIDS. #XXXTENTACN.”“WE MT SUPPORT HIS LEGACY,” OFFERED LIL YACHTY. SUCH RPONS WERE MET WH QUE A B OF OUTRAGE OM THOSE WHO DON’T UNRSTAND WHY ’S NECSARY TO MARTYR AN DIVIDUAL WH SUCH A HEO BACKGROUND. XXXTENTACN HAD A LONG HISTORY OF ABE—SOMETIM BORRG ON TORTURE—AND WAS ACCED OF VICLY BEATG AND THREATENG TO KILL HIS PREGNANT EX-GIRLIEND 2016. HIS SGLE “LOOK AT ME!” GOT HIM NOTICE 2017, AND HIS STAR ROSE EVEN AS THE WORLD LEARNED OF THE BTAL ACCATNS. “THE THG WH X IS, WHEN HE GOT TO TROUBLE, THAT’S WHAT BLEW HIM UP,” IEND AND FELLOW RAPPER DENZEL CURRY TOLD HOTNEWHIPHOP THAT YEAR. A WOMAN ALSO POSTED A VIO ON INSTAGRAM THAT SHOWED XXXTENTACN STRIKG HER THE HEAD. “WHILE SHE WAS PREGNANT, SHE SAID THAT HE BEAT HER UNTIL HER LEFT EYE WAS SWOLLEN AND LEAKG.” AND HIS EX-GIRLIEND TAILED HIS ALLEGED ABE A POSN. IN ONE PARTICULARLY HARROWG EXCERPT, SHE REUNTS HOW HE ALLEGEDLY TOLD HER TO PICK BETWEEN TWO GRILL UTENSILS—A “BARBECUE PCHFORK” AND A “BARBECUE CLEANER”—BEE HE WAS GOG TO SERT ONE OF THEM HER VAGA. SHE PASSED OUT AND HE DID NOT GO THROUGH WH THE THREAT. SHE ALSO STATED THAT HE BEAT AND STOMPED HER FOR SGG ALONG TO ANOTHER RAPPER’S VERSE ON HIS SONG. WHILE SHE WAS PREGNANT, SHE SAID THAT HE BEAT HER UNTIL HER LEFT EYE WAS SWOLLEN AND LEAKG. HER EX-BOYIEND AND HIS MOTHER BOTH RROBORATED HER ACUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED TO HER WHILE SHE WAS LIVG WH XXX, AND THE RAPPER WAS ARRTED AND CHARGED. BUT NONE OF THAT SEEMED TO MATTER TO FANS AND PEERS, AS HIS BUT ALBUM 17 BROUGHT HIM GREATER NOTICE AND A SPOT ON XXL’S 2017 FRHMAN CLASS LIST. IN LATE 2017, HE WAS JAILED ON SEVEN FELONY CHARG RELATED TO WNS TAMPERG AND WNS HARASSMENT. WHEN HIS SOPHOMORE ALBUM ? WAS RELEASED THIS SPRG, XXX WAS ON HOE ARRT. AFTER A WAVE OF CRICISM OVER THE ALLEGATNS FOLLOWG THE POSN’S PUBLITN, XXX ISSUED DISTURBG THREATS VIA INSTAGRAM. WARNG THAT HE WOULD “FUCK YA’LL LTLE SISTERS THEIR THROATS,” HE RAILED AGAST THOSE WHO LLED HIM OUT FOR HIS REPREHENSIBLE BEHAVR: “ANYBODY THAT LLED ME A DOMTIC ABER, I’M FNA DOMTILLY ABE YA’LL LTLE SISTERS’ PSY OM THE BACK.”CAROLE RERDS, A SUBSIDIARY OF CAPOL RERDS, SIGNED THE RAPPER TO A AL FOR $6 LN. IN ONE OF XXX’S FIRST TERVIEWS, HE LLOLY RELAYED A STORY VOLVG HIM ALMOST KILLG HIS CELLMATE AT A JUVENILE TENTN CENTER BEE HE WAS “LOOKG AT ME” AND XXX “THOUGHT HE WAS GAY.” “SO I’M LIKE STRANGLG HIM, AND HE’S LIKE LEAKG, LEAKG, LEAKG TYPE SH, AND I’M STRANGLG HIM SO HE DON’T SCREAM,” XXX SAID DURG THE YOUTUBE NO JUMPER PODST. “DON’T THK I’M TRYG TO BE CLICHé OR A FUCKG WEIRDO WHEN I SAY THIS, BUT I WAS GOG CRAZY. LIKE, I SMEAR HIS BLOOD ON MY FACE, MY HANDS, I GOT MY NAILS, BRO, I HAD ALL OVER ME.” THE SENSELS MURR OF A 20-YEAR-OLD ARTIST IS A GRAVE TURN OF EVENTS. BUT THERE IS SOMETHG POWERFULLY UNNERVG THE LEVEL OF DISASSOCIATN EXHIBED ANYONE WHO N SOLELY VIEW XXXTENTACN AS A TRAGIC FIGURE. IT’S MORE THAN IRRPONSIBLE TO GLOSS OVER AND DOWNPLAY HIS VLENT BEHAVR. IN 2016, HIS ALLEGED VICTIM STARTED A GOFUNDME MPAIGN TO RAISE MONEY FOR HER EXHSTIVE HOSPAL BILLS—CLUDG $20,000 FOR AN ORBAL ACTURE AND SURGERY TO RRECT NERVE DAMAGE TO HER EYE. XXXTENTACN’S FANS FILED REPORTS THAT THE GOFUNDME WAS DULENT, AND THE PAGE WAS SHUT DOWN. THE PAGE WAS BACK ONLE AS OF LAST WEEK, AND HAS RAISED OVER $30,000. UPON HEARG THE TAILS OF WHAT HAPPENED TO HER, AFTER SEEG HOW AN ABER WH A FAN BASE N VIS MORE PA ONTO A VICTIM EVEN AFTER HER WOUNDS HAVE STARTED TO HEAL, S DIFFICULT TO UNRSTAND WHY SO MANY NOTABL HAVE CID TO SANIZE WHO THIS YOUNG MAN WAS. OBVLY, XXXTENTACN IS NOT THE FIRST ARTIST TO BE AN ABER. FROM JOHN LENNON TO THE NOTOR B.I.G., THERE ARE GOD-AWFUL STORI ABOUT A LOT OF LEGENDARY FIGUR. BUT TO WATCH XXX’S REER UNFOLD ALONGSI THE TAILS, TO SEE HIS STAR RISE WH THE ALLEGATNS ALREADY VERY PRENT EVERYONE’S MD, AND TO WATCH HOW UNAPOLOGETIC HE WAS FOR SO LONG REGARDS TO WHAT HE’D DONE— SPEAKS TO A KD OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCE THAT HAS MA MOVEMENTS LIKE #METOO AND #YOUOKSIS NECSARY. IN THE WAKE OF HIS ATH, ONOY HAS BEEN PARED TO MALLM X; HE’S BEEN MARTYRED AS EVINCE THAT “BLACK LIV MATTER.” THERE HAS BEEN A NSTANT REMR THAT CHEERG ATH IS WRONG—EVEN IF THE CEASED WAS PARTICULARLY WICKED. CHEERG ATH ISN’T THE SAME AS LD RIGNATN TO A PERSON’S PASSG. THE DARKNS THAT WE VE TO OUR SOULS—THAT WE SOMETIM EMBRACE TO SPIRE OUR ART OR EVEN TO FUEL OUR MOST HATEFUL BEHAVR—LGERS. IT BE A PART OF WHO WE ARE AND SHAP THE WORLD WE CREATE FOR OURSELV. HIS ART MAY HAVE MEANT A GREAT AL TO SOME, BUT ONOY CREATED DARKNS FOR PEOPLE AROUND HIM AND TOO MANY OTHERS ACTED LIKE HE WAS JTIFIED. THE FOLLY OF A FAN BASE IS THAT MAK CELEBRATE THGS WE WOULD TEGORILLY NOUNCE AN “AVERAGE PERSON.” ONE FAMO YOUNG MAN’S PA WAS ED TO DISAVOW THE IMMENSE PA HE’D ED OTHERS. AT 20, WE ALL WANT TO BELIEVE WE HAVE THE TIME TO CHANGE. IN LIFE, WE ALL WANT A CHANCE TO GROW AND BE BETTER. BUT ’S NOT OWED TO . WE DON’T SERVE THAT CHANCE. SOMETIM THE DARKNS FEATS . AND YOU HAVE TO UNRSTAND WHY NOT EVERYONE IS GOG TO CRY OVER THAT. STEREO WILLIAMS

SHOCKG FOOTAGE OF XXXTENTACN BRAGGG ABOUT NEARLY BEATG A GAY MAN TO ATH PRISON FOR LOOKG AT HIM EMERG

Shockg footage of XXXTentacn braggg about nearly beatg a gay man to ath prison for lookg at him emerg. Shockg footage has emerged of XXXTentacn braggg about the time he nearly killed a gay man prison (Picture: Larry Marano/REX/Shutterstock)His murr has provoked an outpourg of grief across the rap muny and among fans of the genre.

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF XXXTENTACN: ABE, HOMOPHOBIA AND HIP-HOPIN MEMORIAMTHE 20-YEAR-OLD RAPPER WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON MONDAY. HE LEAV BEHD A PLITED LEGACY.STEREO WILLIAMSUPDATED JUN. 19, 2018 8:16AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 19, 2018 6:45AM EDT MPI04 / MEDIAPUNCHTWENTY-YEAR-OLD RAPPER JAHSEH DWAYNE ONOY, AKA XXXTENTACN, WAS KILLED BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, ON MONDAY AS HE WAS LEAVG A MOTORCYCLE ALERSHIP. ONOY WAS REPORTEDLY GUNNED DOWN BY TWO MEN A DARK SUV JT BEFORE 4 P.M. WHAT IS BEG CHARACTERIZED AS AN APPARENT ROBBERY. THE NEWS IS A SHOCKG END TO A TROUBLED LIFE AND NTROVERSIAL REER, AND THERE HAS BEEN A WI RANGE OF EMOTNS OM FANS, ARTISTS AND MENTATORS THE WAKE OF ONOY’S ATH.FROM THE MOMENT HE BEME A KNOWN FIGURE HIP-HOP, XXXTENTACN HAS DRAWN SRN AND PRAISE ALMOST EQUAL MEASURE. THE PRAISE WAS OFTEN OM FANS AND NTEMPORARI WHO SEEMED TO RELATE TO HIS DARKLY PERSONAL MIC; THE SRN WAS OM A LARGE NUMBER OF OTHERS WHO ULDN’T STOMACH THE GRISLY, CEL HISTORY OF THIS SOUNDCLOUD RAPPER WHO WAS NOW BEG TOUTED AS THE NEXT BIG THG.IN LIGHT OF HIS MURR, A NUMBER OF NOTABL OFFERED NDOLENC AND PRAISE FOR XXXTENTACN. “RT PEACE,” TWEETED KANYE WT. “I NEVER TOLD YOU HOW MUCH YOU SPIRED ME WHEN YOU WERE HERE THANK YOU FOR EXISTG.” JINNA SHARED: “R.I.P @XXXTENTACN NO ONE N BE SO SELF-RIGHTEO THAT THEY ARE HAPPY WHEN A YOUTH DI. THE YOUNG STILL HAVE THE PABILY TO REFORM. GOD BLS THE KIDS. #XXXTENTACN.”“WE MT SUPPORT HIS LEGACY,” OFFERED LIL YACHTY. SUCH RPONS WERE MET WH QUE A B OF OUTRAGE OM THOSE WHO DON’T UNRSTAND WHY ’S NECSARY TO MARTYR AN DIVIDUAL WH SUCH A HEO BACKGROUND. XXXTENTACN HAD A LONG HISTORY OF ABE—SOMETIM BORRG ON TORTURE—AND WAS ACCED OF VICLY BEATG AND THREATENG TO KILL HIS PREGNANT EX-GIRLIEND 2016. HIS SGLE “LOOK AT ME!” GOT HIM NOTICE 2017, AND HIS STAR ROSE EVEN AS THE WORLD LEARNED OF THE BTAL ACCATNS. “THE THG WH X IS, WHEN HE GOT TO TROUBLE, THAT’S WHAT BLEW HIM UP,” IEND AND FELLOW RAPPER DENZEL CURRY TOLD HOTNEWHIPHOP THAT YEAR. A WOMAN ALSO POSTED A VIO ON INSTAGRAM THAT SHOWED XXXTENTACN STRIKG HER THE HEAD. “WHILE SHE WAS PREGNANT, SHE SAID THAT HE BEAT HER UNTIL HER LEFT EYE WAS SWOLLEN AND LEAKG.” AND HIS EX-GIRLIEND TAILED HIS ALLEGED ABE A POSN. IN ONE PARTICULARLY HARROWG EXCERPT, SHE REUNTS HOW HE ALLEGEDLY TOLD HER TO PICK BETWEEN TWO GRILL UTENSILS—A “BARBECUE PCHFORK” AND A “BARBECUE CLEANER”—BEE HE WAS GOG TO SERT ONE OF THEM HER VAGA. SHE PASSED OUT AND HE DID NOT GO THROUGH WH THE THREAT. SHE ALSO STATED THAT HE BEAT AND STOMPED HER FOR SGG ALONG TO ANOTHER RAPPER’S VERSE ON HIS SONG. WHILE SHE WAS PREGNANT, SHE SAID THAT HE BEAT HER UNTIL HER LEFT EYE WAS SWOLLEN AND LEAKG. HER EX-BOYIEND AND HIS MOTHER BOTH RROBORATED HER ACUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED TO HER WHILE SHE WAS LIVG WH XXX, AND THE RAPPER WAS ARRTED AND CHARGED. BUT NONE OF THAT SEEMED TO MATTER TO FANS AND PEERS, AS HIS BUT ALBUM 17 BROUGHT HIM GREATER NOTICE AND A SPOT ON XXL’S 2017 FRHMAN CLASS LIST. IN LATE 2017, HE WAS JAILED ON SEVEN FELONY CHARG RELATED TO WNS TAMPERG AND WNS HARASSMENT. WHEN HIS SOPHOMORE ALBUM ? WAS RELEASED THIS SPRG, XXX WAS ON HOE ARRT. AFTER A WAVE OF CRICISM OVER THE ALLEGATNS FOLLOWG THE POSN’S PUBLITN, XXX ISSUED DISTURBG THREATS VIA INSTAGRAM. WARNG THAT HE WOULD “FUCK YA’LL LTLE SISTERS THEIR THROATS,” HE RAILED AGAST THOSE WHO LLED HIM OUT FOR HIS REPREHENSIBLE BEHAVR: “ANYBODY THAT LLED ME A DOMTIC ABER, I’M FNA DOMTILLY ABE YA’LL LTLE SISTERS’ PSY OM THE BACK.”CAROLE RERDS, A SUBSIDIARY OF CAPOL RERDS, SIGNED THE RAPPER TO A AL FOR $6 LN. IN ONE OF XXX’S FIRST TERVIEWS, HE LLOLY RELAYED A STORY VOLVG HIM ALMOST KILLG HIS CELLMATE AT A JUVENILE TENTN CENTER BEE HE WAS “LOOKG AT ME” AND XXX “THOUGHT HE WAS GAY.” “SO I’M LIKE STRANGLG HIM, AND HE’S LIKE LEAKG, LEAKG, LEAKG TYPE SH, AND I’M STRANGLG HIM SO HE DON’T SCREAM,” XXX SAID DURG THE YOUTUBE NO JUMPER PODST. “DON’T THK I’M TRYG TO BE CLICHé OR A FUCKG WEIRDO WHEN I SAY THIS, BUT I WAS GOG CRAZY. LIKE, I SMEAR HIS BLOOD ON MY FACE, MY HANDS, I GOT MY NAILS, BRO, I HAD ALL OVER ME.” THE SENSELS MURR OF A 20-YEAR-OLD ARTIST IS A GRAVE TURN OF EVENTS. BUT THERE IS SOMETHG POWERFULLY UNNERVG THE LEVEL OF DISASSOCIATN EXHIBED ANYONE WHO N SOLELY VIEW XXXTENTACN AS A TRAGIC FIGURE. IT’S MORE THAN IRRPONSIBLE TO GLOSS OVER AND DOWNPLAY HIS VLENT BEHAVR. IN 2016, HIS ALLEGED VICTIM STARTED A GOFUNDME MPAIGN TO RAISE MONEY FOR HER EXHSTIVE HOSPAL BILLS—CLUDG $20,000 FOR AN ORBAL ACTURE AND SURGERY TO RRECT NERVE DAMAGE TO HER EYE. XXXTENTACN’S FANS FILED REPORTS THAT THE GOFUNDME WAS DULENT, AND THE PAGE WAS SHUT DOWN. THE PAGE WAS BACK ONLE AS OF LAST WEEK, AND HAS RAISED OVER $30,000. UPON HEARG THE TAILS OF WHAT HAPPENED TO HER, AFTER SEEG HOW AN ABER WH A FAN BASE N VIS MORE PA ONTO A VICTIM EVEN AFTER HER WOUNDS HAVE STARTED TO HEAL, S DIFFICULT TO UNRSTAND WHY SO MANY NOTABL HAVE CID TO SANIZE WHO THIS YOUNG MAN WAS. OBVLY, XXXTENTACN IS NOT THE FIRST ARTIST TO BE AN ABER. FROM JOHN LENNON TO THE NOTOR B.I.G., THERE ARE GOD-AWFUL STORI ABOUT A LOT OF LEGENDARY FIGUR. BUT TO WATCH XXX’S REER UNFOLD ALONGSI THE TAILS, TO SEE HIS STAR RISE WH THE ALLEGATNS ALREADY VERY PRENT EVERYONE’S MD, AND TO WATCH HOW UNAPOLOGETIC HE WAS FOR SO LONG REGARDS TO WHAT HE’D DONE— SPEAKS TO A KD OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCE THAT HAS MA MOVEMENTS LIKE #METOO AND #YOUOKSIS NECSARY. IN THE WAKE OF HIS ATH, ONOY HAS BEEN PARED TO MALLM X; HE’S BEEN MARTYRED AS EVINCE THAT “BLACK LIV MATTER.” THERE HAS BEEN A NSTANT REMR THAT CHEERG ATH IS WRONG—EVEN IF THE CEASED WAS PARTICULARLY WICKED. CHEERG ATH ISN’T THE SAME AS LD RIGNATN TO A PERSON’S PASSG. THE DARKNS THAT WE VE TO OUR SOULS—THAT WE SOMETIM EMBRACE TO SPIRE OUR ART OR EVEN TO FUEL OUR MOST HATEFUL BEHAVR—LGERS. IT BE A PART OF WHO WE ARE AND SHAP THE WORLD WE CREATE FOR OURSELV. HIS ART MAY HAVE MEANT A GREAT AL TO SOME, BUT ONOY CREATED DARKNS FOR PEOPLE AROUND HIM AND TOO MANY OTHERS ACTED LIKE HE WAS JTIFIED. THE FOLLY OF A FAN BASE IS THAT MAK CELEBRATE THGS WE WOULD TEGORILLY NOUNCE AN “AVERAGE PERSON.” ONE FAMO YOUNG MAN’S PA WAS ED TO DISAVOW THE IMMENSE PA HE’D ED OTHERS. AT 20, WE ALL WANT TO BELIEVE WE HAVE THE TIME TO CHANGE. IN LIFE, WE ALL WANT A CHANCE TO GROW AND BE BETTER. BUT ’S NOT OWED TO . WE DON’T SERVE THAT CHANCE. SOMETIM THE DARKNS FEATS . AND YOU HAVE TO UNRSTAND WHY NOT EVERYONE IS GOG TO CRY OVER THAT. STEREO WILLIAMS

The latt of which is a clip om one of his appearanc on the No Jumper Podst back 2016 which he seemgly brags about the time he nearly beat a gay cellmate to ath while he was juvenile tentn.

XXXTentacn rells the time he almost killed a gay man wh a strange kd of nonchalance; as if he’s talkg about an animal he’s hunted down, rather than a person. He the slur a few more tim, before clearg the air: “I am not homophobic.

If a homosexual man is around me, I won’t act like a fuckg prick”.

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