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The Broward County Sheriff’s Office nfirmed that Onoy had been shot broad daylight. He was nfirmed ad at a lol hospal a short while later. The killers ma off wh a Louis Vuton bag. (On Wednday night a twenty-two-year-old spect was arrted and charged wh first-gree murr.)</p><p class="paywall">Onoy lived his short life chaotilly, vlently. And his <a href=">jagged nfsnal mic</a>, which enraptured lns, sprang nakedly om that vlence. Usually, when micians die as young and as tragilly as Onoy, they are the subject of haggraphy. We lament the bety gone, thk forlornly of the future art the cel prent has stolen. The ath of Onoy and that of Lil Peep, November of last year, are alarmg signs of the recklsns erng the new-money life styl of certa young Inter celebri, who are the herors of Ameri’s dangero cris of mental health, dg abe, and masculy. But reflectg on Onoy’s legacy also requir a ank nontatn wh the maligny he flicted.</p><p class="paywall">Onoy was born Plantatn, Florida, 1998, and raised Broward County, primarily by his grandmother. His mother was a teen-ager when she had him, and she drifted and out of his life, brgg lavish gifts and leavg sizable voids. Onoy said, an terview wh the podst “No Jumper,” 2016, that he would stigate fights gra school as a ploy to get her attentn. In a recent terview wh the Miami <em>New</em> <em>Tim</em>, <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">he told the reporter Tarpley Ht</a> that his mother once gave him permissn to retaliate agast a female classmate who was htg him as a form of juvenile flirtatn. In rponse, he “slapped the sh out of her and kneed her.” Onoy said that his mom was surprised; she “realized how serly I took her.” Later, he would get her name—Cleopatra—tattooed on his cht.</p><p class="paywall">Onoy spent his late childhood and adolcence and out of juvenile-tentn centers, for charg rangg om robbery to asslt. He spent the rt of his time the basements and studs of iends, where he assembled the scraps and agments of his psyche to paeans to disaffectn, to his prsn, to Xanax and the numbg brought, and to women, whom he viewed as vourers of his soul. (“Only time I feel pa, when I’m feel’ love.”) He started uploadg mic to SoundCloud, 2013. His early songs were howls, his rappg agile but his voice cracked; the productn was bised and unpolished. Onoy seemed to add to his talogue impulsively. By the time of his ath, he’d ma loosi, mixtap, a smatterg of featur, and two albums, cludg “?,” which débuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">Among the ranks of the SoundCloud rap generatn, there are pranksters, heartthrobs, and dilettant, but Onoy clawed to the surface as the genre’s wretched bard. He stalked the shadows of metal and emo and punk rock, and fleeced rap of s votn to materialism, focsg stead, obssively, on existential crisis. There wasn’t a dark thought that he kept hidn. He unleashed a tremulo bombardment of psimism, ocsnally terpted by feral gtur of overwhelmg helplsns. “Here is my pa and thoughts put to words. I put my all to this, the hop that will help cure or at least numb your prsn,” he speaks, on the troductn to his first album, “17.” He peddled the sctive notn that prsn is license to hurt people, perhaps bee was his own personal jtifitn. He wrote dti threateng suici if a partner left him, which I would hear blastg om rs on my block. Throughout his mic, there are prag to an early ath.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-unslot nsumer-marketg-unslot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-unslot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">Onoy purposefully llapsed the real-life pa he wrought on others to his artistic persona. The art for “Look At Me!,” a breakout sgle, featured one of his mugshots. It climbed the charts while he was jail on charg of false imprisonment, wns tamperg, and the asslt and battery of a pregnant woman, his former girliend. (When she tablished a GoFundMe mpaign for an operatn to fix her broken orbal socket, people llg themselv XXXTentacn fans targeted her until the Web se temporarily shut down.) To promote his mic on “No Jumper,” Onoy bragged about beatg a gay peer at a tentn center until they were both vered blood. XXXTentacn lived his art, which some would ll a mark of thenticy. He was admired by <a href=">J. Cole</a> and advoted for by <a href=">Kendrick Lamar</a>, whose label, TDE, threatened to remove s mic om Spotify when the service briefly stopped promotg XXXTentacn on s playlists as part of s policy agast hateful nduct. Many artists have memorialized him recent days, cludg <a href=">Kanye Wt</a>, whose own new album, “<a href=">Ye</a>,” clus disturbg mgs (“I thought about killg you”) that sound fluenced by XXXTentacn. Onoy’s victims are sacrific, the thkg go, on the pyre of raw art. The immatury is part and parcel of the geni. The only unfivable thg would be to be a hypocre.</p><p class="paywall">In remembranc of Onoy recent days, some have argued that, however grossly misguid his behavr, he provid his listeners wh valuable solace and unrstandg. Even that is a simplifitn. He uld be strangely enuragg, uploadg spiratnal hoi to fans he knew were stgglg wh issu of mental health, which his followers have clung to the days sce his ath. (“If I’m gonna die or ever be a sacrifice, I want to make sure that my life ma at least five ln kids happy,” he said an Instagram Live vio posted late last year.) But he uld also be spotic. At the Rollg Loud Ftival California, 2017, he beat one fan wh a microphone. On Instagram, he tnted people who challenged him about domtic vlence. Last year, an episo of particularly cel chinery, he upload a vio which he appeared to be hangg himself om a tree, sparkg an onle panic. His fans, sometim out of ignorance, but most often, I thk, out of speratn, loved him. They propped him up, votg him to the XXL Frhman List of 2017.</p><p class="paywall">I’ve unted myself lucky to have grown up before XXXTentacn’s vic ironi, knowg that as a teen-ager I may well have been enthralled by his lazy groans on tracks like “Moonlight.” But how much better did the <a href=">teen idols of olr generatns</a> really treat ? Mic fandom is a passn that disurag ratnal thkg, and some artists take advantage of that. The fans do the rt. (On Tuday, Onoy’s former girliend posted a msage on Instagram sayg that she had been driven out of a vigil for him Florida.) I am not sure that is uful to patrol how people will remember XXXTentacn. If Onoy is ma a sat, he will jo a pantheon that is plenty nfed already. If people stomp on his name, I unrstand. Last October, he’d signed a new al for a reported six ln dollars. He died on the brk of somethg. 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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 GAY MAN TO DEATH IN PRISON 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 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. Okay, every sg time I go on HHH regardg somethg ntroversial about X, they always have to mentn him beatg up a gay man prison for starg at him funny.

Obvly a gay male is rapg another male. The GAY man was starg at X changg after gettg hoppg out of the shower, wouldn't that make you feel unfortable?

SHOCKG FOOTAGE OF XXXTENTACN BRAGGG ABOUT NEARLY BEATG GAY MAN TO DEATH IN PRISON EMERG

I do have to mentn somethg, most people jt blatantly say that X beat him up JUST BECAUSE he was gay. X pletely stated that he has nothg agast gay people, he said he beat him up bee he would not refe to stare at him while he was changg. 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”.

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

He’s spurred on by the equally homophobic -host; his well-meang sentiment renred els by the bloodthirsty and chillg vrl that follows .

They had to watch an artist who proudly beat up a gay man he spected of beg predatory towards him – an act that was wholly based on his victim’s sexualy, wh no real evince otherwise – achieve one fal moment of succs. Instanc of homophobia mic aren’t rare, nor part of the dtry’s past. In , Stanfield spat the l: “That’s some gay sh” and “F*g, I don’t really like to brag/ But I’m straight, rich“.

The fact that anybody wh an fluential platform would nsir that fe is strange enough, but he followed up wh an apology that ma no sense nsirg the rap he’d evintly wrten and performed: “I’ve never been homophobic, ” he claimed. What, apart om that time you ed gay as a pejorative remark last week?

BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM XXXTENTACION BEATING GAY MAN

Shockg Footage Of XXXTentacn Braggg About Nearly Beatg Gay Man To Death In Prison Emerg .