Arts > Music > Hip-hop > USA > XXXTentacion   1998-2018

XXXTentacion’s “Skins,”

the first album released following his death in June,

is slight.

Photograph: Jack McKain

Album Review

XXXTentacion Left Splinters Amid the Wreckage on ‘Skins’

NYT

Dec. 10, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/
arts/music/xxxtentacion-skins-review.html

XXXTentacion    1998-2018

born Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy

A messianic youth-culture figure

whose online notoriety

was driven in part by allegations

of horrific abuse against a girlfriend,

XXXTentacion muscled his way

from the SoundCloud underground

to the mainstream

with a raw mixture of rap,

rock and punk music,

along with a near-constant stream

of fan interaction on social media.

(...)

But XXXTentacion, in death as in life,

has also been seen by some as a pariah

for his alleged abusive behavior

and his tendency to make light

of the charges he faced,

including aggravated battery

of a pregnant victim,

false imprisonment

and witness tampering.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/
arts/music/xxxtentacion-funeral-died.html

https://www.npr.org/tags/547510232/xxxtentacion

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/
1164748374/xxxtentacion-murder-trial-conviction-fort-lauderdale-riva-motorsports

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/
arts/music/xxxtentacion-skins-review.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/
arts/music/xxxtentacion-skins.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/
arts/music/xxxtentacion-death-album.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/
arts/music/xxxtentacion-funeral-died.html

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/23/
622726460/why-the-contradictions-of-xxxtentacion-are-difficult-to-square

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/
arts/music/popcast-xxxtentacion-mourning-morality.html

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jun/19/
xxxtentacion-hyperfast-life-of-trauma-inflicted-endured

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/18/
rapper-xxxtentacion-shot-dead-in-florida

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/
arts/music/xxxtentacion-dead.html

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/18/
621135336/rapper-xxxtentacion-shot-and-killed

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/
arts/music/xxxtentacion-tay-k-kodak-black-accusations-criticism.html

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