XXXTentacion - ?

Yeah of course, its contrived the same way wrestling is "fake" but the rubric that determines who gets to be face, who gets to be heel, who loses and who gets the belt is grounded in more tangible stuff.

So between the egos of the other rappers in the room and whichever creative director or w/e had final say on this thing, it was agreed that dude gets the big piece of chicken. He got the last word, he was allowed to stand out.

To the kind of people that get invested in this, those that are prepared to suspend disbelief and take it at face value, this adds tension and carries weight so this,

These articles could explain why the kids liked him, without making the slippage into mythologizing / portraying him as a rebel who can’t be constrained by society etc

rather than being difficult is just impossible. They liked him because he told them he was rebel who can’t be constrained by society etc and at the very least, made them want to believe it.

That Tom Breihan genuinely appears to buy in is impressive given that he's not a high schooler but more power to him. For the most part you don't get to shape the narrative of things you don't have a stake in.

That Tom Breihan genuinely appears to buy in is impressive given that he's not a high schooler but more power to him

Breihan also really likes pro wrestling and direct-to-video action movies. He is in very, very close touch with his inner 12-year-old.

Everyone who originally cannonballed into this thread to say how powerful and good two paragraphs of XXL Freshman freestyle fan fiction were really showed their ass

He crouched to the ground, froze, and grumbled, “Ten rings on like a basketball player.”

― cr.ht (crüt), Thursday, June 21, 2018 9:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this post is A+++ and should not go unnoted.

also i love the idea that they don't do a run through of the freshmen freestyle video before they shoot it

idnfw? "i don't necessarily fuck with"? i am really throwing darts at the board with that abbreviation

labp

#aye

goddamn it fellas where's the thrread where everyone made these fucking abbreviations up so i can bookmark it thx

iotw

i wish!

idnfw this guy but look at me is indisputably one of the singles of the 10s

― ||||||||, Friday, June 22, 2018 2:35 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sad! too

"Sad!" is undeniable

No, it's deniable. Actually this guy's whole existence is deniable.

pretty sure he existed

Lol

Ok I'll give him that

XXX started rapping after seeing the Salem Levi's Fader Fort performance on YouTube

"Sad!" is like "girlfriend in a coma" by racist morrisey

wait i thought morrissey was racist morrissey

that sentence can be read two ways. ... if u prefer say "known racist"

"Sad!" makes people want to be in denial, obviously.

warning reddit, but the story of the beat for "Never":

https://www.reddit.com/r/WeAreTheMusicMakers/comments/8t8khu/a_story_of_how_xxxtentacion_took_my_music_and_i/

XXX started rapping after seeing the Salem Levi's Fader Fort performance on YouTube

ok I think dude's style was actually pretty great and I might have gotten into his music if he weren't an abuser but this is still a sick & fair burn

his misdeeds were reflective not of our culture of indifference to the mistreatment of women as a whole but reflective of teenagers' culture of indifference to pretty much everything

― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, June 19, 2018 5:52 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this resonates, but it's not just an indifference to me, but the inability to figure out what things have an actual weight in life. the inability to figure out what's going too far, what's forgivable, what's part of playing a persona and what is actually showing who you are. there are so many people who put on cynical personas or do things for a reaction and it takes a lot of development to make it beyond that. some people never change

the cynic in me says that jahseh onfroy crafted this stage persona that was emotionally stunted, dark, and violent and he happened to be an emotionally stunted, violent kid off stage. maybe he decided that was all he had to give the world, or never felt like showing even the people in his life that he had more than that

― mh, Thursday, June 21, 2018 4:34 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good post mh I feel this

There’s a six-hour, open-casket memorial service for this guy happening Wednesday, at the Florida Panthers stadium. “Cell phones and cameras strictly prohibited.”

any murals yet?

xxpost: how is beating a pregnant woman as part of a persona better than doing it naturally?

Yeesh

https://youtu.be/0Fv6z8DoA2I

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8462525/xxxtentacion-sad-no-1-hot-100

xxpost: how is beating a pregnant woman as part of a persona better than doing it naturally?

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, June 24, 2018 12:56 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

beats me, eminem sold a shitload of records in character though

Eminem didn’t actually beat women in character though. It’s not the same playing a character that says he’ll kill or rape a woman than doing it. It’s not in good taste but it’s not a crime to say stupid, shocking shit for laughs.

Take the song “guilty conscience”, as the “bad conscience” Eminem advocates raping a 15 year old and killing a woman. Dre is supposed to be the “good conscience” but later on Eminem breaks the fourth wall and says “you’re going to take advice from the guy who slapped Dee Barnes?” which is the “bad” character calling bullshit on the supposedly good character. It’s all played as shock comedy and noone in their right mind should take the song as anything other than dark humor.

Now if Eminem was actually raping or beating women then you have your point.

uh, have you heard "Kim"?

that shit about him lifting people's music is pretty fucked up. they are all completely within their rights to sue...someone.

I’m not going to defend Eminem’s lyrics, I’m just saying it’s apples and oranges. Rapping about killing someone =/= actually killing someone. It’s not X’s lyrics which are under the light here.

that's fine, but your "shock comedy" angle doesn't make sense in the context of an extended murder fantasy like "Kim"

He also happened to beat up a blow up doll version of his ex wife on stage to the cheers of his fans, driving her to attempt suicide

if you want to believe Eminem's autobiographical songs, he admits to hitting her in "Bad Husband" and "Love the Way You Lie" gets physical too.

that shit about him lifting people's music is pretty fucked up. they are all completely within their rights to sue...someone.

― akm, Monday, 25 June 2018 19:36 (one hour ago) Permalink

This isn’t even on the spectrum of abusing a woman. Childish Gambino was just accused of the same thing, artists across the board do this. I guess what bugs me about this post isn’t that it’s wrong to advocate for artists to be paid for their contributions, but how ilx threads like this start adding up all the bad things he may have done like they’re Tells and we’ll get to a tipping point where hes definitively evil, that his true essence has been uncovered with a preponderance of evidence: he beat a woman! That’s enough

Also scratching my head at how enlisting other potential or real woman beaters makes it normal or more acceptable somehow.

In 2018 OJ would still have walked free it seems.

my point, I guess, in retrospect is: this guy shouldn't be lauded for anything. he seems to have been a horrible, violent, misogynist and he's not a legitimate artist either so don't come back with "separate the man from the art" arguments (not that anyone here is) because his art is fake too.

These articles could explain why the kids liked him, without making the slippage into mythologizing / portraying him as a rebel who can’t be constrained by society etc.

This one sort of does what I described above (though it ends in a bit of a muddle): https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/what-the-rise-of-xxxtentacion-says-about-being-a-fan-today/

xp
That probably is the second whitest thing I have read on this board.

First would be "Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword." In response to an unarmed black man being gunned down in the street.

To be clear I'm referring to the OJ comment

Which is daft even in isolation from all this

I don't know much about this guy's music so I might be way off here but are people in danger of downplaying the extent to which the nasty, vicious, transgressive side might be, for a significant enough minority of his fanbase, actually part of the appeal? I mean it's not like we aren't living in a world where lots of repellent moral voids amass huge followings, the internet is a sewer of men who are old enough to know better explaining away or downplaying abuse or worse, not to mention creepy incel types or whatever.

I'm not talking about teenagers being teenagers here, or people who connected with his music for other reasons, but it doesn't feel like it can be neatly or easily separated from everything else that's happening right now.

Xpost: Hey I also wrote that comment!

Congrats, you are now a graduate of the dog whistle school of "he was no angel".

my point, I guess, in retrospect is: this guy shouldn't be lauded for anything. he seems to have been a horrible, violent, misogynist and he's not a legitimate artist either so don't come back with "separate the man from the art" arguments (not that anyone here is) because his art is fake too.

― akm, Monday, June 25, 2018 4:40 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is just a weird way to parse this problem to me ... if him abusing women isn't going to stop someone from disliking him why would "he doesnt even make his own songs" puff daddy criticism going to be the final straw

"his art is fake" welcome to art 101