“I Don’t Let Go” is another peculiar banger on this LP that has club potential. I would’ve loved if the people that put this album together combined “I Don’t Let Go” with “Bad.” I like how the beat attached to the song rattles speakers and promotes organized mayhem, prompting X to bring out his most daring vocals. In “Bad!” XXXTENTACION gifts us with a short banger that his him mumble-singing throughout (He came up with a new sound from heaven) about falling in love with everything his current girl has to offer. “Bad!” is definitely one of those peculiar bangers. It’s not necessarily my cup of tea, but I can definitely see it serving as the perfect alarm clock buzzer if I ever have to wake up extra early for work one of these days. “One Minute” is actually three minutes of authentic heavy metal vibes! It features a lengthy verse by Kanye West, and some screaming from XXXTENTACION that is sure to leave your ears ringing. With “Skins,” we get a chance to see one of the last directions the Florida rapper aimed to go with his music, perhaps wowing us from deep up in the sky. I felt at the time of his passing that he was just entering into his prime, figuring out a bunch of different sounds he could f**k around and be successful in. A starkly controversial figure ( ? was recorded on house arrest while he awaited trial for aggravated battery of a pregnant woman), Onfroy also seemed to speak from experience, a boundary-blurring artist who, for better and worse, lived his art: He was shot and killed in June 2018, at the age of 20.I’m not going to lie, I am still shocked and appalled that XXXTENTACION is no longer with us. At his most captivating (“Look At Me!,” “SAD!”) Onfroy seemed to swing between numbness and violence, between feeling everything and feeling nothing at all-an uneasy dichotomy that resonated especially with younger fans desperate for an emotional outlet. The South Florida native’s volatile approach made him one of the leading figures in so-called SoundCloud rap, combining the hollowed-out sound of trap with the vulnerability of emo and folk, exploring depression and self-loathing with a frankness almost unheard of in rap (or any other genre, for that matter). Rapper XXXTENTACION-born Jahseh Onfroy-mounted his career with a stream of self-released singles and mixtapes before catapulting into the mainstream in 2017 with 17 and the chart-topping ?, the latter released months before his death.
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