50) 20 Year Old Rapper XXXtentacion Murdered, Fans Mourn His Death Despite The Fact That He Was A Truly Truly Terrible Person
XXXtentacion was murdered yesterday. Gunned down in his car. For the whites out there, he’s a 20 year old rapper. His name is pronounced X-X-X ten tah see own. And he was a scumbag to the highest degree in his personal life. For those who are not aware of his background – he beat the shit out of his pregnant girlfriend, abused her for months on end, and attacked & strangled his gay cell mate in prison in a homophobic rage for “staring” at him. Here are the details of everything. You can read the parts I put in bold to get the gist of how big of a piece of shit this kid was if you dont want to read all the details. Because there’s a LOT:
He slapped her and broke her iPhone 6S, because she had complimented a male friend on his new jewelry. (XXXTentacion later repaired the phone.) Later that day, XXXTentacion left the room and returned with two grilling implements—a “barbecue pitchfork” and a “barbecue cleaner,” she said—and told her to pick between them, because he was going to put one of them in her vagina. She chose the fork. He told her to undress. He was lightly dragging the tool against her inner thigh when she passed out. He did not penetrate her with it.
About a week and a half into their stint in Orlando, the woman and XXXTentacion were on their way to a show together. They listened to one of XXXTentacion’s songs in the car and she sang along with his verse. Then she hummed along with a verse from a featured artist on the track. When they arrived home after the show, he took her into the bathroom. “And he was asking me why I was singing his friend’s part of the song, if I like him, why do I like him, like do I ever look at his Twitter,” she said.
Then, XXXTentacion head-butted her, punched her, stomped on her, and put her in the bathtub, where he continued hitting and kicking her. “He also wanted to cut out my tongue because I was singing the song,” she said. She tried to run away down the street. He tackled her, causing her head to hit the pavement. She suffered black eyes, a lump on the back of her head, scratch marks, and bruises, including a large bruise on her ankle where he stomped her.
Also while living in Orlando, he hit her with white plastic clothes hangers. “He broke a good 30 hangers on my legs,” she said. Around this time, he tried cutting her hair, and he held her head under running water in the bathtub.
When XXXTentacion got out of jail, they moved back in together in North Miami. (On September 16, 2016, court records show, XXXTentacion agreed to house arrest, and was released.) He told her he knew she had cheated on him. He put a knife to her neck, strangled her “a little bit,” and called her a “ho,” she said. That night, he woke her up and told her to go outside, where he picked up an empty glass beer bottle and demanded that she tell him the truth or, “I’m going to fuck you up.” She replied that she already was telling him the truth, that she had cheated and was sorry. He dropped the bottle, slapped her, and let her go back to bed.
About a week later, she and XXXTentacion moved to an apartment in Sweetwater, Fla. In two incidents there, XXXTentacion grabbed her by the neck, strangled her, and forced her down on the bed before another person who lived there came to the rescue. “I’m like scared,” she said, recalling how she felt. “It’s like he’s going to like end up killing me or something.”
• In early October 2016, she found out that she was pregnant by XXXTentacion. The pregnancy was planned by both of them. On the afternoon of October 6, he told her to move from the bed they were lying on. He then went out onto the balcony, where she could still hear him, and called up the person she had slept with while XXXTentacion was in jail, demanding to know everything. When XXXTentacion returned inside, he told her, “You need to tell me the truth right now or I’ll kill you and this jit.” She said that “jit” was slang for the unborn child.
He then started elbowing, head-butting, and punching her. He strangled her until she almost passed out. He took her to the bathroom and demanded one last time that she tell him everything or he would kill her in the bathtub. She couldn’t even recognize her face in the mirror—it looked “distorted”—and her left eye was completely shut and “leaking blood.” She was losing vision. She vomited.
For the next two days she didn’t leave that room except to use an adjacent bathroom. She couldn’t find a way to flee. There were bars on the windows. “If you’re smart, you would stay with me until you get a car and you have enough money to move into an apartment,” he told her. “Because if you leave now, you’re just setting yourself up for failure. You’re going to be homeless.”
• Around 2 a.m. on October 8, XXXTentacion was in the living room of the apartment playing Minecraft and using Skype. She let him know she was going into the kitchen to make him some food. She opened the refrigerator door wide enough so that he wouldn’t be able to see her if he she crouched down, and then she opened a side door and ran to the nearest main street she knew. She didn’t have any money. She asked someone if she could use their phone and called the only number she knew by heart. It was the number for the ex-boyfriend she had been living with the night she agreed to move in with XXXTentacion. That ex-boyfriend’s mother drove her to the Miami Beach police department.
These are the pictures of her face after he beat her:
And so right now the internet is a weird, weird spot discussing this murder. I mean, a really weird spot. You got fans mourning his death, blaming mental health issues, not only ignoring his violent history of domestic violence and gay bashing, but almost going out of their way to diminish it. A lot of “that was in the past!” type of justification. “He’s changed!” “He’s being a more positive person” “He donated to charity!” “Don’t let only the negative things define him!” blah blah blah. Get outta here with that nonsense. If you wanna say its sad that a 20 year old person was murdered in an act of violence, that I can understand. In a vacuum, its sad that we live in a world where there’s still senseless gun violence and a person who was basically still a kid got murdered. Thats inherently sad. I dont expect anybody to be high fiving over this. You can think that XXXtentacion was a horrible, horrible person while simultaneously thinking that murder is also sad.
But if you’re out here making excuses for the guy because A) he’s now dead and B) he makes songs you like, you’re being an asshole. You’re being an asshole to the girl who’s face he caved in. You’re being an asshole to the man who’s blood XXXtentacion smeared on his face simply because the guy was gay. There’s two major phenomenons occurring right now, one being how fans give their favorite artists a free pass, the other being martyrdom. And seeing how those are both powerful enough to overcome a rap sheet that is truly, genuinely heinous is pretty fucking outrageous. Posthumously anointing XXXtentacion as some sort of reformed hero simply because he was shot yesterday? I thought the internet might actually be better than that, but, nope! Thats exactly where we are.
And what I really cant comprehend is how some of his fans seem to be defensive over anyone bringing up this man’s horrific past. Like they are flabbergasted that people are bringing up his actions. XXXtentacion relentlessly abused and tortured his girlfriend, constantly threatening the lives of her and their unborn child. He savagely beat a man and strangled him while he leaked blood, all because of his sexual preference. Those are just facts, and something that his fans need to understand can never ever ever be separated from his “legacy.” I feel ridiculous even typing the word legacy regarding a 20 year old kid who terrorized people, but here we are in 2018. I get that you might like his songs. I understand he had mental health issues. I understand he was only 20 years old. I even understand that maybe he had changed and was donating to charity and being a better person etc etc (I dont know enough about the story, tbh. Maybe he did, my guess would be probably not.) But there are certain things that just dont ever get erased. Certain things that you can never separate from a person’s reputation. As a guy who has one of those black marks on his record, I fully expect to never be separated from my actions, and what XXXtentacion did was approximately 850,000 times worse than me. You dont have to celebrate a dude getting murdered, but think about that girl’s battered face…think about how she was almost penetrated with a barbecue fork…think about how she needed to run for her life to save her unborn child…think about XXXtentacion standing over his cell mate with goddam blood smeared on his face like fucking Last of the Mohicans…before you go spouting off about how “tragic” it is that you wont get to see him “blossom as an artist.”