The moody 17 featured the singles "Revenge" and "Jocelyn Flores," his tribute to a friend who committed suicide. Onfroy's official studio debut arrived months later on Bad Vibes Forever/Empire. The set broke into the Top 50 of the Billboard 200 and climbed to 21 on the R&B/hip-hop chart. The label issued Revenge, an eight-song mixtape of previously released XXXTentacion material, in May of 2017. While serving a prison sentence in 2017, Onfroy signed a deal with Empire Distribution. Single "Look at Me!," originally released in early 2016, became a sleeper hit and was re-released in 2017, at which point it hit the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. His debut album, Bad Vibes Forever, was originally intended to be a mixtape released in 2016 however, the expansion of the record into a full-length studio album, coupled with two separate incarcerations, repeatedly delayed the album's release. 2 - alongside the Slump God and various Members Only associates - as well as his third and fourth EPs, ItWasn'tEnough and Willy Wonka Was a Child Murderer. In 2015, he released two collaborative albums, Members Only, Vol. Later the same year, he released two EPs, The Fall and Ice Hotel the broad array of genres and vocal styles - ranging from whispering and singing to rapping and outright screaming - earned Onfroy a cult following in under a year. In 2014, Onfroy uploaded his first track to SoundCloud, "Vice City," which quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of streams. After his release, both Onfroy and Ski Mask decided to get clean and pursue a career in music, setting up the Florida rap crew Members Only in the process. At a very young age, Onfroy was sent to a juvenile detention center after committing armed robbery it was there that he met friend and longtime collaborator Ski Mask the Slump God. Months later, at the peak of his popularity, he was shot and killed.īorn in South Florida, Onfroy had a troubled upbringing, often getting into violent situations his mother couldn't cope with raising him alone, so he was often forced to stay with various relatives as a result. In the late 2010s, he experienced a quick rise with his dark and emotionally intense content, scoring a number one album with 2018's ?.
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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.Controversial rapper Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy (aka XXXTentacion) played fast and loose when it came to genres, often incorporating elements of punk rock, hip-hop, R&B, and heavy metal. 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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