Often touted as the most successful artist to come from the Soundcloud audio distribution platform, XXXTentacion was an up-and-coming rapper who had a never-ending stream of brushes with the law. Still in the news for an alleged crime, as much as it’s been successful in the charts.
Rapper XXXTentacion has died after being shot on Monday. He was 20 years old.
According to TMZ, the musician, whose real name is Jahseh Onfroy, was “racing motorcycles in South Florida” and as he was leaving the store, “a gunman ran towards his vehicle and shot him.” Police say they believe this incident is a possible theft.
XXXTentacion Bio
Born Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy on January 23, 1998, Onfroy was an American rapper who performed under the stage name XXXTentacion. Onfroy was born in Plantation, Florida, but his childhood was mostly spent in Pompano Beach, Florida, and Lauderhill, Florida.
Onfroy was born to an absent father and mother. She was too burdened with personal struggles to give him the ideal care and upbringing for a child. Due to his mother’s unavailability, Onfroy was raised by his grandmother.
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At the age of six, he showed signs of violence (a trait that followed him all the way) by stabbing a man who tried to attack his mother. He was enrolled in school like all other children his age, but he was expelled twice for attacking a classmate. He then went to Piper High School where his indiscretions continued. Often tangling with students, he dropped out in ninth grade.
XXXTentacion was of the opinion that not a regular upbringing and a cohesive family led him to violence. He also revealed that he suffered from severe depression and loneliness in high school. He says he fought at school to be able to see his mother when she picked him up from the principal’s office.
His repertoire of vices includes armed burglary, armed robbery, possession of firearms, robbery charges, possession of oxycodone, to name a few.
The music
In 2014, Onfroy was sent to a juvenile detention center for the gun possession charges. It was in detention that he met Stokeley Clevon Goulbourne, who performs under the stage name Ski Mask The Slump God. The two youngsters embraced music as an escape from prison life. During his time in prison, he confessed to having almost lost his mind and being so bored that he would bang his head against the wall, just to feel something. XXXTentacion once caught one of his gay prison mates staring at him lustfully. He beat the guy so badly he had to be rushed out.
The same year, he uploaded his first song City of Vice to SoundCloud. He also used the platform to post teasers or full versions of songs that were due out soon. In 2015, he released two albums Members Only Vol. 1 And Members Only Vol. 2 in collaboration with his friend Ski Mask the Slump God. In early 2016 he released the song Willy Wonka Was a Child Assassin. Later that year, Onfroy was arrested and charged with robbery and assault with a weapon with a deadly weapon. After being released on bail, he continued to work on his first independent album. Bad vibes foreverwhich had a scheduled release date of October 31, 2016.
He got into further trouble with the police after he was arrested in early October on charges of false imprisonment, witness tampering and aggravated assault on a pregnant victim. This incident caused the album to miss the release date and be delayed.
In 2017, XXXTentacion’s song, Look at me peaked at number 34 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and in the Top 40 of the Canadian Hot 100. His style of music is known for its disorder, deliberate mismixing and disdain for musical notes. . His sound is a fusion of rap, hard metal rock and pop. He has 5.5 million followers on Instagram and 1.68 million subscribers on Soundcloud.
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XXXTentacion’s Girlfriend Mom
XXXTentacion dated Geneva Ayala but the pair broke up under controversial circumstances, with accusations of assaulting X. Geneva dated a calming influence, but he admitted that Geneva was a factor in his decision to focus his energy on the music rather than crime.
XXXTentacion had quite an interesting ancestry, which includes Italian, Egyptian, Indian, German, and Jamaican. Although X rarely mentions his father, his mother has been mentioned a few times. She was named Cleopatra, which indicates that she must be the one with ties to Egypt.
XXXTentacion net worth, height
X reportedly had an estimated net worth of around $250,000
He was 1.68m (5ft 6in) tall
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