Oct 23, 2018 https://pitchfork.com/news/xxxtentacion-confessed-to-domestic-abuse-secret-recording-listen/ When he was shot and killed in June, Florida rapper XXXTentacion was awaiting trial for a 2016 domestic abuse case involving a former girlfriend. He was charged by the Miami-Dade County state attorney’s office with aggravated battery of a pregnant victim, domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and witness tampering, accusations the alleged victim detailed in a January 2017 deposition. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and maintained his innocence up until his death. Now, Pitchfork has obtained a secretly recorded tape of XXXTentacion talking with acquaintances around the time of his October 8, 2016 arrest. Discussing his ex-girlfriend, who he believed had cheated on him, XXXTentacion can be heard saying, “I put my source of happiness in another person, which was a mistake initially, right? But she fell through on every occasion until now. Until I started f---ing her up bruh. I started f---ing her up because she made one mistake. And from there, the whole cycle went down. Now she’s scared. That girl is scared for her life. Which I understand.” He did not detail what he had done to the alleged victim. Earlier in the recording, he said, “I will k--- that b---- if she play with me.” (Hear an excerpt from the recording below.) Pitchfork acquired the 27-minute tape from the Miami-Dade County state attorney’s office. According to the office, both the prosecution and XXXTentacion’s defense considered the tape a confession. (Criminal cases against XXXTentacion, whose real name is Jahseh Onfroy, were closed after his death. His most recent defense attorney did not return Pitchfork’s emails or phone calls prior to deadline.) The state attorney’s office provided the name of the person who made the recording, an acquaintance of XXXTentacion’s; the person declined to comment to Pitchfork. The state attorney’s office did not provide the identities of other people on the tape, and their identities are unclear. In the recording, XXXTentacion’s acquaintances can be heard telling him that he cannot have “private time” with the alleged victim and trying to talk him down from thoughts of suicide. On the tape, in addition to the threats against his ex-girlfriend, XXXTentacion also referred to a stabbing incident in Deerfield Beach, Florida, saying, “I’m on [Miami] New Times for stabbing, how many people they put in the news? They said three, it was eight.” (On January 21, 2016, a local Florida newspaper reported that police were “searching for the person who stabbed three people during a fight in Deerfield Beach.” There is no record of anyone being charged with the stabbing, but a Broward County Sheriff’s Office report from the incident states that a witness “saw an unknown black male with tattoos on his face swinging a knife in multiple directions.”) XXXTentacion also admitted to stabbing a former manager, an incident that he was arrested for in Orange County, Florida, on July 14, 2016, before being released on bond shortly afterward. These acts of violence were mentioned on the tape to explain why his ex-girlfriend was scared for her life. “She’s seen this s---,” XXXTentacion said. “She know.” After going to jail over the allegations in October 2016, XXXTentacion went on to top the Billboard albums chart and he has continued to galvanize debate even after his passing, breaking a streaming recordpreviously held by Taylor Swift. His comments in the tape further hinted at some of the bleak themes in his music. “You ever seen somebody get their tongue cut out? … You ever seen somebody get r---d? … You ever seen somebody try to k--- your mom in front of you?” he asked an unidentified man, by way of explaining how events he had witnessed affected his own violent behavior. “Every night you go to sleep and you remember what you seen and you remember how it felt and you remember that horrible feeling in your soul. Nobody can comfort you. It’s something I gotta deal with.”
Oct 23, 2018 Who were the posters defending this dude so hard when he died? Imagine being those people.
Oct 24, 2018 People's opinions on this hurt my head. In this little voice clip he's expressing his true feelings. His deep rooted feelings. That's also the reason so many people resonated with his music. It was very feeling based. Or lack of. It came from a real place though. When he says "until I started f---ing her up bruh" you can hear the conflict in his imo. It comes from a very raw place and he's angry.... but he knows it's wrong. He regrets it. His feelings are just so intense that they're overpowering his reasoning and logical thinking. There's so much conflict in his personality in general (which also comes out in his music). It's not "I started f---ing her up because she's a whor- and I'm doing the rightful thing". This is my perception anyway. The reason I'm saying this is because I see a lot of people simplifying it and saying he's laughing about stabbing people and bragging about having no remorse in this clip. That's not what he's doing imo (although... there does seem to be some amount of pride in not feeling and being destructive). He doesn't understand why he has no remorse or why he has such a f----- up, dark side but it's just a big part of who he is (or was at the time of this recording). I strongly believe he wanted to change. I don't know how much and how successful he would have been but this situation is so far from black and white. The thing is... I think most people know this... Just choose to ignore it. I think it comes down to whether you can empathise with this kind of behaviour or not. If you can't, fine. But know that he was a troubled human being like us all and tried with the cards he was dealt. He's not this demonic being. That's fantasy.
Oct 24, 2018 imagine thinking it doesn’t ? x deserves the worst no matter if he was good at music, he was the worst type of person.
Oct 24, 2018 why? genuine question. pls don't just come at me with "he beats women". I need more than that to understand why you think he's the worst type of person. it's an open question. like, i'm not here to argue. just discuss and understand.
Oct 24, 2018 Imagine defending a f---ing thot like geneva who didnt love him at all and was with him only cause for the clout. What did he mean when he said those things? I assure u he was talking about the emotional pain not physical. Rip X the best ns rapper
