XXXTENTACION | Before They Were GONE | Jahseh Onfroy Biography

[Music] third Octor Jesse Andre aka the Wier before XXX tentaion blew up as an iconic SoundCloud rapper ping out tracks like Joselyn Flores [ __ ] love take a step back revenge and look at me before X would be voted in for the 10th spot for the double XXL 2017 freshman list and signed a deal with a major label before his debut studio album 17 debuted at number two on the billboard 200 and his second Studio effort question mark will it would Skyrocket to number one and I'm going to be donating a bunch of clothes a bunch of PS4s like shoes uh just different things to the kids I'm going to donate like a bunch of stuff to them XXX T is one of if not the most Talkabout artist of 2017 and was celebrated for his music his Artistry and his cander with his fans achieving amazing feats with his two Studio releases X was set to change the music game forever but all the while he was still haunted by his criminal past asked he was no stranger to jail and grew up in and out of Correctional Facilities still after his most recent release from jail X seemed to be turning over a new Leaf he made plans to go back to school to get his GED and got to work on charitable actions he had pledged to donate over $100,000 to domestic violence prevention programs he donated clothes shoes and PS4s to underprivileged children in an effort to start what he called The Helping Hand Challenge and he was encouraging his fans to do good things to spread positivity in fact in his last Instagram post ever well it was all about doing a charity event what's going on guys it's your boy Michael mccredden documenting the life and career of XXX tentasion prior to his untimely passing here for you on before they're gone now this is not a video I'm excited about making in fact it touches pretty close to home I know X was a fan of the show or at least a viewer as he shared footage of him watching this show via Instagram now he was definitely a profound artist and when speaking about him I would describe him or put him in the same box as Tupac Elvis and Kurt Cobain sadly these are other legendary artists who we lost too young I mean the man was only 20 so please leave your condolences in the in the comments down [Music] below XXX tentaion was born just say on Frey on January 23rd 1998 in Plantation Florida 45 minutes north of Miami ex's sister Ariana she actually uploaded a video to her YouTube channel reacting to their childhood videos so little boy [Music] man always crying always his father Dwayne Ricardo onfroy who now posts photos to Instagram hanging out with baby Jay well he missed out on a lot of the kids' youth after being sent to prison around the time x was 10 or 11 now his mother Cleopatra Bernard wasn't exactly fit to raise her boy and he would bounce around to different homes including time with his father's other girlfriends and his grandmother while his relationship with his mom was described as mostly a positive One X did reveal that there were times when she would mentally abuse him on the other hand she did often compliment him on his looks and she dressed him up in Amber croman fch now he loved his mother to bits and pieces and he always wanted her attention then when a man put his hands on her when he was 6 years old will he attacked the man biting him while holding a Shard of glass No Ex would also bring violence into the schoolyard often getting into brawls which led to him getting expelled from Margaret middle school he got kicked out of at least one other school for fighting and at one point well he was put in a behavioral Correctional Facility called the sharing house and spent 9 months at this boot camp when his mother finally had enough and kicked him out the house he moved to Lauder Hill to live with his grandma now he had little to focus on her plans for the future but he did love music X would not only listen to the most popular rappers like little Wayne Tupac and Biggie but he would also listen to Nirvana the fry Three Days Grace and Papa Roach taking note of his interest in music his aunt put him in singing classes and he spent some time learning the guitar and piano he also took karate classes and was a big fan of the UFC outside of music and sports another passion of his was womanizing and seeing as he was popular on Tumblr and Facebook well he had a lineup of girls that he could get with in his teens ex racked up a slew of charges including armed robbery armed burglary possession of a firearm resisting without violence arm robbery with dwelling possession of oxy Codine the list goes on and on he was the target of a driveby shooting and took a bullet in the shoulder a scary foreshadowing of things to come now music became his only consistent interest in life and his only hope for a better future he dropped his first song Vice City in March of 2014 and promoted it to his followers online but he wouldn't be able to enjoy the fruits of his labor for long as he was soon being sent to a youth detention center for gun possession it was in this facility that he would meet skias the slump God and the two quickly became the best of friends they bonded over their Ambitions to become recording artists and encouraged one another to get better again 's violent side also came out with him almost killing his cellmate the man had developed an infatuation with X and well he would watch him shower then one day x he had had enough and he attacked the man resulting in the guard stepping in and throwing X in the hole once both rappers got out they formed the very rare Collective and started to Bubble Up on Soundcloud with tracks like [ __ ] skin teeth Riot tummy tuck and I love it when they run which today all clock in millions of plays producing these bangers working with nothing but a mic and a laptop this gave X his signature style for cash X worked at a call center as a phone operator making just 10 bucks an hour and it wouldn't be long before he would return to crime in July of 2016 he was arrested again this time for charges of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon while locked up in Broward Regional Detention Center in Fort Lauderdale X's track look at me started to gain some serious hits on Soundcloud his online Buzz turned into a Roar with fans posting the #f FreeX absolutely everywhere soon enough mainstream news were also talking about X and the there were accusations being made of Drake ripping off look at me for his track kmt I know who they're talking about I the extension guy yeah I I don't even think that's how you say his name tried to they call him so anyway exp posted bail set a $10,000 but it wouldn't be long before he would be back behind bars on October 8th of 2016 he was arrested again this time charged with aggravated battery of a pregnant woman domestic battery by strangulation false imprisonment and witness tampering following his release from jail will X would have a series of concerts that would turn bloody with a riot breaking out in Miami he made headlines again when he punched the fan in self-defense and then a canceled show in Chicago it turned into a riot and all these scandals well they only further inflated his fan base X landed the coveted 10th spot on the double XL 2017 freshman list and his debut studio album entered the billboard 200 in the number two spot soon major labels were knocking on his door and there was an offer made for $6 million for him to sign with capital music there was certainly money coming in because X bought himself a BMW I8 as well as a pair of Camaros for his boys it's not really an accomplishment unless I'm helping like a thousand homeless kids but I feel like I did something yeah him skeme as they would have a very public falling out and he would also have beef with Rob Stone and then he got jumped by men who he thought were the Amigos just know they had F and they pulled a gun on me Amigos straight up look look at y'all had a chance to kill me how you had F and Ain shoot me it turns out it wasn't that now his sister she started a YouTube channel revealing that the two of them well they were no longer on speaking terms I don't know why my crutches keep being brought up in this boy mouth I don't understand that's I guess that's what he feels like he could hurt me with but he don't even know that those words don't mean anything to me despite all of his success ex's trial for domestic abuse it kept lingering over his head then X decided to change up both his look and his social media pages he deleted all of his content from Instagram and opted for a different hair color then he shaved off his eyebrows and he got additional face tattoos including one on his forehead of a tree after several Court delays on December 14th 2017 well X pled not guilty and was taken into a pre-trial custody and held without bail but just a few days later it was confirmed that he would be released on house arrest now at the beginning of 2018 X began posting to his YouTube channel and it seemed like he made a few New Year's resolutions on January second he published a video vlogging about some new charitable efforts I want to ask I'm not going to ask everybody but it can be short I want to ask what your dreams are what's your dream NBA what's your Dre NBA want to be an NBA he would go on to say I really wanted to not only record it just to set some sort of positive energy into the air but also to kind of influence other people to do it as well I was actually going to start a movement called The Helping Hand where you guys record you doing good things for people and kind of spread that positive energy if February of 2018 X released a song called hope dedicated to the survivors of the Douglas High School shooting it was released shortly after ex hosted a benefit show where he offered condolences to the victims that month he also posted on social media that he was planning on refocusing on his education and would later announced that he had plans to go to Community College to get his GED but not all of his posts that month were so positive on February 5th of 2018 his Twitter account posted explicit pictures of Drake while his Instagram account it posted something even more disturbing if anyone tries to kill me it was Drake I'm snitching right now ex later claimed he was hacked but would go on to trade insults with his former collaborator trippy rat now following reports that trippy worked on Drake s God's plan but that beef it would be squash pretty quickly ending in March the [ __ ] X on the dam I'm talk about yeah you know that b shut your [ __ ] ass up I'll be calling X every time he say something about me I call his line cuz he's not about this new project this album's not about the words it's about the feeling it'll be very hard to understand but very easy to listen to It's not what you're expecting even if you feel like you understand my music be prepared to not understand this music whether his listeners understood the music or not the project peaked at number one on the billboard 200 making it His Highest turning project of all time now X was released from house arrest on March 21st 2018 surely thereafter well yet another Scandal emerged as footage surfaced of him hitting a woman well his lawyers argued that the video was a joke ex claimed that he was already being financially extorted by the woman and her family members and the woman well she came forward Days Later stating this for those of you who are questioning why I didn't come forth earlier was because I was terrified for my life imagine someone doing that to you unprovoked at 16 let alone the people he Associated himself with truth of the matter is I would still be holding on to this secret if it wasn't leaked on May 10th 2018 Spotify announced that was going to stop promoting or recomend amending X or the R&B artist R Kelly the company stated we don't censor content because of an artist or Creator's Behavior but we want our editorial decisions to reflect our values the decision was later reversed on June 1st after Top Dog entertainment CEO Anthony tiffith will he threatened to remove his labels music from the service then on Monday afternoon of June 14th 2018 X posted his final Instagram story saying planning a charity event for this weekend Florida now at the time he was apparently shopping for motorcycles in South Florida and as he was leaving the dealership while a gunman ran up to his vehicle and shot him Witnesses checked they found that he didn't seem to have a pulse and well he was rushed to a hospital in a comos and less than an hour later well he was pronounced dead in hospital I guess I'm just making this cuz the information what I just heard is that he's passed at the time of this recording the suspects are still on the loose describe Des cribed as two black males wearing hoodies and the shooter was wearing a red mask and the suspects well they escaped in a black Dodge Journey now if you have any information about this crime that might lead to an arrest please contact the Broward County Sheriff's department now his death it uh it has brought up a lot of questions the internet has been set Ablaze with rumors that he's still alive others are pointing fingers at other rappers who may have had something to do with this now um he does have two unreleased projects a mixtape titled I need Jesus and a studio album titled skins and their future release at the moment well it remains unclear also um well there was a tremendous outpour of condolences from both New Media stars and a-listers I might make a

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Published: Tue Jun 19 2018