GOAT: XXXTENTACION

My thoughts on XXXTENTACION: The first time I heard X's music, I felt like he wasn't make it as far as he did. However, once I heard his debut album, 17, I feel in love with his music. He introduced an unique way to combined different kinds of genres of music and make a story each song. He has songs that will relate with you if you suffer from mental illnesses, and he also has stuff that is just for hype and have you jump around. I heard about his past, and I believe that made him want to change because he finally mature and look at life a different way and started to give back to his fans and the community. Despite losing him at the peak of his career, he made impact in the rap music industry, introducing different genres and sounds into the rap industry.

1998- On January 23 of 1998, Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy was born in Pompano Beach and Lauderhill in South Florida. He lived with his mother, who "had it hard," and sometimes with his grandmother. "My mother was just in situations where she couldn't take care of me," he said in a No Jumper podcast.

2004- From a very young age, he got involved in violent situations. "I been fighting since I was a kid," he said. When he was 6, he tried to stab a man who was abusing his mother. He was also expelled from his first middle school for fighting.

2009-2012- In his early teenage years, he developed a passion for music. He was drawn to nu-metal and hard rock as well as rap, and tried to teach himself how to play the guitar and the piano. In middle school, he said his aunt and mother tried to encourage this interest by signing him up for chorus, but he eventually got kicked out of the program for punching a classmate.

2012-2014- XXXTentacion attends high school at Piper High School in Sunrise, Florida, before dropping out in the tenth grade. Around this time, he says, he recorded and released a song, but there is no record of it online.

2013-2014- Sometime in 2013–2014, XXXTtentacion spends around nine months to a year in a juvenile-detention center for a gun possession charge. During this time, he meets fellow rapper Ski Mask the Slump God. After being released, the two go on to collaborate on several projects.

2015- March 2014: XXXTentacion uploads his first song to SoundCloud. The track is called “Vice City.” February 3, 2015: He releases another EP called Heartbreak Hotel on SoundCloud. Late 2014: XXXTentacion independently releases two EPs called The Fall and Ice House online. He later deletes them from SoundCloud. April 20, 2015: XXXTentacion and Ski Mask the Slump God release a joint EP called Members Only Vol. 1 October 23, 2015: XXXTentacion and Ski Mask release another EP, Members Only Vol. 2 November 16, 2015: XXXTentacion is charged for committing home invasion, robbery, and aggravated battery, according to court documents. December 31, 2015: “Look at Me,” XXXTentacion’s first big single, appears on SoundCloud.

2017- On August 25 of 2017, XXXTENTACION released his debut album, 17, via Empire Distribution. It debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album contains the hard times that the artist went through in his life. The first song, "The Explanation", is a snippet of audio that the artist himself explains that even though he is artist, the album is going through serious issues like depression, sucidial thoughts, and the feel of betrayal that he felt with his ex-girlfriend. The album is probably the best album he has put out.

2018- A couple months after releasing his first album, he released his sophomore album, ?, via his label Bad Vibes Forever. The album is distributed by Caroline Distribution, which is part of Capitol Records. It debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, selling the equivalent of 131,000 units in its first week.

During 2018- XXXTentacion announces, via Instagram story, that he will donate “over a 100 thousand dollars” to domestic-violence-prevention programs. he also donated money towards anti-rape programs. Despite having a rough upbringing, he said that his fans are the reason he continued to go on and make music as well giving back to his fanbase and his hometown. However, when he was turning his life around, on June 18 of 2018, XXXTENTACION was shot and died following an alleged drive-by shooting outside of a motorcycle shop in Deerfield Beach, Florida. He was only 20.

The years after X's passing- his label dropped two more albums, Skins and Bad Vibes Forever, the two programs that XXXTENTACION was working at the time of his death. His then-girlfriend announced that she was pregnant with XXXTENTACION's child, stating that he knew two weeks before his death and was so happy.