Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy, known professionally as XXXTentacion, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He rose to mainstream attention with the single \”Look at Me\”. His debut album 17 was certified double platinum in the US. His second album? debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. On June 18, 2018, he was fatally shot at the age of 20, in a robbery at a motorcycle dealership in Deerfield Beach, Florida.
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Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy, known professionally as XXXTentacion, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He rose to mainstream attention with the single \”Look at Me\”. His debut album 17 was certified double platinum in the US. His second album? debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and the album’s lead single, \”Sad!\”, reached number one in the Billboard Hot 100. On June 18, 2018, he was fatally shot at the age of 20, in a robbery at a motorcycle dealership in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Since his death, he has won an American Music Award, a BET Hip Hop Award, and received 11 Billboard Music Award nominations. Two posthumous albums were released, Skins and Bad Vibes Forever ; the former became his second number-one album on the Billboard 200. His music explored emo, trap, lo-fi, indie rock, nu metal, hip hop and punk rock. He was a controversial figure due to his widely publicized legal issues. He gained a cult following among his young fanbase through his depression and alienation themed music. He described himself as a’misfit’ during that time, citing how he was popular and popular despite being involved in physical confrontations. Some sources interviewed for this narrative dispute this narrative for a 2020 biography. He has three siblings with one being half, shared paternally. His father named him for the Bob Marley song \”So Jah Seh\” which interpolates Ezekiel 34; both Onfory’s father and grandfather were Rastafarians.
In early 2008, when he was 10, his father was jailed for nine years in Arizona on RICO charges after the Drug Enforcement Administration organized a sting operation. His mother was deported to Jamaica in late 2016, and he attended Sheridan House Family Ministries by his mother for over six months. He began writing music after being released from a juvenile detention center and soon started his music career on SoundCloud in 2013, employing styles and techniques that were unconventional in rap music, such as distortion and heavy guitar-backed instrumentals drawing inspiration from third-wave emo and grunge. In 2014, he formed the underground collective Members Only and alongside other members of the collective he soon became a popular figure in SoundCloud rap, a trap music scene that takes elements of lo-Fi music and harsh 808s. He attended Piper Piper High School until he dropped out in the tenth grade. He later moved to Pompano Beach, where he was kicked out of the school choir after attacking another student. In 2013, he met Stokeley Goulbourne, another artist known as Ski Mask the Slump God, while in juvenile detention for gun possession, and another artist, Ski Mask God, known as SlumpGod, known for the song “Flock God” According to interviews, he said he had Egyptian, Syrian, Indian and possibly Italian ancestry in an interview on The Beat in 2017.
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