Note: This article comprises references to home violence, assault, and rape that some readers might discover disturbing.
When he was shot and killed in June, Florida rapper XXXTentacion was awaiting trial for a 2016 home abuse case involving a former girlfriend. He was charged by the Miami-Dade County state lawyer’s workplace with aggravated battery of a pregnant sufferer, home battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and witness tampering, accusations the alleged sufferer detailed in a January 2017 deposition. He pleaded not responsible to the fees and maintained his innocence up till his loss of life.
Now, Pitchfork has obtained a secretly recorded tape of XXXTentacion speaking with acquaintances across the time of his October 8, 2016 arrest. Discussing his ex-girlfriend, who he believed had cheated on him, XXXTentacion could 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 fucking her up bruh. I started fucking 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 didn’t element what he had executed to the alleged sufferer. Earlier within the recording, he stated, “I will kill that bitch if she play with me.” (Hear an excerpt from the recording under.)
Pitchfork acquired the 27-minute tape from the Miami-Dade County state lawyer’s workplace. According to the workplace, each the prosecution and XXXTentacion’s protection thought of the tape a confession. (Criminal circumstances towards XXXTentacion, whose actual identify is Jahseh Onfroy, had been closed after his loss of life. His most up-to-date protection lawyer didn’t return Pitchfork’s emails or cellphone calls previous to deadline.) The state lawyer’s workplace supplied the identify of the one who made the recording, an acquaintance of XXXTentacion’s; the individual declined to remark to Pitchfork. The state lawyer’s workplace didn’t present the identities of different folks on the tape, and their identities are unclear. In the recording, XXXTentacion’s acquaintances could be heard telling him that he can not have “private time” with the alleged sufferer and making an attempt to speak him down from ideas of suicide.
On the tape, along with the threats towards his ex-girlfriend, XXXTentacion additionally referred to a stabbing incident in Deerfield Beach, Florida, saying, “I’m on [Miami] New Times for stabbing, how many individuals they put within the information? They stated three, it was eight.” (On January 21, 2016, an area Florida newspaper reported that police had been “searching for the person who stabbed three people during a fight in Deerfield Beach.” There isn’t any report of anybody being charged with the stabbing, however 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 additionally admitted to stabbing a former supervisor, an incident that he was arrested for in Orange County, Florida, on July 14, 2016, earlier than being launched on bond shortly afterward. These acts of violence had been talked about on the tape to clarify why his ex-girlfriend was scared for her life. “She’s seen this shit,” XXXTentacion stated. “She know.”
After going to jail over the allegations in October 2016, XXXTentacion went on to high the Billboard albums chart and he has continued to galvanize debate even after his passing, breaking a streaming record beforehand held by Taylor Swift. His feedback within the tape additional hinted at among the bleak themes in his music. “You ever seen somebody get their tongue cut out? … You ever seen somebody get raped? … You ever seen somebody try to kill your mom in front of you?” he requested an unidentified man, by the use of explaining how occasions he had witnessed affected his personal violent habits. “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.”
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