XXXTentacion Ineligible for Best New Artist at Grammys 2019

Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy aka XXXTentacion, October 2017 (Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for BET )
Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy aka XXXTentacion, October 2017 (Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for BET )

The late Florida rapper XXXTentacion has been dominated ineligible for the 2019 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Complex reports and Pitchfork can affirm.

One doable cause for XXXTentacion being dominated ineligible is as a result of his breakthrough debut 17 was launched in August 2017 and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart on September 16. The nomination eligibility interval lasts from October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018. Rules for Grammy Best New Artist eligibility stipulate that the artist “must have achieved a breakthrough into the public consciousness and impacted the musical landscape during the eligibility period.”

It’s additionally doable he was deemed ineligible as a result of quantity of music he launched throughout the eligibility interval. The guidelines stipulate that artists will need to have launched “no more than 30 singles/tracks or three albums” within the year-long span. As the first artist, XXXTentacion had 24 songs launched throughout the induction interval—his album ?, his posthumous Lil Peep collaboration, and his Ghetto Christmas Carol EP. As a featured artist, he appeared on at the least seven different songs, together with tracks by Lil Wayne (on Tha Carter V), Ski Mask the Slump God, Ronny J, BlackBagLa & Momoh, Sizzla, Craig Xen, and Lil Vidi. Pitchfork has reached out to Grammy representatives for extra data.

Other artists who’ve been deemed ineligible for the 2019 Best New Artist Grammy embrace Post Malone and Cardi B.

XXXTentacion was shot and killed in Florida in June 2018. He was 20 years previous. Following his loss of life, he posthumously broke numerous streaming records. In addition, his music “SAD!” turned the primary single to high the Billboard Hot 100 chart posthumously because the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Mo Money Mo Problems” in 1997.

Four suspects have been arrested in reference to the homicide of XXXTentacion. The case is ongoing. At the time of his loss of life, X was going through numerous legal charges, together with aggravated battery of a pregnant girl, home battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and witness-tampering. In addition, he faced 15 charges harassing and tampering with a witness or victim. XXXTentacion had pled not responsible and steadily denied the allegations in interviews and on social media.

Read “What the Rise of XXXTentacion Says About Being a Fan Today” on the Pitch.

 
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