XXXTentacion, Mourning and Morality

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The New York Times

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The 20-year-old broke out of the SoundCloud rap scene and reached No 1. But he faced accusations of violent crimes against a woman, and leaves behind a troubling legacy. Guests: Noisey's Lawrence Burney and Miami New Times's Tarpley Hitt.

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0:00.0	All the
0:05.0	just before four as the male left the premises he was approached by two armed suspects.
0:14.3	More things on the worst.
0:16.3	I'm trying to...
0:17.3	Developing late at this hour the shooting and killing of rapper X, X, X, Yon
0:20.7	shot and killed.
0:22.0	Tenthosion has been shot dead today.
0:25.0	CNN has reported that rapper ex-
0:28.0	20 year old Jase on Friday.
0:30.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:31.5	podcast.
0:32.3	I am your host John Caramonica.
0:36.3	This week has been a really challenging and difficult week.
0:41.6	A few days ago,
0:43.0	X, X, X, X, X, X, and Tassion was murdered in Deerfield Beach, Florida.
0:48.0	X as devoted listeners of the pop cast and readers of our New York Times of Music Coverage now, X is a really troubled figure and a really popular
0:58.0	figure, a person who was accused of some pretty heinous crimes, but also someone who had resonated genuinely for
1:05.3	millions of young fans who saw in him something really vital and I spent a lot of
1:11.5	this week trying to figure out how to cover X's death and how to talk about it and whether to write about it or whether to even popcast about it.
1:23.3	And I realize that a lot of what I ended up thinking
1:27.1	about were questions about why we mourn or what we mourn or even whether we're allowed to mourn the discourse
1:37.6	online around X's death certainly had proponents on both sides of that argument and it's been hard to watch
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