1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about 2 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: hip hop star xxx ten Tasione are insane. He beat 3 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 1: a cellmate to near death, bludgeoned his pregnant girlfriend, and 4 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: incited riots from the stage during his live shows. He 5 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: was born into violence, informed by it. It was there 6 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: for him when nothing when nobody was there for him. 7 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: He was alone and, despite his growing fame, or perhaps 8 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: because of it, unable to get a grip on his life, 9 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 1: A life that was mysteriously cut short, A life that 10 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 1: began and ended in violence, and that produced great music 11 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: along the way. That music you heard at the top 12 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 1: of the show that wasn't great music, That was a 13 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: preset loop for my melotron called Louis Mello Ballero b 14 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:00,080 Speaker 1: K one. I played you that loop because I I 15 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: can't afford the rights to Psycho by post Malone. And 16 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: why would I play you that specific slice of imagined 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: minor two cheese? Could I afford it? Because that was 18 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 1: the number one song in America on June eighteenth, twenty eighteen, 19 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: And that was the day that xxx ten tasion went 20 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 1: on a shopping spree that turned deadly, but that ultimately 21 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: freed him from a world of intense loneliness and pain. 22 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 1: On this episode, Psycho Cheese Ultra Violence and XXX ten tassion, 23 00:01:31,480 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan and this is disgrace Land. It makes 24 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: you crazy. And Josse on Freud knew this. His father 25 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: taught him this at a young age. It was probably 26 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 1: the most important thing he taught him in jail. If 27 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: you're not careful, the crazy will rub off on you. 28 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: And no matter what you think of your fellow prisoners, 29 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: no matter how close you become to them, you're always 30 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: alone in jail. Sure, technically this wasn't jail, it was 31 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 1: a juvenile detention center, but Joss called it as he 32 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: saw it. Young in jail, he was sixteen and had 33 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: one of the longest rap sheets of any of the 34 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: kids in lockup. He was in for a year on 35 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: a gun possession charge, but everyone who knew him knew 36 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,799 Speaker 1: that more charges would eventually be handed down to young Josse. 37 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: He had that complete lack of shits to give vibe 38 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: menace bleeding out of the corners of his squinty eyes, 39 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: and utter lack of respect in almost every one of 40 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: his mannerisms. Joss was a punk, a high school dropout, 41 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: but Young in Jail wasn't all bad. He met Ski 42 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: there aka Ski Mask the Slump God birth name Stokely Goldburn. 43 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: Jasse and Ski became fast friends, watched each other's backs, 44 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: vibed on hip hop. They talked about making music together 45 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: on the outside. Like Ski or Ski Mask the Slump God, 46 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: Josse had an MC name as well, Xxx ten Tasion 47 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 1: or Unknown Temptation, and at this moment, Ski was trying 48 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 1: to protect xxx ten Facione aka X from being subjected 49 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: to some punk's unknown plantation. There was a perv on 50 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: the block who was into fresh meat and in Young 51 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: in Jail cell mats were rotated every two weeks, so 52 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: X's time in the barrel was about to come up. 53 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: His new cellmate was the creep. SKI warned him about. X. 54 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: Sat on his bunk, stared at his magazine, his new 55 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: cell mat, stood against the wall, his head seemingly off 56 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: somewhere else, but his eyes darting back toward X whenever 57 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 1: he thought X wasn't paying attention. 58 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 2: And this went on for days. 59 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: Whenever they were alone in the cell, X off tension 60 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: building like a ticking time bomb. X told one of 61 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: the guards Yo this dude better recognize who he's fucking with. 62 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 2: I'll keep to myself. 63 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: I'll leave him alone, but if he comes at me wrong, 64 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna fucking kill him. 65 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 2: No joke. 66 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: His dad was right. The crazy had rubbed off on him, 67 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: and that night, after the warning to the guard, X 68 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: felt his pervy roommate's eyes leering at him again, first 69 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: casually glancing in his direction, then unable to break his 70 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: gaze at X's crotch. Fucked this, X leaped out of bed, 71 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 1: snatched the PERV by the throat, slammed him hard into 72 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: the wall of the cell, grabbed him by his crotch, 73 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 1: and squeezed him into submission. His lips inches away from 74 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,039 Speaker 1: his cellmate's face. He spat out, who the fuck do 75 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: you think you are? All the PERV could say was no, no, No. 76 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: X pulled his hand off the dude's crotch and kneed 77 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: him in the nuts. His cellmate fell to the ground. 78 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 1: X went full Tasmanian devil, a whirling fury of fists 79 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: and kicks as he proceeded to beat the desire out 80 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: of his would be sexual assail, and he lost himself. 81 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: He was beyond the moment somewhere else, transported by the violence. 82 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: Suddenly he was six years old again, back home with 83 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 1: his mom. His dad was in lock up again, as 84 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 1: he had been for most of Ex's young life. One 85 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,280 Speaker 1: of his mom's boyfriends was attacking her, humbling her with 86 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: his fists and his kicks, dragging her about their tiny 87 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 1: apartment by the hair, yelling incomprehensively zero humanity. It was 88 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: horrifying for little Joss, but he was determined to do 89 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 1: something about it. He grabbed a shirt of glass from 90 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: the floor wreckage from the recent melee, and charged full steam. 91 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 2: Ahead at his mom's boyfriend. 92 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: He dove at him and began stabbing his mom's attacker 93 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: all over, and the violent act of bravery worked. His 94 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: mom's boyfriend got hit quick and split. It taught young 95 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: Joss a lesson. Violence is effective. It works, It's a 96 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: means to an end, and when the world won't listen, 97 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:57,919 Speaker 1: stab it in the side of the gut with a 98 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 1: shout of glass from a broken bottless sayings back in 99 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: the now in his cell, X's a sailant. Now, his 100 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 1: victim was listening, listening to the sounds of X grunting 101 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: between a hail. 102 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 2: Of fists and feet. 103 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 1: The thought of stabbing his mom's attacker had him even 104 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 1: more keyed up. 105 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 2: He was not in control anymore. He was gone. 106 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 1: As he administered the beating, his mind drifted further back 107 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: into the past, and the memory stunk of dank, weed, sweat, 108 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 1: and melancholy. He was back on the streets he was 109 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: raised up on in the ghetto that they called the Foreway, 110 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 1: just south of Assuk, Florida, and north. 111 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 2: Of absolutely nowhere. 112 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 1: His mom took care of him as best she could 113 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: back then, constantly reminding him of how pretty he was 114 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: and encouraging him to get gold teeth and build up 115 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: his grill. From a young age, his mom was full 116 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 1: of advice. She's the one who told him that, if necessary, 117 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: he could hit a woman, but he had to be 118 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,919 Speaker 1: a gentleman about him. Putting his hands on a girl 119 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: was only allowed after giving her a warning to stop 120 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: whatever she was doing that was annoying him. No jived 121 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: with his early experiences with violence a means to an end, 122 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: X was learning. He was also starting to learn something 123 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: more acceptable music. Members of his extended family encouraged him 124 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 1: to explore this passion. It was clear from a young 125 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: age that he was obsessed with music, so his aunt 126 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: signed him up for school in church choir and X 127 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: thrived for a while, but eventually he was kicked out 128 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: for physically attacking another chorus member over a small slight 129 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,119 Speaker 1: And it wasn't unlike the beating he was now laying 130 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: onto his cellmate relentless blind rage. In the cell, X 131 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: was furious, punching, kicking, screaming, don't fucking touch me. 132 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 2: Nobody can touch me. 133 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 1: Don't fucking touch me, nobody can touch me. X grabbed 134 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: the mangled mess of a body on the floor, still groaning, 135 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: dragged his cell mat to the lip of the bed. 136 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: The bloody jumpsuit slid wet along the hard floor, but 137 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: when he got into the bed, X lifted his victim's 138 00:07:57,480 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: blood matted head by the back of the scalp and 139 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 1: started his positioning his face into a bite position over 140 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: the edge of the steel bed frame. 141 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 2: Open your mouth, motherfucker, open it. X was going to 142 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 2: curb stomp the perved death. 143 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: In that moment, the cell doors opened and the guards 144 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: rushed in, saving x's victim from X, and ultimately X 145 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: from hisself, just in the nick of time. A lifetime 146 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 1: of violent self preservation had been unleashed onto this bloody 147 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: pulp of a kid all for looking at X the 148 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: wrong way, and the dude was gurneyed to the er. 149 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: But at least his jaw was still attached to his skull, 150 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: an X would not be adding a murder charge to 151 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 1: his already too long rap sheet. As the guards restored order, 152 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 1: X sat on his bunk, appearing somewhat disoriented. He looked 153 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: up at them, shaking his head. I told you, I 154 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: told you, was all he said to the guards. The 155 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: guards threw him into solitary for the night. X smirked 156 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 1: while being hauled off for one precious evening, he'd be 157 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: at peace after days of getting eye fucked by his cellmate. 158 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: The alone time was welcome. This was solitude, and artists 159 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: is never alone, long drives, empty houses, solitary confinement. It 160 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. An artists has their thoughts, their ideas, their 161 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 1: art to keep them company. In solitary confinement, X could 162 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: work out the beats and rhymes he had become obsessed 163 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,079 Speaker 1: with in his head all night long. He and SKI 164 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:21,199 Speaker 1: would be out in a few months, and X knew 165 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: that that would be his time. He'd really be able 166 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: to pursue his music, gain recognition, and escape this street 167 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 1: to school, the street to prison pipeline. He was half right. 168 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: Once released from Juvie, X realized something. Freedom was lonely, 169 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 1: almost like jail, obviously not as bad. But now that 170 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: he's a little bit older and on the outside, the 171 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: more reality set in, the more it seemed like there 172 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: was only one constant in this life, loneliness. You come 173 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: into this world the same way you go out alone 174 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: as a fuck. X hustled worked on his music to 175 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,959 Speaker 1: keep his mind in the right place. The recognition didn't 176 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: come until he dropped his first SoundCloud track, Vice City, 177 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: in early twenty fourteen. Several EPs followed over the next year, 178 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: including his first collaboration with ski. X's dark, moody beats 179 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: and unfiltered rhymes won over a passionate following, and he 180 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 1: was stoked. He had what most artists never find, an audience, 181 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: and because of it, he seemed less alone. And there 182 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 1: were others, other kids who felt left behind by the 183 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: real world, even though they were born just like X 184 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:30,959 Speaker 1: during a time when it was a given that if 185 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: you were a kid, you were going to have the 186 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: Internet jacked into your veins. Twenty four to seven, and 187 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: thus supposedly be connected Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter, the father 188 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: of the son and the holy ghost of Generation Z. 189 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 1: Constant engagement, constant envy, constant desire, a sea of like 190 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: minded peers, a swipe away, but so hard to form 191 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: a real connection with life was complicated, and social media 192 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: recognition and a burgeoning career couldn't erase an entire childhood 193 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:03,559 Speaker 1: of violence and neglect. X's career grew, and so did 194 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: the pressure, so he dealt with it the only way. 195 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 2: He knew how. Through violence. 196 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: His rap sheet grew right alongside his start. Through his music, 197 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: X became a mirror for his new fans, loneliness and pain. 198 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 2: His music had meaning, the. 199 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 1: Views, that listens, the likes, the shares, They all piled up, 200 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,599 Speaker 1: and soon the money started to pile up too. But 201 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: it was dangerous, not in the same way as crime, 202 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:32,319 Speaker 1: but dangerous emotionally. Existentially, X felt a growing void inside 203 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: of him, a gnawing itch that only music could scratch. 204 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 1: The solution went like this, get sad, get high, fuck 205 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: around with logic, make a beat, get sad again, get 206 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 1: high again, write some lyrics, record a vocal mix it 207 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: over a beat, give the track a name, export the 208 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: file to an MP three, post the song online, and 209 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: let the Internet do its thing, make him a star. 210 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 1: It worked until it didn't, because this X soon found 211 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: out the Internet fucking black hole, just like the hole 212 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: inside him, and he was trying to fill one hole 213 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 1: with another. X knew the truth about the Internet better 214 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: than anyone. That it's an abyss. He knew that when 215 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: you stare into that abyss, it stares back at you 216 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: and it's scary as fuck. But like any other fear 217 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: X experienced, he thought he could fight it. 218 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 2: He knew the. 219 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: Perspective he repped in his music was unique but universal, 220 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 1: and he could feel it in the first crackles of recognition. 221 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: He had touched a nerve after a life of loneliness 222 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: and violence. His music was his chance to connect and 223 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: to feel the warmth of belonging. Fuck the fear X 224 00:12:36,240 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: dove into the void headfirst. On Instagram. Jocelyn Flora's booming 225 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: follower count knew her as at real Joscelyn. Most of 226 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: her Internet followers were back home in Ohio, but she 227 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: was in the South, now lost in the swampy flatlands 228 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: of Florida with its sticky air and starlit nights. She 229 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:16,679 Speaker 1: was alone in the back seat of a strange car, 230 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 1: staring at the window, being driven somewhere she didn't know 231 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: by two men she didn't know, and they didn't know 232 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: her either. The two men were talking in the front, 233 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: ignoring Joscelyn, making plans to get high and eat some 234 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: Jimmy Johns once they took care of her. Later, when 235 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: asked by police if Jocelyn had said anything to them 236 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 1: before the incident, all they could remember was her muttering 237 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: to herself under her breath lesson learned they zipped through 238 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: the dead Florida air. Joscelyn always hated the quiet, but 239 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: what she wouldn't do now to be back in her 240 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: quiet bedroom in Ohio. One good thing about the quiet, 241 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: she thought, was that it had a way of making 242 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: the sound of her Instagram notifications all the more exciting 243 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: when they rang out on her phone, loud and exult 244 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 1: in the dead silence of her parents' house. Just a 245 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: couple weeks before, she was just another teen girl sitting 246 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 1: on her bed, obsessed with her phone, staring into the void. 247 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: She'd exhausted her feed, having scrolled down repeatedly for the 248 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 1: past ninety minutes. At first totally engaged, casually liking this, 249 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: commenting on that, bouncing in and out of profiles she 250 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: was newly interested in, and occasionally dming friends and even 251 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: new people she'd maybe like to get to know. This 252 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: was serious stuff. The DM, the direct message, It was 253 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: a high wire act on Instagram. Sure, go ahead and 254 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 1: send a message to that person, but if they don't respond, 255 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: you're dead. There's no coming back from it in the 256 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: other person's eyes. Joscelyn was careful with who she reached 257 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: out to social media politics were the only politics and 258 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: scary stuff. Don't get caught begging the void to stare back, 259 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: because that would mean you were totally alone. For Joscelyn 260 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 1: and aspiring Instagram model from a conservative religious family, social 261 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 1: media was a lifeline, a conduit to an imagined life, 262 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: a better life, and Instagram was a portal that reassured 263 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: her there were other people like her out there and 264 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 1: that she wasn't all by herself. But nothing made her 265 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 1: feel more alone than an unreturned direct message. Conversely, nothing 266 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: made her feel more alive than an unsolicited direct message 267 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: from someone interesting, particularly someone interesting with a lot of 268 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 1: followers and someone just like that had reached out one 269 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: thousand miles across the glowing void. He was a rapper 270 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: from Florida, not much older than her, but he was 271 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: hitting critical mass on SoundCloud way faster than she was 272 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: on Instagram. He had just gotten o a juvie and 273 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: was still on parole. She had a troubled past just 274 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: like him. His online presence felt raw and unfiltered, and 275 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: she felt raw and unfiltered all the time. But this guy, 276 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: by comparison, was an exposed nerve, and she was quickly obsessed. 277 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: His name on SoundCloud was xxx Tantasion, and that's exactly 278 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: what appealed to Joscelyn. He was an unknown temptation. In 279 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: just a few days, they started texting back and forth, 280 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: even got on Skype and FaceTime together. He was looking 281 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: to launch a clothing line. He thought she could model 282 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: for him. Had he just slid into her dms for 283 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: sex and business. Their talks didn't feel transactional to her. 284 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: They had a real connection, didn't they. They had started 285 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: chatting so much, so fast. When he offered to buy 286 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: her a plane ticket to come stay with him in Florida, 287 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 1: she gave the phone to her mom so he could 288 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: ask her a permission, as she was only sixteen. After all, 289 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: Jocelyn's mom didn't know much about the Internet, but she 290 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: knew her daughter knew how unhappy she was in Ohio. 291 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: She had been cutting herself and threatening suicide since the 292 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: age of twelve. Maybe a few days in the sunny 293 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 1: South with her new quote unquote friend would help. Besides, 294 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: her friend was asking permission, so polite. What was the 295 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: worst that could happen? But Joscelyn's dreams wilted fast in 296 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 1: the flower to heat. X kept her at an apartment 297 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 1: with a second you know you could be a model too, 298 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,120 Speaker 1: chick named Zoe, who had conveniently never mentioned to Jocelyn. 299 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 1: Neither girl was happy about it. By the end of 300 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 1: her first weekend there, a bag is seven grand in 301 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,959 Speaker 1: cash Ex's pay for his most recent live shows had 302 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 1: gone missing from his room. He and his entourage placed 303 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 1: the two girls in separate rooms and grilled them like cops, 304 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 1: seeking a confession. Both of them denied the theft, accused 305 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: the other, and were ready to fight it out. The 306 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: situation was heated, and whatever might happen next wouldn't go 307 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 1: over well with Ex's parole officer. 308 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:37,919 Speaker 2: Something had to give. Fuck this, X thought, get rid 309 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 2: of them. Both girls. 310 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 1: So here she was in a place she didn't belong, 311 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: being told she didn't belong, kicked out in the back 312 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 1: seat of Ex's boys shipbox rattling down the road en 313 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: route to wherever they decided she should be. The two 314 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: members of X's crew pulled into a Hampton in they 315 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,679 Speaker 1: booked a room. What was the plan, she wondered, Was 316 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 1: X gonna buy her a ticket home without giving her 317 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 1: any information, and within an hour of arriving, X's dude 318 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 1: split to get high. Apparently there was no plan at all, 319 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,359 Speaker 1: but it was clear to Joscelyn that to X, she 320 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:13,239 Speaker 1: had just been a thing, a prop an object, his 321 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:16,879 Speaker 1: boys treating her like contraband at a stash house. After 322 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: two weeks of sudden intense connection, the last text X 323 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 1: sent to Joscelyn was to tell her that she couldn't 324 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 1: stay with him anymore. She felt more alone now than 325 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: she ever did. Back in her room in Ohio, isolated 326 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: staring aimlessly at her phone, life was cruel Lesson learned 327 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: time to unplug. When one of x's boys returned later, 328 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,919 Speaker 1: Joscelyn was in the bathroom, the door was locked, the 329 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 1: lights were on. 330 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 2: Blazed out of his mind. 331 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: The dude didn't think twice about it before we passed 332 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: out on the hotel bed, and when he awoke the 333 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: next morning to piss, he found that the bathroom door 334 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,440 Speaker 1: was still locked and that the lights were still. 335 00:18:55,240 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 2: On, and Joscelyn was shit. Where was she? He banged 336 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 2: down the door, YO, open up, I ain't trying to 337 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,880 Speaker 2: piss my pants. Nothing, he banks some more. Nothing moved 338 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:07,679 Speaker 2: on the other side. 339 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 1: He called the front office, and by the time the 340 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 1: maintenance man showed up with the key to the bathroom door, 341 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 1: Ex's dude knew what was waiting for them on the 342 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: other side. Joscelyn Flores's dead body. The sixteen year old 343 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:23,640 Speaker 1: had taken her own life, and there was a note. 344 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: It read, I always get let down, maybe because I 345 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: expect so much from people who don't give a fuck 346 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 1: about me. The note then ended with the haunting line, 347 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: well at least I know who I am. When X 348 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:39,399 Speaker 1: heard the news, he was shook in a haze. It 349 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: took him a week to address the situation the only 350 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 1: way he knew how, by connecting to his fans through 351 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: Snapchat and a confessional video. 352 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,880 Speaker 2: There was this girl I basically flew down. 353 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 1: Here model pretty much, great girl, beautiful girl, wonderful personality, 354 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 1: showed no signs of depression whatsoever. Once she flew down here, 355 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: in an unexplained way, she killed herself when she. 356 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:06,199 Speaker 2: Came down here. It was a devastating situation to deal with. 357 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 2: I basically got on here today to address her and 358 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 2: her family because I haven't been able to obviously contact 359 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 2: a family personally. 360 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 1: I'm on here to pay my condolences. Whatever grief X 361 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:20,959 Speaker 1: really felt publicly, he appeared to give it short shrift. 362 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: Pretty soon he was out touring while Joscelyn's family was 363 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: left with nothing but questions. But there's no denying that 364 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: this extremely disturbing sequence of events left a genuine impact 365 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: on X. His first album, seventeen, came out a few 366 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,159 Speaker 1: months later. It would feature two tracks inspired by the 367 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: tragic death of Jocelyn Flores, Revenge and another title simply 368 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 1: Joscelyn Flores. Both were incredibly raw and painful, and in 369 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: an unsettling move. The key art for the song Revenge 370 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 1: was a copy of Joscelyn's suicide note, itself horrifying as 371 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 1: it was X had transformed an unthinkable tragedy into something relatable. 372 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,200 Speaker 1: He had taken life threatening loneliness and transformed it into 373 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 1: a connection with his audience online. And when they listened 374 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: to the track late at night, alone in their rooms, 375 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:13,360 Speaker 1: staring into their phones, they, like Joscelyn before them, knew 376 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 1: that they weren't alone. 377 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this word were were. 378 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 1: One month after Joscelyn Flores took her life, XXX Tantasion 379 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 1: took the stage at the Observatory in San Diego. The 380 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: song he had begun performing wasn't on any album yet, 381 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: but his legion of downhearted diehards already knew it well 382 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: enough to sing along. X wore sandals, bright red basketball 383 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: shorts in a hoodie, dressed like a slob, but pulling 384 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: it off as only a nineteen year old can. 385 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 2: He had that gray sweatpants look on locke. 386 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: X put one foot on the stage and the other 387 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: up on a monitor wage in front of him. He 388 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 1: looked more creed than Kanye, yet he owned the spotlight, 389 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,160 Speaker 1: covered in tats, the mike gently and oozed that sensitive, 390 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,400 Speaker 1: tough guy vibe that his fans couldn't resist. 391 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,360 Speaker 2: His self loathing opening verse was about to hit. 392 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 1: Then from out of nowhere, some dude came bombing across 393 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: the stage, leapt in the air, and came down hard 394 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 1: on X with a full body flying sucker punching his 395 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: clenched fist connected straight onto X's right temple. What the 396 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: fuck just happened? For an instant, the crowd was in shock. 397 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,680 Speaker 1: X went down like a brick out cold. Who the 398 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,400 Speaker 1: hell just knocked up the Star attraction live on stage? 399 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 1: The crowd didn't know they went ape. Shit flooded the stage. 400 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 1: X's crew of members of some other entourage were immediately 401 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,679 Speaker 1: in a bare knuckle brawl. Who the fuck worth these dudes? 402 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: Obviously they were with a stage dive bomber. A security 403 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 1: member used his burly body to shield X's limb form 404 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 1: and tried clearing a lane to carry the unconscious Wrapper 405 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: off stage. The brawl quickly escalated into a knife fight. 406 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,680 Speaker 1: Screams rose up from the audience near stage right. Someone 407 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 1: had just been stuck with a long blade. Chaos everywhere. 408 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: The tech crew is in the mix now trying to 409 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: remove gear from the stage and getting caught up in 410 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 1: the melee. Mike stands were weaponized. PA equipment was trashed. 411 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: The audience morphed into part Friday Night under the Lights 412 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: fight fans and part camera crew. Multiple fans captured the 413 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: whole incident on their phones, and Exes fans who followed 414 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: every beat closely online knew who the attacking crew was. 415 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: On masts, they started chanting, fuck rob Stone, Fuck rob Stone, 416 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: Fuck rob Stone. 417 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,120 Speaker 2: Rob Stone was a local rapper. 418 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: Who had been feuding with Ex's crew since back in April, 419 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: when he and Ski started talking shit about him after 420 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: sharing a bill in LA. Adding to the insanity of 421 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: it all, Ex's pre recorded backing track, complete with his 422 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: vocals and mooting guitar from Revenge, kept pumping out over 423 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,919 Speaker 1: the venue sound system, providing a first person soundtrack to 424 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 1: his own beatdown. Wild X had come a long way 425 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: from his and Skis days back in Young in Jail. 426 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: In some ways and in other ways, he was right 427 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:03,879 Speaker 1: back where we started violence. He spent three years building 428 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 1: a rabid fan base on SoundCloud with solo tracks and 429 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 1: EP collapse with Ski. But SoundCloud doesn't pay crime does, 430 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,679 Speaker 1: so while he built his fan base, he paid the 431 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 1: bills with a series of home invasions. Robbing was serious business. 432 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,160 Speaker 1: X was busted back in November. In the following March, 433 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,359 Speaker 1: he pled no contest to robbery and battery charges, and 434 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:29,119 Speaker 1: now he was on probation for six years. Probation or not. 435 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: X's rise seemed unstoppable and he wanted to make the 436 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: leap from gangster to mogul. Adam twenty two is now 437 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: his manager asap Rocky was tweeting about him. He had 438 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: a girlfriend too, Geneva, someone he'd picked up at a show, 439 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 1: but a girlfriend nonetheless, and he was trying to straighten out. 440 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:50,360 Speaker 1: Easier said than done. Drake that Canadian after school special, 441 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 1: Take him home to your parents, pretty boy. That middle 442 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: of the road Rhymosaurus of mediocrity released a new song KMT, 443 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: and when he did, X's online army freaked the fuck out. 444 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: Drake was ripping off X's flow, or so went their 445 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: gut reactions. Twitter Detective showed that Drake had just started 446 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: following X on Twitter a month before came T hit. 447 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,360 Speaker 1: Hip hop YouTubers mashed up the two tracks to expose 448 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 1: Drake as a rip off artist. Might be a coincidence, 449 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 1: but that dude Drake had a bad history, tweeted presh 450 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 1: Prints Drake straight up Steel on XXX tantassion's flow. I 451 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:31,199 Speaker 1: am dead, af tweeted Tomahali. X was so pissed he 452 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 1: could have murdered Drake. In a radio interview, he called 453 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,400 Speaker 1: it a quote unquote bitch move and said Drake wasn't 454 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 1: a man. The beef drove a ton of online engagement, 455 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: and there was a fever pitch surrounding X. His fans 456 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: were legion, and the buzz wasn't just about a new 457 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: potential voice of a generation. It felt like more than 458 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:51,639 Speaker 1: that because X wasn't their voice. 459 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,880 Speaker 2: X was more than that. He was their blood stream. 460 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: X's fans were turning out to be as violent as him, 461 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 1: because crazy rubs off on you. The knife fights on 462 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 1: stage were bad, but X's fans were likely to riot 463 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: at any given show. A pop up performance in Miami 464 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: that April turned into a full fledged brawl with police. 465 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: X punched a fan in the face. In Salt Lake 466 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: City in California, he beat another fan in the head 467 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: with his microphone. In Tampa, a crowd two and a 468 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: half times the venue's capacity took to the streets after 469 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 1: authorities canceled a show for public safety. The mob became 470 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 1: a riot chased excess car as it left block streets 471 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,160 Speaker 1: and chanted fuck No, over and over. X had survived 472 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 1: his childhood and built a hip hop career by living 473 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 1: his life as an exposed nerve, like a brain cell. 474 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 1: He could fire the chemically pure message of his music 475 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,359 Speaker 1: across the abyss, across the synapse of the Internet, and 476 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: light up all the other brains around him, his audience, 477 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: and pretty soon he had set the whole hive mind 478 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,719 Speaker 1: his fan base on fire, and they were setting venues 479 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: of fire with violence in turn. But no matter how 480 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,919 Speaker 1: much action he stirred up, no matter how much connection 481 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: it generated, X still felt alone. The gilded cage of 482 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 1: fame turned out to be like that night back in 483 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,119 Speaker 1: young in jail with the purv to X. Fame was 484 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: like being trapped in a cell with that vacant stare. 485 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,479 Speaker 1: It was a constant, paranoid itch that no amount of 486 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: art or expression could fill. He felt hollowed out and emptied, 487 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: and the void followed him wherever he went, now constantly 488 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: threatening to consume him, and there was no escape. It 489 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: was at his worst when he was alone or in 490 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,679 Speaker 1: private moments with this girl, Geneva. She met X at 491 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 1: a show of the previous may it. Within a couple 492 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 1: of weeks, she moved in with him in his Miami apartment. 493 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 1: But theirs was no whirlwind romance. It was a runaway 494 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 1: elevator drop into a living hell. Yes, that's a trigger 495 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 1: warning for some seriously fucked up abuse that is about 496 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 1: to be depicted, So skip ahead a couple of minutes 497 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 1: if you want to skip out on hearing some truly 498 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: barbaric shit. According to Geneva's testimony and her eventual deposition 499 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: for domestic violence charges, within two weeks of living together, 500 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: X confronted her with a barbecue fork and a wire 501 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:04,880 Speaker 1: grow cleaning brush and told her. 502 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 2: She had a choice. 503 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,919 Speaker 1: She didn't have to deal with both violent instruments, but 504 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: she did have to choose one for him to fuck 505 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 1: her with. She shook with fear. X leaned in close 506 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 1: and began stroking the fork along her inner thigh. Geneva 507 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: passed out before making her choice. Within a couple of months, 508 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: they had moved to Orlando, where X threatened to kill 509 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 1: her nearly every day. One night, he heard Geneva humming 510 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 1: along to another hip hop stars verse, and in a 511 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 1: jealous rage, he head butted her threw her into the bathtub, 512 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 1: jumped on top of her and beat her senseless. He 513 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: then forced her head under the faucet and began waterboarding her. 514 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 1: XXX ten tasion straight, uncut evil. For a few months 515 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: after Orlando, things got better, but only because X was 516 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,680 Speaker 1: in jail awaiting his court date on the robbery charges. 517 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: Geneva tried escaping to Texas and living with friends there 518 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: while she had the chance, but ultimately she fell back 519 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 1: to Florida and got sucked back into the circle of 520 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,959 Speaker 1: X's entourage. Well, once X got out on probation, the chokings, 521 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: the coat hanger, whippings that threatened, stabbings with knives, and 522 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,600 Speaker 1: broken bottles, it all started up again. In fact, there 523 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: were two things that made Geneva's situation worse than ever now. 524 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 1: Number one, while X was in jail, she had slept 525 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 1: with another man. The number two that fall amongst the 526 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: beatings and the chaos, X got Geneva pregnant. When he 527 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 1: got the news that she was pregnant, his nuclear melt 528 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: down reaction to this new information was so vile, so depraved, 529 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: that it resulted in more criminal charges battery of a 530 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 1: pregnant woman in false imprisonment. He was arrested again. But 531 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: to X, the worst part wasn't the long arm of 532 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,719 Speaker 1: the law. He cared about that about as much as 533 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: he really cared about Geneva. The worst part was the 534 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,840 Speaker 1: controversy that followed, because it threatened to cut short the 535 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 1: one thing that gave X a sense of purpose. It 536 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: threatened to cut him off from his fans for good, 537 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: a reality that would leave XXX ten Tasion. 538 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 2: Utterly and completely alone. 539 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 1: Geneva told X she was going to have his baby 540 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 1: at the beginning of October twenty sixteen, so on that 541 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 1: afternoon XXX ten Tasion lost his ever loving shit. At first, 542 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 1: he was chill, calm before the storm style, hanging on 543 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: the bed next to her. As she broke the news, 544 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,440 Speaker 1: he told her to get up. He got up and 545 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: began pacing around the room. Then he flew into a rage, screaming, yelling, 546 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 1: demanding to know everything about her sleeping with someone else 547 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: while he was in jail, and threatened to kill her 548 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: and the baby if she lied, obviously reminding him that 549 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: she'd already told him everything and that she was sorry anything. 550 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 1: X escalated quickly to fists and elbows to her face, 551 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 1: head butts, strangulation, all to the point where Wendy dragged 552 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 1: her into the bathroom. This time she couldn't recognize the 553 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 1: face in the mirror. Her life was saved for the 554 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: moment by the return of their other housemates, members of 555 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 1: X's crew. They put enough of a check on his 556 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,479 Speaker 1: inner chaos that he stopped beating her while they were around. 557 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: Geneva begged them to let her go to the hospital, 558 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: but X knew her face would be the end of 559 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 1: his parole, so he and his boys disguised her in 560 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 1: a hoodie and sunglasses, stole her phone, and drove her 561 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 1: to a different apartment where they could keep her stashed 562 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,480 Speaker 1: under lock and key while she healed up. They kept 563 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 1: Geneva prisoner for two full days, and there were bars 564 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 1: on the windows and X chilling in the living room 565 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 1: on his computer, telling her that if she was smart, 566 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: she'd stick by him until she had the money to 567 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: take care of herself, or she'd n't up homeless. Geneva 568 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,479 Speaker 1: decided fuck it and made her escape while claiming she 569 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: was going to make X a meal. She opened the 570 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 1: refrigerator door to block herself from his site and made 571 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 1: a mad dash. 572 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 2: For the hallway. Geneva sprinted away from the complex. 573 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 1: Sure that X would be in hot pursuit, she convinced 574 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 1: a bystander to let her use their phone. She can 575 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: only remember one number, her ex boyfriend. She got safely 576 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,760 Speaker 1: to a police station and filed charges. X was arrested 577 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: the same day. This deranged tale of kidnapping and gas 578 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 1: lighting was a lot for the mainstream music industry to swallow. 579 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 1: X's career assent converged with the times up in me 580 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,680 Speaker 1: two movements, and yet here was America's latest hip hop sensation, 581 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 1: accused of doing things to women as bad or worse 582 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,960 Speaker 1: than anything in the misogynistic lyrics of the gangster rap 583 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 1: era of decades past. Fifteen years earlier, Eminem's dark fantasies 584 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 1: of murdering his wife and song had shocked the nation. 585 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 1: But now the supposed woke gen z and millennial fan 586 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 1: base of the accused XXX tantasione outright refused to believe 587 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:54,080 Speaker 1: the charges against him. 588 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 2: It got weirder. 589 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 1: Despite the charges of physical abuse, x's online army of 590 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 1: fans upvoted him the coveted People's Choice slot in XXL's 591 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen Freshman Class issue. This was a big deal, however, 592 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 1: XXL readers and other music editorial sites questioned if X 593 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,880 Speaker 1: should be celebrated. Complex refused to review his first full 594 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 1: album in Pitchfork spent their review of it gazing into 595 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 1: their navel about whether or not it was morally okay 596 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: to listen to xxx ten Tasion. Despite all of this, 597 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 1: X signed a multimillion dollar deal with Caroline Records, but 598 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,520 Speaker 1: he was unwell. If xxx ten Tasion had taken a 599 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 1: rocket ride to start him, then that rocket was now 600 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,720 Speaker 1: burning up upon re entry. The charges, the criticism, the 601 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,239 Speaker 1: looming prison sentence, the potential loss of his career had 602 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 1: intensified the void. The man who jasse on for had 603 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 1: become the man who caught all the crazy that rubbed 604 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 1: off on him, The man who was raised up in violence, 605 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,440 Speaker 1: the man he was deep down had now been pushed 606 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,720 Speaker 1: out into the public, and XXX ten Tasion could not 607 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,200 Speaker 1: handle it. His album was charting and Kendrick Lamar was 608 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 1: even boosting it on Twitter, but deep down X had 609 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 1: never felt so alone. By December, he was desperate to 610 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 1: feel in control again, and the trial over his domestic 611 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,840 Speaker 1: abuse against Geneva was delayed, but it loomed like the 612 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 1: ghost of Joscelyn Flores. When X and his attorney submitted 613 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,360 Speaker 1: an affidavid signed by Geneva to the court claiming that 614 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 1: she wanted to drop the case and stop cooperating with prosecutors, 615 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 1: the judge smelled a rat. It took no time to 616 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: figure out that X had done it again, threatened Geneva 617 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,320 Speaker 1: manipulated her into signing this joke of a document. Suddenly 618 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,799 Speaker 1: X was facing even more charges for witness tampering and 619 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,040 Speaker 1: now potentially decades, maybe the rest of his life in prison. 620 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 1: And yet the void needed to be fed, and now 621 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,360 Speaker 1: signed to Caroline Records, the recording industry machine needed to 622 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,399 Speaker 1: be fed too. X's lawyers got him out of jail 623 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,040 Speaker 1: by agreeing to house arrest, and then after a few 624 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,640 Speaker 1: months even got his house arrest lifted so he could 625 00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:01,239 Speaker 1: go on tour. His second album, titled Just a question Mark, 626 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: debuted at the number one spot on the Billboard two 627 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 1: hundred chart, beating out Metallica the Black Panther soundtrack logic 628 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 1: Amigos all in the same week, making xxx Tantasion the 629 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,719 Speaker 1: first SoundCloud wrapper to have the number one record in 630 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,839 Speaker 1: the country. But the success was only more isolating. It 631 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 1: was more attention, more judgment, more haters. One morning in 632 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,080 Speaker 1: June of twenty eighteen, X posted a live stream from 633 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 1: his car. Let's say the worst thing comes to worse 634 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 1: and I fucking die a tragic death or some shit, 635 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:33,160 Speaker 1: and I'm not. 636 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:34,760 Speaker 2: Able to see out my dreams. 637 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,600 Speaker 1: I at least want to know that the kids perceived 638 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,279 Speaker 1: my message and were able to make something of themselves. 639 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 1: And do not let your depression make you. Pain is 640 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,040 Speaker 1: a sign of progress. When you feel pain, there is progress. 641 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 1: I feel so much, and to a degree, I want 642 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,480 Speaker 1: to feel that pain. I want to always feel attached. 643 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:57,320 Speaker 1: He stumbled over his words. Send me answers, please, That's 644 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,960 Speaker 1: all I want to say. When there were no answers, 645 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,120 Speaker 1: X retreated further into himself, but it was too late, 646 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,239 Speaker 1: too late for privacy, and too late for reason. In 647 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,920 Speaker 1: the spring of twenty eighteen, X's Instagram account blasted out 648 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,839 Speaker 1: several messages in a row pouring gasoline on his long 649 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,719 Speaker 1: simmering beef with Drake. The most incendiary claim was a 650 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 1: message that simply said, if anyone kills me, I was 651 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,400 Speaker 1: at Champagne Pappy, which is Drake's ig handle. The message 652 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:30,440 Speaker 1: went on to say I'm snitching him. Almost immediately afterward, 653 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,120 Speaker 1: X deleted the post and claimed his account had been hacked. 654 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,120 Speaker 1: Then in May, Push A Tea released his immediately infamous 655 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: dis track against Drake, The Story of Adadon, which had 656 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,960 Speaker 1: cover art of Drake and Blackface and in which Pusher 657 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,759 Speaker 1: lyrically exposed Drake for keeping a secret love child on 658 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,080 Speaker 1: the DL. Rumors swirled that X had found out about 659 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,000 Speaker 1: this earlier, digging up dirt for his own beef with Drake, 660 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,840 Speaker 1: and told Push a Tea about him. As summer approached, 661 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,839 Speaker 1: the Internet did what the Internet does best, lost its 662 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:01,960 Speaker 1: fucking mind, going down rabbit holes in. 663 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,080 Speaker 2: Search of seekert codes and hidden meanings. 664 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,759 Speaker 1: The high mind read into the lyrics of Drake's look 665 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,400 Speaker 1: Alive and into Drake's most recent single before X's previously 666 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:15,040 Speaker 1: mentioned live stream was titled I'm Upset, and then, just 667 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:19,360 Speaker 1: one week after his last live video, XXX ten Tasion 668 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:23,839 Speaker 1: was dead. On June eighteenth, X had a stash of 669 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,360 Speaker 1: cash on him like usual in a Louis Va tombag. 670 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,360 Speaker 1: He was out on a spending spree at the motorcycle 671 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,520 Speaker 1: shop in Deerfield Beach, Florida. He was sitting in his 672 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,799 Speaker 1: car when two men rolled up next to him, one 673 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,360 Speaker 1: wearing a red mask, and shot him straight in the chest. 674 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,000 Speaker 1: They reached through the window to steal his shit and 675 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,760 Speaker 1: drove off. No Joscelyn or Geneva to go down with him, 676 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 1: no ski mask to ride or die. 677 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,120 Speaker 2: X died as he feared alone. 678 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,319 Speaker 1: Was it a simple robbery or was nabbing the bag 679 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,480 Speaker 1: just to cover for a vast hip hop conspiracy? In 680 00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,360 Speaker 1: the words of XXX ten Tasion, send me answers please, 681 00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,440 Speaker 1: But of course he was asking the Internet, where for 682 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,279 Speaker 1: every answer there are a thousand new questions and the 683 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:11,239 Speaker 1: truth inevitably gets lost in the shuffle. The void had 684 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:16,600 Speaker 1: finally consumed Xxx Tantasio X, the artist X, the crazy, 685 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,480 Speaker 1: violent thug and despicable abuse of human that he was. 686 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,920 Speaker 2: X needed to be alone, to create, to feel safe, 687 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:24,200 Speaker 2: to connect to the void. 688 00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,000 Speaker 1: So he pushed the people in his life away until 689 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,440 Speaker 1: all that was left for him was death. What a disgrace. 690 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:50,120 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan in this this Disgraceland. 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