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00:00 You about to have the biggest song in the country.
00:02 Now it's about your family, about your career,
00:05 about you accomplishing everything you ever wanted.
00:07 - ♪ I'm living ♪
00:09 - The rapper XXXTentacion.
00:11 - Artist whose real name is Jossé Onfroy.
00:13 - Has been shot.
00:15 - He was a kid. He was exciting.
00:17 He was polarizing.
00:19 I knew people wouldn't forget him.
00:21 - ♪ Ooh, yeah, ay, yeah ♪
00:24 - There's definitely a difference between Jossé Onfroy
00:27 and XXXTentacion.
00:29 Jossé Onfroy was weak.
00:30 Nobody cared about Jossé Onfroy
00:32 until he took on the persona as XXXTentacion.
00:35 - You know how you got that little voice in your head
00:36 and it'd be like, "Yo, don't do that"?
00:38 I don't think he had that.
00:39 - Y'all mad I'm successful?
00:40 Suck my [bleep]
00:42 - I remember him telling me,
00:43 "I'm making music for the broken people,
00:45 for the people that feel how I feel."
00:48 - Look at me! He was an incredible talent.
00:50 He should not be anyone's idol.
00:51 - People didn't want to be around him.
00:52 That was his biggest battle himself.
00:55 - My son would not sleep at night.
00:57 He would tell me he'd hear his voices.
00:59 They told me that he was bipolar.
01:02 - Darkness sells.
01:03 He was getting more famous by the day.
01:05 - The thing about his fame,
01:07 it started with this horrific alleged crime.
01:12 - It was kind of like a fairy tale,
01:13 but a really grim one.
01:15 There was a lot of jealousy.
01:16 - I could hear them fighting.
01:18 Somebody was getting hit.
01:19 - Jossé was like, "No, Mom, it's not true."
01:21 And a part of me took that and ran with it.
01:23 - He was born into a world
01:25 that taught us that men have to fight.
01:27 But your weapon can't be the same thing that kills you.
01:31 ♪♪
01:32 There's some issues where people just need to be put away,
01:35 but there's some issues where people need help,
01:37 especially kids.
01:38 He did not want that image to follow him around
01:41 for the rest of his life.
01:43 - ♪ Boom, I'm someone that's afraid to let go ♪
01:47 ♪ Suicide ♪
01:48 - Oh, that's nice. That's dope.
01:49 - ♪ Boom, I'm someone that's afraid to let go ♪
01:52 ♪ Suicide ♪
01:54 [crowd shouting]
01:56 - I apologize.
01:57 I haven't been getting the help I really want.
01:59 - I think he was changing, but he hurt others and himself.
02:03 [crowd shouting]
02:04 - He realized he had an obligation
02:06 that was bigger than himself.
02:07 - To do what he's done in two years,
02:10 whether you loved it or whether you hate it,
02:13 you had to acknowledge it.
02:15 - ♪ Boom, I'm someone that's afraid to let go ♪
02:19 ♪ Boom ♪
02:20 [music ends]
02:21 [silence]
02:24 [BLANK_AUDIO]