It was beatific catharsis, a perfect balance of insolence and agony. And it was the purest pop distillation of the pugnacious sound that had been developing on the streaming site for almost three years. He was And yet the scene was disintegrating seemingly as quickly as it was being built. Lil Peep died of an accidental drug overdose in , at 21; XXXTentacion was 20 when he was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Florida motor sports store. How did something so radical and powerful implode so swiftly? It is awful to watch a promising scene crumble into nothingness.

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XXXTentacion was an American rapper who released four studio albums two of which were posthumous releases , two mixtapes, five collaborative mixtapes one of which was a posthumous release , seven extended plays and 24 singles including eight as a featured artist. As of June , he sold more than 25 million album-equivalent units in the United States. Ice Hotel is the first project that is available to the public. He released various mixtapes and EPs throughout and In May of the same year, he released his first commercial mixtape Revenge , which peaked at number 28 on the Billboard
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Mumble rap often used to describe " emo rap " and " SoundCloud rap " [6] is a loosely defined [4] microgenre [7] of hip hop that largely spread on the online audio distribution platform SoundCloud in the s. Some have criticized the term as inaccurate or as a pejorative used to degrade younger rappers, [10] [11] although some artists have reclaimed the term. The term "mumble rap" was first used in by VladTV battle rap journalist Michael Hughes, in an interview with battle rapper Loaded Lux about the style's emergence in mainstream hip hop. Some have claimed that artists such as Das EFX and Fu-Schnickens rapped in a similar style years before the term was created. He wrote that many of the artists often scapegoated in conversations about the subgenre do not actually mumble, which "is the red flag that the term isn't a useful subcategorization. There are disputes as to whether some rappers are mumble rappers or not. Smith writes that 21 Savage unfairly gets classified as a mumble rapper. In , music critic Jon Caramanica of The New York Times opined that SoundCloud rap "in the last year has become the most vital and disruptive new movement in hip-hop". When Ski Mask the Slump God discussed the lo-fi's genre's sound and recording techniques, he noted that "It was like the worst recording set up, [but] you could set it up anywhere and that was the wave we were on," and "The raw energy of that — the distortion — is our speciality and we used that to our advantage. Rappers who have voiced discontent with mumble rap include J.
By Jon Caramanica. SEATTLE — One night this spring, the rapper Lil Pump, 16, with braces on his teeth, was asleep — or something like it — on the couch in the upstairs green room at the Columbia City Theater here, his blond and pink dreads dangling in front of his face and a pair of Gucci high-tops slung around his neck. In the high-ceilinged, brick-walled main room, around fans were bouncing off one another, waiting for the show to begin. They were young — the bar was effectively closed, and a woman was selling cans of Sunkist and Minute Maid Lemonade from an ice-filled tub. Eventually Lil Pump roused himself and sneaked out the back door. When he finally made it to the stage — joining Smokepurpp, who had been scheduled to go on after him — he was received full-throatedly, rowdily, sweatily. Soon, the front of the room was a royal rumble, sending combatants from the stage to the floor, and some on the floor running for the doors.