![]() Photos of her black-and-blue face and bloody eye were plastered on web forums and Twitter and his fans viciously harassed the young woman to the point that she deactivated social media accounts.Īnd this was before her deposition was leaked to Pitchfork late last year. There was the arrest over allegedly punching and kicking his girlfriend to the point where “both eyes became shut and victim could not see,” according to the police report. There were videos of fistfights - one clip, streamed to Periscope, showed him ambushing a man with punches, elbows and kicks - and in one in-depth interview he bragged, in disgusting detail, about beating and strangling his gay cellmate because the man was staring (he laughed about smearing his victim’s blood on his face like warpaint). It didn’t take much digging to see the life of nihilism he led, and still was living. That his fans were largely his age spoke directly to the isolation that comes with youth, and the rapper sought solace in their company - and vice versa - by endlessly engaging with them and offering to call any one of them who needed an ear. “Voices in my head telling me I'm gonna end up dead, so save me before I fall … save me, I don't wanna be alone … save me, before I fall … so save me, I don’t wanna be alone,” he sings on the album. He was a young man grappling with mental illness and the dark thoughts in his head, the trauma of his past and the violence that has connected both. Onfroy wasn’t concerned with aspirational posturing or waxing about societal ills. I was gripped by his sullen music that melded nu-metal, indie rock and emo with melodic rap cadences (which have most certainly been pilfered by more than one rapper). And if you are not willing to accept my emotion and hear my words fully, do not listen. He was beguiling and evocative on the album that opened with a literal explanation of its mission: “By listening to this album, you are literally, and I cannot stress this enough, literally entering my mind.
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