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Yo, Arnold, what inspired you to get

Anne Frank tatted on your fucking face?

Uh, basically, it's like how you see

a lot of young artists with tattoos on their face,

basically like, a fucking statement, bro.

Yeah, it is.

She didn't have any power to do shit,

so, she fucking died in her room and shit.

Other niggas are jerking off,

not doing shit with their life, bro.

Like, why don't they just get out and go fucking get it?

As long as you're chasing your shit, bro,

I stay in my fucking lane, you know?

Hey, I'm gonna just say this.

We are all new-wave rappers,

and new wave is taking over the mainstream.

What's your actual intake on narcotics every day?

Well, I don't condone no drug use.

All my fans, don't do drugs, that shit's bad.

I'm not promoting drugs.

Especially you, Instagram, keep suspending me.

I'm not promoting drugs.

Like, don't take drugs,

but I am addicted to a couple things, you know.

My name is Jon Caramanica,

I am a pop music critic at the New York Times.

Is there a prescription drug problem amongst young people

who have been systematically overmedicated

from the time they're 12 years old?

Yeah, like, this is the music of those kids.

Should we be surprised that this is how it sounds?

Of course this is how it sounds.

How else would it sound? These kids aren't...

happy.

Or at least, they're not finding joy

in the things that ordinary,

polite society says you should find joy in.

You know, not rapping about lacrosse leagues and shit.

We're going crazy this year. Esskeetit!

Everything I'm doing...

is lit.

How can you hate Lil Pump?

Esskeetit!

I'm off of molly, I'm off of lean.

What was the question again?

These are people who know how to cut through the noise,

and it's usually in blunt-force fashion.

Unfortunately, what often happens

in those environments is, the thing that,

barks the loudest, gets the attention.

Hey, man, fuck bitches, pop a molly and go crazy.

That's all there is to it. We gonna shoot a movie, man.

The one and only, the one and only Lil Pump!

I went on stage, everybody "esskeetit."

That's what. Fucking valet parkers.

Matter of fact, I just gave

the fucking paparazzi too many books.

Giving out money to everybody

'cause we really having it. We having this shit, you know?

Why not give back to everybody?

Honey, honey, honey, honey, honey.

We got Lil Pump from, ooh, "Esskeetit."

-Oh. -Yeah.

And my favorite Pump song...

"Molly" That's right.

with this nigga.

Hey, I see Matt is going crazy everywhere, nigga.

-For real. -This nigga, right here.

Playing around.

I had him pretty young, so we're close in age.

It's hard to find, like, a structured program

for kids to do, like, creative things.

This has tested the water, I'll tell you that.

Getting a little bit of fame-y thing

so he can kinda do what he wants,

-so we're working on that. -I just want the money,

y'all can keep the clout.

I'mma get her a mansion, I'mma get her a car.

I'mma get her a new boyfriend.

Well, last year, last summer, he saved up

all his money and bought a microphone.

And then, from September to December,

he was putting music on SoundCloud.

So, this is how successful

this young man is at 12.

You've just bought your mother a home.

Yeah. -What?

'Cause she retired. She's retired now, so...

I took a break from working.

All because of what he's been doing?

Well, how does it feel to be, at 12,

to be able to do that for your mom?

It's crazy.

-It's hard work, you feel me? Yeah.

Didn't Meek Mill, at one point,

wanna have you on, to sign you?

Yeah. It's just, for me, I want to be at the top

of Philly one day, you feel me?

And I don't think I could be at the top of Philly

if I'm signed to somebody

that's already at the top of Philly.

I love that attitude!

You wanna build your own empire.

I'm trying to be my own king, you feel me?

Yeah, I feel you.

There should be lots of Matt Oxes,

and I think, probably, if you go to any town in America,

there probably is a Matt Ox, we just don't know about yet.

You know, if there's a Mason Ramsey,

let there be a Matt Ox.

What's social media has done is,

it's given metrics to our personal lives.

If I behave in this way,

if I share this intimate piece of information,

if I tell a story in a certain fashion,

I'll receive attention.

It's hard not to be drawn in by that.

I come from a generation where that...

we didn't have that, and now we do.

I can't imagine what it's like to be

just hardwired into that system.

Right now, the norm that people are being taught

is that all of these things are good to chase,

quantifiable and should grow over time.

And I'm not sure that's what kids should think.

I think, prior generations

largely understood fame top-down.

But in current generations understand fame as, like,

building something and then growing from there,

one kinda follower at a time.

The distance between star and fan,

hero and follower, is collapsing.

As that happens,

the entire notion of who's famous

is completely thrown up in the air.

I mean, just think the Internet is getting

more and more interwined with mainstream culture

and when I first started reporting on all of this,

back in 2009, it was very much,

well, Internet curlture is over here and real pop culture,

mainstream pop culture, is over here.

And by now, these all fuse together,

there's no distinction between the two really,

especially, for young people.

And I think it's had a profound effect on their mental health.

Punk rock, 1977.

People who are tired of, like, the lush,

over-produced rock music,

and where they just say, you know,

"Let's just do three chords, you know the song."

That's the punk-rock thing, you know?

Let's strip everything down to, like, its bare essentials,

and you can do it too.

Like, go start a band, learn these chords,

you can make this.

And that's what SoundCloud rap is.

It's like, I can make this in my bedroom,

and it doesn't even have to be mixed or mastered,

and like 100 million people will listen to it,

a billion people will listen to it.

SoundCloud is like, the answer

to the great promise of the Internet.

There was just like, this energy around it.

Like, a bit of a dark energy.

Why it worked so well was because it kinda bucked

against all the trends that were happening.

This is becoming like a, like a... like a thing.

They diving, breaking shit, fucking up hotel.

We doing everything rock stars literally do.

Before there was any hype to it, SoundCloud is the shit.

I love SoundCloud.

But I just look at the computer like,

"I could just drop this, just fuck the Internet right now."

That's a fun feeling.

What about the fact that they might be being, like,

molded by what's happening in these times right now?

This is the Wild Wild West, and we're in for a fun ride.

Streaming has really destroyed and reshaped the model

for how you release and promote music.

And is someone who just likes to see

all the institutions torn down, and to see things change,

and just see the landscape evolve,

That's extremely exciting.

Goldman Sachs predicts that streaming revenue

will hit something like, 34 billion by 2030,

which would exceed the 1990s peak,

and the overall music industry revenue,

it's looking at, like, 131 billion by 2030.

Let's go!

Hi, Davey.

-How you doing? -Nice to meet you, baby.

That's... That's, uh, Mama Bighead.

I wanna say thank you for everything you do,

and for being there for my baby.

-Of course. -I appreciate it.

You know what I'm saying. I thank you for everything.

And I thank you for having Bighead.

-Yeah? -Yeah.

Aww, thank you.

I got her back here.

Hold on, gimme these. I can't...

Oh, my God!

I can't do it. I'm sorry, but let me...

What, were they dirty?

Uh, yes, and he's on camera. No.

No, no, this thing's not happening.

Yes, it is. And I ain't playing.

Okay, give 'em to him.

So, how about that?

Now you can see better.

Oh, yeah, she's right, she's right.

Thank you. You're both legends.

He's a legend. I'm whatever.

You're both legends.

No, you're not whatever.

-I'm a ratchet. -Trust me.

-I'm a ratchet, like you. -I'm not a ratchet.

I haven't had sex in a long time,

so I don't know what you're talking about.

-Hey, my mom's . -Nice meeting you, baby!

She crazy .

I told you, I'm from the projects.

Got a ghetto Mom.

This generation, all the kids are bad.

All of 'em.

I don't care how much these p...

'Cause, you know, there's always those parents,

"Not my angel, not my angel."

Oh, yeah? Well, your angel is getting fucked

in the back of a car while she's high as shit.

So, that's your angel, right?

That's your angel! Go get your angel!

'Cause I know half these parents who didn't like me,

none of their daughters are virgins anymore!

I've heard all the "how I lost my virginity" stories

from all the little bitches who try to be my friends now.

So, explain that one to me.

Your... Your angel, not your kid, right?

Not your kid.

Uh, it's your kid, so... explain that.

Danielle Bregoli,

many people were introduced to her on Dr. Phil.

And all these hoes laughing like it's so funny.

She's talking about the audience,

that they're laughing at her.

It's like a foul-mouthed kid

saying terrible things to her mother.

Catch me outside, how 'bout that?

"Catch you outside?"

What does that mean?

"Catch me outside."

She's like a little 13-year-old girl who went on Dr. Phil

and said some viral-ass shit.

So, you wanna take this outside?

'Cause I think they can bring cameras outside.

-Thank you. -Sit down.

-Sit down. -Alright, then.

Every kid right now wants a face tat.

Every kid right now wants to be all tat,

they wanna color their hair different colors

and get dreads and do this, and it's just like...

Y'all wanna be so unique, but y'all doing the same thing!

Just, who can do it stupider?

That's what kids wanna see now. That's what kids are seeing,

so that's what they think is cool.

What they should be seeing is, "Oh, look, this went gold,

or this went platinum, or da-da-da-da".

And seeing people do good things,

seeing these motherfuckers do good things.

But no, what are they seeing?

They're seeing fucking them acting dumb,

and fucking punks smashing

the back of a fucking expensive-ass car

with a fucking golf club.

So, now, a kid's gonna wanna go in an empty parking lot

when they see a nice car, and they're like,

"Oh, Pump did it, so come on!"

And then, now look, that kid's in jail.

Wow, lovely.

Because that's what they think is cool.

They're not trying to do music because they see how...

This is how Pump could get up from the dirt,

and come up and do this, and could become this.

They think that that's what they have to do.

They're not looking at the music part

'cause they're just worried about that.

That's the biggest problem

with this whole fucking shitshow of music.

It's such a f...

This industry is such a fucking shitshow,

it's disgusting.

"Put this tattoo on your face, dye your hair this color,

and act like this, and do this, and do that,"

and it's like, when you don't care,

when there's nothing for you to give a fuck about,

you're just like, fuck it.

You just act out and do what the fuck you wanna do.

I wasn't focused on getting good grades,

and staying in the clubs at school,

and not getting kicked out of cheerleading or something.

I didn't give a fuck about none of that shit.

I wasn't worried about the cops that were getting called on me.

I never had nothing to care about.

My mother wouldn't really try to punish me, 'cause she...

What are you...? "Oh, you're gonna lock me

in my room? I'm gonna sneak out the window.

Oh, you're gonna tell me to stay in my room?

Okay, I'm just gonna have people come over

and we're gonna smoke this house,

and you're gonna be pissed.

So tell me, tell me what you'd like to do?"

Then she says she just wouldn't punish me

'cause there'd be no way around it.

She's not gonna stay home and fucking hold my hand

and watch me sit in the corner the whole fucking time.

In Florida, like, you can fucking get

from a nine-year-old.

Like, it's not an abnormal thing,

especially the part that I'm from, where people,

like, don't care about anything.

Like, it's, like, whatever. Age literally means nothing.

And I mean in every way possible,

age means nothing, no one cares.

Little tablecloth, little fucking leaf.

The ones who haven't got their face tatted yet,

they will still get jobs, they'll be okay.

The other ones...

You know, L. A., they're used to the weirdness.

Guy with a face tat is nothing.

Even the guy with his balls hanging out

on the side of the street is nothing in L. A.

This next generation,

they're coming into some fucked up shit, man.

Like, these kids nowadays are like...

I'm starting to see...

I feel like an old man and I'm only 22,

and I look young but like...

Man, I feel bad for this next batch of kids, man.

They're really entering a world, like, a really dangerous world.

I feel bad for them.

They're the first generation with technology.

There's, like, three-year-olds with fucking iPhones,

like goddamn.

They're being born into something

that we created, unfortunately.

We created, you know, like, popping Xans

and doing all that shit, so, unfortunately,

I am part of that problem,

and I apologize to the world

and to the next generation of kids for that,

because this shit just ain't cool.

Like, people losing their lives over this shit.

We're just different, just like the generation before you,

and before them, and before them,

and before them, we're just different.

You won't understand this, no matter how hard we try,

like, to get you to.

This generation is run off of aesthetic

and the way you look,

rather than back in the old days.

It wasn't how you looked, it was how you rapped.

So, this generation runs off face tattoos, you know,

aesthetic, the way you dress, the way you look,

the way you act, your persona.

That's another reason that they don't like us,

'cause they're like, "Well, in 40 years,

you're gonna have saggy face tats."

Well, guess what?

Everybody else who's getting face tats right now is too,

and that's gonna be our generation.

I'm never gonna fall off.

And anybody who said I'd fell off,

you're stupid 'cause I'm on TV, like,

fucking three times a fucking week.

So, if you think about hip hop

in the mid to late-'90s, you think of the...

kinda the first moments

where broader American mainstream pop culture

understood just how potent hip hop was,

both, as a musical force,

but also an industry force and a financial force.

To say nothing of a contagion like effect on style,

art, film, etc.

Hip hop became the lingua franca of American pop

long before most people really understood that

that's what was happening.

These are flush years, so you're going from Bad Boy,

and then Roc-A-Fella, and then into 50 Cent,

and you're just like, "Wow, this is never gonna end."

This is just...

This is what the next 30 years are gonna look like.

And then, of course, at a certain point,

the Internet comes along and, like,

yanks the stool out from underneath everything.

Rap as a genre did a really good job

of adjusting to the Internet,

but the industry, as a whole, did not do a good job.

The radio only played, like, 0.1% of what...

of music I thought was interesting.

The idea that it was all available out there,

I mean, I remember the first time I went on Napster.

It was like, holy shit.

Like, it's all here, all of it.

But you also knew it couldn't last forever.

A wildly popular website called Napster

has changed the landscape for pop music fans

who download music on the Internet.

Downloading music files isn't new,

but using the web to share music files

among thousands of other fans for free is not only new,

it is controversial,

creating a copying frenzy, and it's all free to the user.

You can't stop water, you know what I mean?

It's gonna find a way.

You can't stop it.

And the industry was very, very slow to accept that.

I think, at that point,

they were so preoccupied with playing defense,

because they were seeing their bottom line

get jammed and jammed, and halved and cut.

I mean, these are people who were selling

half a million CDs, a million CDs of, like,

genuinely, like, not-relevant artists.

But because all you could do was buy a CD,

that was just like, you know,

it's a false inflation business model.

And so, the flood starts,

and, by the mid-2000s,

I think hip hop realized what it took

everybody else ten more years to realize.

And, frankly, in some of the genres,

still haven't figured out.

Obviously, in two years, there'll be a million artists

and there'll be a million start-up labels.

And, for the longest time,

the labels' dominance have kept the little man

from participating in the music business.

They're screaming and crying because they'll have

to share the marketplace.

The former rules are out of the door, like...

like an old baseball game.

The new rules of music sharing, music distribution,

music exposure, are now globalized.

I'm working with people in Silicon Valley on...

on a way to work with MP3s to make it

free for the public, and then, retraceable back

to the artist having control and money.

But the thing about it, the company actually,

being, you know, the...

Wait a minute.

It's free to the public and it's traceable back...

back to the artist so that they have control?

Makes revenue for the artist and whatever team,

hoping that they...

Who pays the revenue to the artist, then?

I don't get this.

Well, this company exists out there.

They're working on it now.

SoundCloud, it never became

the biggest music site on the Internet,

but it was this like, this very special place

for this very special, like, unique type of thing to come up.

And it was like, the first time was like,

"Oh this is something kind of new in music since Napster."

Like it was the first kind of music platform

that I was like, "Wow, there is something interesting

happening here and there is new types of songs

that aren't just on iTunes, either.

Streaming has changed the music industry completely.

deals were just being handed out like candy.

Everyone that wanted to be a rapper

came in with a face tat, came in with their hair dyed,

came in with something crazy so people would remember them.

Initially, labels were against streaming.

And then, once it became clear

that streaming was an inevitability,

what labels did is they found a way to profit from streaming.

So, this is the key thing.

I do think streaming would have eventually,

become the norm, I think it happenned quicker

because labels decided to buy in

and when they bought in, they profited.

It totally removes the middle man,

anybody could do something,

you start to kind of find interesting people.

Kids in their bedroom making this songs,

putting them up in the Internet,

going around gate keepers, that's cool.

They should do that like, fuck the music industry

and then, of course, the music industry

came right in and co-opted all of it.

It's almost comic how quickly it turned

from "we hate you" to "we're in bed with you."

A young generation only understands

how to consume music by pressing play on a website,

as opposed to pressing play on an iPod or anything else.

The labels are in with like,

they're literally in bed with streaming companies

like, they're partners and they invest

in eachother and pay eachother and so,

the way that they've kind of like,

modified the entire process of music discovery

and made it just like, marketing line,

is kinda like, whack and overwhelming to me.

People who knew about music would understand

that there were things on SoundCloud

that didn't exist anywhere else.

So, you have this whole kind of shadow industry

that was really robust,

but it wasn't formalized in the system.

You couldn't ignore Internet-only consumption.

Internet-only consumption, originally, was like a nuisance.

And when Billboard decides, At a certain point,

"we're gonna take in streaming,"

that's a... To me, that's as radical as shift

as when Billboard decides to go to SoundScan in, like,

'91 or whatever it is.

The week before SoundScan,

the number-one album in the country is an REM album,

and the week after SoundScan, the number-one album

in the country is an N. W. A. album.

The adoption of streaming into the Billboard data

is roughly a similar sea change.

I think it was an acknowledgement

that the paths that music was traveling, were changing,

trying to accept that,

hey, maybe more people are exposed to a song

on a Vine than they were on a radio station.

What you start to see is a lot of artists

who have a tremendous presence online,

but almost no presence in radio or touring,

or any of these other conventional places,

all of a sudden popping up on various charts.

But when I first saw what was happening on SoundCloud,

especially if you're 16, 17, 18 years old

and you wanna be a rap star,

who wants to be a rap star the old-fashioned way?

You can be a rap star this way.

'Cause I moved to Florida when I was a young kid,

probably like, three or four years old.

And I lived almost everywhere in South Florida,

so I went to a lot of different schools

and I got kicked out of a lot of different high schools.

I was doing Xans from the beginning.

Like, Xans, personally, I was doing that shit

from the beginning, like, I used to sell drugs.

really, that's what I used to do,

and I was just like, fuck it, I'mma rap.

Esskeetit!

Growing up in Florida, it's...

You know, it's crazy.

It's a lot of party,

it's a lot of drugs, it's a lot of, like, you know,

a lot of everything. It's, you know, it's not...

Where I grew up, it's not the best place.

I moved... I moved around really a lot.

Like, I almost went, like, everywhere around Miami from,

like, Little Havana to Gardens to Opa-locka, Carol City.

I was really close to Broward, it was, like,

five, ten minutes from Broward, or so.

Since I was young, I just...

I just always loved music, from when I was young.

For Halloween, I would just... I was a kid.

I would just dress like, a rapper, myself, like...

I always, like, liked music.

I never knew it was gonna, you know, happen,

but I always wanted to do music,

and I loved music since I was a child.

It was really everything that you imagine it would be.

It's, you know, Xans everywhere and fights in the crowd,

and you could feel that that's where the action was

if it didn't burn itself out.

And this thing that seemed very ad-hoc and kind of casual,

like, probably within three to six months was,

like, very formalized.

These kids were ahistorical.

These kids were high-energy and reckless.

These kids really didn't care about rap history, at all.

I care about rap history, you know?

Like, these kids didn't.

Not interested, not impressed.

And so, you... you have to start coming up

with different approaches, different frameworks,

different ideologies.

It was clear to me that the incursion of these kids

into hip hop was, like, as much of a puncture

as what was happening with punk in the '70s.

I hadn't seen that energy at any show

of any genre in 15 years.

But looking at the kids in the crowd,

13, 15, 17, losing their shit.

You can see their brains, like, kinda like,

becoming bigger, and bigger, and bigger.

There had been this like, hyper-curated

version of yourself online, right?

Like the "Instagram aesthetic,"

the like, millennial Paul Smith pink wall,

kind of everything hyper-curated,

pop music like, Katy Perry kinda pop type stuff.

And then, the SoundCloud kids were like,

didn't give a shit about any of that,

and looked like shit

and kind of embrassed like, this "messyness" almost

and it was the beginning of this new aesthetic,

which I think we are in now,

which is more like this messy, kinda "I don't care" attitude,

like a "fuck you" attitude.

Bro, Smokepurpp shows, they are insane.

If you haven't been in a Smokepurpp show,

you're missing out.

I see... I see, like, also compares it

with the punk shit, with the distorted base.

It's really, like, it's really punk.

What you're seeing now

is a lot of attitude first, personality first.

The most immediate marketing venues

are intimate, personal, visual.

And so, you're gonna get people who act out,

you're gonna get people who look unusual,

you're gonna get people who are extremely effective

at communicating with a screen.

In the hip hop of the '90s, performing was, like,

kind of a secondary concern.

But now, it's the dominant concern,

certainly more than, like, "rapping."

I almost was, like, "Well, this is gonna be niche.

This is gonna be, like, a weird, 12-month bubble."

But it became clear that there was a real organizing principle.

There was a sonic ideology.

Obviously, it helped that a lot of the people

of that generation came from the same place,

Broward County, Florida, South Florida.

And maybe cared more about SpaceGhostPurpp than Drake.

At this moment of, like, peak smoothness,

what happened on SoundCloud was the polar opposite.

We're talking heavy distortion,

ridiculous bottom end, real serrated base.

Like, it's stuff that fuzzy and sharp at the edges.

You know, lyrically, like, not dense whatsoever.

A redux on, like, Reagan-era,

me-generation, materialism,

and sort of, like, out for yourself-type mentality.

Because it's like equal parts trauma, and stress,

and, like, anxiety, but at the same time,

you know, it's decadence and it's a celebration.

And so, you begin to see songs that, frankly,

functioned in this very radically concise way

become really popular, and like, "Look at Me"

is really the song that changes everything.

Probably the biggest conundrum of covering hip hop

in the last five years has been how to deal with XXXTentacion.

This is .

But we're not talking about being Colombian,

I'm being interrupted. Now, listen.

I'mma ask everybody to back off and get down.

We're not starting the next song until you back off and get down.

Back off and get down.

Yes.

Hey, if you are over here,

make some, back off and get down!

We're not till you back off and get down.

Back off, you hear that?

Back off.

Rabid fan base.

Musically, pretty interesting.

Really diverse influences.

Hip hop, folk, rock, emo, etc.

All these... All these things doing together.

Really pointed, often pained lyrics.

A lot of...

tactile emotion in the music.

Now listen. Are there any motherfuckers left standing?

Force that motherfucker to get down!

Right the fuck down.

That's what the fuck I'm talking about.

Stay down.

-Stay down! Stop.

Stay down.

Stay down.

Anytime I see any of you motherfuckers hop on,

I'm stopping the music.

Do not ruin it for everyone. Stay the fuck down.

Play that shit.

Stay down!

Wait, wait, wait.

[XXXTentacion and Ski Mask The Slump God singing

"What in XXXTarnation"]

Of this generation, X felt like the person

primed to change the center of the music conversation.

Jah's an... He's an artists' artist.

Like, he's... he is, in every sense of the word,

every part of the creative process, he is a part of.

He never did anything just to make money,

or just for any type of short-term gain.

Like, everything was carefully, carefully,

carefully executed for his brand.

Like, I say he was a genius because he was, and that's why,

you know, all his supporters feel so close to everything,

because they know that he comes with a certain level of truth.

I often say, like, the kids are always right.

That's a flawed premise, but I... but I do think

you have to listen when kids are glomming onto something.

I think the thing that you probably can't trust

the kids on, is morality.

The things that, as we age,

just become sharper to us, are fuzzy,

I think, when you're young and still developing.

And so, I think it's easier to see X as just, like,

a great artist who's troubled

if you're 16 or 17, than if you're 36 or 37.

When X would put out an album and go number one,

you're like... I'm like, "What the fuck?"

How is XXXTentacion's album

number one in the country right now?

That's fucking crazy.

The relationship between him and his fans

was so palpable and so real and so, like,

fostered, he's got legions of teenagers.

The only information that they consume about him

is from him, and so, they don't give a shit

about what figures as XXXTentacion.

It's almost, like, tribal at that point,

where it's like, "I just, like, trust you,

and you're the person giving me the information."

The separating the art from the artist thing is, like,

the oldest conversation in the book almost, you know?

And there is an interesting discussion happening,

where it's, like, we should be challenging ourselves

to be holding people who are morally correct

in an elevated way.

Is that really fair to the art?

Is that really fair to the artist?

Is that really fair to, like, the medium

in which the art is being created?

It's kind of like the question of our times, now especially.

How do you separate the art from the artist?

And is that something we should do?

Here is a figure that's actually in modern day

How do we handle this?

Should we let him get more famous

or should we cut him off and...

I think it was this like, reckoning of like,

Do we want accountability?

Is Spotify gotta be the one that suddenly holds

people accountable, is that what we want?

With enough fans, you could do whatever you want

Are you selling yourself as a controversial person?

If you're selling yourself as a controversial person,

no matter how controversial you are, people don't care

'cause they expect that from you.

And as long as your fans don't turn on you,

you cannot with impunity.

That is the way that Internet is constructed right now

and that is the way that our like,

culture of fame is constructed,

where there's almost no nuisance either.

I mean, if you think of stan culture on the Internet,

it is about blind fate and to devoting yourself

to this person, and if you question that person

or if you try to like, you know, push back on them,

Other stans will bash you and you'll be sort of like,

and exorcise from the community so, we saw a lot of that.

Those types of fandoms emerge for these people

because they came from the Internet,

they understood that very early.

X spoke to a lot of kids.

To me, the more definitive X stuff is less the songs

and more, like, the Instagram sermons,

and the IG lives, and the conversations.

If I'm not teaching people how to make money,

if I'm not teaching people how to love themselves,

if I'm not teaching people how to do everything

they wanna do with their lives, then who the fuck am I?

Someone who really valued one-to-one communication,

tried to, like, offer words of positivity

to fans and to fellow artists.

A tough personality to kinda get your head around.

Yo.

Hold on.

Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen.

Listen.

No matter what happens,

I need you guys to make a promise to me.

I need one thing from you, just one thing.

And I don't ask for much from my fans.

And the promise I want you to make to me is that,

no matter what happens, no matter what you face,

no matter who you lose, no matter what happens,

you do not give up.

I need you to make that promise to me.

make that promise to me.

You know, I know I can't give each and every individual

in here how fucking hard , I get it.

I understand.

My energy and my love and my heart is fully with you.

And I appreciate...

Listen.

I'm passing you, listen.

I'm passing you this lesson.

Once you leave this building,

something good is gonna happen to each and every one of you.

You got my word.

My name is XXX and I , thank you.

When X got out of jail,

I remember he did some shows I'd, like, follow on Instagram,

and he'd be, like, jumping off balconies

and getting into fights. And, honestly,

we had a conversation here where I was, like,

"Should we write an advance obituary for him?"

'cause it just seemed...

volatile, and liable to blow, at any moment.

Signal 33, just occurred.

3671 North 60th, at RIVA Motorsports.

Several gunshots, possibly a drive-by.

No description on the subject.

Someone in a black BMW 3X.

This is how we process death in, you know, the 2010s.

Like, it's presented to you on your phone.

That's the moment where it's like, no.

Real things, real people, real consequences, real lives.

Breaking news from Deerfield Beach, Florida.

Authorities are investigating the fatal shooting

of rapper XXXTentacion,

as he was gunned down leaving RIVA Motorsports

in his black BMW i8.

The 20-year-old rapper,

whose real name is Jahseh Onfroy,

was approached by two armed suspects,

and at least one fired in what authorities say

was an attempted robbery.

The suspects fled the scene

and Onfroy was taken to the hospital,

where he was pronounced dead.

Tonight, Kanye West tweeted, quote, "Rest in peace.

I never told you how much you inspired me

when you were here."

Hundreds of people have gathered in the Fairfax District

tonight in a vigil for the late rapper.

Police are also out in force,

making sure things do not get out of hand.

Over 1,000 people are in the street

near Melrose, completely covering the street.

There are people on top of buildings,

dancing around and jumping off roofs,

and the LAPD was having a real hard time containing them.

Tuesday night fans also held a walk

in X's memory to stop the violence.

We trynna preach today to put the guns down, man.

Stop all the... all the killing, all the senseless violence.

It gotta stop, man.

We losing too many. Now look who we lost.

We lost a Broward County legend.

I knew kids were gonna feel about X's passing

kinda on a Kurt Cobain way.

Because he doesn't wanna be known for...

being a drug addict, he doesn't wanna be known for being

a loser, or anything the rest of the world called him, you know?

People over 32, they are... They're not meant to understand

what Kurt... Kurt was, like I say,

he was put here to irritate them.

You know, these people grew up in the '60s

with a generation gap, and now,

they're really pissed that there's another one.

Two years ago, two or three years ago,

boyfriend was just getting out of jail

at the Broward County Main Jail, where X was at.

He came in the car, said, "Let me see your phone,"

typed in "XXX look at me" and played the song,

and I'm like, "what the fuck is this?

What is this?"

There was something about him that just, like,

made him stand out.

He was just such a powerful person.

Everyone's kids are gonna know about it.

He's gonna be one of those things

that stick out in...

in music.

Yeah, I think... I mean, I think losing an idol

is a very difficult thing, whether it's shootings

in the neighborhoods or the death of friends

or folks at school.

These are all events that have an impact,

a lasting impact, and we can't underestimate that.

I know there's a lot of shock value

in the SoundCloud generation, but I do think it's sincere.

It doesn't feel cheap to me.

I do think it's people coming from tough circumstances

who are choosing to go all in.

What the Broward SoundCloud kids had,

they understood that you can be rageful

or you can be frustrated,

but what those kids understood is,

if it didn't have a sound, kinda didn't matter.

But I think what you're gonna see

are people influenced by X and his flexibility

and fluidity between the genre and raw access of emotion.

And, again, you see this with Peep as well,

though on a very different way.

And obviously, there've been tensions around.

Are Peep and X complementary? Are they sort of at odds?

But I do think they were, probably,

the two people best suited to carry some of the lessons

of that era into, like, the broader mainstream,

and now we don't have either of them.

This is my friend Peep.

This... His name is Lil Peep, but it's Peep .

-Yeah. -The third.

The third, nigga.

He been rocking with me before his fame.

If you wasn't on Skid Row, you not our homie.

That's right.

You can't come to the new .

That's a fact.

at the lofters.

If you wasn't at the lofters, you don't know.

Like... He was at the lofters.

Yeah, Matt... Matt was there in spirit.

Matt was there in spirit. Matt was there.

What was the first time I had split?

I was like six or seven years old.

He does already like to be seen.

-Show was tight. -We go back.

-We go way back. -I'm his big bro.

Yeah.

-Wanna get lit? -Oh, my gosh.

Some fidget spinners.

Goddamn!

You can't .

We in Peep's trailer, bro.

Peep got the rich trailer. He got more views than me.

He got more photos an all.

What do we got here?

Antwon, you know, just a little bro.

He started making music like last Thursday.

I'm little bro? Dude, I'm older.

-I'm little bro? -Yeah.

I'm about to put him on big time in the game.

You know what I'm saying.

Yeah. Next up, bro, I'm next up.

-I'm the OG. -Yeah, I'm old, nigga.

I feel like Justin Timberlake, you know?

I feel... No, I don't even feel like Justin Timberlake,

I feel like... like... Rihanna.

You gotta aim bigger, be... Ricky Martin.

I feel like Madonna.

Be, uh, Romeo Santos.

I feel like Madonna/Matt Ox, you know?

A combination of the two.

I'm always overwhelmed.

I get overwhelmed by, uh, breakfast when I wake up to eat.

-I get overwhelmed by... -Breakfast?

By anything.

I get overwhelmed by large French fries at McDonald's.

A lot of shit.

I'm always overwhelmed, you know?

But I'm always high in this world.

Same.

I remember when I, when I interviewed Peep, I...

I rarely feel an urge towards protection.

I mean, he took a Xanax in front of me,

you know, like mid-interview.

There was no filter,

and no protective outer shell.

But that was also clear in the music.

When I think of, like, the most affecting music

of his generation, like, it's... they're Peep songs.

Like a Peep feeling.

I would just phone Peep and smoke weed and pop Xans,

and... just relate it to his pain.

And "Star Shopping" was the first song I heard by him,

and I was like,

"Can it... Can a song get more beautiful than this?

Like, Jesus."

And then I learned that, like, that was one of his,

like, first songs, and I was like,

"My God, like,

it's just such a beautiful fucking song, dude."

Then you start going down, looking at his discography

and all his music, and then I was...

I was hooked.

He spawned the likes of all these copycats

that are trying to imitate.

Like, you go down Melrose in L. A.

and you're going to see 30 Lil Peep lookalikes,

just trying to dress like him and, "oh, I'm so fucking goth,

and I'm so fucking this," but...

And he honestly inspired me too.

He took these intuitive cadences and flow patterns,

and things that he learned from hip hop, and...

imported them into a totally different framework.

And I remember the first time hearing his music,

hearing the Crybaby tape or whatever, and just like...

It was like, that's it.

They did it.

It's done, nobody has to do it anymore.

It's done.

He was only 21.

Emerging rapper Lil Peep died last night

right before he was set to perform in Tucson.

My brother just died in my arms, man.

I'm done with this shit, man, forever.

Fuck this shit.

Tucson police say they found Lil Peep

unresponsive inside of his tour bus

from an apparent drug overdose.

People, like, rapping today is, like... it's just, like,

influenced by drugs and suicide like that.

People just, "Oh, it's just another rapper,

just it's whatever," but people need to understand

that he was actually calling for help.

Seeing the videos, there's always fucking videos.

Why is there always fucking videos, you know what I mean?

I hate that shit.

'Cause, like, no, I'm not gonna watch it,

but I do end up watching it 'cause...

okay, I didn't... I didn't wanna believe it, you know?

I was waiting for so much more music from...

from Lil Peep.

Legends never die and energy lives forever.

Rest in peace, X, Peep, and everyone that's after.

My first tour with Peep, you know what I'm saying?

We shared a room like, on a tour me and him shared a room,

so, we were really close, bro.

He was just like, a fun, positive person, you know?

He was just a cool person, he reminded me a lot of me.

You know what I'm saying? He was like a mirror, almost.

Reminded me of myself.

We were really close and I miss Peep everyday.

Miss X everyday, miss all my dead homies everyday.

Shit, man.

You can tell a pressed Xan.

Like, come on now.

It looks weird.

So, they're think they're doing Xans,

but usually it's, like, Fentanyl.

Fentanyl bomb.

But, like, lowkey, Fentanyl's a hell of a drug,

so if they got the dose right, I ain't tripping.

But, hey, we had a epidemic over there, was like .

I died and came back from it.

Yeah, the Xans was killing people

because they got the dosage wrong, so it was like...

So much Fentanyl, so you take it and you start puking,

and you gotta go to the hospital.

But, bro, I've seen this man die, like, ten times.

The relationship between early trauma and substance use

and addictions is remarkable.

In other words, when younger people are suffering

from either deprivation or toxic exposure,

the likelihood that they're going to use

and rely upon substances

and become addicted is remarkable,

and can lead to some

of the epidemics that we're seeing.

There's a clear opiate epidemic in our country,

and in some places worse than others.

Control of the pharmaceutical industry is a big challenge.

There's a lot of incentive to make drugs and sell them.

Anxiety and depression rates in younger people

are increasing, and it's not clear

whether that's because we're looking more carefully

and we're detecting it more effectively,

or whether, in fact,

it's more people that are suffering

for a variety of reasons.

And we're from, like, a shitty-ass town.

Like, nothing happens here, and so,

for someone to actually make it out here, is, like...

It's insane.

There's very obviously a drug problem

with young people, and it's very obviously a Fentanyl problem.

What you're seeing is a lot of sadness,

a lot of pain, a lot of attempts at self-medication,

and not a lot of oversight,

from governmental oversight to legal oversight.

It's people feeling their way to some kind of resolution

of pain, and, when you do it on your own,

you're not gonna have all the information.

You know, tragic things happen, but...

is it representative of a larger issue?

It's definitely representative of a larger issue.

My fear is that it's gonna take more losing people

to wake certain people up and say,

"Maybe we should think harder about this."

That's my fear.

Any artist who decides to talk

about drugs or, like, go that route,

a lot of them are coming from a place of authenticity.

Who are we to tell an artist that they can't make a song

about lean and coke and Xan, and whatever the fuck that,

you know, they have used or gone through an experience?

I think that some people are coming from a real place

with that stuff, and, like, it feels really horrible to try

to police their expression because we're sensitive

about the effect that it'll have once

it gets out there in the world.

Same reason I feel the need to take so many and,

you know, we just... we just wanna numb the pain

and we wanna feel good, we wanna feel normal.

Once you've done enough, you can't get off it,

you can't just up and quit. You have withdrawals,

and nobody wants to go through withdrawals.

They're quite possibly the worst thing in the world.

And I'm... I've gone cold turkey

and actually made it off two times

without any sort of help.

It's not an easy thing to just put down.

You just wanna feel a sense of happiness

when you're sad, and there's a lot of...

a lot of sad kids out there right now

that people don't know about,

hiding their emotions.

I was hiding my emotions for a long time too,

and it's...

Sometimes I still do, fake smiles and all that.

I wanna show y'all

what mental illness really fucking looks like.

Y'all wanna see what that looks like?

I just did this to my car.

Scratched it, keyed it up. I just bought it.

I just bought this fucking car.

Keyed all the way.

Hit the fucking door.

Wanna know why I'm doing that?

'Cause of mental fucking illness.

All this materialistic shit don't mean shit in the world,

and when they won't let you do, I'm owned, I'm a fucking slave.

I'm a slave to my management, I'm a slave to everybody.

I don't get control of my bank account,

I don't get control of shit.

I can't even drive that fucking car.

So, fuck everybody!

You wanna see some? Look.

Fuck that shit.

Honestly, these kids just don't give a fuck.

They don't.

It's just like, it's kinda sad because,

like, all these artists now,

the big thing is "I can get higher than you."

It's all... And they video it and they joke.

-What the fuck? -I'm on it!

-You want this purp? -I need the purp!

Then you have artists, like, example,

Lil Xan, whose name, like, glorifying it.

And it's not something that should be glorified,

it's not something that's okay.

"Xanarchy" hoodies.

You can't even get this no more.

Like, what if you used to do heroin?

"Oh, I'm Lil Heroin. I'm Lil Cap."

Like, no, you ain't gonna do that shit!

The first time I ever sold a drug, they were roxies.

So, um, like, that's like, the first drug I ever sold.

They're supposed to go for, like, it was...

I think it was ten dollars a piece,

and I sold them for like, three dollars a piece.

I was 11 or 12, what did you expect?

If you wanna get high,

if you wanna be in a different place,

smoke some weed.

If one is not enough for you, okay, smoke two,

get high off your fucking ass so you can't breathe right.

Go ahead, do what you want, weed's not gonna kill you.

But y'all wanna feel this different high,

so y'all wanna do fucking molly and your lean,

and fucking snorting Xanax after,

and fucking shoving Adderall up your ass.

Like, what comes from that?

Okay, now you can't even work

'cause you're so fucking dysfunctional,

you're foaming out of your mouth.

A lot of people fuck with me because I'm honest.

A lot of people fuck with me because they relate to me.

Others fuck with me because they like my personality.

What young people want from pop culture

is not what old people want from pop culture.

Weirdly, she seems designed for mass consumption,

and it just took that unorthodox series

of events to put her in the position for it.

Well, two songs went gold,

I dropped a mix tape.

I'm proud about everything I've done

'cause I've done it all, so.

It's kinda turned me into this little Hollywood demon.

It's like, I was talking about getting a nose job earlier,

and I'm just like, "Nose job?"

"Be lucky you even got your fucking teeth then,

you little fucking ungrateful bitch.

Sit down."

It's like, okay, I want people to take me serious,

I want people to like me, I want people to think I'm cute,

pretty, whatever. And it's like, okay,

so I can go get a fake ass, I can go get...

whatever the fuck,

'cause you can literally do anything at this point.

And then, what is that gonna do for me?

Now it's like every one of these other bitches,

and still ain't nobody gonna take me serious,

so what's the point?

Now you just look like a double idiot.

Like, go ahead. But there's no pleasing nobody.

Being a rapper is a job.

You gotta show up, you gotta make records,

you gotta do press, you gotta do photoshoots,

you gotta do chores.

That's a lot of work.

It's hard to do that if you're fucked up all the time.

And I think because there's so much competition now,

if someone drops the ball,

there's someone else waiting right behind them

to take the slot.

I used to just take random pills, like, I...

I didn't know if they were fake, I didn't know if they were real,

so that shit, you know, that shit scared me.

Like, that could've been me back then, you know what I'm saying?

Like, it could've been me.

I can't rap about if I never .

Can't rap about guns if I don't have a gun,

you know what I'm saying?

Like, that's how it is, you know?

That's how real music is.

I feel like that made me, like, overdo it.

So then I had to, like,

quit that shit, you know what I'm saying?

And stick to weed, you know what I'm saying?

Considering your name is Smokepurpp

and how early it is in the day,

you seem very clearheaded and together.

Have you... Have you upped the level of...?

Oh, yeah, man, I'm sober.

Really? Stone sober?

Yeah. I mean, I smoke weed and shit like that,

but... but I cut everything else off.

You know, I feel like I had a strong mind

and I was able to make myself better just doing stuff

outside recording and doing fun stuff.

There's a lot of these kids got thrown

to the wolves and can't survive.

And so, if it takes sobriety to allow them

to actually have a productive career, Godspeed,

like that's exactly what they should be doing.

Various other generations of music would've turned out

very differently if people had embraced sobriety.

A lot of what we think about of the excess of the '60s

or the '80s or whatever,

these were not sober environments, but rap is a job.

You would be so surprised who really be listening

to this shit, like, it'd be like a mother.

It could be a mom, it could be a grandma, it could be an uncle.

The influence, man.

Seeing, like, little white kids pull up to the show

in the front row with red bandannas,

and twisted up sets they don't know

what the hell they twisting it up, like.

They diss the hood, all type of bullshit

that they seen niggas put up on the Internet.

Really seeing them blacked out like,

"Aargh! Slack 14 Blood gang!"

And they don't even know what they're saying,

they're just putting words together,

so you be like,

"Slack Blood gang 14 slack? Like, what? What?"

Like, okay, bro, bet.

We can have this conversation any year

in the last, like, 60 years, and someone could've said,

do you think it's bad that so-and-so is emulating whoever?

The Grateful Dead, John Lennon.

Yeah, I hope kids aren't, like,

doing Xans and, like, walking women around on leashes.

Gang shit, gang shit .

You don't pop a Xan on stage, what you talking about?

I popped a Xan on stage.

Danielle! That's Danielle! I see you!

Drugs are so easy to combine, right?

Like, I mean, just look at all these male orders pharmacies,

or these like, pill mills like, it's just easier than ever

to get prescriptions for tons of harmful drugs.

And a lot of kids are given drugs, I mean,

a lot of parents feed their kids drugs from when they're young

just because they don't know how to treat

mental health issues, you know? Or Anxiety, or things,

We don't address the root causes of these things in society,

so we over-medicate children

and then wonder why they have a drug problem.

When you talk to young people, more than anything,

in my experience, they're nihillistic

and that can express itself in various ways.

But, for so many people, they turn to drugs

like Fentanyl, to kind of escape.

Pain killers, Oxy, they're seeking that out,

they're seeking out that escapeism,

because they've been raised in this insane world

and the world is just getting more and more, and more fucked.

So, why not, you know, get fucked up youself

and just be crazy, because life is short.

The music industry has always capitalized on that.

They do not care about your health care,

they care about money, is a money industry

and so they, yeah, they're gonna kind of...

sometimes, facilitate it.

I'm not surprised to hear that these managers

provide pills, provide alcohol, I mean, a lot of managers

are adults and should know better but,

once you get a little bit of money,

you know, people just start making consessions

and I think, sometimes, they lied to themselves

and think, "Oh, it's not that bad"

or "Oh, he's a little addicted but we'll eventually,

get him off, you know, he performs so much better

when he's fucked up.

I can never go to a job, I can never go to the military,

like... But I am my own boss, I am my own figure,

I am my own, like, .

So, the fact that I can, like, speak out and be myself

and shit is actually, like, that's more of rewarding than,

like, actually having a fucking voice.

You know what I mean?

What I think the term "SoundCloud rap" did was,

it captured the immediacy of the moment.

Here's this platform that is kind of not popping,

and here's a group of artists who use the platform

that is not popping, and made it popping.

So, SoundCloud rap is like saying Chicago rap,

Seattle rap, London rap.

It's the place where these things happen.

It just happened that the place was virtual.

Yougest artist of the decade to go platinum.

People like to doubt me but when it's like, putting their face

it's almost all that you can say.

Is some people that are famous but have no money,

and that's the worst.

So you can't even and you're broke?

Could have been me.

The only fans I would cooking videos

so you could recipes on it and shit.

I ain't gonna tell you what I'm doing on it.

Y'all have to go see for youselves.

I never thought I was gonna see this much money, tough.

Ever.

I was just going to do it to see what it is

and whatever.

I wasn't like, "Oh, I know what I'm doing

and I know this is gonna be the biggest thing" but,

somewhere in the back of my head I was just like,

"Mmm, I wanna .

My manager starts texting me like,

"Okay, so this now, this now."

And I'm like, "Okay, whatever, whatever."

Yeah, I made one million in six hours

just of, I didn't think we had a

When he hit the first million assets I said, "Listen,

just make me enough to where I can get

three millions in an account and put it away.

Made way more than that.

Y'all wanna keep calling me to "Catch me outside?"

Or wanna start calling me the bitch

that made 53 million on only fans.

'Cause I have never told that. People don't really know...

People knew about the millions so,

but, 50 million dollars

I bought a house 6,1 million in cash.

Bought a Ferrari, cash.

Bought a 2021 , cash.

Try hawk, cash.

Bought everything cash.

It's funny 'cause one thing an ex told me,

one thing I always remember that he told me,

"When you get some money,

first thing you bought is the house, cash.

Nobody can't take that shit from you, is exactly what I did.

Exactly what I did.

Even if I wouldn't have been making money like this,

years ago, 17, 16, 15, I wouldn't have known.

I see why people hate me, I would hate me too.

Danielle made so much money,

I guess over a million dollars in 48 hours,

that's an insane amount of money most only fans creators

make nothing like that, so I think it really speaks

the power of the fandom that she built

and her hability to monetize it.

She was kind of ahead of her time

becausea lot of times like, people that were mimes

really did not like, were not able to capitalize on anything

People used to think we weren't gonna make it, bro.

People used to be like, "Bro, these two little kids

blah, blah, Pump's pink hair

Boom! Yeah,

Ans speaking of sound of music and other things,

one of the big superstars of the world, Little Pimp.

There he is.

How's it going? Do you wanna come up and say something?

Come on!

Little Pump, come on. Come on up here.

Come on up here. Does everyone knows who he is?

And you know how big he is?

Come on up here.

I remember watching the video of Trump

at some campaign event in Florida

and he brings up Lil Pump and introduces him as Little Pimp.

And I just remember being like,

"Okay well, this is like, a viral moment

because its gonna get clips and it was inmediately clipped.

It was like, one of those days on Twitter

when you just saw the clip, and the clip, and the clip,

and like, every other tweet that was so viral.

Bring the troops home and you're doing the right thing.

Mega 202020, don't forget that!

Don't forget that.

I remember watching his talk and just being,

"This man, has no idea of what's happening,

like, he was just kinda talking and I felt like somebody had

just kinda just plopped him there

and be like, "Okay, go ahead." And as a journalist

I was like, "God, I almost feel bad that we have

to write about this, because it's kinda of a trainwreck."

Do not smoke for sleepy Joe, at all!

Life for me now is exactly what I wanted it to be

when I was younger. So, I'm happy like,

you know what I'm saying? I'm happy,

I'm exactly where I wanna be, I'm on the right tracks,

I go where I wanna go, you know.

My life is going perfectly fine, perfectly smooth

Drugs are always be around, people always sell drugs,

people always use drugs, so drugs and music

are gonna be there forever.

I don't know, I remember I use to pills like,

Yeah, okay, like, you wouldn't even think "Oh no,

it's gonna lace me, it's just like,

"Oh, here's the perc take it."

You put two N boxes next to each other

one fake, one real, you can't even tell the difference.

You ain't that shit again.

'Cause they are making that shit...

You know how I knew I was taking fake percs?

You taking charts, I'm talking about like,

you could scrape that shit with your nails,

take the dust and be high for hours.

That's how I knew I was taking fake percs.

It's like playing a russian roulette with your life.

For a 4 to 6 hour high, not worth it.

I would just like, one in a while like,

Not like everyday but then, started becoming everyday.

Real or fake, I don't know what they was

I was either, high on Prozac or high on Fentanyl.

One or the two.

Around six months I was addicted.

So, I did a drug detox, which was supposed to be 30 days,

but I did it in like, a week.

I made my Mom and my Grandma fly out to take care of me.

I wanted to kill myself.

It was just... You just...

'Cause your brain is so used to that, your receptors

being hit, when that's not being hit, your body is like,

"What the fuck? Where are we gonaa find happiness at?"

No, a lot of people don't, that's why they just stay

doing that shit, 'cause it's gonna be easier

to keep doing it, than stop.

'till your dead.

I don't know, I kinda looked at it like,

"You have to be a strong person" but, not everybody is.

I wasn't a strong person for a long time because Iwas so young

and being told the same thing over and over,

over and over, over and over, over and over again

while your brain is still developing,

those things are gonna stick and it's gonna be

very hard to get them out.

The Internet has just become such a fucking toxic place.

I was literally like, contemplating

jumping off that fucking balcony right there,

like, it was getting to like, that point

I was like, "Dude, how could you hate someone that,

has manners, is so nice," and they're like, "Oh, man

this fucking kid is stupid like, he's got face tats."

I'm gonna be an old head in 20 years so,

and I'm probably gonna be dissing the new generation.

That's just how it goes,

every generation is gonna hate the new...

the new wave.

I am the face of new wave.

I don't think your ending is hopeful.

I think you're talking about complex and conflicted stuff.

I don't think you should leave your viewers feeling good.

I think they should be walking out of the theater

scratching their head a little bit,

and trying to figure out how they're implicated as well.

"Rapper Juice WRLD died

of an accidental overdose

of painkiller Oxycodone and codeine,"

the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office

said Wednesday.

The announcement comes several weeks after the 21-year-old,

whose given name was Jarad Anthony Higgins,

died following convulsions on December 8th.

21-year-old Alexis Lynch was found dead

on New Year's Day, 2020.

Authorities say she died from an accidental overdose

of Fentanyl and alcohol.

She had a blossoming rap career

under the stage name Lexii Alijai.

Rest in peace, Mac Miller, man.

My favorite...

favorite artist of all time.

Another one gone.

Another one gone, bro.

Worst thing come to worst, I fucking die a tragic death

or some shit, and I'm not able to see out my dreams,

I, at least, wanna know that the kids perceived my message

and were able to make something of themselves,

and able to take my message and use it

and turn it into something positive, and to...

to at least have a good life.

I used to be bad as fuck.

Really bad, like, really, really bad, but I just didn't care.

Hey, cash me outside, dude! Cash me outside!

It's crazy because I used to be trapping in the same building,

and now I'm selling out shows at the Roxy.