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The XXXTentacion HULU Documentary has fans in their feelings with heartfelt words. Check out their reactions and more.

@kanyewesthelping keep the young man’s name alive is genius and amazing all in one. i’m disappointed, but to watch it made me happy to see you , hear your story (partially). i miss you so much jah. — 𝘔 𝘚 𝘑 (@lunaticbunnny)May 26, 2022 — 𝘔 𝘚 𝘑 (@lunaticbunnny)May 26, 2022 — 𝘔 𝘚 𝘑 (@lunaticbunnny)May 26, 2022 The XXXTentacion HULU documentary, Look At Me: XXXTentacion, premiered Wednesday, May 25th.

"Look At Me: XXXTENTACION" tries to thread a needle, celebrating the talent of the late musical star, who was murdered at age 20, and addressing his ...

Yet there's little consideration given to the questionable aspects of that, such as his assertion, "This is a cult, not a fan base." To her credit, she also meets during the film with Ayala, who experienced threats and social-media backlash from his fans at the time because of his legal troubles. Videos also capture various fights and assaults on others, which in essence became part of his brand.

During his life, XXXTentacion, born Jahseh Onfroy, rarely spoke explicitly about the allegations or his legal case, and his estate has been somewhat guarded ...

I think with the lack of knowledge of all the backstory, there’s a way in which it gives way to this larger-than-life mythology. Those are feelings that the audience has an opportunity to feel over the course of the film, but what I had to ultimately come to peace with was the fact that those feelings are real and there’s more to the story. A lot of it was about really feeling and making sure that my sense of things was really alive and active throughout the process. I had to be really clear that this is in service of the credibility of the film. “I set out to show an example of how a conversation could be had. If that is able to be demonstrated to me, then that’s what I will tell.” And so, it was sort of a leap of faith in that way. Throughout the process, I had to be really articulate and explain to them the intention behind all of the negative that was being put in the film. She helped to secure access to a lot of the interviews that we got. On top of that, I was really clear about what my values were and the fact that I was an activist. But I think they felt like I would be the person to be able to be really empathetic about what he was experiencing, because they knew that I had that background. It’s a music documentary, but for me, it was an opportunity to have a conversation that I really wanted to have on a platform and in a container that was actually entertaining and engaging, and that could meet people where they were at, rather than it being academic, or some other form. That’s when I realized that I had an ability to create and generate trust, and to ask people questions that no one was asking.

Look At Me attempts to break down the mythology around late rapper XXXTentacion. Boy with dreads points lighter at camera. Faded Films.

His life was not the cleanest, and while he did struggle to get to where he was, he was also partially a victim of circumstance. Onfroy is not the only one suffering from and inflicting such damage; he only found the right words and platform that, in turn, gave exposure to what he did. It brings in his ex-girlfriend for an interview about what she faced at his hands, his former friends admit that sometimes no one wanted to be around him, and there are multiple instances shown where he live-streamed himself brutally beating people up. Onfroy was secretly recorded and admitted that he did abuse her, but the recording was not released until months after his death. She was not the mother of his child, but she was instead the original accuser of domestic abuse against Onfroy. His fans did not take to that too kindly, thus bringing on an entire circus of gaslighting and denial. It is this irony set up with her introduction to the documentary: he initially wooed her when they met saying he did not want her to feel alone. One of Onfroy’s crew members states at one point, “All these people [in the world] want is to see us destroy each other.” This pivotal moment clearly defines the overarching agenda: Onfroy’s music, as XXXTentacion, was a source of concern. While the nitty-gritty details of Onfroy’s childhood are discussed openly, an underlying thread that ties this all together is a story about a tortured artist. It is this framework that sets up the rest of the documentary, as it pivots away from what most people know about him—the violence, his untimely demise, the seemingly immortal fame—and puts him vulnerable front and center. Combining first-person interviews, vlog-style content from the rapper himself, and footage from his life and concerts, it aims to show how he managed to become a rags-to-riches story, including his origins as a struggling youth growing up with violence. So how did a kid who managed to get kicked out of every school in the district become a multi-genre prodigy? Onfroy was shot to death outside of a motorcycle dealership in 2018, when he was only twenty years old, escalating his fame posthumously, but drawing criticism to his behavior and decisions.

Director Sabaah Folayan Talks About 'The Good, Bad and Ugly' of 'Look At Me: 'XXXTENTACION'. "The conversation I had with [his family] was, 'If you want ...

We have influence over that by the way we support things and by the way that we don’t. I think we can be more careful and more caring with that influence. I think that having a son would have been the final motivation that he needed to be the best version of himself. What I felt that I needed to understand was more about the relationship, and more about the aftermath, because that was the aspect that had been documented the most. It’s really a situation that has to be addressed and treated with urgency, because these are the people that’s going to be inheriting the next generation. So I don’t think it’s a linear thing with the turning point, but that he was struggling the whole entire time, and there were all of these different influences. It was really important for me to show that, because I think sometimes when we’re trying to be ethical as storytellers, we’re worried about, “How do I look in the eyes of history?” But not a lot of people asked: “What does this young woman need? So what ended up being important to me about Geneva’s story was the way in which it was like this messed up domino effect, where the media found out about the allegations — and then trying to be ethical, stopped reporting on Jahseh or reported negatively on him. That trust is really, really important to me — and I think that audiences are intelligent, and I think they know when you’re being honest and when you’re not. The conversation I had with them was, “If you want it to be a redemption story, then you have to show what it is he’s being redeemed from. The feelings of isolation, the feelings of being suicidal, the feelings of having no one and these feelings have are so, so common in people who are extremely young and that’s what X pointed out. He was open about his issues, and he didn’t necessarily win his battle before we lost him but he gave us a space to talk about mental health and about those internal struggles. I was invited to this process by The Fader and his mom.

About a half-hour into this documentary, Cleopatra Bernard, the mother of the rapper XXXTentacion, lists the occasions on which her son got a beating from ...

Speaking of the world outside his circle, Bass Santana, a member of XXXTentacion’s crew, observes, “All these people want to see is us destroy each other.” He seems not wholly cognizant of the larger truth of what he’s saying, and that’s heartbreaking. Before that, his emotive music, incendiary persona and criminal notoriety earned him a fan base of America’s most disaffected children — and multiplatinum record sales. “But,” Bernard concludes, the father “wasn’t abusive.”

XXXTentacion was extremely controversial. A new Hulu documentary, 'Look at Me: XXXTentacion,' featuring interviews with friends and family provides context ...

“I think it’s important for people to give people a chance to grow and become who they are becoming,” Sobande said in an interview. “Nobody should be relating to the feeling of wanting to die when they haven’t even passed their teenage years.” At the time of his death, Onfroy was facing a slew of charges relating to the alleged domestic abuse. “The conversation can’t stop at the person being canceled,” Folayan said in an interview. Even further, some fans will attest to XXXTentacion being in the midst of a change when he was gunned down at the age 20. From its first minutes, “Look At Me” makes clear how violence played a major role in both X’s personal and professional life.

Sabaah Folayan discusses her initial reluctance to take the reins of the new FADER Films-produced documentary, and the wider implications of X's explosive story ...

And I was grateful that I had had the preparation to sort of just hold that interpersonally. I think that this is the potential of interviewing, and this is the way that it's used in other settings. The only way that I was going to be able to do it is if I was going to be able to be completely frank and completely honest. And I was like, "I'm here because my instinct told me to come here and that this was something that I needed to do." I think that the mainstream media is a little bit slow to catch up on the complexity and the nuance that exists in the Black experience. I wasn't going to do it if the expectation was going to be that I was going to share that bias. I felt this really strong gut instinct that this was something that I was particularly positioned to do. And that suggested to me that these were people who were intelligent in terms of the way to access the trust of the public. And being older than his generation, but still understanding kind of this evolution of this pain that has been coming through the music and that has been coming into hip-hop. You had quite a lot of reservations about the film and you were sort of trying to push the project away because it seemed complicated. The FADER: During the Q&A in Austin, one of the first things you said was when you were brought in to talk about potentially taking the helm of the film, you almost tried to tank the interview. But that when he was shot dead in an apparent robbery at the age of 20, he was still facing the charges of aggravated battery, domestic battery, and false imprisonment that had lingered over his short, incendiary time in the public eye.

Kanye West once again pairs up with late Florida rapper XXXTentacion on "True Love," which receives its wide release today. Stream it here.

“True Love” opened West’s Donda 2 listening event in Miami in February and subsequently underwent several tweaks before arriving on the Stem Player, and even more now as a fully commercially-available piece. Their first shared track dropped months’ later with “One Minute,” which featured Travis Barker and appeared on X’s 2018 posthumous release Skins. West also used the late rapper’s archival vocals on “Everything We Need” from 2019’s Jesus is King and has hinted at more unreleased music since as far back as the Yandhi era. Ye, aka Kanye West, has dropped his collaborative track with the late Florida rapper XXXTentacion, titled “True Love,” which originally debuted on Donda 2, the elusive Stem Player exclusive released in February. Stream the single below.

Months after it appeared on Kanye West's Stem Player as the opening track on Donda 2, Ye and XXXTentacion's “True Love” has been released to streaming.

I do think it will do that. The track will appear on XXXTentacion’s upcoming posthumous offering Look At Me: The Album, which is yet to get a release date. The notes include: “Love love love,” “A feeling you just can’t explain,” and “Am I supposed to pretend to be heartless?”

The track is featured on West's Donda 2 and XXXTentacion's posthumous Look at Me: The Album.

His replacement, the Weeknd, played “Hurricane” during his set. Kanye West has released one of his Donda 2 collaborations with the late XXXTentacion. Until now, “True Love” had been available only on the Stem Player, along with the album’s other unreleased tracks. West premiered Donda 2 at a Miami event on February 22.

On Thursday, May 26, Ye's collaboration with the late XXXTentacion "True Love" makes its debut on iHeartRadio via Columbia Records. The song, which was produced ...

"True Love" plays at the end of the documentary. I'll see y'all tomorrow, Wait, when the sun set? While X spits his bars, Ye tells the late rapper's son that "Daddy's not gone."

New Music Friday - New Singles From Kanye West & XXXTentacion, Calvin Harris, Young Thug & Dua Lipa + More.

“Orville,” the “Everyday” rapper’s single from his forthcoming Vinyl Days features Blu & Exile. Kanye, meanwhile, has always been open and vulnerable about his own love life, especially on his dramatic and highly publicized divorce from Kim Kardashian. If anything, “True Love” is a testament to X’s staying power, even four years after his death. Chattanooga, Tennessee rapper YGTUT came up in the same ilk as Top Dawg Entertainment’s Isaiah Rashad. His smooth flow, tinted with a Southern accent, sounds like it comes through a smoke’s haze. Moneybagg Yo has been one of the most exciting success stories to come from Memphis in recent memory. Blu & Exile – “Orville” It’s wild to think that the month of May is coming to a close, but here we are.

Kanye West's collaboration with the late XXXTentacion, which appeared on 'Donda 2' has been released - listen to 'True Love' now.

The cover art for ‘True Love’ was designed by West and features handwritten notes from XXXTentacion, which come from a journal discovered by the late rapper’s mother. The documentary charts the late rapper’s ascent on SoundCloud, his struggles with mental health and his history of domestic abuse charges. ‘True Love’ plays over the end credits of the film.

Listen to Kanye West and XXXTentacion's True Love. The song first appeared on Donda 2 and will feature on XXXTentacion's upcoming project, Look At Me: The ...

Kanye West and XXXTentacion appear together on "True Love," which hit streaming platforms today. "True Love" plays over the end credits of LOOK AT ME: XXXTENTACION. The documentary, produced by FADER Films, is streaming on Hulu now. The song first appeared on Donda 2, the Ye album released exclusively via the Stem Player. The song will also appear on XXXTentacion’s upcoming project, Look At Me: The Album.

'Look At Me: XXXTentacion' producer Rob Stone tells the real story of a chaotic and promising life cut tragically short.

I never met him, but as you get to know him among all the heinous behaviours, you see the talent, the acumen, his ability to move people and the beginnings of him making amends to those he hurt. I think we all have had degrees of that, but to admit that and to deal with that publicly, and to say I’m going to be a better person and commit to it, especially at that age? I don’t think there was a limit to him. “Everyone involved did an incredible job, and I don’t think anyone at any point wants to tell anyone how to feel coming out of this film. He was giving the commentary, but the internet had its own commentary. In the conversations with Cleo and Solomon, we always discussed honesty in telling his story.