He and Peep made good emo rap. I know Peep didn't like him, but who cares. I don't think it's fair to call it ass. It was an era and either you f***ed with or you didn't. X was also tied into the Raider clan scene with Denzel, so he was understandably a big South Florida rapper

my bad, many streams is the decider of how great an artist is you right.

#BTSBestArtistOf2026

wat do new gen rappers be sayin wen u ask who their favs were growing up

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I feel like his come up is pretty organic if you were following but also I think their careers and untimely deaths align right when streaming was getting more payola dominated / label inflated from its initial breakout in 2015/2016.

I have no real proof to back this up but people like X and Juice and Peep earning so many records/streams posthumously and the amount of music but out by their labels post-death kind of makes me think a lot of their views/numbers post-death are inflated
But pre-death it’s as organic as any other artist at his trajectory

i still lnow ppl that swear he was gonna be leader of new gen

It was that eras internet underground

Now it’s these randoms yall post like Nine Vicious lol

Emo rap had previously been the territory of white boys from Minneapolis who used words like petrichor and were lyrical miracle.

XXX just gave that dysfunction a James Dean sheen with his smattering of half finished snippets and face tattoos. Peep also helped take over that category by having listened to Nirvana once prior to entering a recording booth.

He definitely peaked in popularity and success, he never peaked musically bc he never had it like that

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My 13 year old little cousin would agree

sounds like the name of a dominican fragrance. triple x tentacion

Time will tell what's worse

I remember a small handful of people saying he was the new cudi

I dated a mom once who had elementary school aged kids who said her kids would request sad among other songs because their mom would play it around them

One of the many red flags that's said nah I'm good

bro fell for the psyop

He was a dope artist. Y’all trippin

That's cool man.

S*** was still ass.

Doing violent/weird s*** to women is bad.

but X also was finna be one of them ones. He mixed everything in rap up until that point and had for better or worse a lot of unpredictability in his backstory/persona and trajectory in his career/musically. It was a recipe for a megastar

Why didn’t peep like him?

In retrospect my respect was a Psyop Ranger

Never listened to him but his music was responsible for one of the greatest youtube videos ever