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Originally Posted by H0RUS
Nope just a grieving fan.
Huge fan too here H0RUS, but some battles just ain't worth fighting. Especially ones rooted in culture. Some people are just going to look at a scary black kid with face tats and domestic violence charges from when he was 17 and use that as the foundation in their stance on how they and everyone else should view X because they can't compartmentalize the person from the music.
The development of X as an adult over the past year was a real feel good story if you were a fan of his. I can't remember a hip hop artist in a long time that experimented with music so much in this short of a time period and gain the cult following that he did. A lot of people make the 2Pac comparisons, and I can see why. Overall talent wise, 2 Pac's body of work is light years ahead of anything X has ever done, but Tupac also died at 25, XXX lost his life at 20..... waaaaaaay before he even got a chance to find himself as an artist. The people he touched by the spirit that he was feels exactly to me like how it was when Tupac got killed and I saw all of my older friends and relatives mourning like they lost a family member. X just had a one of a kind soul and millions going through depression, hopelessness, anxiety, love-lost just identified with him through the music.
This story is a real freaking tragedy. His death hit me especially hard after losing my dad on Fathers Day just one day before. I feel bad for the people who really loved him that still hold pain, depression, and despair in their hearts. The kid turned over a new leaf in his life, served his time, tried to right all of his wrongs (ending beefs with Ski, Rob $tone, his abused ex-GF, & others) all for it to be taken away over over some cash in a bookbag. The kid literally *JUST* got his **** together. Sucks that it's always "your own" that end up doing you in.