{"id":3049,"date":"2018-10-24T09:10:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T13:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lovepeacenslander.com\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:10:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T13:10:24","slug":"xxxtentacion-confessed-to-domestic-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovepeacenslander.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/24\/xxxtentacion-confessed-to-domestic-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"XXXTentacion Confessed to Domestic Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When he was shot and killed<\/a> in June, Florida rapper XXXTentacion<\/a> was awaiting trial for a 2016 domestic abuse case involving a former girlfriend. He was charged<\/a> by the Miami-Dade County state attorney\u2019s office with aggravated battery of a pregnant victim, domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and witness tampering, accusations the alleged victim detailed in a January 2017 deposition<\/a>. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and maintained his innocence up until his death.<\/p>\n

Now, Pitchfork has obtained a secretly recorded tape of XXXTentacion talking with acquaintances around the time of his October 8, 2016 arrest. Discussing his ex-girlfriend, who he believed had cheated on him, XXXTentacion can be heard saying, \u201cI put my source of happiness in another person, which was a mistake initially, right? But she fell through on every occasion until now. Until I started fucking her up bruh. I started fucking her up because she made one mistake. And from there, the whole cycle went down. Now she\u2019s scared. That girl is scared for her life. Which I understand.\u201d He did not detail what he had done to the alleged victim. Earlier in the recording, he said, \u201cI will kill that bitch if she play with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pitchfork acquired the 27-minute tape from the Miami-Dade County state attorney\u2019s office. According to the office, both the prosecution and XXXTentacion\u2019s defense considered the tape a confession. (Criminal cases against XXXTentacion, whose real name is Jahseh Onfroy, were closed after his death. His most recent defense attorney did not return Pitchfork\u2019s emails or phone calls prior to deadline.) The state attorney\u2019s office provided the name of the person who made the recording, an acquaintance of XXXTentacion\u2019s; the person declined to comment to Pitchfork. The state attorney\u2019s office did not provide the identities of other people on the tape, and their identities are unclear. In the recording, XXXTentacion\u2019s acquaintances can be heard telling him that he cannot have \u201cprivate time\u201d with the alleged victim and trying to talk him down from thoughts of suicide.<\/p>\n

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On the tape, in addition to the threats against his ex-girlfriend, XXXTentacion also referred to a stabbing incident in Deerfield Beach, Florida, saying, \u201cI\u2019m on [Miami] New Times<\/em> for stabbing, how many people they put in the news? They said three, it was eight.\u201d (On January 21, 2016, a local Florida newspaper reported<\/a> that police were \u201csearching for the person who stabbed three people during a fight in Deerfield Beach.\u201d There is no record of anyone being charged with the stabbing, but a Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office report from the incident states that a witness \u201csaw an unknown black male with tattoos on his face swinging a knife in multiple directions.\u201d) XXXTentacion also admitted to stabbing a former manager, an incident that he was arrested for in Orange County, Florida, on July 14, 2016, before being released on bond shortly afterward. These acts of violence were mentioned on the tape to explain why his ex-girlfriend was scared for her life. \u201cShe\u2019s seen this shit,\u201d XXXTentacion said. \u201cShe know.\u201d<\/p>\n

After going to jail over the allegations in October 2016, XXXTentacion went on to top the Billboard<\/em> albums chart<\/a>and he has continued to galvanize debate<\/a> even after his passing, breaking a streaming record<\/a>previously held by Taylor Swift. His comments in the tape further hinted at some of the bleak themes in his music. \u201cYou ever seen somebody get their tongue cut out? \u2026 You ever seen somebody get raped? \u2026 You ever seen somebody try to kill your mom in front of you?\u201d he asked an unidentified man, by way of explaining how events he had witnessed affected his own violent behavior. \u201cEvery night you go to sleep and you remember what you seen and you remember how it felt and you remember that horrible feeling in your soul. Nobody can comfort you. It\u2019s something I gotta deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n