wanna clarify that a successful young black artist being shot is not something i would ever celebrate, and i am not celebrating x's death.
i've been trying to really thoroughly educate myself on his life, childhood, the events of abuse that took place, and what he did in the aftermath because although my original post was pretty partisan i don't want to make it seem like i'm not open to respectful discussion about this.
that being said: violence was a part of his life from a very young age, and clearly became normalized for him in his household when he was as young as 6. so, that might *explain* why he was such a violent person, but it does not excuse his actions.
that's a distinction that really needs to be made in this situation. you cannot see the abuse allegations and simply say 'he had a bad childhood,' because as many people have already articulated, that does not mean you will automatically beat women. he made that choice on his own, regardless of his past.
Oh yeah I figured you were agreeing. I just felt the need to say it again. It's flying above other's heads. A bad childhood is not an excuse to be a crappy person, period. He did however, deserve more time to rectify that and become a better person and see that life has better people and things to offer. All around, just so sad.
why tf did i write so much - no 20 yo kid deserves to die so young without getting a chance to rectify themselves (includes being punished justly by the law, going to jail, w/e)
him being mega talented just adds to how tragic this is
Dude was 20, he was a kid. A messed up kid with some serious mental issues and a history of violent crime but yea, a kid. I'm not even going to bring up his upbringing or whatever since I think that's been brought up a bunch already in this thread, instead I want to talk about the fact that he was awaiting trial for a lot of these crimes he committed. He was going to be tried and punished for these things that he did. He also recently had been making attempts at trying to be a better person, so who knows what that would have led to in the coming years.
What I see here is the death of a messed up, talented kid who was almost certainly going to be punished for his crimes. Him being dead doesn't fix anything he did before, it doesn't bring any closure to his victims. This is sad regardless, I would have much rather he lived to see his punishments and had gotten a chance to turn his life around.
I kinda hopped around but I think I said everything I wanted to say. To give a little bit more context as to why he was so famous/popular, he's probably the most (or one of the most) successful artist to come from the SoundCloud scene, had a #2 debut record and #1 sophomore album. pretty notable
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deleteddeletedabout 8 years ago
what's your excuse for repeatedly mocking someone's disability dude?
I don’t care that he’s dead because I don’t have any personal connection to him, however i don’t like that he’s being vilified for that when it is clear he has shown he was attempting to change for the better
What he did was messed up. But he should have had a chance to rectify that and become a better person. Would he have done so if he lived, not sure. But he didn't, and he's dead. I know at 20 years old I was still pretty toxic. I'm not saying he wasn't capable of changing but doing those things with the excuse of a rough childhood is not valid or acceptable. That's my point lol
Had he died of an OD I wouldn’t care since that would have been of his own accord (similarly to why I’m empathetic but not saddened by suicide), however the fact that someone else took his life is why I actually have any real feelings towards this
Yeah ur right and he actually made her blind in one eye he beat her so bad
deleteddeletedabout 8 years ago
beating someone so viciously for so long and then locking them up for 2 days so no one finds out is also pretty extreme ^-^
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deleteddeletedabout 8 years ago
interesting theory but pass
deleteddeletedabout 8 years ago
i personally think it's p extreme to say that someone that did something like that at the age of 17 is going to be a monster for the rest of their life and that they deserve to die
