Rapper XXXTentacionwas shot deadon Monday north of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as he was leaving a motorcycle dealership, PEOPLE confirms.
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office told PEOPLE authorities responded to a shooting in Deerfield Beach that was reported at 3:57 p.m.
An hour and a half later, the sheriff’s office confirmed the star, born Jahseh Onfroy, was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is urged to call detectives John Curcio or Walt Foster at 954-321-4210 or an anonymous tip line at 954-493-TIPS.
Here are things to know about 20-year-old XXXTentacion:
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On May 10, the streaming platform announced that it ceased to promote the rapper’s music following charges that he beat a pregnant woman.
- Unlikely Duet
In September 2017, XXXTentacion surprised fans when he announced “Again,” his collaboration withNoah Cyrus, who received backlash for working with the embattled rapper after the controversy of his domestic violence charges.
At the time of the release, Cyrus did not promote or mention its release on social media.
- Landing on theBillboardHot 100 and XXL Freshman Class
The rapper’s most well-known song “Look at Me!” entered the Billboard Top 100 chart in February 2017 after it was released in December 2015, even reaching itspeak at 34in April.
SoundCloud has been the platform where XXXTentacion has found most of his successes, garnering over 76 million plays thus far. His first song released to SoundCloud was the track, “Vice City.”
In June 2017, he was named to XXL’s Freshman Class andfeatured on the magazine’s cover.
His first album,17— which Lamarpublicly approved of— debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart in August 2017.
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- He Feuded with Drake
The Six God’s 2017 track “KMT” drew comparisons to XXXTentacion’s breakout song “Look at Me!” — and the young rapper was not pleased. XXXTentacioncalled Drake a “bitch”during an interview with WMIB that spring andposted photos of Drake’s motheron Twitter with disparaging captions. Drake, for his part, denied that he stole elements of the song (or “flow”) but XXXTentacion continued calling him out on social media, challenging him to “come to Florida” so that he could“out-rap”the “God’s Plan” star.
- Recent Success
XXXtentacion released his second studio album,?, in March and it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart.
“Sad,” his first of two single from?, reached 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming his first top 10 song on the charts.
source: people.com
