Popular music has never known a story like that of South Florida rapper Jahseh “XXXTentacion” Onfroy.
In his final month as a 17-year-old high school dropout, he uploaded a song to SoundCloud that – almost single-handedly – changed the way hip-hop looks and sounds. He hit the charts with no record label, no publicist, no radio play and a near-total press blackout. Soon, it felt like
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: We’ve Only Begun to Understand XXXTentacion’s Musical Legacy