![]() Scroll through his SoundCloud page and you’ll find him re-creating that effect, pushing way too much sound through not enough speaker. In addition to bragging about various assaults he had committed in vile detail, XXXTentacion also explains how he discovered music - everything from 2Pac to Papa Roach - through the speakers of a cheap Kyocera cellphone. Most of what anybody knows about XXXTentacion comes from an on-camera interview with the YouTube channel No Jumper - a chat that has racked up more than 2.5 million views since appearing 11 months ago. The rapper is currently incarcerated in Florida, facing a litany of charges after allegedly assaulting a pregnant woman. Some say that the rapper owes his new fame to Drake, a superstar accused of biting the flow of “Look at Me!” on a new song called “KMT.” Others wonder if XXXTentacion’s rise has more to do with the public’s ghoulish interest in the repugnant crimes he may have committed. ![]() It’s all otherground now.Īnd because so many of today’s migrant listeners crave stories to go with their sounds, XXXTentacion has generated a jumble of keystrokes, too. In a way, “Look at Me!” is a raw new reminder that the underground no longer exists. In today’s digital wilds, if enough streamers suss out a song, that song turns into a hit. We used to call that heroic journey out of the underground and into the mainstream “crossing over,” but it usually required a record label’s muscle and a radio station’s consent. Streaming is making popland a more democratic place - a place where dissident sounds can rise up from the digital margins and make a more resonant noise. Such wild things should make our hearts sing. So to land its current spot on the Hot 100, “Look at Me!” racked up 10.9 million streams across seven days, according to Nielsen Music - enough to compensate for the fact that radio hasn’t really touched it. It’s all thanks to the fact that Billboard now compiles its weekly marquee singles chart by measuring online streaming alongside sales and radio airplay. ![]() 65, enjoying its sixth week on the charts, breathing down the neck of Ed Sheeran’s “Galway Girl.” Good luck hearing it in the club, on the radio, out the cracked window of a passing Chevy Malibu, or anywhere else in three-dimensional space. I put a hole in your parents.” Sonically, the entire track is blown out to a level that feels assaultive, but strangely, “Look at Me!” doesn’t seem to exist in our physical reality. There’s an apocalyptic hiccup near the center of this week’s Hot 100 - a distorted death-glitch called “ Look at Me!” by XXXTentacion, a 19-year-old Florida rapper giving lessons in lethal logic: “You pull a gun on my mans. (Courtesy of Karen Murphy/ Washington Post illustration)
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