He lived with his mother, who he said “had it hard,” and sometimes with his grandmother. Taking in the full scope of these events is difficult and overwhelming, so we’ve compiled a timeline to try to make sense of the situation.ġ998–2011: XXXTentacion grew up in Pompano Beach and Lauderhill in South Florida. At the time of his murder in June 2018, he was also awaiting trial for a 2016 domestic-abuse case, in which he was charged with aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and witness tampering. He signed a record deal rumored to be worth a whopping $6 million despite a video that surfaced showing XXX hitting a fan in the head with a microphone at the Rolling Loud Festival in Mountain View, California. The late rapper XXXTentacion (real name Jahseh Onfroy) experienced a tumultuous but relatively rapid rise to success, punctuated by serious legal issues and disturbing acts of violence.
