You could shake his hand and he’d tell you he appreciates you for pulling up. I used to go to his store and see him there. He stuck around his community and made it a point to push ownership and unification. He didn’t just start to make money and disappear into the Hollywood Hills. He touched real people’s lives every day. That’s why it was such a big loss – because everyone looked up to him so much. He embodied what everybody would want to accomplish one day, whether they worked at a clothing store or whether they were a rapper – he checked all those boxes. Rosecrans Vic, 27, Los Angeles, California: “Nipsey Hussle was like the finish line for LA. If you actually open your mind up and see, this was a talented kid making classic records.” Lil Peep And then the music being that quality makes it that much more digestible. But real people who had to go through it can really identify. A lot of other people won’t really relate to it, call him an addict, a junkie, shit like that. Juice WRLD understood addiction because he was addicted to drugs. Once this demon has a hold of you, it turns you into something that’s not yourself. He hit it right on the head – you could understand him and understand that it’s not a choice. “I’ve had similar substance abuse struggles in my past and the message that he was sending is that he attacked addiction and tied it in with mental health.
He had a really special place in my heart. And Juice, I could relate to him because we had almost the same problems. Juice WRLD, I like him and X and Lil Peep because they got me through some of the darkest times in my life. It’s such a tragedy, what happened to him.” Juice WRLDĪspen, 25, Charlottesville, Virginia: “A lot of people who won’t give certain rappers’ music a chance will label them mumble rap, but if you actually dig into their message and take in their content, they cover depression, drug abuse, mental health. I really didn’t want to see the terrible things people were going to say about him. “When X died, I decided to delete my Twitter temporarily because I knew there was going to be a negative backlash. He definitely matured more than I have at this point. It’s inspiring that he still managed to do all that. We go through the same struggles becoming young men and maturing into the people we’re going to become. “Because we were both around the same age, we were maturing at the same time – under totally different circumstances but everyone’s human and we go through the same problems. I grew closer to him as he became more emotional and sad in his music than aggressive. Through his evolution, it seemed like he changed almost in the same way as me. Then I dug deeper and I started finding sadder, more emotional music that would connect to a whole different audience – Look At Me and other songs that have a totally different vibe. It was something I could take pride in when I was younger. Because I was young and stupid and I did dumb things a lot, I could blast it and if people heard me listening, they would be annoyed. When I started listening to him, it was because of how gritty and aggressive his music was.
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Dean Van Nguyen Mac MillerĪdison, 20, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: “We’re around the same age, X and me. This is the meaning of these artists in the words of their biggest fans. We’ll never know how the recordings they’ll never make could have kept on changing popular music, but more immediately, these deaths have profoundly affected the fans to whom the rappers were their Amy Winehouse or Kurt Cobain. Now, unable to speak for himself, the dedicated followers he left behind are defensive of his legacy. The latter stages of XXXTentacion’s life were dominated by a disturbing list of criminal charges. Nipsey Hussle may not be a global household name but he was so deeply embedded in Los Angeles that when he fell, the whole city mourned. It’s not hyperbolic to call Mac Miller, Lil Peep and Juice WRLD voices of a generation – they candidly depicted addiction and mental health struggles, allowing their young disciples to make sense of their own problems. It usually takes time for history to work out a generation’s legends, but the legacies of these recently deceased stars already seems secure.
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