A brand new music by XXXTentacion has formally dropped 5 years after the rapper’s dying.
On Sunday (June 18), Columbia Data launched “I’m Not Human,” that includes Lil Uzi Vert, to mark the fifth anniversary of X’s homicide on June 18, 2018. The somber monitor was beforehand teased in late January on what would’ve been his twenty fifth birthday.
X’s longtime producer John Cunningham shared some touching phrases along side the discharge of “I’m Not Human.”
“After I was dwelling with Jah in Florida in 2018 we might spend most days in his room, me enjoying guitar and him singing, and the day he first sang ‘I’m not human’ as I used to be enjoying that guitar half we each checked out one another and cracked a smile, figuring out it was particular,” Cunningham mentioned in a press release.
“We listened again to the voice memo he recorded and talked about ending it, however the few occasions that we tried recording vocals within the studio the sensation was by no means the identical and he at all times most well-liked the unique voice memo which is why we selected to maintain it within the official model of the music.”
Cunningham continued, “The dialog with Uzi about discovering the correct time and the correct music for a posthumous launch with Jahseh dates again to late 2018 earlier than the discharge of SKINS. Uzi got here to Florida, performed basketball with X’s little brother Aidan, listened to the album with Cleo and I, however finally they felt it wasn’t the correct time for a music and it was agreed that we might moderately await one thing to really feel proper moderately than pressure it. 12 months later I’m completely satisfied to say the correct time and proper music aligned after Cleo and Uzi reconnected in late 2022.”
XXXTentacion, born Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, was fatally shot throughout an armed theft in Deerfield Seashore, Fla., on the age of 20. The MC rose to fame on SoundCloud and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with ?, was killed whereas in his sports activities automotive. In April 2023, three males have been sentenced to life in jail for his homicide.
“I met up with Uzi on the studio and after one of many few heartfelt conversations we’d have that night time, I performed the music — which hadn’t been touched since Might of 2018 — and after seeing Uzi’s response to the music it felt as if the previous few years of conversations and back-and-forth music concepts had all led as much as this. That feeling was echoed after listening to Uzi and Jahseh’s voices collectively in a means that neither of them have ever sounded,” Cunningham famous.
“As sophisticated and conflicting as posthumous releases will be I really feel I’ll maintain this one in a particular place resulting from the truth that I used to be capable of have some small half in connecting two of probably the most pure and loving individuals I do know.”
Take heed to XXXTentacion’s “I’m Not Human” under.
