New Yorker praises a violent rapper

If you live in a pleasant suburb, go to work five days a week and spend most of your non-work time raising your kids (or possibly grandchildren), you have no idea how much the so-called "elites"--the "opinion-shapers"-- glorify black violence and rap.  Cuz "authentic."

If you want this nation to survive, you need to understand how this process works.  So consider an article written by Doreen St. Félix, a "contributor" for New Yorker magazine, about the inspiring rap "music" of a brutal, angry thug named Jahseh Onfroy. 

Onfroy's mother was an unmarried teenager, and he was raised by a grandmother.  This could well explain why he was angry at...well, everyone, and eager to beat anyone within range.  But when he became a rapper, taking the name "XXXTentacion," suddenly Doreen and all her cool, hip friends saw him as an "artist."  Her article makes it clear that she loved his work.

He dropped out of high school after his sophomore year.  But he was an artist!  And a role model!

Doreen glosses over every violent thing he did.  He beat girlfriends, fans, and one gay "peer," but none of that seems to faze Doreen's admiration; she sees him as an "artist" who is merely expressing his anger.  It appears that in Doreen's view this justifies any brutality he wished to inflict.

Onfroy said...he would instigate fights in grade school as a ploy to get [his mother's] attention.  [He said] his mother once gave him permission to retaliate against a female classmate who was hitting him as a form of juvenile flirtation. In response, he “slapped the shit out of her and kneed her.” 

That's a quote from the man himself.  So does Doreen (female) criticize her admired rapper for "slapping the shit out of" the grade-school girl?  Not even close.  Her only comment is 

Onfroy said that his mom was surprised; she “realized how seriously I took her.” Later, he would get her name—Cleopatra—tattooed on his chest.

Doreen quickly rehabilitates Onfroy by including the sweet, humanizing (?) tattoo vignette.

He was an artist, see?  And a role model!  And making millions!

She notes that Onfroy made two albums, and that one, titled “?”--literally, a question mark--débuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts.

Onfroy clawed to the surface as the genre’s wretched bard. He stalked the shadows of metal and emo and punk rock, and fleeced rap of its devotion to materialism, focussing instead, obsessively, on existential crisis. There wasn’t a dark thought that he kept hidden. He unleashed a tremulous bombardment of pessimism, occasionally interrupted by feral gestures of overwhelming helplessness. 

Oh, certainly.  We've all noticed that rappers no longer seem to be as devoted to materialism now.  Do I need to add a tag?

Onfroy was jailed on charges of beating his pregnant former girlfriend.  The beating fractured her eye socket.  When she established a GoFundMe to raise money for surgery to repair the broken orbital socket, people calling themselves XXXTentacion fans targeted her until the Web site temporarily shut it down.  Cuz, artist.

To promote one rap release, Onfroy bragged about beating a gay peer at a detention center.  Doreen seems unfazed, as she quickly follows with a phrase that seems to be approval:

XXXTentacion lived his art, which some would call a mark of authenticity. 

Onfroy’s victims are sacrifices, the thinking goes, on the pyre of raw art. The immaturity is part and parcel of the genius. The only unforgivable thing would be to be a hypocrite.

Some have argued that however grossly misguided his behavior, he provided his listeners with invaluable solace and understanding. 

At a "music" festival in California he beat a fan with a microphone. On Instagram, he taunted people who challenged him about domestic violence. 

Taunted.  Like the murderous Leftist bomb-maker Bill Ayers, who escaped all punishment and then taunted Americans by writing "Guilty as hell, free as a bird."  Ah.

Last October Onfroy signed a rap deal for a reported six million dollars.

He was awaiting trial for domestic violence against his pregnant girlfriend and was facing more than a dozen felony charges.  He was on house arrest, but a sympathetic judge released him from house arrest ...so he could headline at rap "concerts."  Sweet deal, eh?  Bet Paul Manafort wishes he could have gotten a deal like that.  But Onfroy was an "artist," and judges tend to be sympathetic. 

On June 18th Onfroy was fatally shot in broad daylight, in his BMW--by four young black males.

You are instructed not to draw ANY lessons or conclusions from this, citizen.

Doreen was devastated.

Black Lives Matter has called for a non-protest.