Top Xxxtentacion Songs of All Time
Xxxtentaction songs are full of life, lyrics with a deeper sense and approach to life, melodic rhymes, and figurative imagery.
Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy, aka XXXTentacion, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter.
During his brief career, he developed a cult following among his youthful fans with music about despair and isolation. This article examines some of XXXTentacion’s top tracks that you can listen to.
XXXTentacion was born on January 23, 1998, in Plantation, Florida, to Jamaican parents Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy and Cleopatra Eretha Dreena Bernard. He is regarded as a key character in the emo-rap and SoundCloud rap genres, which gained popular notice in the mid-to-late 2010s.
On June 18, 2018, XXXTentacion was assassinated at the age of 20. He was fatally murdered near a motorbike business in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Despite his passing, he is remembered for his musical impact and influence. Check out the finest XXXTentacion tracks.
XXXTentacion’s Best Songs of All Time
XXXTentacion’s finest songs ever XXXTentacion sold more than 68 million certified records (RIAA and BPI) in the United States and the United Kingdom.
He was honored with an American Music Award and a BET Hip Hop Award after his death.
In addition, he has been nominated for 11 Billboard Music Awards. Here are some of the best XXXTentacion tracks:
1. Revenge
Revenge was the lead single from X’s debut studio album in 2017, which got a preview on Twitter, unfortunately, five days before the death of his pal Jocelyn Flores. He would go on to dedicate the single to her, and the song was the inspiration for the brand Revenge.
On the charts, Revenge reached number 77 on the Hot 100 and number 37 on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart.
While X is generally thought of as a rapper, this track really shows his versatility as an artist. It’s more of a conventional song structure than he’s used to doing, harmonizing across most of the song through the somewhat depressing lyrics that do not seem to match the optimistic tone of the music.
2. Jocelyn Flores
The follow-up single for X’s debut album, Jocelyn Flores, was a further homage to his late friend and dedicated to Jocelyn Flores.
There were plenty of rumors regarding Flores, her work, and her relationships with XXXTentacion that we aren’t going to get into in this post since much of them just isn’t tasteful. Instead, we will focus on the song, which entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 31 and peaked at 19 after X’s death in 2018.
It’s another time X goes outside of just being a rapper and switching over to actually singing, forming a kind of lullaby that goes into what could have been and what has taken place.
3. Hope
Unlike the first two songs, Hope was dedicated to the victims of the Parkland shootings rather than any of X’s friends. While not saying he could truly understand what the survivors were feeling, the song does try to relate to them in terms of survivors’ guilt and goes off on the political inaction that succeeded the event.
The song peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 70 and was certified triple platinum in the US by the RIAA. While plenty of his work was the musical embodiment of despair and loneliness, Hope strikes an obvious optimistic chord, feeling more like an emotional release than something that wallows in those negative feelings.
4. Carry On
A softer, lo-fi style song than you might expect from X, Carry On delves into some of the deeply emotional topics plaguing X’s mind. It mainly deals with his ex-girlfriend and coping with the end of that relationship.
There’s oddly some downtime on the song, an outlier in his normal wall of vocals that really gives listeners time to absorb the lyrics and enjoy the instrumentation.
There were many great songs on X’s 17 album, but for this genre-fluid artist, Carry On might be the best track on the disc.
5. Everybody Dies in Their Nightmares
For this one, we are going back to XXXTentacion’s debut album, 17. An importantshift from our previous entry, X raps Everybody Dies in Their Nightmares in a rapid-fire and monotone style, reflecting on his own sense of impending doom and suicidal thoughts.
Among critics, it’s a song that stands above most of his work, ranked as his fifth-best song in 2019. The song saw strong chart results in the US, peaking at number 42 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 22 on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs charts. It immediately resonated with fans as one of X’s most heartfelt and authentic songs
6. The Remedy for a Broken Heart (Why Am I So In Love)
A lot from 17 was about XXXTentacion’s ex-girlfriend Geneva Ayala, so it should come as no surprise that this song was too. Even the outro of the album was named after her.
In a creative twist, the sampling for the song is X’s own vocals and is paired with the simple instrumentation he’s known for. It matches the vibe of the song incredibly well, making many fans get stuck in their own feelings, though this song is said by those groups to have helped people get through tough times in their own lives. Like a lot of his work, it’s impossible to ignore the level of pain in this song.
7. Sad!
A big entry from X’s 2018 studio album, ?, SAD! would eventually become the highest-charting single of XXXTentacion’s career. Following the artiste’s death in 2018, the song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached 1 billion streams on Spotify.
You can easily argue that this is X’s best song, at the very least, in terms of success and popularity. X’s signature song, the single, was certified diamond by the RIAA in the US in 2021. You probably aren’t going to find a song that embodies the emo hip-hop style of XXXTentacion better than this song did.
8. F*Ck Love
If ever there was a song title that embodied one of the feelings after a breakup it would probably be this one. F*ck Love is officially censored in a few different ways, so do it however you like. Featuring Trippie Redd, this track comes from X’s debut album, 17.
The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at the number 41 spot before climbing, and peaking, at number 28 after X’s death. In 2019, it became the most streamed song in the history of SoundCloud, reaching over 206 million streams on the platform.
9. Look at Me!
Look at Me! ended up being a sleeper hit on SoundCloud and found solid success when released as a digital download. The lead single from X’s debut commercial mixtape Revenge, it would eventually go on to be certified platinum by the RIAA.
Billboard ranked the track among their 100 Songs That Defined The 2010s, seeing the song peak at number 34 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and see 470 million views on YouTube. The song spent 20 weeks on the chart, one of X’s longest runs.
10. MOONLIGHT
Moonlight was dropped posthumously from X’s second album, ?, and sent to rhythmic radio as the album’s third single. The song ended up charting globally, peaking at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and being certified platinum in the US.
That chart performance tied Moonlight with Falling Down for X’s third-highest charting song in the states. Overall, it got a bit of an awkward beat full of fun synths and free-flowing bars. The music video for it was the last X ever recorded before his death, ending up as a major hit on YouTube.
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