Sold Date:
May 21, 2020
Start Date:
May 17, 2020
Final Price:
$39.99
(USD)
Seller Feedback:
40749
Buyer Feedback:
0
Store Categories XXXTENTACION 17 (Import Version) / LP NEW VINYL / 2018
import version sealed in a poly bag, on black vinyl
It would be a stretch to call 17 a rap album at all; instead, it is a collection of shell-shocked bedroom R&B and hopeless, rock-bottom grunge that deals exclusively with depression, heartbreak, and suicide. “Jocelyn Flores,” a half-sung, half-rapped dedication to a friend who ended her life in a hotel room earlier this year, presents pain as one’s final connection to something that’s no longer there. “Dead Inside (Interlude)” is just a piano and X’s racing thoughts, reminding me quite a bit of the 2000 version of Cat Power’s “In This Hole.” “Voices in my head/Telling me I’m gonna end up dead,” he chants along with the funereal plod of “Save Me,” a blatant cry for help that sits somewhere between Staind and unplugged Chris Cornell. Of its 11 songs, only half make it past the two-minute mark. But if the songs on 17 often feel like unfinished thoughts, well, that’s what existing inside the black hole of depression and PTSD feels like. And for those who have suffered from mental health issues, it’s hard not to relate, on some primordial level, to the visceral despair here. There is no respite, no light at the end of the tunnel, just darkness.
Side A
1. The Explanation (0:50)
2. Jocelyn Flores (1:59)
3. Depression & Obsession (2:24)
4. Everybody Dies in Their Nightmares (1:35)
5. Revenge (2:00)
6. Save Me (2:43)
Side B
1. "Dead Inside (Interlude) (1:26)
2. Fuck Love (Feat. Trippie Redd) (2:26)
3. Carry On (2:09)
4. Orlando (2:43)
5. Ayala (Outro) (1:39)