Editors’ Notes Recorded while on house arrest and released just months before its 20-year-old maker was shot dead in South Florida, ? captures one of the bleakest visions in contemporary rap. As with 2017’s 17, ? is an upsetting—if strangely cathartic—listen, toggling between tender (“ALONE, PART 3,” “before I close my eyes”) and violent (“going down!,” “Floor 555”), hollowed-out trap and bedroom folk, turning suicidal thoughts into the material of singalong choruses (“SAD!”). A deeply controversial figure (he had been awaiting trial for aggravated battery of a pregnant woman at the time of his death), XXXTENTACION collapsed the distance between art and life, with tragic consequences.
Introduction (instructions)
1
1:57
ALONE, PART 3
2
1:49
Moonlight
3
2:15
SAD!
4
2:46
the remedy for a broken heart (why am I so in love)
5
2:40
Floor 555
6
1:33
NUMB
7
3:06
infinity (888) [feat. Joey Bada$$]
8
2:56
going down!
9
1:55
Pain = BESTFRIEND (feat. Travis Barker)
10
1:41
love yourself (interlude)
12
0:48
SMASH! (feat. PnB Rock)
13
1:49
I don't even speak spanish lol (feat. Rio Santana, Judah & Andrez Babii)
14
3:12
changes
15
2:01
Hope
16
1:50
schizophrenia
17
1:20
before I close my eyes
18
1:39