{"id":792301,"date":"2019-01-23T13:15:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T20:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=783186"},"modified":"2019-01-23T13:15:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T20:15:43","slug":"lil-waynes-dont-cry-video-is-raps-latest-half-hearted-xxxtentacion-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/lil-waynes-dont-cry-video-is-raps-latest-half-hearted-xxxtentacion-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Wayne\u2019s \u2018Don\u2019t Cry\u2019 Video is Rap\u2019s Latest Half-Hearted XXXTentacion Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The music of XXXTentacion<\/a>, the 20-year-old Florida rapper who was fatally shot<\/a> in a robbery last June, surged on the U.S. music charts after his untimely death. As a result, other often better-known rappers have appeared to capitalize on the late songwriter\u2019s buzz with so-called \u201ctributes.\u201d\u00a0Lil Pump\u2019s \u201cArms Around You\u201d featuring XXX, Swae Lee and Maluma<\/a> became a\u00a0Billboard<\/em> Hot 100 hit.\u00a0Kanye West released a feature on XXX\u2019s song \u201cOne Minute.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0These are popular, catchy songs. But the awkward truth is that these artists mined the unused recordings of a rapper whom they didn\u2019t know while he was alive.<\/p>\n

Lil Wayne\u2019s<\/a> \u201cDon\u2019t Cry\u201d<\/a> is the latest in this transparent trend. The Jay & Georgio Rodriguez-directed music video features Weezy sitting in the tundra as a large crystal protrudes from the ground. After Wayne goes through a few wardrobe changes and gets served wine by a nun, the mysterious crystal shoots a beam into space. If the crystal, nun and bloody throne are metaphors they aren\u2019t easy to parse. What is pretty pretty obvious is XXX\u2019s part: a black-and-white montage of XXX\u2019s various performances appears when during his chorus.<\/p>\n

During an interview with Elliot Wilson for his CRWN series<\/a>, Lil Wayne explained why he didn\u2019t know who XXXTentacion was before his death.<\/p>\n

\u201cMay he rest in peace. Y\u2019all know I don\u2019t listen to nothing but myself cause I work too much, so I didn\u2019t know who XXXtentacion was. Mack had to explain the whole story to me right? Then and there I had to google and all that and I found out, figured everything out. It was easy. It wasn\u2019t no such a thing as yes or no, it was let me get my verses together.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The music of XXXTentacion, the 20-year-old Florida rapper who was fatally shot in a robbery last June, surged on the U.S. music charts after his untimely death. As a result, other often better-known rappers have appeared to capitalize on the late songwriter\u2019s buzz with so-called \u201ctributes.\u201d\u00a0Lil Pump\u2019s \u201cArms Around You\u201d featuring XXX, Swae Lee and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 19:41:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}