XXXTentacion received a platinum plaque for his hit single “Look at Me.” He took to Instagram to show it off and pointed out his unique choice of artwork. “They don’t want to see you with a platinum plaque. They don’t want to see a mugshot on a platinum plaque,” he yelled.
X recently dropped a very controversial video for the track that included graphic imagery such as him knocking out a teacher. Several children, including both white and black kids, are also lynched in the video. X claimed the images were meant to convey a socially conscious message and defended the video on social media earlier this month. “The significance of the first part of the video, with me beating up the teacher and knocking him out is basically saying I was teaching a lesson, so I just wanted you to know it was a part of the sequence of the video,” he said. “Thank you very much” He also addressed the staged lynchings in the visual. “About me hanging the child. If you don’t remember, there's three people hanging in the beginning,” he continued. “There’s three people. I’m 19. Emmet Till is 14. Philando Castille being in like his 20 or 30s.”
