New York Daily News

RAPPER LEFT ALL TO KIN

XXXTentaci­on wrote will at 19 and was shot dead at age 20

- BY PETER SBLENDORIO NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

The murdered rapper XXXTentaci­on prepared a will before his death and left everything to his family.

XXXTentaci­on, who was 20 when he died, had signed the legal document last November when he was just 19, according to TMZ, which obtained the will.

The paperwork states the rapper, whose real name was Jahseh Onfroy, did not have any children, and names his mother and two brothers as his beneficiar­ies. The document didn’t disclose the rapper’s net worth.

XXXTentaci­on’s mom, Cleopatra Bernard, hinted on Instagram after his death that the rapper had a baby on the way by posting a photo of a sonogram with the caption, “He left us a final gift.” She did not specify the identity of the apparent child’s mother.

The hip hop artist was shot dead on June 18 at a Deerfield Beach, Fla., motorcycle dealership in what police believe was a robbery. A suspect named Dedrick Williams was arrested two days later and charged with murder. A death certificat­e for XXXTentaci­on published by TMZ states he died in the hospital.

XXXTentaci­on faced a series of legal issues over the course of his career, including being accused of beating a pregnant girlfriend in 2016. He had been awaiting a trial for that case when he died. The rapper once spoke about the possibilit­y of dying young in an Instagram video that began to recirculat­e on social media after his death.

“If worse thing comes to worst, and I f--king die or some s--t and I’m not able to see out my dreams, I at least want to know that the kids perceived my message and were able to make something of themselves and able to take my message and use it and turn it into something positive and to at least have a good life,” XXXTentaci­on says in the video, which was originally posted to his Instagram story on an undisclose­d date.

A music video for XXXTentaci­on’s song “SAD!,” filmed before his death, was released Thursday and shows the rapper going to his own funeral.

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REX/SHUTTERSTO­CK The death of Rapper XXXTentaci­on, killed at the age of 20, has left fans like one (above right) in mourning.
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