BBC article - XXXTentacion and domestic violence

[AllyMcBeagle]

AIBU to think it's ridiculous to say that the rapper XXXTentacion had "channelled his energy and fury into music" whilst also saying in the same article that he "was facing 15 felony charges at the time of his death, including aggravated battery of a pregnant woman."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44529367

Totally prepared to be told IABU - just that phrase seemed like bad reporting to me.

Guess it's just me then. I just hate all this troubled genius stuff and clearly he hadn't "channelled his fury into music" as he was still taking his fury out on others including a pregnant woman.

As bad as it sounds, he did a fair amount to get himself in someone's bad graces and I'm honestly not surprised he got killed.

Never heard of him.

He was an excessively violent bigoted thug.

never heard of him but the artticle is odd. However, when someone dies, you hardly ever hear about how awful he/she was though. This particular person does sound violent though!

YANBU. While I feel bad for his family who have lost a son/brother, there is little about his lifestyle to celebrate. He was a violent man and there should be no rewards or accolades for violent men.

I just hate all this troubled genius stuff

And yes to this. It's a phrase rarely applied to women yet often used to excuse the shotty behaviour of men simply because they are men who happen to be good at whatever job it is they do.

*shotty = shitty

Totally agree. The things that someone has done during their life are not wiped away because of their death, good or bad. I hate the eulogising of people like this.

9fhs U ok hun?

Yeah, it's easy to write that "troubled genius" article if you are a comfortably off BBC journalist.

But what if you have to have someone exhibiting that behaviour as your next door neighbour? Or know someone affected by DV?

Then he doesn't seem to be such a genius.

"Troubled genius" is such a journalist cliche anyway, can't journalism evolve?