XXXTentacion’s ‘I’m Not Human’ featuring Lil Uzi Vert shared on fifth anniversary of death

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XXXTentacion‘s estate have officially released ‘I’m Not Human’, featuring Lil Uzi Vert, in honour of the late rapper’s fifth anniversary.The track was first teased back in January on the birthday of XXXTentacion – real name Jahseh Onfroy – and leaked afterwards.Now on Sunday (June 18), five years after the influential yet controversial rapper’s death, his estate officially dropped the acoustic ballad ‘I’m Not Human’.The track sees Onfroy and Uzi Vert croon over A sombre and minimal guitar instrumental, opening with a reference to Slipknot’s 2008 track ‘Snuff’ from ‘All Hope Is Gone’: “Bury all your secrets in my skin / Come away with innocence, and leave me with my sins.”In an accompanying statement, X’s longtime collaborator John Cunningham recounted the time he and Onfroy made the track whilst he lived with him in Florida in 2018.“The day he first sang ‘I’m Not Human’ as I was playing that guitar part, we both looked at each other and cracked a smile, knowing it was special,” he said. “We listened back to the voice memo he recorded and talked about finishing it, but the few times that we tried recording vocals in the studio the feeling was never the same.

He always preferred the original voice memo which is why we chose to keep it in the official version of the song.”Cunningham then spoke about how Lil Uzi Vert got on board after trying to “find the right time and the right song for a posthumous release with Jahseh” before the release of X’s first posthumous album, 2018’s ‘SKINS‘.In November 2021, Lil Uzi Vert told he felt “really weird” to make a posthumous track with XXXTentacion at that time in a Twitch livestream.“Yes, I’d love to do a song with him but I’m really weird on stuff like that,” he said. “Don’t get me.