Blink-182 Confirmed on XXXTentacion Track Listing

That sucks. Shame on everyone that is featured on that.

 

I don't know the most appropriate way to say this...but when celebrities who did terrible things die, I understand how it can complicate how people choose to talk about them, but I always hope that if it's not going to shine a light on their misdeeds, their platform that validates/excuses their actions will disappear.

When you then see a release like this that celebrates him, ignores his legacy of violence, and makes bands like Blink feel comfortable enough to formally put their name beside his, it's really infuriating.

 

Disappointed in a lot of those features.

 

Disappointing, to say the least.

 

Fuck this band.

 

Can we officially say that they've tarnished their legacy now?

 

WELP

 

Not just tarnished. I hope they never come back from this because they don't deserve to. Fuck 'em all.

 

I was going to play devil's advocate and ask if blink-182 was aware of this, but being that some of this news broke back in 2017, it's hard to imagine they recorded it before the news broke. And even if they hadn't read any of that news (I'd like to think that's the case), someone in their camp should have at least done some homework on the guy.

Hopefully they and everyone else on this album ask for their credit to be removed. The tracks are what they are, but I recall at least one other time news was reported on this site about an artist being removed from being featured on a track because they didn't like the final product (maybe with Eminem...that's what I'm recalling).

EDIT: It was with Eminem: Justin Vernon on Eminem Collaboration: "Not a Fan of the Message" • chorus.fm

 

I’m gonna take a wild guess and say they won’t do shit, and will probably promote it

 

And I thought their Chainsmokers collab where they blatantly rip off I Miss You was bad.

 

I would really really love to hear an explanation, I say explanation because there will never be justification, ever, none, for doing this. I've tweeted @ Mark a few times about this already and it's been ignored. Wouldn't be surprised if I'm muted at this point but I really feel as someone who claims to want to be on the right side of such issues, an explanation as to why they've chosen to profit off a history of abuse isn't much to ask.

 

Travis got a XXX tattoo live on radio a while back and produced the Kanye song with him. I think it's fair to say they know the history.

 

What did this guy do?

 

You could google it if you want to know. There are hundreds of articles out there.

 

I also linked to a post with quite a few of the details, and sources, in the article itself.

 

What in the actual fuck? This is Kevin Lyman levels of tone deaf.

Just. Cut. All. Ties. There is literally no reason why Blink-182 should be involved in this as it won't truly benefit them in any way. I'm sure there are (literally) at least a dozen artists they could choose to collaborate with (across multiple genres, including hip-hop) who have a fanbase just as big (and just as young) that they could collaborate effectively with...

This is gross. And embarrassing. I'm legitimately baffled as to what the rationale could be here. Like, legit. And 2/3 of Blink have been blatantly involved with other, similar shit the last few years... So that's saying something...

 

smh

 

your answer is in your question (i.e., profit)...the explanation is $. shit and lame but true.

 

This really is hysterically true. Imagine thinking some of this desperate chasing they've been doing was born of integrity. I really like Nine as a whole but come on. They had kids doing Fortnite dances. Fucking lol at the shock in here.

 

Blink are just a giant mess. Travis is a massive hypocrite and Matt Skiba’s friends with a white supremacist. This just adds to the shit icing on the shit cake.

 

We knew about this for a long time here and yet Blink has made more headlines in the last few months than any other band...

 

What's that about? First off this whole mess is bullshit but I haven't cared to listen to Blink in 15 years so I wasn't planning on supporting them regardless but have always been an Alk3 fan. Was hoping this was just something Mark did and tied the band name to it, but if that is true as well it sounds like good reason to be done with both of the bands.

 

I’m out of the loop on Matt’s friend. Who’s that?