Skins

by XXXTentacion

Overview

A gift to fans, Skins exists primarily for loyal XXXTentacion devotees. Clocking in at less than 20 minutes, this posthumous collection offers ideas, fleeting emotions, and stream-of-conscious freestyles centered around the swirling darkness within the late rapper. There is a handful of worthwhile nuggets on which to focus, including the woozy "Guardian Angel" and the disturbing "Train Food." "Whoa (Mind in Awe)" comes close to being a fully-realized song -- the lightest and most pop-friendly production on Skins -- but a pair of ragers featuring Travis Barker steal the show. "Staring at the Sky" starts slow with contemplative emo-acoustic guitar strums before exploding into a metallic burst backed by Barker's pounding drums. Like every other song on Skins, it's all-too-brief, but works to great effect. On "One Minute," Kanye West returns to Yeezus territory, utilizing the track to showcase himself atop jagged guitar and Barker's crashing cymbals before XXX joins at the end, almost as an afterthought, with some bloody, hardcore punk-indebted screaming. These unconventional genre hybrids point to an unexplored direction that XXX might have veered toward if he hadn't been killed, but unfortunately this is as far as they go. Skins takes that unrealized potential and cobbles together these tracks -- basically B-sides and outtakes -- strictly for fans who needed just ten more reasons to hear his voice. ~ Neil Z. Yeung

Product Details

Release Date:	04/12/2019
Label:	Bad Vibes Forever / Empire
UPC:	0888915777138
Rank:	20081

Tracks

1. Introduction
2. Guardian Angel
3. Train Food
4. Whoa (Mind in Awe)
5. BAD!
6. STARING AT THE SKY
7. One Minute
8. Difference
9. I Don't Let Go
10. What Are You So Afraid Of

Album Credits

Performance Credits

XXXTentacion   Primary Artist
Robbie Soukiasyan   Piano,Guitar,Keyboards
Kanye West   Featured Artist
Travis Barker   Drums,Featured Artist
John Cunningham   Bass,Drums,Piano,Guitar

Technical Credits

Jahseh Onfroy   Composer,Engineer,Producer,Executive Producer
Robbie Soukiasyan   Mixing,Composer,Engineer,Producer,Additional Production
Brandon Brown   Mixing Assistant
Kevin Peterson   Mastering Assistant
Kanye West   Composer
Travis Barker   Composer
David Kutch   Mastering
Kevin Gomringer   Composer
Tim Gomringer   Composer
Ciara Nicole Simms   Composer
Koen Heldens   Mixing
Cheng Sok   Package Design
John Cunningham   Mixing,Composer,Engineer,Producer,Programming,Executive Producer
Robbie Owens-Russo   Cover Art Direction
Sergio Montoya   Photography
Charles Mangan   Cover Art Direction
Duong Nguyen   Lettering
Solomon Sobande   Management
XXXTentacion   Producer
Will Chason   Engineer