XXXTENTACION Presents: Members Only Vol. 4
Members Only
XXXTENTACION Presents: Members Only Vol. 4 is the debut and only official studio album from South Florida collective Members Only, released on January 23, 2019—what would have been XXXTentacion’s 21st birthday—through Members Only and Empire Distribution. Following three earlier Members Only mixtapes, it’s the first project issued after XXXTentacion’s 2018 murder and includes scattered posthumous verses from him alongside performances by core crew members like Ski Mask the Slump God, Kid Trunks, Craig Xen, Cooliecut, Killstation, Bass Santana, Flyboy Tarantino, Robb Bank$, Kin$oul, and others. Spanning 24 tracks and about an hour, the album opens with “Corey’s Intro” and runs through songs such as “Nothing,” “Empty,” “Now or Never,” “Fall in Love with Death,” and “Sauce!,” the latter later receiving an animated video centered on XXXTentacion. Commercially, it debuted at number 23 on the Billboard 200 with around 16,000 first‑week units and eventually peaked at 18, marking a solid chart presence for a collective project built largely from in‑house collaborators.
The mood across Vol. 4 is notably dark and grief‑stricken, reflecting both XXXTentacion’s longstanding preoccupation with depression and the collective’s attempt to process his death. Musically, the record leans heavily into emo‑rap, grunge‑influenced hip‑hop, and horrorcore textures, with a surprising amount of melodic singing—listeners and early reviewers noted that much of the tape is more sung than rapped, and tracks like “Now or Never” even draw comparisons to the boy‑band‑style choruses of groups like Brockhampton. Lyrically, it combines bleak, fatalistic lines (including the chilling “Everybody will get a death they deserve” on “Empty”) with the usual mix of relationships, drugs, and street imagery, all filtered through a raw, lo‑fi aesthetic. As a posthumous, crew‑driven project, XXXTENTACION Presents: Members Only Vol. 4 operates both as continuing myth‑building around XXXTentacion and as a communal memorial, documenting how his friends and collaborators carried forward the Members Only sound in the shadow of tragedy.
XXXTENTACION Presents: Members Only Vol. 4
Members Only
XXXTENTACION Presents: Members Only Vol. 4 is the debut and only official studio album from South Florida collective Members Only, released on January 23, 2019—what would have been XXXTentacion’s 21st birthday—through Members Only and Empire Distribution. Following three earlier Members Only mixtapes, it’s the first project issued after XXXTentacion’s 2018 murder and includes scattered posthumous verses from him alongside performances by core crew members like Ski Mask the Slump God, Kid Trunks, Craig Xen, Cooliecut, Killstation, Bass Santana, Flyboy Tarantino, Robb Bank$, Kin$oul, and others. Spanning 24 tracks and about an hour, the album opens with “Corey’s Intro” and runs through songs such as “Nothing,” “Empty,” “Now or Never,” “Fall in Love with Death,” and “Sauce!,” the latter later receiving an animated video centered on XXXTentacion. Commercially, it debuted at number 23 on the Billboard 200 with around 16,000 first‑week units and eventually peaked at 18, marking a solid chart presence for a collective project built largely from in‑house collaborators.
The mood across Vol. 4 is notably dark and grief‑stricken, reflecting both XXXTentacion’s longstanding preoccupation with depression and the collective’s attempt to process his death. Musically, the record leans heavily into emo‑rap, grunge‑influenced hip‑hop, and horrorcore textures, with a surprising amount of melodic singing—listeners and early reviewers noted that much of the tape is more sung than rapped, and tracks like “Now or Never” even draw comparisons to the boy‑band‑style choruses of groups like Brockhampton. Lyrically, it combines bleak, fatalistic lines (including the chilling “Everybody will get a death they deserve” on “Empty”) with the usual mix of relationships, drugs, and street imagery, all filtered through a raw, lo‑fi aesthetic. As a posthumous, crew‑driven project, XXXTENTACION Presents: Members Only Vol. 4 operates both as continuing myth‑building around XXXTentacion and as a communal memorial, documenting how his friends and collaborators carried forward the Members Only sound in the shadow of tragedy.