xaviersobased - Keep It Going (Documentary)

xaviersobased - Keep It Going "I gotta do some laundry but it's all a part of growing up and shit," xaviersobased says in the first minute of 'Keep It Going,' a new documentary produced and presented by The FADER. That's one way to describe the New York rapper's last few years as he's become one of the leading figures in the vast online web of rap artists and collectives known simply as “the underground.” The 22-year-old posted his first beat to SoundCloud in 2016, but it wasn't until after the pandemic that his music — short and manic songs inspired by the absurd universe of Bay Area Lil B The BasedGod, Bladee, Black Kray, Goth Money Records and more — began to take off. He's widely considered to have pioneered a new era of jerk music that's now heard in many corners of the internet and the U.K.'s underground. And now his ambitions lie even further. This film, which follows Xavier on his first-ever headlining tour, captures a young rapper at an inflection point in his career: he's the biggest he's ever been and needs to make a decision of where to go next. With a dedicated fanbase keeping up with his every move, Xavier is still working to make his most basic ends meet. "I'm homeless right now. We trying to get a crib right now," he admits at one point during our doc. "We still got a long way to go." Read the xaviersobased cover story: https://www.thefader.com/2026/02/03/xaviersobased-fader-cover-story-intervew-album-dj-rennessy Director: Alex Hodor-Lee Executive Producers: Steffanee Wang, Jon Cohen, Anthony Holland Editor: Sarah Tang Special thanks: DJ Rennessy, Alex "Nurse" Lopez, Backend, Ksuuvi, Demetri Metropoulos, Moustafa, Sam Hadelman, Scott Jawson, Sabit Shahn, Dark Matter Media, John Miller, Tom Phillips, Abby Silk, Alana Dolgin Subscribe now for more The FADER http://bit.ly/XPZVfG Read The FADER: http://www.thefader.com Follow The FADER on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thefader Follow The FADER on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefader/ Follow The FADER on X: https://x.com/thefader Like The FADER on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/11JaNSJ