On May 26, 2017, he released the project A Love Letter To You, with songs No Smoke and Romeo and Juliet. The same year, he dropped A Love Letter You'll Never Get EP and Love Letter to You 2. On top of that, he earned a spot as the only featured artist on the late XXXtentacion's debut studio album, 17, on the track “F Love.” The album hit number two on the US Billboard 200, sold 88 thousand copies in its first week alone, and has since been certified platinum, being streamed 173 million times on Soundcloud. X and Trippie became friends after a DM conversation and at one point Trippie says they were talking every day. They had a short falling out but ended up making peace before X passed away.