He also posted rough cuts of his songs, which fumbled ecstatically toward some synth-heavy fusion of all of them. He spent his resultant exile trawling MySpace and broadening his musical tastes- the Killers, Bloc Party, Adele, and Lil B, whom he enthusiastically interviewed on his blog. Sheran, who was in the car, was implicated, and his life's direction changed. He had been headed for the Air Force, but a tragic accident with a friend's gun, which Makonnen described in heartbreaking detail to BuzzFeed, ended with his friend dead in a car shortly after their high school graduation. Makonnen Sheran dubbed himself iLoveMakonnen when he was on house arrest in 2008.