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Lil Peep
Lil Peep in 2016
Born	Gustav Elijah Åhr November 1, 1996 Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	November 15, 2017 (aged 21) Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
Cause of death	Accidental fentanyl–alprazolam (Xanax) overdose[1]
Resting place	Cremated
Other names	Trap Goose
Occupations	Rapper singer songwriter
Years active	2014–2017
Relatives	John Womack (grandfather)
Musical career
Origin	Long Beach, New York, U.S.
Genres	Emo rap lo-fi trap pop punk
Instrument(s)	Vocals
Labels	First Access Columbia
Formerly of	GothBoiClique
Website	lilpeep.com

Gustav Elijah Åhr Swedish pronunciation: [ˈoːr] (November 1, 1996 – November 15, 2017), known professionally as Lil Peep, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter.^[2] He was a member of the emo rap collective GothBoiClique. Helping pioneer an emo revival-style of rap and rock music, Lil Peep has been credited as a leading figure of the mid–late 2010s emo rap scene and came to be an inspiration to outcasts and youth subcultures.^[3]

Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to an American mother and a Swedish father and raised on Long Island, Åhr started releasing music on SoundCloud in 2013 under the name «Trap Goose»,^[4] later changing his artist name to Lil Peep because his mother had called him «Peep» since he was a baby.^[5] He soon became popular on the platform with the release of his 2015 single «Star Shopping», and his popularity grew further with his release of mixtapes Lil Peep; Part One and Live Forever later that year. In 2016, Lil Peep released his widely acclaimed mixtapes Crybaby and Hellboy, along with many other projects including California Girls and Vertigo.

Lil Peep’s first live performance was February 12, 2016, in Tucson as member of Schemaposse. Later that year, he toured briefly with Fat Nick, Mikey The Magician, and Smokepurpp. In the spring of 2017, Lil Peep embarked on his first solo tour, performing to packed venues in three Russian cities, making his way across western Europe, and then across the United States. Soon after the tour Lil Peep moved to London, where he recorded his EP Goth Angel Sinner, and in August he released his debut studio album, Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1.^[6]

While his mixtapes explored emo, trap, lo-fi and alternative rock, his debut album was a transition into pop punk and rap rock.^[7] His second album, Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2, was released in 2018 and debuted at number four on the Billboard 200.^[8] A documentary film about him, Everybody’s Everything, was released in 2019.

On November 15, 2017, two weeks after his 21st birthday, Lil Peep died on his tour bus before a scheduled performance in Tucson, his second to last scheduled show on a 33-date tour of the United States. The Pima County medical examiner’s office, which conducted toxicology tests on Lil Peep, ruled his cause of death an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid, and Xanax, a benzodiazepine sedative. His death was observed as a great loss to 21st century music. «He could have been his generation’s Kurt Cobain», a Rolling Stone profile stated.^[9][10]

Early life and education

Gustav Elijah Åhr was born on November 1, 1996, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the second child of first grade teacher Liza Womack and Harvard history professor Karl Johan Åhr. John Womack, an economist and historian of Latin America liberation movements, is Åhr’s maternal grandfather.^[11]

He moved to Long Beach, New York on Long Island before his fifth birthday.^[12] He had one sibling, Karl «Oskar» Åhr.^[13][14] His parents were both Harvard graduates.^[14][15] His mother’s family is from Oklahoma and his father is Swedish.^[16][17] Åhr’s Swedish citizenship was granted to him through his father in accordance with Swedish law which states that Swedish citizenship is granted automatically at birth to anyone with at least one Swedish parent.^[18]

Åhr’s parents separated in 2012 when he was 15. He began experiencing anxiety around age 16 and, according to his mother, self-medicated with marijuana and Xanax.^[10] Lil Peep had a close relationship with his mother, going so far as to tattoo her initials and birthday on his arm as his first tattoo at the age of 14.^[5] Following his parents’ split, he moved with his mother and older brother to Long Beach, New York, where he would eventually record «Lil Peep; Part One», Feelz, Vertigo, most of «California Girls,» «Garden,» «In the Bedroom I Confess,» «Mall Music,» «Romeo’s Regrets,» and several tracks that were released as singles, including «Star Shopping».

Åhr attended Lindell Elementary School, located just across the street from his mother’s apartment in Long Beach. Just a few days into Åhr’s kindergarten year, the September 11 attacks took place with smoke plumes clearly visible from Åhr’s kindergarten classroom. In third grade, Åhr was placed in Long Beach’s gifted and talented program. Later, in middle school, he was placed in accelerated classes. He played the trombone and tuba^[19] and expressed an interest in music and fashion from a young age. Åhr attended Long Beach High School in Lido Beach, New York, which was directly impacted by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and caused the school to close for a few weeks. When the school reopened, the faculty and administrators were more relaxed on the students, leading Åhr to enjoy his junior year of high school significantly more than the rest.

When Åhr returned to school the following year as a senior, there was a new administration that was unfamiliar with the student body and culture. An exhausted Åhr was ready to drop out, but was assisted by a teacher named Maria Hartmann to finish school. With the help of two other teachers whom Åhr knew and trusted, Åhr finished high school by completing his last two necessary courses, English and Social Studies. He graduated six months early in January 2014.

Later that January, Åhr was accepted into SUNY Old Westbury on Long Island, but declined to attend and instead enrolled as an out of state student at Glendale Community College in Pasadena, California. There, he was able to enroll in one class with a middle school friend, who ultimately dropped out. After his first semester at Glendale Community College, Åhr decided to drop out and instead enrolled at Nassau Community College on Long Island. By the fall of 2015, Åhr was taking four classes online (two business classes, one criminal justice class, and one art history class) in which he earned three A’s and one B.

During Åhr’s only full-time semester at Nassau Community College, he made the dean’s list. However, instead of enrolling in a second term, Åhr decided drop out and begin performing with Schemaposse. By the end of 2015 he had already completed a large body of work in his bedroom while attending school full-time.^{[20][21][22][23]}

At the age of 18, Åhr got his first face tattoo, a broken heart below his left eye, as a sign of commitment to avoiding a straight life. «A tattoo on your face is gonna stop you from getting a lot of jobs,» he would later say.^[10][24] He returned to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music under the stage name Lil Peep in February 2016.^[25] He moved to Los Angeles, he later explained, because living on Long Island depressed him.^[21]

Career

When Lil Peep was a teenager, he was self-described as a loner who made most of his friends online. Inspired by underground acts like Seshollowaterboyz and iLoveMakonnen,^[27] Peep made music while residing on Long Island^[28] under the pseudonym «Trap Goose»^[22] and lived temporarily with childhood friend Brennan Savage until both decided to move to Los Angeles.^[29]

In Los Angeles, Lil Peep initially lived in Skid Row and dipped in and out of homelessness,^[30] staying at Savage’s apartment while Savage pursued a degree. The two eventually went separate ways,^[29] and Peep met Atlanta rapper and producer JGRXXN, Florida rapper Ghostemane and Houston rapper Craig Xen, living with them while forming the collective Schemaposse.^[31] He originally met Craig Xen online and was introduced to JGRXXN, who needed a singer.^[32] Lil Peep also attended Glendale Community College during his first year in Los Angeles.^[12]

In 2015, Peep released his first extended play, Feelz. This was followed by his debut mixtape Lil Peep; Part One, which generated 4,000 plays in its first week. Shortly thereafter, he released a follow-up mixtape, Live Forever.^[33][34]

Lil Peep began to grow in popularity in the fall of 2015, garnered by the popularity of songs such as «Star Shopping» (later released as a single posthumously)^[35] making waves in underground hip-hop circles.^[31] Lil Peep’s popularity continued to rise after the release of the song «Beamer Boy», which led to him performing live for the first time with the rest of Schemaposse in February 2016 in Tucson, Arizona.^[36] In April, Schemaposse broke up and Lil Peep was no longer associated with a collective, though they remained on good terms.^[37] Shortly after Schemaposse’s breakup, Peep began to associate with Los Angeles-based rap collective GothBoiClique, featuring members of the group on his full-length mixtape Crybaby.^[38] The group shared a squat in Skid Row with Peep and often shared beds.^[24] Crybaby was recorded over the span of one month and was completed hours before its original release on SoundCloud in June 2016. Peep completed a majority of the mixing and mastering himself.^[27] In August, First Access Entertainment (FAE) partnered with Lil Peep on a joint venture to invest in and advise him on his career.^[39]

In September 2016, Lil Peep released his fourth and final solo mixtape, Hellboy.^[40] Songs from Hellboy such as «Girls» and «OMFG» received millions of views and plays on SoundCloud and YouTube.^[41] Hellboy’s success led to Peep’s first solo tour across the United States and Europe in the spring of 2017, which included performances in Russia and the UK for the first time in his career.^[42] In May 2017, the band Mineral accused Peep of copyright infringement for including an unlicensed and uncredited sample of their song «LoveLetterTypewriter» on his track «Hollywood Dreaming». Peep said that he was only trying to «show some love» with the sample.^[43]

Soon after the tour was completed, Peep emigrated to London, England, during a disentanglement with Gothboiclique. There he began to associate with figures such as Atlanta rapper iLoveMakonnen and longtime friend Bexey, and recorded Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1 and Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2, the EP Goth Angel Sinner and an unreleased collaborative project with iLoveMakonnen.^[44][45][46] Peep released his debut studio album, Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1, on August 15, 2017.^[47] Shortly thereafter he embarked on his second world tour, beginning in the UK in September^[48] and moving to Germany before finishing in the United States in November, which was cut short by his death.^[49]

Posthumous releases

After his death, Lil Peep’s fanbase and popularity grew quickly, resulting in a significant increase in sales and streams of his music.^[50] The single «Awful Things» from Come Over When You’re Sober, Part One charted, becoming his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 79.

Due to Peep’s prolific work rate, a number of songs and projects were completed prior to his death. The first official posthumous release arrived within 24 hours of his death, as Wiggy, a director of many of Peep’s music videos, released the official video for the then-unreleased song «16 Lines».^[51] On January 12, 2018, Marshmello officially released a collaboration titled «Spotlight».^[52] The video for «Spotlight» was released on February 12, 2018. On January 15, 2018, rapper Juicy J released the song «Got ‘Em Like», which featured Lil Peep and Wiz Khalifa.^[53] On January 27, 2018, SoundCloud rapper Teddy released a song collaboration with Lil Peep, «Dreams & Nightmares».^[54]

In March 2018, Peep’s music archive was acquired by Columbia Records. On May 13, 2018, a posthumous single, «4 Gold Chains», featuring Clams Casino, was released as well as a music video.^[55] A collaboration album between Peep and rapper iLoveMakonnen is expected to be released on Makonnen’s label Warner Bros.^[56] On August 17, 2018, Makonnen announced a new Lil Peep single, «Falling Down», a reworking of «Sunlight on Your Skin» that he recorded with Peep in the fall of 2017 in London. The new version features recently deceased rapper XXXTentacion, who recorded his verses following Peep’s death.^[57] The creation of the single was condemned by some surviving members of GothBoiClique, who said there had been unresolved conflict between the two artists stemming from latter’s alleged history of violence towards women.^[58] This was disputed by other close friends of Lil Peep.^[59] «Falling Down» was released on September 19, 2018, and peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[60] The original «Sunlight on Your Skin» was released on September 27, 2018.^[61]

On October 14, 2018, Lil Peep’s estate revealed that his first posthumous project, Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2, was finished in September 2018 and Lil Peep’s executive producer for the project, Smokeasac, confirmed that it was just awaiting approval from Peep’s family.^[62] On October 17, 2018, Lil Peep’s estate confirmed that the lead single from Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2, «Cry Alone», would be released on October 18, 2018.^[63] Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 was released on November 9, 2018.^[64] On November 1, 2018, the second single from the album, «Runaway», was officially released.^[65] On November 7, 2018, the third single, «Life is Beautiful»—a remix of the track «Life» from the Feelz EP—was released.^[66]

Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 with 81,000 album-equivalent units (including 43,000 pure album sales), making it Lil Peep’s first US top 10 album.^[8][67]

On January 31, 2019, the first single from the upcoming collaboration album with iLoveMakonnen, «I’ve Been Waiting», featuring Fall Out Boy, was released.^[68] The song was originally a demo by ILoveMakonnen; Peep then performed on it, spawning a partnership that created up to 20 songs. Fall Out Boy was added to the song after Peep’s death.^[69]

On March 10, 2019, the documentary Everybody’s Everything, which chronicles Lil Peep’s life, premiered at the SXSW Film Festival.^[70] On November 1, 2019, the estate announced the release of the soundtrack to the documentary, which features both released and unreleased tracks.

In April 2019, «Gym Class» and «Star Shopping», two Lil Peep singles that were originally released in March 2016 and August 2015 respectively, were re-released onto all streaming platforms by the Lil Peep estate.^[71] The 2016 EP Vertigo was subsequently released by the estate to streaming platforms on March 5, 2020.^[72] The Peep estate officially released the Crybaby mixtape with most samples cleared to all streaming platforms on June 10, 2020, to coincide with the four-year anniversary of the original release.^[73] The track «falling 4 me» was missing as it couldn’t be cleared with Radiohead.^[73] The estate released the Hellboy mixtape with most samples cleared on September 25, 2020, the fourth anniversary of its original release.^[74] The song «drive by» was reproduced due to sample clearance issues.^[75]

On January 26, 2021, the estate announced that the California Girls EP was to be re-released.^[76] It was released on January 29, 2021, with a music video for the song «lil kennedy».^[77] Later, on June 30, 2021, the estate announced the re-release of the Lil Peep and Lil Tracy collaboration EPs, Castles and Castles II. They were released on July 2, 2021, with video of past live performances of certain tracks from the EPs. In the fall of 2021, the estate released Friends and High Fashion, two previously unreleased EPs made in collaboration with Yunggoth and Harry Fraud, respectively.^[78] On May 20, 2022, the Feelz EP was re-released, with the videos for «feelz» and «life» also being released.^[79] On December 2, 2022, the mixtape LIVE FOREVER was re-released, with the music video for the mixtape’s title track also being released.^[80]

Fashion

Lil Peep had been into fashion since his teenage years, and during the last months of his life he modelled for Vlone and was invited to and attended several fashion shows such as Balmain men’s show at Paris Fashion Week and Moncler Gamme Bleu MFW Mens Spring Summer show in Milan.^[81][82][83] Nico Amarca of Hypebeast said, «Even though Peep’s brand of trendy sits on a far more niche spectrum than most modern-day tastemakers, something that largely attributed to his success. In a time where genuine individuality is becoming increasingly obsolete, Peep was the tattoo-covered, Manic Panic-hued mall rat the creative world needed to disrupt its ever-growing homogeny.»^[84] Rapper Playboi Carti described Lil Peep as a «trendsetter».^[84]

His style has been described as evoking fashion styles associated with emo^[85] and mall goth.^[86] He often wore items including graffitied jackets, colored fur,^[87] and pink clothes.^[86] He cited Fat Mike, Marcelo Burlon and the Casualties as style influences. In a 2017 interview with GQ, he stated:

I never dress the same way for a week—I’ll dress like a whole other person the next week. I like to get weird and mix things. Not necessarily draw on the streets, but mix darker, dirtier cultures with high class shit. And kind of fuse them together and see how they can become one. And I think that already happens when I put on any really elegant piece of clothing, because of the way I look. You expect me to dress like a fucking punk.^[81]

In late 2018, it was announced that a Lil Peep clothing line was being created called «No Smoking» (stylized as «NO SMOK!NG») which was developed before Lil Peep’s death.^[88]

Musical style

Lil Peep was described as making lo-fi rap,^[92] being an «emo-trap heart throb»^[93] and an «emo rapper».^[94][95] Music journalists often compared Lil Peep to singer-songwriter and guitarist Kurt Cobain.^[96] New York Times music critic Jon Caramanica defined Peep as the Kurt Cobain of lo-fi rap, describing his music as gloomy and diabolically melodic.^[97] Lil Peep himself encouraged the connection and persona in his musical and lyrical content, saying that he wanted to become the «New Kurt Cobain».^[96][14] According to Angus Harrison from The Guardian, Lil Peep was «repurposing Kurt Cobain for bedroom diarists who are more used to rap than they are guitars.»^[98]

AllMusic described Lil Peep’s music as a blend of hip hop and rock influences along with trap, punk, and dream pop.^[99] His songs generally drew on the triple-time hi-hats of Southern rap and the angsty introspection of post-hardcore.^[98] He combined elements of emo and pop punk into rap music, bringing a fresh take on the genre.^[100] This resulted in him being described as the «future of emo» by Steven J. Horowitz of online magazine Pitchfork.^[100]

As a burgeoning artist, Lil Peep gained a significant amount of traction in the alternative hip-hop scene, establishing a better platform for himself to speak to fans about topics of his concern such as mental health.^[101] His lyrical themes include topics such as depression, drug use, past relationships, and suicidal thoughts and meshes together third-wave emo, alternative rock, pop-punk and dream pop with trap music and hip-hop.^[99] A close friend and the executive producer of Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1 said that Peep «wanted to give a voice to people that suffer from anxiety and depression, people who have been abused, bullied, and the people who were misunderstood like him. He had demons of his own and he faced those demons by creating music.»^[28]

Personal life

Lil Peep was candid about struggles with his sexuality, depression, heartbreak, and drug use.^[102] Lil Peep came out as bisexual in a Twitter post on August 8, 2017.^{[103][104][100]} He took to Twitter to open up about this aspect of his personal life to his fans.^[101] Lil Peep simply stated, «yes i’m bi sexual.»^[100] After coming out as bisexual, he would regularly confront homophobes on Twitter.^[105] He was also known collaborators with iLoveMakonnen, an openly gay recording artist whose music also blurs the line between rap and rock.^[105]

Lil Peep came out around the time he and actress and singer Bella Thorne began dating in September 2017.^[100][106] Shortly after the release of his debut studio album, the two were spotted kissing. They briefly dated, before Thorne became involved with rapper Mod Sun.^[100] While on the Come Over When You’re Sober tour, Lil Peep had met and started dating Instagram influencer Arzaylea Rodriguez around the time of his death in November.^[107]

Lil Peep actively talked about his issues with depression, anxiety and substance abuse and stated that he had bipolar disorder.^[21] Alongside drug use, Lil Peep struggled with suicidal impulses that date back to his adolescent years.^[108] On the track «OMFG» from his breakthrough mixtape Hellboy, Lil Peep talked about wanting to kill himself.^[109] During an interview, he was asked if he was suicidal. Lil Peep replied, «Yeah, it is serious. I suffer from depression and some days I wake up and I’m like, Fuck, I wish I didn’t wake up. That was part of why I moved to California, trying to get away from the place that was doing that to me, and the people I was around.»^[109] He continued, «I realized it was just myself—it’s a chemical imbalance in my brain. Some days I’ll be very down and out, but you won’t be able to tell, really, because I don’t express that side of myself on social media. That’s the side of myself that I express through music. That’s my channel for letting all that shit out.»^[109] He claims the frankness with which he spoke about difficulties in his life led to an intense connection with his fans through his music. In an interview with The Times, Lil Peep stated, «They tell me that it saved their lives. They say that I stopped them from committing suicide, which is a beautiful thing. … It’s great for me to hear. It helps. It boosts me, because music saved my life as well.»^[108]

Lil Peep was not medicated for depression. While those around him insisted, he did not want to, and opted to just smoke marijuana and whatever other drug came his way.^[109] In his final interview before his death with Zane Lowe, Peep confessed that his depression was getting worse saying «Things just get worse. Things already get worse and worse and worse every day.»^[110] Lil Peep regularly referenced addictions to cocaine, ecstasy and Xanax in his lyrics and posts on social media,^[111] where he described himself as a «productive junkie» and advised his audience to avoid drug use.^[112]

At the time of his death, Lil Peep was residing in Portobello Road, London, with his friend and close collaborator Bexey,^[113][21] and Smokeasac. The move was provoked by Peep’s need to escape his circumstances and his then-collective GothBoiClique.^[45][91]

Death

On November 15, 2017, Lil Peep was found dead on his tour bus when his manager went to check on him in preparation for that night’s performance at a Tucson, Arizona, venue.^[114] Foul play was not suspected,^[115] with his death believed to be from an overdose.^[116] In a series of Instagram posts in the hours leading up to his death, Lil Peep claimed to have ingested psilocybin mushrooms and cannabis concentrate. In another, he claimed to have consumed six Xanax pills following a video depicting his attempts to drop an unidentified pill into his mouth several times before successfully swallowing one and shaking a full prescription bottle. A subsequent post was captioned, «When I die, you’ll love me.»^[117] In the days after his death, a police report revealed that Lil Peep had taken a nap around 5:45 p.m. before the concert. His manager checked on him twice and found him sleeping and breathing fine, but was unable to wake him. When the manager checked on Lil Peep a third time, he was unresponsive and not breathing. Lil Peep’s manager performed CPR before medics arrived, though he was pronounced dead at the scene.^[118]

On December 8, Pima County’s Office of the Medical Examiner certified his cause of death as an accidental overdose from the powerful pain medication fentanyl and the benzodiazepine Xanax, a sedative.^[119] Toxicology tests were also positive for cannabis, cocaine and the painkiller Tramadol. Urine tests also showed the presence of multiple powerful opioids, including hydrocodone, hydromorphone (marketed under the brand name Dilaudid), oxycodone and oxymorphone. There was no alcohol in his system.^[1]

Wrongful death lawsuit

The rapper’s mother Liza Womack filed wrongful death charges against Lil Peep’s management FAE grp in 2019, accusing them of «negligence and other breaches of contract which, the lawsuit alleges, contributed to his death in 2017 of an accidental drug overdose.» Among the claims in the lawsuit are that FAE was complicit in providing access to «illegal drugs» and «prescription medications», and that the company knowingly allowed drug use to take place during the rapper’s tour «despite being aware of his addiction». At one point, the lawsuit charges that FAE encouraged the star to take drugs.^[120] In a responding statement, FAE expressed disappointment in the lawsuit:

«Lil Peep’s death from an accidental drug overdose was a terrible tragedy. However, the claim that First Access Entertainment, any of its employees, or Chase Ortega, or anyone else under our auspices, was somehow responsible for, complicit in, or contributed to his death is categorically untrue. In fact, we consistently encouraged Peep to stop abusing drugs and to distance himself from the negative influence of the drug users and enablers with whom he chose to associate.»^[120]

FAE formally filed court documents at the Los Angeles County Superior Court on December 23, 2019, to dispute all claims, including claims of negligence, breach of contract, «and wrongful death». Stennett told Rolling Stone that «[she] felt very protective of Lil Peep from day one.» In later documents and court filings, the company said that their work with Lil Peep was an «arm’s length business arrangement», something disputed by the rapper’s mother.^[121]

Despite court filings, FAE supported the release of Peep’s first posthumous album Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 (2019), which reached number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, a career-best for the rapper.^[122] At the start of 2020, the company released statements about their belief that they had no contractual responsibility for Lil Peep’s personal life, and that a ruling to suggest so would damage management businesses, «Imposing a duty on FAE Ltd. or FAE LLC to prevent [Lil Peep’s] drug overdose would extend the boundaries of legal obligations far beyond any precedent, and far beyond the contractual obligations and reasonable expectations of parties doing business. It would convert businesses engaged in the music and entertainment industries into full-time babysitters for artists. That clearly was not the parties’ intent upon entering ‘the JVA [(joint-venture agreement)].'»^[123]

Tributes

Numerous artists in the music industry paid tribute to Lil Peep following his death, including Diplo, Post Malone, Pete Wentz, Marshmello, Mark Ronson, Zane Lowe, Sam Smith, Bella Thorne, Trippie Redd, A$AP Nast, Rich Brian, Playboi Carti, Ugly God, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Xan, Ty Dolla Sign, Lil Pump, XXXTentacion, Dua Lipa, and El-P.^[124][125] Jon Caramanica, a music critic for The New York Times, held a special remembrance podcast episode to honor Peep following his death which was released on November 22, 2017.^[126] Good Charlotte also honored Lil Peep, releasing a cover of «Awful Things», which was shown at his memorial in Long Beach, New York on December 2, 2017.^[127] Three Days Grace paid tribute by posting a video on Instagram and Twitter of a remix of Peep’s song «Witchblades» featuring Lil Tracy. The remixed song’s beat was a slowed down instrumental track of the band’s song «The Real You». Lil Peep would be mentioned by Juicy J (who had collaborated with him before his death) on Rae Sremmurd’s «Powerglide». Lil Peep was also honored during the 60th Grammy Awards. On June 19, 2018, Juice Wrld released a two-song EP titled Too Soon.. dedicated to him and XXXTentacion, the latter being killed in June 2018.^[128][129] In The 1975 track, «Love It If We Made It», there is a lyric that gives a tribute to Lil Peep: «Rest in peace Lil Peep, The poetry is in the streets».^[130] In the song «Glass House» by Machine Gun Kelly, which pays tribute to many deceased artists, Lil Peep is mentioned in the lines: «Wish Lil Peep and me had met, but I can’t get that back». Fellow emo rapper XXXTentacion shared similar sentiments, saying that if he and Lil Peep had known each other better that they would have been good friends.^[131] XXXTentacion recorded a verse for a song in tribute to Lil Peep prior to his own murder, which was later turned into the posthumous collaboration «Falling Down». Grimes stated that she wrote the song «Delete Forever» on the night of Lil Peep’s death, with the lyrics being inspired by substance abuse.^[132]

Lil Peep was cremated at Huntington Station, New York.^[12] On December 2, 2017, friends, family and fans paid their respects to Lil Peep at his memorial in Long Beach, New York.^[133] A memorial was also held in London on the same day that a large picture of Lil Peep was projected onto the side of the Houses of Parliament in central London.^[134]

Legacy and influence

Before dying at the age of 21, Lil Peep came to be an inspiration to outcasts and youth subcultures drawn together by the internet.^[136] He earned legions of fans in a short time from both hip hop and emo subcultures.^[137] Although he did not claim so himself, he is widely considered to have made a style of music that has been since regarded «emo rap».^[138][98] He has been credited as the leading figure of the mid–late 2010s emo music scene^[139] and is commonly cited as an inspiration for upcoming emo rappers.^[140]

At the time of Lil Peep’s death, he was on the cusp of something significant. Three months earlier, he’d released Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1, the album that took the skeleton sound he’d developed in his bedroom — emo sentimentality, thunderous hip-hop underbelly, rock-star insouciance — and thickened it up. His mixtapes Hellboy and Crybaby, released on SoundCloud, were on the front lines of hip-hop’s open-eared engagement with other genres, as well as documents of the ways emo and pop-punk had begun to make room for hip-hop. He was at the musical vanguard and, covered in a symphony of tattoos, an emerging fashion icon as well. – New York Times music critic Jon Caramanica^[141]

In 2017, Pitchfork hailed Lil Peep as «the future of emo».^[100] Regarding his death, in January 2018, John Jeremiah Sullivan of GQ wrote, «When Lil Peep died late last year, he left behind an outsized legacy.»^[142] Rolling Stone journalist Elias Leight concurred similarly and wrote that Lil Peep’s «rise to stardom was powered by relentless drive.»^[143] A profile on his artistry was written by Billboard editor Steven Horowitz.^[100] The lengthy article resulted in an influx of think pieces centered around Lil Peep amongst writers, with music publications such as Noisey discussing his role within the broader emo genre. Though it allowed Peep to gather attention from a wide audience beyond his SoundCloud base, the piece polarized readers, some of whom protested applying the «future of emo» label to the young rapper in the headline.^[138][100] However, Lil Peep has since become regarded being an integral part of a «post-emo revival style of hip hop and rock»,^{[144][145][146][147]} and had been described as «arguably the biggest emo icon of the past few years»^[148]

The death of Lil Peep left an impact on several of his musical contemporaries.^[149] Lil Uzi Vert offered tribute by sharing on Twitter an edited version of one of the final photos Lil Peep had shared online.^[149] The news of Lil Peep’s tragic passing greatly affected Lil Uzi Vert, who shortly tweeted, «We would love 2 stop ….. but do you really care cause we been on xanax all fucking year. […] Rip buddy I 100% understand and I don’t fault u.»^[149] The prescription pills Xanax has since become an epidemic in the hip hop realm, particularly among the current SoundCloud generation.^[150] The SoundCloud rap scene Lil Peep originated from is notorious for its drug use, with artists often abusing prescription pills such as Xanax which have since become a go-to metaphor in their lyrics.^[151] In an assessment of the reactions, many were hopeful Lil Peep’s death has served as a wake-up call for the community regarding drug abuse.^[150] After offering their thoughts, Lil Uzi Vert indicated they were looking to do something for themselves in response to Lil Peep’s untimely passing.^[150] Lil Uzi Vert also seemed to make attempts to detox, and the following Thursday tweeted an update saying they were sober for the day and already shaking.^[149]

In the years following his death, Lil Peep became influential on the development of the e-girls and e-boys subculture.^[152]

In addition to calling him «the future of emo», Pitchfork also posited that Lil Peep’s willingness to be vulnerable was an antidote to the toxic attitude towards women, which in the past has been a core element of hip-hop culture and its rap-rock variant.^[153] According to fellow GothBoiClique member, Fish Narc, Lil Peep explicitly rejected contemporary SoundCloud rapper XXXTentacion for his alleged history of violence against his ex-girlfriend, spending time and money removing XXXTentacion’s songs from his Spotify playlists.^[58] On the contrary, rapper Fat Nick, a mutual friend of Lil Peep and XXXTentacion, said on Twitter that right before Peep died, he and Peep had a conversation about XXXTentacion and had planned to meet up with him, and that XXXTentacion was «super happy about it».^[59] Fat Nick also spoke about the matter on an Instagram livestream, where he dismissed the claims from Fish Narc and others about tension between XXXTentacion and Lil Peep, and confirmed that Lil Peep wanted to meet XXXTentacion once he was off tour. In the livestream, he also implied that members of GothBoiClique were responsible for Lil Peep’s death, saying, «Some of y’all are siding with the people that took advantage of Peep. I don’t get it… That’s crazy. Y’all say shit about fucking X, but you’re not saying shit about the people that killed [Lil Peep]… The people that gave him fentanyl. Y’all don’t say shit to them.»^[154] After this, Fish Narc faced criticism for his initial statement condemning the song. Fish Narc responded on Twitter, «I feel that people think I am trying to insult X. But really I wish him rest. I protest a posthumous collab between unaffiliated artists», and clarified that he did not wish to attack XXXTentacion and that his comments were, «how I interpreted what Peep told me as a friend.»^[155][156] When the posthumous 2018 single, «Falling Down», uniting the two deceased rappers was created without Lil Peep’s consent, some Lil Peep fans and some of Lil Peep’s friends opposed the retroactive inclusion of XXXTentacion. Some surviving band members posted a story onto Instagram disavowing the collaboration and imploring others not to listen to it.^[58] Following his death, Mic bemoaned: «Sadly, Peep had barely just begun bringing emo into the future with a message that many of his less woman-friendly influences, like Brand New, have failed to put forward.» He continued saying, «For a ‘crybaby’ who left this world so young, Peep inspired a lot of people to keep going.»^[153] The day after hearing news of his death, rapper Lil B paid tribute through a tweet. He wrote, «I remember Lil peep telling me he is against the sexual abuse of women and people in the music industry … I will continue to push his vision.»^[157]

Achievements

Having arisen from SoundCloud scene, Lil Peep was a large presence on social media and came to be revered online.^[158][98] He attracted a cult following through the songs he released and their emotional, downtrodden lyrics.^[159] Lil Peep also enjoyed the draw of his YouTube channel, where several millions of views were generated by his music videos for «Awful Things», «Benz Truck», «The Brightside» among others.^[102]

According to The Atlantic, «If you were going to bet on the young musicians most likely to soon be superstars, until yesterday, a lot of smart money would have been on Lil Peep.»^[137] Lil Peep had laid before him a promising career, which had been on the rise since 2015 thanks to a series of tracks, EPs and mixtapes released on SoundCloud.^[102] After being around for a little more than a year, Lil Peep had already managed to amass millions of hits on YouTube and SoundCloud.^[158] A year after posting his first song, Lil Peep attracted 82,000 followers on SoundCloud and 112,000 followers on Instagram.^[109] The burgeoning rapper had generated millions of online streams before releasing his debut album Come Over When You’re Sober Pt. 1 in August 2017.^[160] Despite being involved with GothBoiClique for the shortest amount of time, Lil Peep became the first member of the group to be paid serious critical attention as well as tour internationally.^[158] Due in part to his divisive nature, Lil Peep made his way onto Pitchfork‘s «Best Songs of the Year» list and completed a largely sold-out tour of Russia and Europe.^[158]

Discography

Studio albums

• Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1 (2017)
• Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 (2018)

Filmography

Concert tours

• Come Over When You’re Sober Tour (2017)^[162]

References

Further reading

• «Emo rapper Lil Peep embodies sadboi aesthetic in new album». Rocky Mountain Collegian. September 7, 2017. Archived from the original on September 20, 2017. Retrieved September 20, 2017 – via collegian.com.

External links

Lil Peep
Lil Peep in 2016
Born	Gustav Elijah Åhr November 1, 1996 Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	November 15, 2017 (aged 21) Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
Cause of death	Accidental fentanyl–alprazolam (Xanax) overdose[1]
Resting place	Cremated
Other names	Trap Goose
Occupations	Rapper singer songwriter
Years active	2014–2017
Relatives	John Womack (grandfather)
Musical career
Origin	Long Beach, New York, U.S.
Genres	Emo rap lo-fi trap pop punk
Instrument(s)	Vocals
Labels	First Access Columbia
Formerly of	GothBoiClique
Website	lilpeep.com

Gustav Elijah Åhr Swedish pronunciation: [ˈoːr] (November 1, 1996 – November 15, 2017), known professionally as Lil Peep, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter.^[2] He was a member of the emo rap collective GothBoiClique. Helping pioneer an emo revival-style of rap and rock music, Lil Peep has been credited as a leading figure of the mid–late 2010s emo rap scene and came to be an inspiration to outcasts and youth subcultures.^[3]

Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to an American mother and a Swedish father and raised on Long Island, Åhr started releasing music on SoundCloud in 2013 under the name «Trap Goose»,^[4] later changing his artist name to Lil Peep because his mother had called him «Peep» since he was a baby.^[5] He soon became popular on the platform with the release of his 2015 single «Star Shopping», and his popularity grew further with his release of mixtapes Lil Peep; Part One and Live Forever later that year. In 2016, Lil Peep released his widely acclaimed mixtapes Crybaby and Hellboy, along with many other projects including California Girls and Vertigo.

Lil Peep’s first live performance was February 12, 2016, in Tucson as member of Schemaposse. Later that year, he toured briefly with Fat Nick, Mikey The Magician, and Smokepurpp. In the spring of 2017, Lil Peep embarked on his first solo tour, performing to packed venues in three Russian cities, making his way across western Europe, and then across the United States. Soon after the tour Lil Peep moved to London, where he recorded his EP Goth Angel Sinner, and in August he released his debut studio album, Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1.^[6]

While his mixtapes explored emo, trap, lo-fi and alternative rock, his debut album was a transition into pop punk and rap rock.^[7] His second album, Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2, was released in 2018 and debuted at number four on the Billboard 200.^[8] A documentary film about him, Everybody’s Everything, was released in 2019.

On November 15, 2017, two weeks after his 21st birthday, Lil Peep died on his tour bus before a scheduled performance in Tucson, his second to last scheduled show on a 33-date tour of the United States. The Pima County medical examiner’s office, which conducted toxicology tests on Lil Peep, ruled his cause of death an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid, and Xanax, a benzodiazepine sedative. His death was observed as a great loss to 21st century music. «He could have been his generation’s Kurt Cobain», a Rolling Stone profile stated.^[9][10]

Early life and education

Gustav Elijah Åhr was born on November 1, 1996, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the second child of first grade teacher Liza Womack and Harvard history professor Karl Johan Åhr. John Womack, an economist and historian of Latin America liberation movements, is Åhr’s maternal grandfather.^[11]

He moved to Long Beach, New York on Long Island before his fifth birthday.^[12] He had one sibling, Karl «Oskar» Åhr.^[13][14] His parents were both Harvard graduates.^[14][15] His mother’s family is from Oklahoma and his father is Swedish.^[16][17] Åhr’s Swedish citizenship was granted to him through his father in accordance with Swedish law which states that Swedish citizenship is granted automatically at birth to anyone with at least one Swedish parent.^[18]

Åhr’s parents separated in 2012 when he was 15. He began experiencing anxiety around age 16 and, according to his mother, self-medicated with marijuana and Xanax.^[10] Lil Peep had a close relationship with his mother, going so far as to tattoo her initials and birthday on his arm as his first tattoo at the age of 14.^[5] Following his parents’ split, he moved with his mother and older brother to Long Beach, New York, where he would eventually record «Lil Peep; Part One», Feelz, Vertigo, most of «California Girls,» «Garden,» «In the Bedroom I Confess,» «Mall Music,» «Romeo’s Regrets,» and several tracks that were released as singles, including «Star Shopping».

Åhr attended Lindell Elementary School, located just across the street from his mother’s apartment in Long Beach. Just a few days into Åhr’s kindergarten year, the September 11 attacks took place with smoke plumes clearly visible from Åhr’s kindergarten classroom. In third grade, Åhr was placed in Long Beach’s gifted and talented program. Later, in middle school, he was placed in accelerated classes. He played the trombone and tuba^[19] and expressed an interest in music and fashion from a young age. Åhr attended Long Beach High School in Lido Beach, New York, which was directly impacted by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and caused the school to close for a few weeks. When the school reopened, the faculty and administrators were more relaxed on the students, leading Åhr to enjoy his junior year of high school significantly more than the rest.

When Åhr returned to school the following year as a senior, there was a new administration that was unfamiliar with the student body and culture. An exhausted Åhr was ready to drop out, but was assisted by a teacher named Maria Hartmann to finish school. With the help of two other teachers whom Åhr knew and trusted, Åhr finished high school by completing his last two necessary courses, English and Social Studies. He graduated six months early in January 2014.

Later that January, Åhr was accepted into SUNY Old Westbury on Long Island, but declined to attend and instead enrolled as an out of state student at Glendale Community College in Pasadena, California. There, he was able to enroll in one class with a middle school friend, who ultimately dropped out. After his first semester at Glendale Community College, Åhr decided to drop out and instead enrolled at Nassau Community College on Long Island. By the fall of 2015, Åhr was taking four classes online (two business classes, one criminal justice class, and one art history class) in which he earned three A’s and one B.

During Åhr’s only full-time semester at Nassau Community College, he made the dean’s list. However, instead of enrolling in a second term, Åhr decided drop out and begin performing with Schemaposse. By the end of 2015 he had already completed a large body of work in his bedroom while attending school full-time.^{[20][21][22][23]}

At the age of 18, Åhr got his first face tattoo, a broken heart below his left eye, as a sign of commitment to avoiding a straight life. «A tattoo on your face is gonna stop you from getting a lot of jobs,» he would later say.^[10][24] He returned to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music under the stage name Lil Peep in February 2016.^[25] He moved to Los Angeles, he later explained, because living on Long Island depressed him.^[21]

Career

When Lil Peep was a teenager, he was self-described as a loner who made most of his friends online. Inspired by underground acts like Seshollowaterboyz and iLoveMakonnen,^[27] Peep made music while residing on Long Island^[28] under the pseudonym «Trap Goose»^[22] and lived temporarily with childhood friend Brennan Savage until both decided to move to Los Angeles.^[29]

In Los Angeles, Lil Peep initially lived in Skid Row and dipped in and out of homelessness,^[30] staying at Savage’s apartment while Savage pursued a degree. The two eventually went separate ways,^[29] and Peep met Atlanta rapper and producer JGRXXN, Florida rapper Ghostemane and Houston rapper Craig Xen, living with them while forming the collective Schemaposse.^[31] He originally met Craig Xen online and was introduced to JGRXXN, who needed a singer.^[32] Lil Peep also attended Glendale Community College during his first year in Los Angeles.^[12]

In 2015, Peep released his first extended play, Feelz. This was followed by his debut mixtape Lil Peep; Part One, which generated 4,000 plays in its first week. Shortly thereafter, he released a follow-up mixtape, Live Forever.^[33][34]

Lil Peep began to grow in popularity in the fall of 2015, garnered by the popularity of songs such as «Star Shopping» (later released as a single posthumously)^[35] making waves in underground hip-hop circles.^[31] Lil Peep’s popularity continued to rise after the release of the song «Beamer Boy», which led to him performing live for the first time with the rest of Schemaposse in February 2016 in Tucson, Arizona.^[36] In April, Schemaposse broke up and Lil Peep was no longer associated with a collective, though they remained on good terms.^[37] Shortly after Schemaposse’s breakup, Peep began to associate with Los Angeles-based rap collective GothBoiClique, featuring members of the group on his full-length mixtape Crybaby.^[38] The group shared a squat in Skid Row with Peep and often shared beds.^[24] Crybaby was recorded over the span of one month and was completed hours before its original release on SoundCloud in June 2016. Peep completed a majority of the mixing and mastering himself.^[27] In August, First Access Entertainment (FAE) partnered with Lil Peep on a joint venture to invest in and advise him on his career.^[39]

In September 2016, Lil Peep released his fourth and final solo mixtape, Hellboy.^[40] Songs from Hellboy such as «Girls» and «OMFG» received millions of views and plays on SoundCloud and YouTube.^[41] Hellboy’s success led to Peep’s first solo tour across the United States and Europe in the spring of 2017, which included performances in Russia and the UK for the first time in his career.^[42] In May 2017, the band Mineral accused Peep of copyright infringement for including an unlicensed and uncredited sample of their song «LoveLetterTypewriter» on his track «Hollywood Dreaming». Peep said that he was only trying to «show some love» with the sample.^[43]

Soon after the tour was completed, Peep emigrated to London, England, during a disentanglement with Gothboiclique. There he began to associate with figures such as Atlanta rapper iLoveMakonnen and longtime friend Bexey, and recorded Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1 and Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2, the EP Goth Angel Sinner and an unreleased collaborative project with iLoveMakonnen.^[44][45][46] Peep released his debut studio album, Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1, on August 15, 2017.^[47] Shortly thereafter he embarked on his second world tour, beginning in the UK in September^[48] and moving to Germany before finishing in the United States in November, which was cut short by his death.^[49]

Posthumous releases

After his death, Lil Peep’s fanbase and popularity grew quickly, resulting in a significant increase in sales and streams of his music.^[50] The single «Awful Things» from Come Over When You’re Sober, Part One charted, becoming his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 79.

Due to Peep’s prolific work rate, a number of songs and projects were completed prior to his death. The first official posthumous release arrived within 24 hours of his death, as Wiggy, a director of many of Peep’s music videos, released the official video for the then-unreleased song «16 Lines».^[51] On January 12, 2018, Marshmello officially released a collaboration titled «Spotlight».^[52] The video for «Spotlight» was released on February 12, 2018. On January 15, 2018, rapper Juicy J released the song «Got ‘Em Like», which featured Lil Peep and Wiz Khalifa.^[53] On January 27, 2018, SoundCloud rapper Teddy released a song collaboration with Lil Peep, «Dreams & Nightmares».^[54]

In March 2018, Peep’s music archive was acquired by Columbia Records. On May 13, 2018, a posthumous single, «4 Gold Chains», featuring Clams Casino, was released as well as a music video.^[55] A collaboration album between Peep and rapper iLoveMakonnen is expected to be released on Makonnen’s label Warner Bros.^[56] On August 17, 2018, Makonnen announced a new Lil Peep single, «Falling Down», a reworking of «Sunlight on Your Skin» that he recorded with Peep in the fall of 2017 in London. The new version features recently deceased rapper XXXTentacion, who recorded his verses following Peep’s death.^[57] The creation of the single was condemned by some surviving members of GothBoiClique, who said there had been unresolved conflict between the two artists stemming from latter’s alleged history of violence towards women.^[58] This was disputed by other close friends of Lil Peep.^[59] «Falling Down» was released on September 19, 2018, and peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[60] The original «Sunlight on Your Skin» was released on September 27, 2018.^[61]

On October 14, 2018, Lil Peep’s estate revealed that his first posthumous project, Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2, was finished in September 2018 and Lil Peep’s executive producer for the project, Smokeasac, confirmed that it was just awaiting approval from Peep’s family.^[62] On October 17, 2018, Lil Peep’s estate confirmed that the lead single from Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2, «Cry Alone», would be released on October 18, 2018.^[63] Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 was released on November 9, 2018.^[64] On November 1, 2018, the second single from the album, «Runaway», was officially released.^[65] On November 7, 2018, the third single, «Life is Beautiful»—a remix of the track «Life» from the Feelz EP—was released.^[66]

Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 with 81,000 album-equivalent units (including 43,000 pure album sales), making it Lil Peep’s first US top 10 album.^[8][67]

On January 31, 2019, the first single from the upcoming collaboration album with iLoveMakonnen, «I’ve Been Waiting», featuring Fall Out Boy, was released.^[68] The song was originally a demo by ILoveMakonnen; Peep then performed on it, spawning a partnership that created up to 20 songs. Fall Out Boy was added to the song after Peep’s death.^[69]

On March 10, 2019, the documentary Everybody’s Everything, which chronicles Lil Peep’s life, premiered at the SXSW Film Festival.^[70] On November 1, 2019, the estate announced the release of the soundtrack to the documentary, which features both released and unreleased tracks.

In April 2019, «Gym Class» and «Star Shopping», two Lil Peep singles that were originally released in March 2016 and August 2015 respectively, were re-released onto all streaming platforms by the Lil Peep estate.^[71] The 2016 EP Vertigo was subsequently released by the estate to streaming platforms on March 5, 2020.^[72] The Peep estate officially released the Crybaby mixtape with most samples cleared to all streaming platforms on June 10, 2020, to coincide with the four-year anniversary of the original release.^[73] The track «falling 4 me» was missing as it couldn’t be cleared with Radiohead.^[73] The estate released the Hellboy mixtape with most samples cleared on September 25, 2020, the fourth anniversary of its original release.^[74] The song «drive by» was reproduced due to sample clearance issues.^[75]

On January 26, 2021, the estate announced that the California Girls EP was to be re-released.^[76] It was released on January 29, 2021, with a music video for the song «lil kennedy».^[77] Later, on June 30, 2021, the estate announced the re-release of the Lil Peep and Lil Tracy collaboration EPs, Castles and Castles II. They were released on July 2, 2021, with video of past live performances of certain tracks from the EPs. In the fall of 2021, the estate released Friends and High Fashion, two previously unreleased EPs made in collaboration with Yunggoth and Harry Fraud, respectively.^[78] On May 20, 2022, the Feelz EP was re-released, with the videos for «feelz» and «life» also being released.^[79] On December 2, 2022, the mixtape LIVE FOREVER was re-released, with the music video for the mixtape’s title track also being released.^[80]

Fashion

Lil Peep had been into fashion since his teenage years, and during the last months of his life he modelled for Vlone and was invited to and attended several fashion shows such as Balmain men’s show at Paris Fashion Week and Moncler Gamme Bleu MFW Mens Spring Summer show in Milan.^[81][82][83] Nico Amarca of Hypebeast said, «Even though Peep’s brand of trendy sits on a far more niche spectrum than most modern-day tastemakers, something that largely attributed to his success. In a time where genuine individuality is becoming increasingly obsolete, Peep was the tattoo-covered, Manic Panic-hued mall rat the creative world needed to disrupt its ever-growing homogeny.»^[84] Rapper Playboi Carti described Lil Peep as a «trendsetter».^[84]

His style has been described as evoking fashion styles associated with emo^[85] and mall goth.^[86] He often wore items including graffitied jackets, colored fur,^[87] and pink clothes.^[86] He cited Fat Mike, Marcelo Burlon and the Casualties as style influences. In a 2017 interview with GQ, he stated:

I never dress the same way for a week—I’ll dress like a whole other person the next week. I like to get weird and mix things. Not necessarily draw on the streets, but mix darker, dirtier cultures with high class shit. And kind of fuse them together and see how they can become one. And I think that already happens when I put on any really elegant piece of clothing, because of the way I look. You expect me to dress like a fucking punk.^[81]

In late 2018, it was announced that a Lil Peep clothing line was being created called «No Smoking» (stylized as «NO SMOK!NG») which was developed before Lil Peep’s death.^[88]

Musical style

Lil Peep was described as making lo-fi rap,^[92] being an «emo-trap heart throb»^[93] and an «emo rapper».^[94][95] Music journalists often compared Lil Peep to singer-songwriter and guitarist Kurt Cobain.^[96] New York Times music critic Jon Caramanica defined Peep as the Kurt Cobain of lo-fi rap, describing his music as gloomy and diabolically melodic.^[97] Lil Peep himself encouraged the connection and persona in his musical and lyrical content, saying that he wanted to become the «New Kurt Cobain».^[96][14] According to Angus Harrison from The Guardian, Lil Peep was «repurposing Kurt Cobain for bedroom diarists who are more used to rap than they are guitars.»^[98]

AllMusic described Lil Peep’s music as a blend of hip hop and rock influences along with trap, punk, and dream pop.^[99] His songs generally drew on the triple-time hi-hats of Southern rap and the angsty introspection of post-hardcore.^[98] He combined elements of emo and pop punk into rap music, bringing a fresh take on the genre.^[100] This resulted in him being described as the «future of emo» by Steven J. Horowitz of online magazine Pitchfork.^[100]

As a burgeoning artist, Lil Peep gained a significant amount of traction in the alternative hip-hop scene, establishing a better platform for himself to speak to fans about topics of his concern such as mental health.^[101] His lyrical themes include topics such as depression, drug use, past relationships, and suicidal thoughts and meshes together third-wave emo, alternative rock, pop-punk and dream pop with trap music and hip-hop.^[99] A close friend and the executive producer of Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1 said that Peep «wanted to give a voice to people that suffer from anxiety and depression, people who have been abused, bullied, and the people who were misunderstood like him. He had demons of his own and he faced those demons by creating music.»^[28]

Personal life

Lil Peep was candid about struggles with his sexuality, depression, heartbreak, and drug use.^[102] Lil Peep came out as bisexual in a Twitter post on August 8, 2017.^{[103][104][100]} He took to Twitter to open up about this aspect of his personal life to his fans.^[101] Lil Peep simply stated, «yes i’m bi sexual.»^[100] After coming out as bisexual, he would regularly confront homophobes on Twitter.^[105] He was also known collaborators with iLoveMakonnen, an openly gay recording artist whose music also blurs the line between rap and rock.^[105]

Lil Peep came out around the time he and actress and singer Bella Thorne began dating in September 2017.^[100][106] Shortly after the release of his debut studio album, the two were spotted kissing. They briefly dated, before Thorne became involved with rapper Mod Sun.^[100] While on the Come Over When You’re Sober tour, Lil Peep had met and started dating Instagram influencer Arzaylea Rodriguez around the time of his death in November.^[107]

Lil Peep actively talked about his issues with depression, anxiety and substance abuse and stated that he had bipolar disorder.^[21] Alongside drug use, Lil Peep struggled with suicidal impulses that date back to his adolescent years.^[108] On the track «OMFG» from his breakthrough mixtape Hellboy, Lil Peep talked about wanting to kill himself.^[109] During an interview, he was asked if he was suicidal. Lil Peep replied, «Yeah, it is serious. I suffer from depression and some days I wake up and I’m like, Fuck, I wish I didn’t wake up. That was part of why I moved to California, trying to get away from the place that was doing that to me, and the people I was around.»^[109] He continued, «I realized it was just myself—it’s a chemical imbalance in my brain. Some days I’ll be very down and out, but you won’t be able to tell, really, because I don’t express that side of myself on social media. That’s the side of myself that I express through music. That’s my channel for letting all that shit out.»^[109] He claims the frankness with which he spoke about difficulties in his life led to an intense connection with his fans through his music. In an interview with The Times, Lil Peep stated, «They tell me that it saved their lives. They say that I stopped them from committing suicide, which is a beautiful thing. … It’s great for me to hear. It helps. It boosts me, because music saved my life as well.»^[108]

Lil Peep was not medicated for depression. While those around him insisted, he did not want to, and opted to just smoke marijuana and whatever other drug came his way.^[109] In his final interview before his death with Zane Lowe, Peep confessed that his depression was getting worse saying «Things just get worse. Things already get worse and worse and worse every day.»^[110] Lil Peep regularly referenced addictions to cocaine, ecstasy and Xanax in his lyrics and posts on social media,^[111] where he described himself as a «productive junkie» and advised his audience to avoid drug use.^[112]

At the time of his death, Lil Peep was residing in Portobello Road, London, with his friend and close collaborator Bexey,^[113][21] and Smokeasac. The move was provoked by Peep’s need to escape his circumstances and his then-collective GothBoiClique.^[45][91]

Death

On November 15, 2017, Lil Peep was found dead on his tour bus when his manager went to check on him in preparation for that night’s performance at a Tucson, Arizona, venue.^[114] Foul play was not suspected,^[115] with his death believed to be from an overdose.^[116] In a series of Instagram posts in the hours leading up to his death, Lil Peep claimed to have ingested psilocybin mushrooms and cannabis concentrate. In another, he claimed to have consumed six Xanax pills following a video depicting his attempts to drop an unidentified pill into his mouth several times before successfully swallowing one and shaking a full prescription bottle. A subsequent post was captioned, «When I die, you’ll love me.»^[117] In the days after his death, a police report revealed that Lil Peep had taken a nap around 5:45 p.m. before the concert. His manager checked on him twice and found him sleeping and breathing fine, but was unable to wake him. When the manager checked on Lil Peep a third time, he was unresponsive and not breathing. Lil Peep’s manager performed CPR before medics arrived, though he was pronounced dead at the scene.^[118]

On December 8, Pima County’s Office of the Medical Examiner certified his cause of death as an accidental overdose from the powerful pain medication fentanyl and the benzodiazepine Xanax, a sedative.^[119] Toxicology tests were also positive for cannabis, cocaine and the painkiller Tramadol. Urine tests also showed the presence of multiple powerful opioids, including hydrocodone, hydromorphone (marketed under the brand name Dilaudid), oxycodone and oxymorphone. There was no alcohol in his system.^[1]

Wrongful death lawsuit

The rapper’s mother Liza Womack filed wrongful death charges against Lil Peep’s management FAE grp in 2019, accusing them of «negligence and other breaches of contract which, the lawsuit alleges, contributed to his death in 2017 of an accidental drug overdose.» Among the claims in the lawsuit are that FAE was complicit in providing access to «illegal drugs» and «prescription medications», and that the company knowingly allowed drug use to take place during the rapper’s tour «despite being aware of his addiction». At one point, the lawsuit charges that FAE encouraged the star to take drugs.^[120] In a responding statement, FAE expressed disappointment in the lawsuit:

«Lil Peep’s death from an accidental drug overdose was a terrible tragedy. However, the claim that First Access Entertainment, any of its employees, or Chase Ortega, or anyone else under our auspices, was somehow responsible for, complicit in, or contributed to his death is categorically untrue. In fact, we consistently encouraged Peep to stop abusing drugs and to distance himself from the negative influence of the drug users and enablers with whom he chose to associate.»^[120]

FAE formally filed court documents at the Los Angeles County Superior Court on December 23, 2019, to dispute all claims, including claims of negligence, breach of contract, «and wrongful death». Stennett told Rolling Stone that «[she] felt very protective of Lil Peep from day one.» In later documents and court filings, the company said that their work with Lil Peep was an «arm’s length business arrangement», something disputed by the rapper’s mother.^[121]

Despite court filings, FAE supported the release of Peep’s first posthumous album Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 (2019), which reached number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, a career-best for the rapper.^[122] At the start of 2020, the company released statements about their belief that they had no contractual responsibility for Lil Peep’s personal life, and that a ruling to suggest so would damage management businesses, «Imposing a duty on FAE Ltd. or FAE LLC to prevent [Lil Peep’s] drug overdose would extend the boundaries of legal obligations far beyond any precedent, and far beyond the contractual obligations and reasonable expectations of parties doing business. It would convert businesses engaged in the music and entertainment industries into full-time babysitters for artists. That clearly was not the parties’ intent upon entering ‘the JVA [(joint-venture agreement)].'»^[123]

Tributes

Numerous artists in the music industry paid tribute to Lil Peep following his death, including Diplo, Post Malone, Pete Wentz, Marshmello, Mark Ronson, Zane Lowe, Sam Smith, Bella Thorne, Trippie Redd, A$AP Nast, Rich Brian, Playboi Carti, Ugly God, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Xan, Ty Dolla Sign, Lil Pump, XXXTentacion, Dua Lipa, and El-P.^[124][125] Jon Caramanica, a music critic for The New York Times, held a special remembrance podcast episode to honor Peep following his death which was released on November 22, 2017.^[126] Good Charlotte also honored Lil Peep, releasing a cover of «Awful Things», which was shown at his memorial in Long Beach, New York on December 2, 2017.^[127] Three Days Grace paid tribute by posting a video on Instagram and Twitter of a remix of Peep’s song «Witchblades» featuring Lil Tracy. The remixed song’s beat was a slowed down instrumental track of the band’s song «The Real You». Lil Peep would be mentioned by Juicy J (who had collaborated with him before his death) on Rae Sremmurd’s «Powerglide». Lil Peep was also honored during the 60th Grammy Awards. On June 19, 2018, Juice Wrld released a two-song EP titled Too Soon.. dedicated to him and XXXTentacion, the latter being killed in June 2018.^[128][129] In The 1975 track, «Love It If We Made It», there is a lyric that gives a tribute to Lil Peep: «Rest in peace Lil Peep, The poetry is in the streets».^[130] In the song «Glass House» by Machine Gun Kelly, which pays tribute to many deceased artists, Lil Peep is mentioned in the lines: «Wish Lil Peep and me had met, but I can’t get that back». Fellow emo rapper XXXTentacion shared similar sentiments, saying that if he and Lil Peep had known each other better that they would have been good friends.^[131] XXXTentacion recorded a verse for a song in tribute to Lil Peep prior to his own murder, which was later turned into the posthumous collaboration «Falling Down». Grimes stated that she wrote the song «Delete Forever» on the night of Lil Peep’s death, with the lyrics being inspired by substance abuse.^[132]

Lil Peep was cremated at Huntington Station, New York.^[12] On December 2, 2017, friends, family and fans paid their respects to Lil Peep at his memorial in Long Beach, New York.^[133] A memorial was also held in London on the same day that a large picture of Lil Peep was projected onto the side of the Houses of Parliament in central London.^[134]

Legacy and influence

Before dying at the age of 21, Lil Peep came to be an inspiration to outcasts and youth subcultures drawn together by the internet.^[136] He earned legions of fans in a short time from both hip hop and emo subcultures.^[137] Although he did not claim so himself, he is widely considered to have made a style of music that has been since regarded «emo rap».^[138][98] He has been credited as the leading figure of the mid–late 2010s emo music scene^[139] and is commonly cited as an inspiration for upcoming emo rappers.^[140]

At the time of Lil Peep’s death, he was on the cusp of something significant. Three months earlier, he’d released Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1, the album that took the skeleton sound he’d developed in his bedroom — emo sentimentality, thunderous hip-hop underbelly, rock-star insouciance — and thickened it up. His mixtapes Hellboy and Crybaby, released on SoundCloud, were on the front lines of hip-hop’s open-eared engagement with other genres, as well as documents of the ways emo and pop-punk had begun to make room for hip-hop. He was at the musical vanguard and, covered in a symphony of tattoos, an emerging fashion icon as well. – New York Times music critic Jon Caramanica^[141]

In 2017, Pitchfork hailed Lil Peep as «the future of emo».^[100] Regarding his death, in January 2018, John Jeremiah Sullivan of GQ wrote, «When Lil Peep died late last year, he left behind an outsized legacy.»^[142] Rolling Stone journalist Elias Leight concurred similarly and wrote that Lil Peep’s «rise to stardom was powered by relentless drive.»^[143] A profile on his artistry was written by Billboard editor Steven Horowitz.^[100] The lengthy article resulted in an influx of think pieces centered around Lil Peep amongst writers, with music publications such as Noisey discussing his role within the broader emo genre. Though it allowed Peep to gather attention from a wide audience beyond his SoundCloud base, the piece polarized readers, some of whom protested applying the «future of emo» label to the young rapper in the headline.^[138][100] However, Lil Peep has since become regarded being an integral part of a «post-emo revival style of hip hop and rock»,^{[144][145][146][147]} and had been described as «arguably the biggest emo icon of the past few years»^[148]

The death of Lil Peep left an impact on several of his musical contemporaries.^[149] Lil Uzi Vert offered tribute by sharing on Twitter an edited version of one of the final photos Lil Peep had shared online.^[149] The news of Lil Peep’s tragic passing greatly affected Lil Uzi Vert, who shortly tweeted, «We would love 2 stop ….. but do you really care cause we been on xanax all fucking year. […] Rip buddy I 100% understand and I don’t fault u.»^[149] The prescription pills Xanax has since become an epidemic in the hip hop realm, particularly among the current SoundCloud generation.^[150] The SoundCloud rap scene Lil Peep originated from is notorious for its drug use, with artists often abusing prescription pills such as Xanax which have since become a go-to metaphor in their lyrics.^[151] In an assessment of the reactions, many were hopeful Lil Peep’s death has served as a wake-up call for the community regarding drug abuse.^[150] After offering their thoughts, Lil Uzi Vert indicated they were looking to do something for themselves in response to Lil Peep’s untimely passing.^[150] Lil Uzi Vert also seemed to make attempts to detox, and the following Thursday tweeted an update saying they were sober for the day and already shaking.^[149]

In the years following his death, Lil Peep became influential on the development of the e-girls and e-boys subculture.^[152]

In addition to calling him «the future of emo», Pitchfork also posited that Lil Peep’s willingness to be vulnerable was an antidote to the toxic attitude towards women, which in the past has been a core element of hip-hop culture and its rap-rock variant.^[153] According to fellow GothBoiClique member, Fish Narc, Lil Peep explicitly rejected contemporary SoundCloud rapper XXXTentacion for his alleged history of violence against his ex-girlfriend, spending time and money removing XXXTentacion’s songs from his Spotify playlists.^[58] On the contrary, rapper Fat Nick, a mutual friend of Lil Peep and XXXTentacion, said on Twitter that right before Peep died, he and Peep had a conversation about XXXTentacion and had planned to meet up with him, and that XXXTentacion was «super happy about it».^[59] Fat Nick also spoke about the matter on an Instagram livestream, where he dismissed the claims from Fish Narc and others about tension between XXXTentacion and Lil Peep, and confirmed that Lil Peep wanted to meet XXXTentacion once he was off tour. In the livestream, he also implied that members of GothBoiClique were responsible for Lil Peep’s death, saying, «Some of y’all are siding with the people that took advantage of Peep. I don’t get it… That’s crazy. Y’all say shit about fucking X, but you’re not saying shit about the people that killed [Lil Peep]… The people that gave him fentanyl. Y’all don’t say shit to them.»^[154] After this, Fish Narc faced criticism for his initial statement condemning the song. Fish Narc responded on Twitter, «I feel that people think I am trying to insult X. But really I wish him rest. I protest a posthumous collab between unaffiliated artists», and clarified that he did not wish to attack XXXTentacion and that his comments were, «how I interpreted what Peep told me as a friend.»^[155][156] When the posthumous 2018 single, «Falling Down», uniting the two deceased rappers was created without Lil Peep’s consent, some Lil Peep fans and some of Lil Peep’s friends opposed the retroactive inclusion of XXXTentacion. Some surviving band members posted a story onto Instagram disavowing the collaboration and imploring others not to listen to it.^[58] Following his death, Mic bemoaned: «Sadly, Peep had barely just begun bringing emo into the future with a message that many of his less woman-friendly influences, like Brand New, have failed to put forward.» He continued saying, «For a ‘crybaby’ who left this world so young, Peep inspired a lot of people to keep going.»^[153] The day after hearing news of his death, rapper Lil B paid tribute through a tweet. He wrote, «I remember Lil peep telling me he is against the sexual abuse of women and people in the music industry … I will continue to push his vision.»^[157]

Achievements

Having arisen from SoundCloud scene, Lil Peep was a large presence on social media and came to be revered online.^[158][98] He attracted a cult following through the songs he released and their emotional, downtrodden lyrics.^[159] Lil Peep also enjoyed the draw of his YouTube channel, where several millions of views were generated by his music videos for «Awful Things», «Benz Truck», «The Brightside» among others.^[102]

According to The Atlantic, «If you were going to bet on the young musicians most likely to soon be superstars, until yesterday, a lot of smart money would have been on Lil Peep.»^[137] Lil Peep had laid before him a promising career, which had been on the rise since 2015 thanks to a series of tracks, EPs and mixtapes released on SoundCloud.^[102] After being around for a little more than a year, Lil Peep had already managed to amass millions of hits on YouTube and SoundCloud.^[158] A year after posting his first song, Lil Peep attracted 82,000 followers on SoundCloud and 112,000 followers on Instagram.^[109] The burgeoning rapper had generated millions of online streams before releasing his debut album Come Over When You’re Sober Pt. 1 in August 2017.^[160] Despite being involved with GothBoiClique for the shortest amount of time, Lil Peep became the first member of the group to be paid serious critical attention as well as tour internationally.^[158] Due in part to his divisive nature, Lil Peep made his way onto Pitchfork‘s «Best Songs of the Year» list and completed a largely sold-out tour of Russia and Europe.^[158]

Discography

Studio albums

• Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1 (2017)
• Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 (2018)

Filmography

Concert tours

• Come Over When You’re Sober Tour (2017)^[162]

References

Further reading

• «Emo rapper Lil Peep embodies sadboi aesthetic in new album». Rocky Mountain Collegian. September 7, 2017. Archived from the original on September 20, 2017. Retrieved September 20, 2017 – via collegian.com.

External links

Lil Peep
Lil Peep in 2016
Born	Gustav Elijah Åhr November 1, 1996 Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	November 15, 2017 (aged 21) Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
Cause of death	Accidental fentanyl–alprazolam (Xanax) overdose[1]
Resting place	Cremated
Other names	Trap Goose
Occupations	Rapper singer songwriter
Years active	2014–2017
Relatives	John Womack (grandfather)
Musical career
Origin	Long Beach, New York, U.S.
Genres	Emo rap lo-fi trap pop punk
Instrument(s)	Vocals
Labels	First Access Columbia
Formerly of	GothBoiClique
Website	lilpeep.com

Gustav Elijah Åhr Swedish pronunciation: [ˈoːr] (November 1, 1996 – November 15, 2017), known professionally as Lil Peep, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter.^[2] He was a member of the emo rap collective GothBoiClique. Helping pioneer an emo revival-style of rap and rock music, Lil Peep has been credited as a leading figure of the mid–late 2010s emo rap scene and came to be an inspiration to outcasts and youth subcultures.^[3]

Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to an American mother and a Swedish father and raised on Long Island, Åhr started releasing music on SoundCloud in 2013 under the name «Trap Goose»,^[4] later changing his artist name to Lil Peep because his mother had called him «Peep» since he was a baby.^[5] He soon became popular on the platform with the release of his 2015 single «Star Shopping», and his popularity grew further with his release of mixtapes Lil Peep; Part One and Live Forever later that year. In 2016, Lil Peep released his widely acclaimed mixtapes Crybaby and Hellboy, along with many other projects including California Girls and Vertigo.

Lil Peep’s first live performance was February 12, 2016, in Tucson as member of Schemaposse. Later that year, he toured briefly with Fat Nick, Mikey The Magician, and Smokepurpp. In the spring of 2017, Lil Peep embarked on his first solo tour, performing to packed venues in three Russian cities, making his way across western Europe, and then across the United States. Soon after the tour Lil Peep moved to London, where he recorded his EP Goth Angel Sinner, and in August he released his debut studio album, Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1.^[6]

While his mixtapes explored emo, trap, lo-fi and alternative rock, his debut album was a transition into pop punk and rap rock.^[7] His second album, Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2, was released in 2018 and debuted at number four on the Billboard 200.^[8] A documentary film about him, Everybody’s Everything, was released in 2019.

On November 15, 2017, two weeks after his 21st birthday, Lil Peep died on his tour bus before a scheduled performance in Tucson, his second to last scheduled show on a 33-date tour of the United States. The Pima County medical examiner’s office, which conducted toxicology tests on Lil Peep, ruled his cause of death an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid, and Xanax, a benzodiazepine sedative. His death was observed as a great loss to 21st century music. «He could have been his generation’s Kurt Cobain», a Rolling Stone profile stated.^[9][10]

Early life and education

Gustav Elijah Åhr was born on November 1, 1996, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the second child of first grade teacher Liza Womack and Harvard history professor Karl Johan Åhr. John Womack, an economist and historian of Latin America liberation movements, is Åhr’s maternal grandfather.^[11]

He moved to Long Beach, New York on Long Island before his fifth birthday.^[12] He had one sibling, Karl «Oskar» Åhr.^[13][14] His parents were both Harvard graduates.^[14][15] His mother’s family is from Oklahoma and his father is Swedish.^[16][17] Åhr’s Swedish citizenship was granted to him through his father in accordance with Swedish law which states that Swedish citizenship is granted automatically at birth to anyone with at least one Swedish parent.^[18]

Åhr’s parents separated in 2012 when he was 15. He began experiencing anxiety around age 16 and, according to his mother, self-medicated with marijuana and Xanax.^[10] Lil Peep had a close relationship with his mother, going so far as to tattoo her initials and birthday on his arm as his first tattoo at the age of 14.^[5] Following his parents’ split, he moved with his mother and older brother to Long Beach, New York, where he would eventually record «Lil Peep; Part One», Feelz, Vertigo, most of «California Girls,» «Garden,» «In the Bedroom I Confess,» «Mall Music,» «Romeo’s Regrets,» and several tracks that were released as singles, including «Star Shopping».

Åhr attended Lindell Elementary School, located just across the street from his mother’s apartment in Long Beach. Just a few days into Åhr’s kindergarten year, the September 11 attacks took place with smoke plumes clearly visible from Åhr’s kindergarten classroom. In third grade, Åhr was placed in Long Beach’s gifted and talented program. Later, in middle school, he was placed in accelerated classes. He played the trombone and tuba^[19] and expressed an interest in music and fashion from a young age. Åhr attended Long Beach High School in Lido Beach, New York, which was directly impacted by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and caused the school to close for a few weeks. When the school reopened, the faculty and administrators were more relaxed on the students, leading Åhr to enjoy his junior year of high school significantly more than the rest.

When Åhr returned to school the following year as a senior, there was a new administration that was unfamiliar with the student body and culture. An exhausted Åhr was ready to drop out, but was assisted by a teacher named Maria Hartmann to finish school. With the help of two other teachers whom Åhr knew and trusted, Åhr finished high school by completing his last two necessary courses, English and Social Studies. He graduated six months early in January 2014.

Later that January, Åhr was accepted into SUNY Old Westbury on Long Island, but declined to attend and instead enrolled as an out of state student at Glendale Community College in Pasadena, California. There, he was able to enroll in one class with a middle school friend, who ultimately dropped out. After his first semester at Glendale Community College, Åhr decided to drop out and instead enrolled at Nassau Community College on Long Island. By the fall of 2015, Åhr was taking four classes online (two business classes, one criminal justice class, and one art history class) in which he earned three A’s and one B.

During Åhr’s only full-time semester at Nassau Community College, he made the dean’s list. However, instead of enrolling in a second term, Åhr decided drop out and begin performing with Schemaposse. By the end of 2015 he had already completed a large body of work in his bedroom while attending school full-time.^{[20][21][22][23]}

At the age of 18, Åhr got his first face tattoo, a broken heart below his left eye, as a sign of commitment to avoiding a straight life. «A tattoo on your face is gonna stop you from getting a lot of jobs,» he would later say.^[10][24] He returned to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music under the stage name Lil Peep in February 2016.^[25] He moved to Los Angeles, he later explained, because living on Long Island depressed him.^[21]

Career

When Lil Peep was a teenager, he was self-described as a loner who made most of his friends online. Inspired by underground acts like Seshollowaterboyz and iLoveMakonnen,^[27] Peep made music while residing on Long Island^[28] under the pseudonym «Trap Goose»^[22] and lived temporarily with childhood friend Brennan Savage until both decided to move to Los Angeles.^[29]

In Los Angeles, Lil Peep initially lived in Skid Row and dipped in and out of homelessness,^[30] staying at Savage’s apartment while Savage pursued a degree. The two eventually went separate ways,^[29] and Peep met Atlanta rapper and producer JGRXXN, Florida rapper Ghostemane and Houston rapper Craig Xen, living with them while forming the collective Schemaposse.^[31] He originally met Craig Xen online and was introduced to JGRXXN, who needed a singer.^[32] Lil Peep also attended Glendale Community College during his first year in Los Angeles.^[12]

In 2015, Peep released his first extended play, Feelz. This was followed by his debut mixtape Lil Peep; Part One, which generated 4,000 plays in its first week. Shortly thereafter, he released a follow-up mixtape, Live Forever.^[33][34]

Lil Peep began to grow in popularity in the fall of 2015, garnered by the popularity of songs such as «Star Shopping» (later released as a single posthumously)^[35] making waves in underground hip-hop circles.^[31] Lil Peep’s popularity continued to rise after the release of the song «Beamer Boy», which led to him performing live for the first time with the rest of Schemaposse in February 2016 in Tucson, Arizona.^[36] In April, Schemaposse broke up and Lil Peep was no longer associated with a collective, though they remained on good terms.^[37] Shortly after Schemaposse’s breakup, Peep began to associate with Los Angeles-based rap collective GothBoiClique, featuring members of the group on his full-length mixtape Crybaby.^[38] The group shared a squat in Skid Row with Peep and often shared beds.^[24] Crybaby was recorded over the span of one month and was completed hours before its original release on SoundCloud in June 2016. Peep completed a majority of the mixing and mastering himself.^[27] In August, First Access Entertainment (FAE) partnered with Lil Peep on a joint venture to invest in and advise him on his career.^[39]

In September 2016, Lil Peep released his fourth and final solo mixtape, Hellboy.^[40] Songs from Hellboy such as «Girls» and «OMFG» received millions of views and plays on SoundCloud and YouTube.^[41] Hellboy’s success led to Peep’s first solo tour across the United States and Europe in the spring of 2017, which included performances in Russia and the UK for the first time in his career.^[42] In May 2017, the band Mineral accused Peep of copyright infringement for including an unlicensed and uncredited sample of their song «LoveLetterTypewriter» on his track «Hollywood Dreaming». Peep said that he was only trying to «show some love» with the sample.^[43]

Soon after the tour was completed, Peep emigrated to London, England, during a disentanglement with Gothboiclique. There he began to associate with figures such as Atlanta rapper iLoveMakonnen and longtime friend Bexey, and recorded Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1 and Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2, the EP Goth Angel Sinner and an unreleased collaborative project with iLoveMakonnen.^[44][45][46] Peep released his debut studio album, Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1, on August 15, 2017.^[47] Shortly thereafter he embarked on his second world tour, beginning in the UK in September^[48] and moving to Germany before finishing in the United States in November, which was cut short by his death.^[49]

Posthumous releases

After his death, Lil Peep’s fanbase and popularity grew quickly, resulting in a significant increase in sales and streams of his music.^[50] The single «Awful Things» from Come Over When You’re Sober, Part One charted, becoming his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 79.

Due to Peep’s prolific work rate, a number of songs and projects were completed prior to his death. The first official posthumous release arrived within 24 hours of his death, as Wiggy, a director of many of Peep’s music videos, released the official video for the then-unreleased song «16 Lines».^[51] On January 12, 2018, Marshmello officially released a collaboration titled «Spotlight».^[52] The video for «Spotlight» was released on February 12, 2018. On January 15, 2018, rapper Juicy J released the song «Got ‘Em Like», which featured Lil Peep and Wiz Khalifa.^[53] On January 27, 2018, SoundCloud rapper Teddy released a song collaboration with Lil Peep, «Dreams & Nightmares».^[54]

In March 2018, Peep’s music archive was acquired by Columbia Records. On May 13, 2018, a posthumous single, «4 Gold Chains», featuring Clams Casino, was released as well as a music video.^[55] A collaboration album between Peep and rapper iLoveMakonnen is expected to be released on Makonnen’s label Warner Bros.^[56] On August 17, 2018, Makonnen announced a new Lil Peep single, «Falling Down», a reworking of «Sunlight on Your Skin» that he recorded with Peep in the fall of 2017 in London. The new version features recently deceased rapper XXXTentacion, who recorded his verses following Peep’s death.^[57] The creation of the single was condemned by some surviving members of GothBoiClique, who said there had been unresolved conflict between the two artists stemming from latter’s alleged history of violence towards women.^[58] This was disputed by other close friends of Lil Peep.^[59] «Falling Down» was released on September 19, 2018, and peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[60] The original «Sunlight on Your Skin» was released on September 27, 2018.^[61]

On October 14, 2018, Lil Peep’s estate revealed that his first posthumous project, Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2, was finished in September 2018 and Lil Peep’s executive producer for the project, Smokeasac, confirmed that it was just awaiting approval from Peep’s family.^[62] On October 17, 2018, Lil Peep’s estate confirmed that the lead single from Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2, «Cry Alone», would be released on October 18, 2018.^[63] Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 was released on November 9, 2018.^[64] On November 1, 2018, the second single from the album, «Runaway», was officially released.^[65] On November 7, 2018, the third single, «Life is Beautiful»—a remix of the track «Life» from the Feelz EP—was released.^[66]

Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 with 81,000 album-equivalent units (including 43,000 pure album sales), making it Lil Peep’s first US top 10 album.^[8][67]

On January 31, 2019, the first single from the upcoming collaboration album with iLoveMakonnen, «I’ve Been Waiting», featuring Fall Out Boy, was released.^[68] The song was originally a demo by ILoveMakonnen; Peep then performed on it, spawning a partnership that created up to 20 songs. Fall Out Boy was added to the song after Peep’s death.^[69]

On March 10, 2019, the documentary Everybody’s Everything, which chronicles Lil Peep’s life, premiered at the SXSW Film Festival.^[70] On November 1, 2019, the estate announced the release of the soundtrack to the documentary, which features both released and unreleased tracks.

In April 2019, «Gym Class» and «Star Shopping», two Lil Peep singles that were originally released in March 2016 and August 2015 respectively, were re-released onto all streaming platforms by the Lil Peep estate.^[71] The 2016 EP Vertigo was subsequently released by the estate to streaming platforms on March 5, 2020.^[72] The Peep estate officially released the Crybaby mixtape with most samples cleared to all streaming platforms on June 10, 2020, to coincide with the four-year anniversary of the original release.^[73] The track «falling 4 me» was missing as it couldn’t be cleared with Radiohead.^[73] The estate released the Hellboy mixtape with most samples cleared on September 25, 2020, the fourth anniversary of its original release.^[74] The song «drive by» was reproduced due to sample clearance issues.^[75]

On January 26, 2021, the estate announced that the California Girls EP was to be re-released.^[76] It was released on January 29, 2021, with a music video for the song «lil kennedy».^[77] Later, on June 30, 2021, the estate announced the re-release of the Lil Peep and Lil Tracy collaboration EPs, Castles and Castles II. They were released on July 2, 2021, with video of past live performances of certain tracks from the EPs. In the fall of 2021, the estate released Friends and High Fashion, two previously unreleased EPs made in collaboration with Yunggoth and Harry Fraud, respectively.^[78] On May 20, 2022, the Feelz EP was re-released, with the videos for «feelz» and «life» also being released.^[79] On December 2, 2022, the mixtape LIVE FOREVER was re-released, with the music video for the mixtape’s title track also being released.^[80]

Fashion

Lil Peep had been into fashion since his teenage years, and during the last months of his life he modelled for Vlone and was invited to and attended several fashion shows such as Balmain men’s show at Paris Fashion Week and Moncler Gamme Bleu MFW Mens Spring Summer show in Milan.^[81][82][83] Nico Amarca of Hypebeast said, «Even though Peep’s brand of trendy sits on a far more niche spectrum than most modern-day tastemakers, something that largely attributed to his success. In a time where genuine individuality is becoming increasingly obsolete, Peep was the tattoo-covered, Manic Panic-hued mall rat the creative world needed to disrupt its ever-growing homogeny.»^[84] Rapper Playboi Carti described Lil Peep as a «trendsetter».^[84]

His style has been described as evoking fashion styles associated with emo^[85] and mall goth.^[86] He often wore items including graffitied jackets, colored fur,^[87] and pink clothes.^[86] He cited Fat Mike, Marcelo Burlon and the Casualties as style influences. In a 2017 interview with GQ, he stated:

I never dress the same way for a week—I’ll dress like a whole other person the next week. I like to get weird and mix things. Not necessarily draw on the streets, but mix darker, dirtier cultures with high class shit. And kind of fuse them together and see how they can become one. And I think that already happens when I put on any really elegant piece of clothing, because of the way I look. You expect me to dress like a fucking punk.^[81]

In late 2018, it was announced that a Lil Peep clothing line was being created called «No Smoking» (stylized as «NO SMOK!NG») which was developed before Lil Peep’s death.^[88]

Musical style

Lil Peep was described as making lo-fi rap,^[92] being an «emo-trap heart throb»^[93] and an «emo rapper».^[94][95] Music journalists often compared Lil Peep to singer-songwriter and guitarist Kurt Cobain.^[96] New York Times music critic Jon Caramanica defined Peep as the Kurt Cobain of lo-fi rap, describing his music as gloomy and diabolically melodic.^[97] Lil Peep himself encouraged the connection and persona in his musical and lyrical content, saying that he wanted to become the «New Kurt Cobain».^[96][14] According to Angus Harrison from The Guardian, Lil Peep was «repurposing Kurt Cobain for bedroom diarists who are more used to rap than they are guitars.»^[98]

AllMusic described Lil Peep’s music as a blend of hip hop and rock influences along with trap, punk, and dream pop.^[99] His songs generally drew on the triple-time hi-hats of Southern rap and the angsty introspection of post-hardcore.^[98] He combined elements of emo and pop punk into rap music, bringing a fresh take on the genre.^[100] This resulted in him being described as the «future of emo» by Steven J. Horowitz of online magazine Pitchfork.^[100]

As a burgeoning artist, Lil Peep gained a significant amount of traction in the alternative hip-hop scene, establishing a better platform for himself to speak to fans about topics of his concern such as mental health.^[101] His lyrical themes include topics such as depression, drug use, past relationships, and suicidal thoughts and meshes together third-wave emo, alternative rock, pop-punk and dream pop with trap music and hip-hop.^[99] A close friend and the executive producer of Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1 said that Peep «wanted to give a voice to people that suffer from anxiety and depression, people who have been abused, bullied, and the people who were misunderstood like him. He had demons of his own and he faced those demons by creating music.»^[28]

Personal life

Lil Peep was candid about struggles with his sexuality, depression, heartbreak, and drug use.^[102] Lil Peep came out as bisexual in a Twitter post on August 8, 2017.^{[103][104][100]} He took to Twitter to open up about this aspect of his personal life to his fans.^[101] Lil Peep simply stated, «yes i’m bi sexual.»^[100] After coming out as bisexual, he would regularly confront homophobes on Twitter.^[105] He was also known collaborators with iLoveMakonnen, an openly gay recording artist whose music also blurs the line between rap and rock.^[105]

Lil Peep came out around the time he and actress and singer Bella Thorne began dating in September 2017.^[100][106] Shortly after the release of his debut studio album, the two were spotted kissing. They briefly dated, before Thorne became involved with rapper Mod Sun.^[100] While on the Come Over When You’re Sober tour, Lil Peep had met and started dating Instagram influencer Arzaylea Rodriguez around the time of his death in November.^[107]

Lil Peep actively talked about his issues with depression, anxiety and substance abuse and stated that he had bipolar disorder.^[21] Alongside drug use, Lil Peep struggled with suicidal impulses that date back to his adolescent years.^[108] On the track «OMFG» from his breakthrough mixtape Hellboy, Lil Peep talked about wanting to kill himself.^[109] During an interview, he was asked if he was suicidal. Lil Peep replied, «Yeah, it is serious. I suffer from depression and some days I wake up and I’m like, Fuck, I wish I didn’t wake up. That was part of why I moved to California, trying to get away from the place that was doing that to me, and the people I was around.»^[109] He continued, «I realized it was just myself—it’s a chemical imbalance in my brain. Some days I’ll be very down and out, but you won’t be able to tell, really, because I don’t express that side of myself on social media. That’s the side of myself that I express through music. That’s my channel for letting all that shit out.»^[109] He claims the frankness with which he spoke about difficulties in his life led to an intense connection with his fans through his music. In an interview with The Times, Lil Peep stated, «They tell me that it saved their lives. They say that I stopped them from committing suicide, which is a beautiful thing. … It’s great for me to hear. It helps. It boosts me, because music saved my life as well.»^[108]

Lil Peep was not medicated for depression. While those around him insisted, he did not want to, and opted to just smoke marijuana and whatever other drug came his way.^[109] In his final interview before his death with Zane Lowe, Peep confessed that his depression was getting worse saying «Things just get worse. Things already get worse and worse and worse every day.»^[110] Lil Peep regularly referenced addictions to cocaine, ecstasy and Xanax in his lyrics and posts on social media,^[111] where he described himself as a «productive junkie» and advised his audience to avoid drug use.^[112]

At the time of his death, Lil Peep was residing in Portobello Road, London, with his friend and close collaborator Bexey,^[113][21] and Smokeasac. The move was provoked by Peep’s need to escape his circumstances and his then-collective GothBoiClique.^[45][91]

Death

On November 15, 2017, Lil Peep was found dead on his tour bus when his manager went to check on him in preparation for that night’s performance at a Tucson, Arizona, venue.^[114] Foul play was not suspected,^[115] with his death believed to be from an overdose.^[116] In a series of Instagram posts in the hours leading up to his death, Lil Peep claimed to have ingested psilocybin mushrooms and cannabis concentrate. In another, he claimed to have consumed six Xanax pills following a video depicting his attempts to drop an unidentified pill into his mouth several times before successfully swallowing one and shaking a full prescription bottle. A subsequent post was captioned, «When I die, you’ll love me.»^[117] In the days after his death, a police report revealed that Lil Peep had taken a nap around 5:45 p.m. before the concert. His manager checked on him twice and found him sleeping and breathing fine, but was unable to wake him. When the manager checked on Lil Peep a third time, he was unresponsive and not breathing. Lil Peep’s manager performed CPR before medics arrived, though he was pronounced dead at the scene.^[118]

On December 8, Pima County’s Office of the Medical Examiner certified his cause of death as an accidental overdose from the powerful pain medication fentanyl and the benzodiazepine Xanax, a sedative.^[119] Toxicology tests were also positive for cannabis, cocaine and the painkiller Tramadol. Urine tests also showed the presence of multiple powerful opioids, including hydrocodone, hydromorphone (marketed under the brand name Dilaudid), oxycodone and oxymorphone. There was no alcohol in his system.^[1]

Wrongful death lawsuit

The rapper’s mother Liza Womack filed wrongful death charges against Lil Peep’s management FAE grp in 2019, accusing them of «negligence and other breaches of contract which, the lawsuit alleges, contributed to his death in 2017 of an accidental drug overdose.» Among the claims in the lawsuit are that FAE was complicit in providing access to «illegal drugs» and «prescription medications», and that the company knowingly allowed drug use to take place during the rapper’s tour «despite being aware of his addiction». At one point, the lawsuit charges that FAE encouraged the star to take drugs.^[120] In a responding statement, FAE expressed disappointment in the lawsuit:

«Lil Peep’s death from an accidental drug overdose was a terrible tragedy. However, the claim that First Access Entertainment, any of its employees, or Chase Ortega, or anyone else under our auspices, was somehow responsible for, complicit in, or contributed to his death is categorically untrue. In fact, we consistently encouraged Peep to stop abusing drugs and to distance himself from the negative influence of the drug users and enablers with whom he chose to associate.»^[120]

FAE formally filed court documents at the Los Angeles County Superior Court on December 23, 2019, to dispute all claims, including claims of negligence, breach of contract, «and wrongful death». Stennett told Rolling Stone that «[she] felt very protective of Lil Peep from day one.» In later documents and court filings, the company said that their work with Lil Peep was an «arm’s length business arrangement», something disputed by the rapper’s mother.^[121]

Despite court filings, FAE supported the release of Peep’s first posthumous album Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 (2019), which reached number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, a career-best for the rapper.^[122] At the start of 2020, the company released statements about their belief that they had no contractual responsibility for Lil Peep’s personal life, and that a ruling to suggest so would damage management businesses, «Imposing a duty on FAE Ltd. or FAE LLC to prevent [Lil Peep’s] drug overdose would extend the boundaries of legal obligations far beyond any precedent, and far beyond the contractual obligations and reasonable expectations of parties doing business. It would convert businesses engaged in the music and entertainment industries into full-time babysitters for artists. That clearly was not the parties’ intent upon entering ‘the JVA [(joint-venture agreement)].'»^[123]

Tributes

Numerous artists in the music industry paid tribute to Lil Peep following his death, including Diplo, Post Malone, Pete Wentz, Marshmello, Mark Ronson, Zane Lowe, Sam Smith, Bella Thorne, Trippie Redd, A$AP Nast, Rich Brian, Playboi Carti, Ugly God, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Xan, Ty Dolla Sign, Lil Pump, XXXTentacion, Dua Lipa, and El-P.^[124][125] Jon Caramanica, a music critic for The New York Times, held a special remembrance podcast episode to honor Peep following his death which was released on November 22, 2017.^[126] Good Charlotte also honored Lil Peep, releasing a cover of «Awful Things», which was shown at his memorial in Long Beach, New York on December 2, 2017.^[127] Three Days Grace paid tribute by posting a video on Instagram and Twitter of a remix of Peep’s song «Witchblades» featuring Lil Tracy. The remixed song’s beat was a slowed down instrumental track of the band’s song «The Real You». Lil Peep would be mentioned by Juicy J (who had collaborated with him before his death) on Rae Sremmurd’s «Powerglide». Lil Peep was also honored during the 60th Grammy Awards. On June 19, 2018, Juice Wrld released a two-song EP titled Too Soon.. dedicated to him and XXXTentacion, the latter being killed in June 2018.^[128][129] In The 1975 track, «Love It If We Made It», there is a lyric that gives a tribute to Lil Peep: «Rest in peace Lil Peep, The poetry is in the streets».^[130] In the song «Glass House» by Machine Gun Kelly, which pays tribute to many deceased artists, Lil Peep is mentioned in the lines: «Wish Lil Peep and me had met, but I can’t get that back». Fellow emo rapper XXXTentacion shared similar sentiments, saying that if he and Lil Peep had known each other better that they would have been good friends.^[131] XXXTentacion recorded a verse for a song in tribute to Lil Peep prior to his own murder, which was later turned into the posthumous collaboration «Falling Down». Grimes stated that she wrote the song «Delete Forever» on the night of Lil Peep’s death, with the lyrics being inspired by substance abuse.^[132]

Lil Peep was cremated at Huntington Station, New York.^[12] On December 2, 2017, friends, family and fans paid their respects to Lil Peep at his memorial in Long Beach, New York.^[133] A memorial was also held in London on the same day that a large picture of Lil Peep was projected onto the side of the Houses of Parliament in central London.^[134]

Legacy and influence

Before dying at the age of 21, Lil Peep came to be an inspiration to outcasts and youth subcultures drawn together by the internet.^[136] He earned legions of fans in a short time from both hip hop and emo subcultures.^[137] Although he did not claim so himself, he is widely considered to have made a style of music that has been since regarded «emo rap».^[138][98] He has been credited as the leading figure of the mid–late 2010s emo music scene^[139] and is commonly cited as an inspiration for upcoming emo rappers.^[140]

At the time of Lil Peep’s death, he was on the cusp of something significant. Three months earlier, he’d released Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1, the album that took the skeleton sound he’d developed in his bedroom — emo sentimentality, thunderous hip-hop underbelly, rock-star insouciance — and thickened it up. His mixtapes Hellboy and Crybaby, released on SoundCloud, were on the front lines of hip-hop’s open-eared engagement with other genres, as well as documents of the ways emo and pop-punk had begun to make room for hip-hop. He was at the musical vanguard and, covered in a symphony of tattoos, an emerging fashion icon as well. – New York Times music critic Jon Caramanica^[141]

In 2017, Pitchfork hailed Lil Peep as «the future of emo».^[100] Regarding his death, in January 2018, John Jeremiah Sullivan of GQ wrote, «When Lil Peep died late last year, he left behind an outsized legacy.»^[142] Rolling Stone journalist Elias Leight concurred similarly and wrote that Lil Peep’s «rise to stardom was powered by relentless drive.»^[143] A profile on his artistry was written by Billboard editor Steven Horowitz.^[100] The lengthy article resulted in an influx of think pieces centered around Lil Peep amongst writers, with music publications such as Noisey discussing his role within the broader emo genre. Though it allowed Peep to gather attention from a wide audience beyond his SoundCloud base, the piece polarized readers, some of whom protested applying the «future of emo» label to the young rapper in the headline.^[138][100] However, Lil Peep has since become regarded being an integral part of a «post-emo revival style of hip hop and rock»,^{[144][145][146][147]} and had been described as «arguably the biggest emo icon of the past few years»^[148]

The death of Lil Peep left an impact on several of his musical contemporaries.^[149] Lil Uzi Vert offered tribute by sharing on Twitter an edited version of one of the final photos Lil Peep had shared online.^[149] The news of Lil Peep’s tragic passing greatly affected Lil Uzi Vert, who shortly tweeted, «We would love 2 stop ….. but do you really care cause we been on xanax all fucking year. […] Rip buddy I 100% understand and I don’t fault u.»^[149] The prescription pills Xanax has since become an epidemic in the hip hop realm, particularly among the current SoundCloud generation.^[150] The SoundCloud rap scene Lil Peep originated from is notorious for its drug use, with artists often abusing prescription pills such as Xanax which have since become a go-to metaphor in their lyrics.^[151] In an assessment of the reactions, many were hopeful Lil Peep’s death has served as a wake-up call for the community regarding drug abuse.^[150] After offering their thoughts, Lil Uzi Vert indicated they were looking to do something for themselves in response to Lil Peep’s untimely passing.^[150] Lil Uzi Vert also seemed to make attempts to detox, and the following Thursday tweeted an update saying they were sober for the day and already shaking.^[149]

In the years following his death, Lil Peep became influential on the development of the e-girls and e-boys subculture.^[152]

In addition to calling him «the future of emo», Pitchfork also posited that Lil Peep’s willingness to be vulnerable was an antidote to the toxic attitude towards women, which in the past has been a core element of hip-hop culture and its rap-rock variant.^[153] According to fellow GothBoiClique member, Fish Narc, Lil Peep explicitly rejected contemporary SoundCloud rapper XXXTentacion for his alleged history of violence against his ex-girlfriend, spending time and money removing XXXTentacion’s songs from his Spotify playlists.^[58] On the contrary, rapper Fat Nick, a mutual friend of Lil Peep and XXXTentacion, said on Twitter that right before Peep died, he and Peep had a conversation about XXXTentacion and had planned to meet up with him, and that XXXTentacion was «super happy about it».^[59] Fat Nick also spoke about the matter on an Instagram livestream, where he dismissed the claims from Fish Narc and others about tension between XXXTentacion and Lil Peep, and confirmed that Lil Peep wanted to meet XXXTentacion once he was off tour. In the livestream, he also implied that members of GothBoiClique were responsible for Lil Peep’s death, saying, «Some of y’all are siding with the people that took advantage of Peep. I don’t get it… That’s crazy. Y’all say shit about fucking X, but you’re not saying shit about the people that killed [Lil Peep]… The people that gave him fentanyl. Y’all don’t say shit to them.»^[154] After this, Fish Narc faced criticism for his initial statement condemning the song. Fish Narc responded on Twitter, «I feel that people think I am trying to insult X. But really I wish him rest. I protest a posthumous collab between unaffiliated artists», and clarified that he did not wish to attack XXXTentacion and that his comments were, «how I interpreted what Peep told me as a friend.»^[155][156] When the posthumous 2018 single, «Falling Down», uniting the two deceased rappers was created without Lil Peep’s consent, some Lil Peep fans and some of Lil Peep’s friends opposed the retroactive inclusion of XXXTentacion. Some surviving band members posted a story onto Instagram disavowing the collaboration and imploring others not to listen to it.^[58] Following his death, Mic bemoaned: «Sadly, Peep had barely just begun bringing emo into the future with a message that many of his less woman-friendly influences, like Brand New, have failed to put forward.» He continued saying, «For a ‘crybaby’ who left this world so young, Peep inspired a lot of people to keep going.»^[153] The day after hearing news of his death, rapper Lil B paid tribute through a tweet. He wrote, «I remember Lil peep telling me he is against the sexual abuse of women and people in the music industry … I will continue to push his vision.»^[157]

Achievements

Having arisen from SoundCloud scene, Lil Peep was a large presence on social media and came to be revered online.^[158][98] He attracted a cult following through the songs he released and their emotional, downtrodden lyrics.^[159] Lil Peep also enjoyed the draw of his YouTube channel, where several millions of views were generated by his music videos for «Awful Things», «Benz Truck», «The Brightside» among others.^[102]

According to The Atlantic, «If you were going to bet on the young musicians most likely to soon be superstars, until yesterday, a lot of smart money would have been on Lil Peep.»^[137] Lil Peep had laid before him a promising career, which had been on the rise since 2015 thanks to a series of tracks, EPs and mixtapes released on SoundCloud.^[102] After being around for a little more than a year, Lil Peep had already managed to amass millions of hits on YouTube and SoundCloud.^[158] A year after posting his first song, Lil Peep attracted 82,000 followers on SoundCloud and 112,000 followers on Instagram.^[109] The burgeoning rapper had generated millions of online streams before releasing his debut album Come Over When You’re Sober Pt. 1 in August 2017.^[160] Despite being involved with GothBoiClique for the shortest amount of time, Lil Peep became the first member of the group to be paid serious critical attention as well as tour internationally.^[158] Due in part to his divisive nature, Lil Peep made his way onto Pitchfork‘s «Best Songs of the Year» list and completed a largely sold-out tour of Russia and Europe.^[158]

Discography

Studio albums

• Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1 (2017)
• Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 (2018)

Filmography

Concert tours

• Come Over When You’re Sober Tour (2017)^[162]

References

Further reading

• «Emo rapper Lil Peep embodies sadboi aesthetic in new album». Rocky Mountain Collegian. September 7, 2017. Archived from the original on September 20, 2017. Retrieved September 20, 2017 – via collegian.com.

External links

Лил Пип — биография

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Лил Пип – знаменитый американский музыкант, исполнявший песни на стыке двух стилей – эмо и рэпа.

Молодого музыканта, модель и композитора, известного под псевдонимом Lil Peep, считают одним из лучших исполнителей в стиле эмо-рэп. Благодаря его творчеству стиль эмо начал возрождаться и вышел на новый уровень.

Детство

Родился Густав Ар (настоящее имя Лил Пипа) в 1996 году в Пенсильвании. Вырос мальчик на юге Лонг-Айленда. Родители окончили Гарвард и производили впечатление вполне счастливой семьи. Однако, когда мальчик достиг подросткового возраста, они развелись. Отец преподавал в колледже, а мама работала учительницей начальных классов. В детстве мама называла мальчика Пипом, отсюда и появился звучный псевдоним. Когда юноше исполнилось 14 лет, отец бросает семью. Развод родителей сильно повлиял на мальчика, который стал считать собственного отца врагом.

С матерью у певца всегда были самые теплые отношения, только она могла понять подростковый бунт сына, его проблемы и мысли. В какой-то момент мать даже начала выполнять за сына домашнее задание, когда Гас перестал ходить в школу. Мальчик часто пропускал уроки, женщине даже пришлось получить разрешение на обучение в онлайн режиме. Старшие классы юноша заканчивал сидя дома, проходя курсы онлайн.

После школы Гас решает исключить отца из собственной жизни. Юноша верил, что отец предал их, уйдя из семьи. Тема развода родителей всегда была болезненной для молодого музыканта.

В подростковом возрасте будущий исполнитель начинает приобщаться к рэпу. Он увлекается этим направлением и мечтает о создании своих собственных треков. Его творческая биография начинается с покупки самого необходимого – записывающей аппаратуры и микрофона.

Ролики он загружал на Ютубе, а также на другой подобной платформе под названием SoundCloud. Видео с исполнениями молодого музыканта быстро стали популярными и это предопределило дальнейшие события из биографии певца. Свои первые записи парень писал прямо на домашнем ноутбуке. Впоследствии его творчество развивалось в направлении «лоу-фай», что можно перевести как «некачественный звук». Суть стиля в том, что записи звучат «некачественно», глухо, за счет чего создается особая атмосферность и антураж песни. Это роднит творчество Гаса с другим исполнителем, Куртом Кобейном, основателем стиля гранж. Пип, как и Кобейн в свое время, старался придать своей музыке нарочито «небрежное» звучание. Сходство двух музыкантов в дальнейшем отменят многие критики.

Окрыленный первым успехом в возрасте 17 лет Густав переезжает в Лос-Анджелес. В городе Ангелов он планировал вплотную заняться сольной карьерой. Лил Пип снимал квартиру вместе со своим другом Бреннаном. Вскоре юношу заметил основатель группы SchemaPosse, популярный рэпер JGRXXN. Рэпер связался с парнем при помощи социальных сетей и назначает ему личную встречу.

После встречи, на которую был приглашен и Эрик Уитни, более известный как Ghostemane, музыканты решают основать собственный коллектив. Группу назвали SchemaBoyss и какое-то время она давала гастроли по всей Америке. Однако в коллективе начинается творческий конфликт и оба музыканта покидают группу.

Вскоре молодой исполнитель знакомится с известным рэпером Лил Трейси и присоединяется к его команде. В течение года Лил Пип доводит собственный стиль исполнения до совершенства и буквально возрождает музыкальное сочетание рэпа и эмо.

Дальнейшая карьера

Поначалу никто не помогал молодому музыканту раскручивать авторские синглы. Первая популярность – всецело заслуга самого Пипа. Первое время он даже посещал специальные курсы по обработке записей, что в будущем пригодилось ему для создания собственных треков на домашнем компьютере.

Заниматься музыкой Густав начал еще дома, в Лонг-Айленде. В 2015 году парень выпускает свой первый музыкальный сборник под названием «Часть первая». Микстейп сразу же становится популярным, набрав свыше 4 тысяч прослушиваний в первую же неделю. Затем музыкант выпускает собственный альбом «Feelz» и следом еще один сборник «Live Forever».

Популярность музыканта начинает расти после выхода композиции «Star Shopping». Позже та запись выйдет уже отдельным синглом, но после смерти певца. Следующая песня «Beamer Boy» делает Пипа еще более популярным. Благодаря внезапно обретенной славе молодого человека приглашают в группу Schemaposse. С коллективом Густав выступил на концерте в Тусоне.

В апреле 2016 года Пип покидает группу, оставшись при этом в дружеских отношениях с коллективом. После этого он больше не стремится выступать вместе с другими музыкальными коллективами. Однако через какое-то время последовало новое сотрудничество, на сей раз с рэперами из группы GothBoiClique. Пип пригласил участников коллектива для записи своего очередного сборника Crybaby. Сам Пип позже утверждал, что микстейп был создан всего лишь за три дня, а для записи был использован микрофон стоимостью в 150 долларов. Большую часть всей работы на себя взял сам Густав, сборник вышел в свет летом 2016 года.

Осенью этого же года выходит знаковая запись музыканта – Hellboy. Сборник имел огромную популярность на музыкальных площадках, количество прослушиваний било рекорды. Успех сборника определил дальнейшую карьеру певца – он отправляется в собственный гастрольный тур по всей Америке. Сольный тур назывался «Шоу Пипа» и собрал огромное количество поклонников музыканта. Концертный тур продолжался примерно месяц и имя молодого исполнителя все чаще можно было услышать в рэперских кругах.

Весной 2017 года последовал скандал: музыкальный коллектив Mineral предъявил певцу обвинения в незаконном использовании одной из песен группы для собственного трека Пипа. На это вокалист ответил, что таким образом пытался выразить свою любовь к оригинальной песне.

После окончания тура Пип решает перебраться в Англию и селится в Лондоне. В британской столице Густав продолжает заниматься музыкой. Он начинает записывать композиции с другими рэперами. Здесь же музыкант создает другие песни, делающие его имя знаменитым за пределами родной Америки.

Выступал Пип и в России. В 2017 году он специально приехал в столицу, чтобы дать концерт перед российскими поклонниками. Здесь же парень записал одну из частей будущего трека «Benz truck». Когда проводилась экранизация, видеоряд был дополнен субтитрами на русском языке.

Модельный бизнес

У артиста была очень яркая и запоминающаяся внешность. Несколько татуировок, в том числе и на лице, делали его образ дерзким, но одновременно по-детски наивным. Его стиль музыки хорошо сочетался с обликом певца – романтичность стилистики эмо гармонировала с агрессивностью рэпа. Человек с такой внешностью просто не мог не заинтересовать представителей модельных агентств.

На самом деле Лил Пип работал в качестве модели, начиная с подросткового возраста. Парня постоянно приглашали для участия в показах, в том числе и для парижской недели моды. О любви Гаса к моде рассказывали его друзья. Один из рэперов Playboi Carti даже отзывался о Пипе как о «законодателе мод».

В 2018 году выходит линия одежды, названная в честь исполнителя. Линия «No Smoking» была разработана уже после смерти Гаса.

Стиль музыки

Вокалист описывал свой собственный стиль как особое сочетание эмо-трэпа и рэпа «лоу-фай». Лоу-фай иногда характеризуется эффектом «некачественной» записи. Композиции певца относятся по своей направленности к южному репу, однако во многом опираются на постхардкор. Не удивительно, что некоторые журналисты сравнивали Лил Пипа с Куртом Кобейном, но отмечали мрачность и мелодичность музыки первого. С Куртом Кобейном Пипа роднит не только стиль, но и направленность творчества – мрачные мотивы, противостояние обществу.

В центре творчества певца были такие темы, как расставания, депрессии, общественное непонимание и наркомания. В ранних композициях Лил Пипа прослеживаются оккультные мотивы. Один из самых известных журналов, посвященных музыке, «Pitchfork» называл Гаса «эмо будущего».

Певец говорил, что многие его тексты посвящены мести отцу, а также девушкам, которые его бросили. Певец утверждал, что его бывшим девушкам всегда чего-то не хватало, чтобы обрести счастье с ним.

Лил Пип мастерски играл на тубе и на тромбоне.

Личная жизнь

Биография певца была омрачена множеством срывов и потреблением наркотиков. Зависимость от веществ часто становилась темой не только его песен, певец высказывался о наркотиках в своих социальных сетях. Однажды Гас даже назвал себя «продуктивным наркоманом», однако посоветовал всем отказаться от приема запрещенных веществ. Он отмечал, что никогда не был счастлив и часто впадает в уныние, чувствует депрессивный настрой. Гас не обращался к врачам по поводу депрессии. Он утверждал, что от наркотиков не откажется никогда, особенно от препаратов, которые лечат депрессию.

В личной жизни певец не скрывал своей бисексуальности. Известны его отношения с актрисой из Америки по имени Белла Торн. Однако яркая пара вскоре расстается и Гас начинает встречаться с другой девушкой. До самой своей смерти певец встречался с богершей Арзайлией Родригез.

Смерть

В 2017 году выходит первый альбом музыканта, написанный в профессиональной студии. Альбом хорошо продается и Пип объявляет о новом этапе в своей музыкальной карьере – он собирается совершить мировое турне. Тур должен был стартовать в Британии в сентябре. Однако обстоятельства не дали планам музыканта воплотиться в жизнь – в ноябре того же года Лил Пип скончался.

В тот день молодой исполнитель должен был давать концерт в Тусоне, в Америке. Выступление было в срочном порядке отменено – появились сообщения о госпитализации артиста, а потом и о его безвременной кончине. Первоначальной версией смерти парня была наркотическая передозировка, в дальнейшем эта информация подтвердилась.

Молодой человек в тот момент находился в одном из автобусов, которые часто используются американскими группами для гастрольных туров. Пип был без сознания, сразу же после обнаружения его отвезли в больницу.

В тот момент певец был окружен друзьями. Один из приятелей музыканта, певец Бекси, вел прямую трансляцию. На видео можно было увидеть бессознательное тело Гаса, остальные парни были невменяемы. Предположительно, в тот день все собравшиеся приняли наркотики. Возможно, невменяемое состояние не позволило друзьям вовремя понять, что Гас нуждается в помощи.

Молодой исполнитель смешал опиаты и другие препараты, что и стало причиной скорого летального исхода. До сих пор ходят слухи о том, кто мог дать парню самодельные таблетки, которые и стали причиной его смерти.

15 ноября Густава не стала, ему недавно исполнился 21 год.

По-настоящему пророческим стал последний пост молодого исполнителя. В своей ленте он разместил фотографию с концерта и оставил комментарий. В сообщении музыкант обращался к своим поклонникам, утверждая, что они полюбят его после смерти.

Так и произошло. После смерти артиста в его социальной сети до сих пор признаются в любви его многочисленные поклонники.

Посмертные записи

После сообщений о смерти Пипа продажи его пластинок резко взлетели, популярность исполнителя тоже побила все рекорды. Его композиции попадают в чарты, о нем начинают писать многочисленные музыкальные журналы и сайты.

Лил Пип всегда много работал, он старался выпустить как можно больше новых треков. Некоторые композиции остались незавершенными после кончины исполнителя, поэтому многие песни доделывались уже после объявления о его смерти. Посмертный релиз певца появляется уже спустя сутки после трагического события. Выпускается неизданная композиция «16 Lines», которая также имела огромную популярность среди поклонников Пипа.

Спустя год выходит совместный трек знаменитого диджея под псевдонимом Маршмеллоу и Пипа. Композиция называлась «Spotlight», к ней через месяц будет снят отдельный ролик. Следом другие исполнители выпускают треки, в которых до этого принимал участие Лил Пип.

В марте 2018 года бывший продюсер музыканта сообщил о скором окончании работы над второй частью альбома Лил Пипа. Он признавался Густаву в любви, говорил о том, что хотел бы видеть рядом с собой певца. Продюсер просил мертвого музыканта о доверии, ведь речь шла о последнем альбоме исполнителя.

Затем архивные записи певца перекупаются компанией Columbia Records. В мае выходит посмертный трек Пипа и снимается клип. Начинается переиздание самых знаковых композиций в творческой биографии Гаса, используются старые записи.

Смерть Густава Ара только сделала его имя еще известнее. До сих пор выходят переиздания его старых треков, перезапуски прежних проектов. Композиции певца и сейчас занимают места в чертах и обретают все больше поклонников по всему миру.

Настоящее время

Весной 2019 года вышла документальная лента о жизни вокалиста. Картина называлась «Лил Пип: все для всех». Фильм показывали в кинотеатрах. Следом выходит перезапуск старых треков исполнителя.

Последнее переиздание произошло в 2020 году. Был использован альбом Vertigo, который Лип Пип записал еще в 2016 году.

Альбом

• Come Over When You’re Sober

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Основная информация
Имя при рождении	Густав Ар
Полное имя	Густав Элайджа Ар
Дата рождения	1 ноября 1996
Место рождения	Аллентаун, Пенсильвания, США
Дата смерти	15 ноября 2017 (21 год)
Место смерти	Тусон, Пима, Аризона, США
Страна	США
Профессии	певец, рэпер
Годы активности	2014 — 2017
Жанры	хип-хоп эмо-рэп клауд-рэп трэп
Псевдонимы	LiL PEEP
Коллективы	GothBoiClique, Schemaposse
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Густав Ар^[1] (англ. Gustav Åhr, 1 ноября 1996, Аллентаун, Пенсильвания — 15 ноября 2017, Тусон, Аризона), более известный по сценическому псевдониму Lil Peep — американский рэпер и певец из Ронконкома, Нью-Йорк. Его называли одним из первых музыкантов пост-эмо возрождения, а его стиль исполнения хип-хопа стал известен под названием эмо-рэп^[2][3][4]. Клипы на его песни «benz truck», «witchblades», «Spotlight^[en]» и «The Brightside» набрали более пятидесяти миллионов просмотров на YouTube, «Awful Things» и «Save That Shit» — более 100 миллионов.

Биография

Густав Ар родился в Пенсильвании и вырос на Южном берегу Лонг-Айленда^[4]. Его родители были выпускниками Гарварда; они развелись, когда Густав был подростком^[5]. Отец работал профессором в колледже, а мать — учительницей начальных классов^[4].

Перестав посещать школу, он закончил образование с помощью онлайн-курсов^[6]. Вскоре он увлёкся музыкой и стал размещать её на YouTube и SoundCloud.

В 17 лет Густав переехал в Лос-Анджелес для работы над своей музыкальной карьерой. Там он присоединился к коллективу Gothboiclique и стал одним из первых, кто начал совмещать эмо и рэп^[7].

Карьера

В 2015 году Lil Peep выпустил свой первый микстейп «Lil Peep Part One», который собрал 4 000 воспроизведений на SoundCloud за первую неделю. Вскоре после этого он выпустил LP Feelz и ещё один микстейп «Live Forever»^[8][9].

В 2016 году Lil Peep выпустил ещё два микстейпа — «Crybaby» и «Hellboy»^[6].

В мае 2017 года группа Mineral обвинила Lil Peep в нарушении авторских прав: трек «Hollywood Dreaming», исполненный совместно с музыкантом Gab3, содержал нелицензионный и неаккредитованный семпл песни «LoveLetterTypewriter» с альбома Mineral 1998 года «EndSerenading». В ответ на эти претензии Gab3 заметил, что они лишь пытались «показать любовь» к оригинальной композиции^[10].

2 июня 2017 года Lil Peep анонсировал через Instagram релиз своего дебютного альбома «Come Over When You’re Sober»^[11]. Альбом был выпущен 15 августа^[12]. Осенний тур «Come Over When You’re Sober» в поддержку альбома начался 2 октября и должен был закончиться 16 ноября 2017 года^[13], однако Густав умер 15 ноября (см. раздел «Смерть»).

11 января 2018 года Marshmello выложил на свой канал сингл «Spotlight^[en]», над которым работал с Густавом^[14]. Также, 12 февраля 2018 года был выложен клип^[15] и также на канал Marshmello

1 марта 2018 года продюсер Lil Peep`а в своём Instagram аккаунте заявил, что заканчивает работу над 2 частью альбома «Come Over When You’re Sober»: «Доделываю вторую часть. Я люблю тебя, Гас, я знаю, ты здесь, рядом со мной. Лучшие друзья навсегда, доверься мне»^[16]

19 сентября 2018 года вышел совместный с XXXTENTACION трек под названием «Falling Down»^[17]

Видеоклипы

8 июня 2017 года Lil Peep загрузил свой клип на песню «Benz Truck», снятое и срежиссированное Mezzy, Wiggy и Joseph Breese совместно с VFX from Sus Boy^[18].

До этого Lil Peep самостоятельно записал девять видеороликов для «Backseat», «Girls», «White Wine», «Gym Class», «Beamerboy», «Drugz», «Live Forever», «California World», «Your Eyes» и «White Tee»^[19].

27 июля 2017 года Lil Peep загрузил клип на песню «The Brightside» (шестой сингл с дебютного альбома)^[20].

17 августа 2017 года выпустил клип на песню «Awful Things» (третий сингл с дебютного альбома)

12 февраля 2018 года был выпущен клип на сингл «Spotlight^[en]», вместе с американским диджеем Marshmello^[21]

13 мая 2018 года был загружен клип на совместный с Clams Casino^[en] сингл под названием «4 GOLD CHAINS».^[22]

Музыкальный стиль

Lil Peep описывается как «SoundCloud-рэпер», а его музыкальный стиль характеризуют как «лоу-фай» рэп и эмо-трэп^[23][24]. Музыка Густава, как правило, опирается как на южный рэп, так и на постхардкор^[25]. The New York Times отметил, что за последние 24 месяца Lil Peep «превратился в нечто вроде сценического Курта Кобейна, с несколькими удивительно мрачными и дьявольски мелодичными релизами»^[26].

Музыка Густава затрагивает лирические темы: самоубийство, прошлые отношения, употребление наркотиков и колдовство. Его называли «эмо будущего»^[4]. Его музыкальные влияния включают Gucci Mane, Riff Raff, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Crystal Castles, Seshollowaterboyz, Rozz Dyliams, My Chemical Romance и Panic! At The Disco^[27][28].

Густав играл на тромбоне и тубе^[29].

Личная жизнь

К 2017 году Густав проживал в Лондоне и являлся членом Gothboiclique и Schemaposse^[30].

Музыкант употреблял наркотики, был зависим от кокаина и алпразолама; тему наркотиков он регулярно упоминал в своих текстах и ​​сообщениях в социальных сетях^[31][32]. В одном посте в Instagram Густав объявил себя «продуктивным наркоманом» и призвал к отказу от наркотиков (англ. don’t do drugs)^[33].

Ар совершил каминг-аут как бисексуал в августе 2017 года^[34][35].

Смерть

В ноябре 2017 года Адам Грандмейсон, близкий друг Густава, сообщил, что он находится в больнице из-за передозировки фентанила и ксанакса.

После сообщения о его госпитализации, 15 ноября, менеджер Густава сказал, что он умер в результате передозировки^[36]. Смерть произошла перед запланированным концертом в городе Тусон, Аризона^[37][38]. Густаву был 21 год.

После смерти артиста его поклонники смогли вычислить предположительного убийцу, который и снабдил Ара поддельным «Ксанаксом»^[39].

Дискография

Альбомы

• Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1 (2017)

Микстейпы

• Lil Peep Part One (2015)
• Live Forever (2015)
• Crybaby (2016)
• Hellboy (2016)

EP

• Garden (совместно с Atoms) (2015)
• Mall Music (совместно с Boy Froot) (2015)
• In the Bedroom, I Confess (совместно с OmenXIII) (2015)
• Romeo’s Regrets (совместно с Bexey) (2015)
• Feelz (2015)
• California Girls (совместно с Nedarb Nagrom) (2016)
• Vertigo (2016)
• Elemental (совместно с Schemaposse) (2016)
• Dead Broke (совместно с ITSOKTOCRY) (2016)
• Teen Romance (2016)
• Castles (совместно с Lil Tracy) (2016)
• Castles II (совместно с Lil Tracy) (2017)

Примечания

Лил Пип (в реальной жизни Густав Элайджа Ахр , родился 1 ноября 1996 года в Аллентауне , штат Пенсильвания , † 15 ноября 2017 года в Тусоне , штат Аризона ) был американским рэпером .

Жизнь

Густав Элайджа Ахр родился в Аллентауне , штат Пенсильвания, в 1996 году . Когда ему было четыре года, его семья переехала в Лонг-Бич в штате Нью-Йорк , где он вырос. Его мать, которая работает учителем начальной школы , имеет немецкие и ирландские корни; его отец Карл Иоганн Ар, колледж — профессор немецкого и шведского языков . Он научился играть на тромбоне и тубе .

Когда он рос, отец Ор в основном отсутствовал, и его воспитание было «апатичным и наркоманом», когда его отец и мать официально развелись, когда ему было 14 лет. Вскоре после этого он расстался со своей тогдашней девушкой Эммой Харрис, и между ними завязались отношения. Большинство его песен посвящено возлюбленной его детства Эмме. Он посещал Lindell начальную школу , а затем Лонг — Бич средней школы в Лидо — Биче, Нью — Йорке , где , несмотря на нечастую посещаемость, он получил хорошие оценки и был в списке декана по времени он был в attendance.He позже выбыл из средней школы и приняли пройти онлайн-курсы, чтобы получить диплом . Вскоре после этого он начал публиковать свою музыку на YouTube и SoundCloud .

Его брат привел его на панк-сцену через такие группы, как The Casualties , Minor Threat и NOFX . После того, как Ор оставил среднюю школу Лонг-Бич без степени, он сделал это через онлайн-курсы. Вскоре после этого он переехал в Лос-Анджелес в 2013 году, чтобы начать свою рэперскую карьеру.

Незадолго до смерти он был в отношениях с Арсайлеей Родригес около двух месяцев, до которых у него были непродолжительные отношения с актрисой Беллой Торн . После смерти Ара она написала в Твиттере: «Пип, ты заслуживаешь большего от жизни. Жизнь не соответствовала твоему размеру». В августе 2017 года он назвал себя бисексуалом .

Он умер 15 ноября 2017 года в возрасте 21 года незадолго до запланированного концерта в Тусоне , штат Аризона , после того, как был госпитализирован из-за отравления наркотиками. Сообщалось, что незадолго до своего предыдущего концерта в Эль-Пасо , штат Техас, он неосознанно принял комбинацию успокаивающего альпразолама (ксанакса) и болеутоляющего фентанила . Семь таблеток одного алпразолама были средней дозой для рэпера, но комбинация двух активных ингредиентов привела к остановке сердца. В отчете о вскрытии говорилось, что помимо фентанила и альпразолама в организме Ара были обнаружены остатки кокаина , марихуаны и опиоидных болеутоляющих трамадол , оксикодон , оксиморфон , гидроморфон и гидрокодон . Алкоголь не обнаружен.

Известные исполнители, такие как XXXTentacion , Diplo , Post Malone , Пит Венц , Маршмелло , Марк Ронсон , Зейн Лоу , Сэм Смит , Белла Торн , Триппи Редд , A $ AP Nast , Рич Брайан , Playboi Carti , Ugly God , Lil Uzi Vert , Lil Xan , Ty Dolla Sign , Lil Pump , Dua Lipa и El-P проявили сочувствие и признательность.

Карьера

Lil Peep выпустил свой первый микстейп в 2015 году под псевдонимом Lil Peep , который добился первоначального успеха и известности с 4000 стримов на SoundCloud . В том же году был выпущен EP Feelz, а также еще один микстейп с Live Forever . В 2016 году было выпущено еще два микстейпа с Crybaby в июне и Hellboy в сентябре. Lil Peep опубликовал свои первые песни на Soundcloud и YouTube , что позволило ему получить определенную популярность. Его песни собрали миллионы кликов на YouTube. Самым популярным видео является музыкальный видеоклип Save That Shit , который просмотрели более 300 миллионов раз.

В мае 2017 года Лил Пип был на минерале Emoband, обвиняемом в незаконных сэмплах пьесы Love Letter Typewriter из опубликованного в 1998 году альбома EndSerenading в песне Hollywood Dreaming . В ответ на обвинения Лил Пип ответил, что с помощью сэмпла он хотел показать свою привязанность к музыке Mineral. В июне 2017 года его дебютный альбом Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1 , созданный в сотрудничестве с удостоенным Грэмми продюсером Робом Кавалло , был анонсирован 11 августа того же года. В целях продвижения альбома Lil Peep объявил о расширенном турне, которое состоится со 2 августа по 17 ноября 2017 года. Его единственный альбом вошел в чарты Германии, Великобритании и США после смерти рэпера. 9 ноября 2018 года следующий альбом Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2 . 31 января 2019 года был выпущен первый сингл с ILoveMakonnen из грядущего совместного альбома под названием I’m Been Waiting и Fall Out Boy . Первоначально эта песня была демо от ILoveMakonnen и Peep, которое затем было сыграно, и в результате было создано до двадцати песен. Fall Out Boy был добавлен к песне после смерти Пипа. Когда выйдет альбом, пока неизвестно.

10 июня 2020 года по случаю четырехлетнего юбилея посмертно вышел переиздание микстейпа Crybaby . Впервые он также был выпущен на различных стриминговых платформах. 21 сентября того же года было объявлено о переиздании микстейпа Hellboy 25 сентября 2020 года.

Lil Peep был частью коллектива Gothboiclique, основанного бывшим музыкантом Tigers Jaw Адамом Макилви и бывшим участником Schemaposse .

Музыка

Lil Пип был назван « SoundCloud называют -Rapper» , чья музыка , как Lo-фантастическом -Rap и Emo — Trap описано. Его музыку также можно охарактеризовать как эмоциональный лоу-фай инди-пост-рэп . New York Times назвал рэпера « Курта Кобейна из ЛО-фантастического рэпа» и описал его музыку как в темноте дьявольски мелодично. Его музыка подхватила и южноамериканский рэп, и тревожный самоанализ пост-хардкора . Стивен Дж. Горовиц с онлайн-платформы журнала Pitchfork Media назвал это «будущим эмо».

В своих текстах он затрагивал темы самоубийств , прошлых любовных связей и употребления наркотиков . Музыкальное влияние оказали Gucci Mane , Riff Raff , Seshollowaterboyz , Crystal Castles , Rozz Dyliams , My Chemical Romance , Red Hot Chili Peppers и Panic! позвонил на дискотеку . В своей музыке он использовал сэмплы различных рок-групп, включая Brand New , Underoath , Radiohead , Avenged Sevenfold , Three Days Grace , Slayer , The Postal Service , Oasis и The Microphones .

По сравнению с другими рэперами, Лил Пип менее отличался своими навыками разговорного пения, чем своим стилем пения, ориентированным на пост-панк и инди-рок . Лишь кое-где он встраивал в свои песни рэп-куплеты.

Концерты

Перед смертью он выступал в разных странах, в Америке, Великобритании, Германии, России, Канаде, Франции, Бельгии, Польше и Нидерландах. Его самые большие концерты были в Торонто и Москве.

Мода

Лил Пип интересовался модой с подросткового возраста. В последние месяцы своей жизни он моделировал для Vlone и был приглашен на различные показы мод , такие как мужской показ Balmain во время Недели моды в Париже или мужской весенне-летний показ Moncler Gamme Bleu MFW в Милане . Нико Амарка из Hype Beast говорит, что «хотя Пип и его внешность — гораздо меньшая ниша, отвечающая требованиям большинства современных художников, но это большая часть его успеха. В то время, когда настоящая индивидуальность становится все более и более необычной, Пип был запаникованным, полностью татуированным сумасшедшим, в котором творческий мир нуждался, чтобы нарушить его постоянно растущую однородность ». Рэпер Playboi Carti описывает Lil Peep как« законодателя моды ».

В конце 2018 года было объявлено, что Лил Пип до своей смерти работал над брендом одежды, который появится под названием «No Smoking» (написано «NO SMOK! NG»).

Дискография

Студийные альбомы

год	Название музыкального лейбла	Высший рейтинг, общее количество недель, наградаРазмещение диаграммыРазмещение диаграммы (Год, название, музыкальный лейбл , места размещения, недели, награды, примечания)	Замечания
DE	В	CH	Соединенное Королевство	нас	SE
2017 г.	Приходи, когда будешь трезвым, Pt. 1 Первый доступ	DE82 (1 неделя) DE	В51 (1 неделя) В	—	Соединенное Королевство71 золото (1 неделя)Соединенное Королевство	нас38 золото (23 недели)нас	SE11 (56 недель) SE	Впервые опубликовано: 15 августа 2017 г. Объем продаж: +610 000
2018 г.	Приходи, когда будешь трезвым, Pt. 2 AUTNMY, Columbia Records	DE26 (6 недель) DE	В17 (10 недель) В	CH38 (1 неделя) CH	Соединенное Королевство19-е Серебряный (3 недели)Соединенное Королевство	нас4-й золото (14 недель)нас	SE3 (15 недель) SE	Впервые опубликовано: 9 ноября 2018 г. Объем продаж: + 640,000

Фильмография

• Everybody’s Everything (2019): Документация, архивные кадры после его смерти

веб ссылки

• Lil ‘Peep на Discogs
• Lil Peep на Laut.de
• Официальный веб-сайт

Индивидуальные доказательства

1. ↑ Мать Лил Пипа Лиза Вомак рассказывает о жизни и наследии своего сына | Вилы. Проверено 19 ноября 2018 года .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Стивен Дж. Горовиц: Слезы грязного мусора: Рэпер Лил Пип — будущее эмо . В: Pitchfork.com . 9 января, 2017. Проверено 16 ноября, 2017.
3. ↑ Смешанный хип-хоп и эмо, Умер в 21 год . В: The New York Times . Проверено 20 ноября 2017 года.
4. ↑ Lil Peep Wiki: Причина смерти, Чистая стоимость, Подруга и 4 факта, которые нужно знать . В: Заработайте ожерелье . Проверено 20 ноября 2017 года.
5. ↑ The Break представляет: Lil Peep — XXL . В: XXL Mag . Проверено 16 ноября 2017 года.
6. ↑ Хэтти Коллинз, Фрэнки Данн: интервью с lil peep от сентября 2017 года. In: ID. 22 декабря, 2017. Проверено 13 июня, 2019 (британский английский).
7. ↑ Мать Lil Peep, Лиза Вомак, рассказывает о жизни и наследии своего сына. Проверено 13 июня 2019 года .
8. ↑ Лиза Веррико: Интервью: Lil Peep . 6 августа 2017 г., ISSN  0140-0460 ( thetimes.co.uk [по состоянию на 13 июня 2019 г.]).
9. ↑ Знакомьтесь, Lil Peep, The All-American Reject You Hate To Love. Проверено 13 июня 2019 года .
10. ↑ ^{а б} Эмма Гарланд: Первое свидание на кладбище с Лил Пип . В: Vice . Проверено 18 ноября 2017 года.
11. ↑ Колин Джойс: Знакомьтесь, Lil Peep, All-American Reject . В: фейдер . Проверено 16 ноября 2017 года.
12. ↑ ^{a b c d} Татьяна Тенрейро: Хронология карьеры Лил Пипа . В: Billboard . Проверено 18 ноября 2017 года.
13. ↑ Рэпер Лил Пип умирает в 21 год, а его бывшая Белла Торн молчит. 16 ноября 2017, доступ к 4 июля 2020 .
14. ↑ Дэн Трейсер: Рэпер Лил Пип стал би в Твиттере . В: Queerty.com . 9 августа, 2017. Проверено 16 ноября, 2017.
15. ↑ Лил Пип умирает в 21 год: Отчет . В: Billboard.com . 16 ноября, 2017. Проверено 16 ноября, 2017.
16. ↑ Гала : Смерть в 21 год! Подруга Беллы Торн умерла от передозировки
17. ↑ ^{a b} Музыкальное видео Save That Shit
18. ↑ Яна Вайс: Смерть от наркотиков в Instagram. В: Время . 25 ноября 2017, доступ к 10 июня 2020 .
19. ↑ Rolling Stone : раскрыта причина смерти Lil Peep , 8 декабря 2017 г.
20. ↑ Lil Peep Cause of Death Overdose of Fentanyl, Xanax: Report. Accessed 15 июля 2020 года .
21. ↑ Смерть Лил Пипа: Дипло, Пост Мэлоун, Пит Венц и другие React. 16 ноября 2017, доступ к 15 июля 2020 .
22. ^ Дипло, Пит Венц, Пост Мэлоун и другие музыканты реагируют на смерть Лил Пипа. 16 ноября 2017, доступ к 15 июля 2020 .
23. ↑ Лил Пип @ The Foundry 30.10 | mxdwn.com . Проверено 16 ноября 2017 года.
24. ↑ Даты и билеты на тур Lil Peep . В: Stereoboard.com . Проверено 16 ноября 2017 года.
25. ↑ Знакомьтесь, Lil Peep, The All-American Reject You Hate To Love . В: ФЕЙДЕР . Проверено 16 ноября 2017 года.
26. ↑ Ветераны эмо-минералов обвиняют Лил Пип в их ограблении . In: Stereogum , 5 мая, 2017. Проверено 16 ноября, 2017. 
27. ↑ Крис ДеВиль: Спин : Ветераны эмо Минералы обвиняют Лил Пип в том, что они их отрывают
28. ↑ Lil Peep объявляет о названии альбома, заявляя, что «не уважает фристайл» . В: ФЕЙДЕР . Проверено 16 ноября 2017 года.
29. ↑ Эмо-рэпер Lil Peep объявляет о турне ‘Come Over When You’re Sober’ — Новости — Альтернативная пресса . В: Альтернативная пресса . Архивировано из оригинального 10 августа 2017 года , извлекаемых 16 ноября 2017 года.
30. ↑ Lil Peep: Так звучит его новый альбом. Проверено 19 октября 2018 года .
31. ↑ Lil Peep и iLoveMakonnen — «Я ждал (футы Fall Out Boy)». В: Спин. 31 января 2019, доступ к 3 февраля 2019 .
32. ↑ Элиас Лейт: Как ILoveMakonnen, Lil Peep и Fall Out Boy сделали ‘I’m Been Waiting’. В: Роллинг Стоун. 31 января 2019 г., получено 3 февраля 2019 г. (американский английский).
33. ↑ Хеллбой — сентябрь +25 Сентябре , 2020 доступен на 23 сентября 2020 года .
34. ↑ Лили Темплтон: Front Row at Haider Ackermann Men’s Spring 2018 . In: WWD , 22 июня 2017 г. Проверено 16 ноября 2017 г. 
35. ^ Как потеря SoundCloud изменит музыку . В: Звонок . Проверено 16 ноября 2017 года. 
36. ↑ ^{a b} Янник Гёльц: Laut.de : Lil Peep — Приходи, когда будешь трезвой критикой
37. ↑ Джон Караманика: Буйный мир нового андеграунда рэпа . В: The New York Times , 22 июня 2017 г. Получено 16 ноября 2017 г. 
38. ↑ Ангус Харрисон: Lil Peep: рэпер YouTube, возвращающий эмо . В: The Guardian , 21 апреля, 2017. Проверено 16 ноября, 2017. 
39. ↑ Интернет Хиппи, селфи с LiL PEEP 1. Как вы в конечном итоге … . В кн . : Интернет-хиппи . Проверено 16 ноября 2017 года.
    
40. ^ Мэтью Schnipper: «Белое вино» по Лил Peep Review . В: Pitchfork.com . 14 октября, 2016. Проверено 16 ноября, 2017.
41. ↑ 13 художников, о которых нужно знать в 2017 году . В: Thefader.com . 5 января, 2017. Проверено 16 ноября, 2017.
42. ↑ LiL PEEP Гигография, история тура и прошлые концерты — Songkick. Достигано 4 июля 2020 .
43. ↑ VLONE представляет новые коллаборации Nike на Неделе моды в Париже. 23 июня, 2017. Проверено 13 июня, 2019 (американский английский).
44. ↑ Лил Пип, похороненный на поминальной службе в родном городе. Проверено 13 июня 2019 года .
45. ↑ ^{a b} Почему Lil Peep был иконой стиля тысячелетия. Проверено 13 июня 2019 года .
46. 
    ↑ Роджер Крастц: Линия одежды для некурящих Lil Peep будет запущена этим летом — XXL. Проверено 13 июня 2019 года .
47. ↑ Источники диаграммы: DE AT CH UK US SE
48. ↑ Lil Peep раскрывает арт и дату выпуска «Приходи, когда будешь трезвым» . В: HotNewHipHop . 28 июля, 2017. Проверено 25 декабря, 2019.
49. ↑ Анонсирован новый альбом Lil Peep, выпущено видео на новую песню: Смотрите . В кн . : Вилы . 18 октября, 2018. Архивировано из оригинального 25 декабря 2019 Проверено 25 декабря 2019 года.
    

личные данные
ФАМИЛИЯ	Лил пип
АЛЬТЕРНАТИВНЫЕ ИМЕНА	Ахр, Густав (настоящее имя)
КРАТКОЕ ОПИСАНИЕ	Американский рэпер и личность YouTube
ДЕНЬ РОЖДЕНИЯ	1 ноября 1996 г.
МЕСТО РОЖДЕНИЯ	Лонг-Бич , Нью-Йорк
ДАТА СМЕРТИ	15 ноября 2017 г.
МЕСТО СМЕРТИ	Тусон , Аризона