Despite the themes of drug abuse and suicide, his music was above all else intensely relatable. This is what made him so successful, and so important. Lil Peep was open with his struggles with depression and substance abuse, both in his music and on his Instagram. Earlier this year, Pitchfork ran the first major profile with Lil Peep, lauding him as “reinventing heart-on-sleeve agony for a new generation”. His mixtapes Hellboy and Crybaby saw him rapping over perfectly melded mixes of heavy guitars and icy Southern US rap beats – he somehow made someone saying ‘real trap shit’ over a warped Avenged Sevenfold sample sound good. Combining the triple-time hi-hats of trap with his slurry introspective rap, he became the poster boy for post-emo angst in the age of Gucci Mane, Lil Uzi Vert and Soundcloud rappers. Although you may find his lyrics ridiculous and meaningless, he meant everything he said. He was, according to those who knew him, gentle, caring, intelligent, incredibly creative, and above all, earnest. Reputable music outlets and journalists didn’t know what to do with him – was this all an elaborate joke? ET to hear the show broadcast live on Sirius XM’s Volume, channel 106.Lil Peep, aka Gustav Åhr, confused a lot of people in the tragically short time he was alive.Ī white, teenage ‘emo-rapper’ from Long Island with face tattoos who rapped about cocaine, suicide and heartbreak, it wasn’t initially clear if we were meant to be taking him seriously.
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