![]() ![]() Even more poignant than his fleeting thoughts on self-harm and self-sabotage are his dazed reflections on intimacy in the age of read receipts and ghosting. The discombobulated timeline of “Problems” mimics the dissociation of a blackout, as Peep sighs into each syllable, piecing together memory fragments and weighing their baggage. On “Awful Things,” Peep treats trivial texts from a lover like a lifeline when separated “Bother me,” he implores. “Better Off (Dying)” resigns itself to a romance in decline. His writing on Come Over When You’re Sober (Part One) often stars two broken people wounding each other and finding comfort in their failings. If one must endure being, Peep suggests, then why not be fucked up? He is the middle distance between Brand New and Future. He finds the seams between genres and he mixes signifiers, too. Putting songs called “Cobain” and “Gucci Mane” back-to-back on a tape wasn’t so much an act of subversion as an actual sonic template: the tormented punk burying his sorrows in lethargic and absurdist flows. But a closer consideration of Peep’s catalog and running mates suggests a genuine marriage of the two sounds, orchestrated by an earnest, budding whiz. ![]() His skeptics argue that he isn’t actually emo, merely a poser trafficking in Warped Tour nostalgia to piss people off or that he isn’t really a rapper, mostly on the optics of emo whiteness invading hip-hop. Peep’s rabid and mostly teenage supporters are enthralled by his juvenile dread and mallcore aesthetic, along with his knack for retrofitting 808 kits onto samples of Underoath, Pierce the Veil, Flyleaf, and The Story So Far. ![]() In early 2016, he fell in with the Gothboiclique, a collective of melodic trappers straddling the emo and rap worlds-among their members: Lil Tracy, the son of rap innovator Ishmael Butler, and Wicca Phase, former lead singer for the emo band Tigers Jaw. He has described his drug-addled pop-punk musings as Makonnen meets Fall Out Boy, originally stylizing his name like RiFF RAFF, whom he called “a role model.” The unique lineage from which Peep descends aligned him with like-minded genre-breakers. Peep’s philosophies are no more profound than a great Instagram caption, and he can come off as a bit of an indignant kid, but it’s easy to see why a new class of spitfires are using him as a talisman for their anxieties.īorn Gustav Åhr, Lil Peep emerged as a suburban degenerate from Long Island recording in his bedroom, high on benzos. His debut album, Come Over When You’re Sober (Part One), is a 24-minute bender informally dedicated to destroying relationships and idling around in what he sees as this vain and absurd existence. Peep constantly wants you to wonder what’s going on under that neon mane. The guy has a huge “daddy” tattoo gothic-scripted on his chest. “It’s like professional wrestling-everyone has to be a character,” he has said. But we also added an archive that we will add to regularly so visitors to our site can see some of Gus’s artifacts to get to know him better, as a person.But there’s a certain waggishness to the Lil Peep persona, suggesting he’s at least kind of putting us all on. We wanted to make beautiful designs and things for people wear, skate on, and generally “flex” to show their support for Gus. You connected with him because he told you that he was like you, and he expressed feelings like the ones you have. We felt that Gus’s fans-both current and future, would welcome the chance to get to know him a little better. So, to honor him, we created this website. Gus was particularly observant, and able to express his observations clearly and poetically. It was Gus’s honesty that compelled so many people, worldwide, to connect with him. I have learned from Peep fans that Gus was a powerful and influential lyricist and music artist. ![]() This website is run by Gus’s mom and brother. This is the official website of the Estate of Gustav Elijah Ahr, who came to be known by his fans as “Lil Peep.” ![]()
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