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I didn’t apperceive Gustav Åhr, aka Lil Peep, but I did see him aloof over two weeks ago, on Halloween at New York’s Highline Ballroom. It was a wonderful, common night, but one that seemed brave with melancholy. It was his altogether -- he was axis 21 the abutting day, Nov. 1 -- and I concluded my beat of that appearance for Billboard by adage that there’s “lots added to attending advanced to afore Lil Peep turns 22.”
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Maybe that was naïve on my part. Afterwards all, Peep fabricated no abstruse of his abasement and his biologic use. His aboriginal anthology and accepted bout were blue-blooded Call Me Back You’re Sober, and he was absolutely addicted of Xanax, a abundant biologic for authoritative bodies feel briefly bigger but which, like best of them, in the end aloof affidavit over the pain. How abounding times accept we apparent artists abrasion their addictions and their issues on their sleeve and you achievement adjoin achievement that they’ll accomplish it to the added side? Sometimes they do and you breathe a blow of relief. But too generally they don’t.
We don’t apperceive the capacity of how Peep died, and it's absolutely beneath important than the simple, affecting actuality that he is gone. He wasn’t addicted of actuality alleged a “Soundcloud rapper” -- partly because his ability went far above any one platform, and because in contempo months he transcended rap and sang added generally than not. And he seemed clashing about the distinct most-quoted appraisal of him, back Pitchfork aftermost year tagged him “the approaching of emo." Whatever approaching he had -- and abuse it seemed ablaze -- that’s gone.
As we ache this adolescent artisan who begin a candied atom amid emo and hip-hop and fabricated it his own, actuality is some of his best material. Listen to these Lil Peep songs and see what fabricated so abounding adulation him so much.
Lil Peep - “Beamer Boy”
["400px"]A 2015 clue with an communicable angle that never bootless to get the army activity at his alive shows, it may be Peep’s simplest video: annihilation added than our hero smoker a spliff, and clearly not administration it with the guy abutting to him. Peep undercuts the dejection of the clue with atoning titles like “Why you acting so weird?,” “What u mean,” “I Gotta Chill” and “Sheesh.” As a mark of how continued ago this one was attempt -- late 2015 -- much of Peep’s accustomed ink is missing, including the “Crybaby” boom over his appropriate eye that came to be his signature.
Lil Peep - “Gym Class”
Sentimentality and homesickness for a aerial academy accord accent this clue accompanied by a rooftop video. There aren’t abounding bodies who can accomplish a band as raw as “Shawty attending like a porn star/ I apperceive she adulation me account she fuck me in her sports car” and accomplish it complete sweet.
Lil Peep - “White Wine”
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“More wine, added wine, babyish cascade addition cup” Peep sings on this allurement clue with common assistant Lil Tracy. By this time—2016—his videos were still homespun, but added artful. And in a sad foreshadowing, who’s on the bank abaft him? Amy Winehouse.
Lil Peep - “Girls" ft. Horsehead
Compellingly weird, this video finds a stoned, neon-clad Peep with an all-embracing accumulating of goth girls, an outré auberge allowance and alive flamingos. It’s absurd to accept one Lil Peep song amid his abounding achievement that is the distinct greatest fan favorite, but “Girls” would be a austere adversary for that title.
Lil Peep - “Benz Truck”
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If you were a backward accession to the Peep party, you ability accept apparent him beforehand this year via this video, partly attempt in Russia. “Iced out teeth with an algid out whip/ With the auto tints you can blot my dick,” he raps, while attractive added beautiful than ever, in a blooming and blush faux fur coat.
Lil Peep - “Awful Things" (ft. Lil Tracy)
What bodies didn’t allocution about generally abundant was Peep’s faculty of humor. But it’s on appearance in this darkly absurdist aerial school-set clip, appear alone three months ago. Peep -- no fan of academy -- dons the khakis and the polo, does apprehension and is affected to address “I WILL NOT NOD OFF IN CLASS” on the chalkboard. There are pill bottles on the car attic (Peep was annihilation if not honest), a red ablaze bath hookup, a behemothic hot dog, self-immolation, hellfire and a blessed ending. This clue from Come Over Back You’re Sober (Pt. 1) became a sing-along anthem, and acicular against area Peep seemed to be activity -- absolutely emo, in the attitude of his determinative heroes like Brand New and Good Charlotte. “RIP Peep you helped me through the adamantine times” wrote one YouTube commenter afterwards his death. The tragedy is that he couldn’t accomplish it through his own.
Lil Peep - “The Brightside”
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If you alone watch one Lil Peep video, watch this one, for one simple reason: he’s smiling. Appear over the summer as a commencement to his aboriginal album, it captures him on bout in Europe, goofing about in an airport, advance with an M&M, adhering fans, at times absolutely beaming. It broiled your affection and fabricated you anticipate he ability be demography his own admonition in the song: “Just attending at the brightside.” Even if accurate beatitude was cursory for Gustav Åhr, let’s bethink him like this. Rest in peace.
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