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.
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“It’s like professional wrestling-everyone has to be a character,” he has said. But there’s a certain waggishness to the Lil Peep persona, suggesting he’s at least kind of putting us all on.
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