He's capable of serving up an AIM away-message worthy line like, "you know I love you by the way that I kiss you," and then wryly undercutting it with a sound effect that's the auditory equivalent of the "Face Throwing a Kiss" emoji.
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Each line seems to twist into the next, the plotline offering a series of reversals and then a minor miracle of wordplay, before ending on a punchline that doubles as a mission statement. If you ignore the lyrics' actual content (which oscillates between asinine and laughable) and instead focus on their construction, you start to understand why you haven't stopped listening to Lil Peep even though you also think his music is virtuosically moronic. How did I find you? I'll be inside, I'm making music to cry to I love getting high too, I wanna hide you I got this vibe I swear she love getting high to I should've curved you, I know I'm the worst, booīut I could be cool, too, and you got them dance movesĪnd I got this vibe, I swear it's perfect to ride to
Geeking on a Friday, I can never sleep right Consider this chunk of "crybaby," the Brand New-sampling first song off his mixtape of the same title:
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His best songs feel like perfectly constructed Warped Tour pop-punk masquerading as slurry pop-rap with lyrics so polished and professional that I kept googling them to make sure he wasn't quoting Future and/or Fall Out Boy. The remarkable thing about Peep's music, though, is that after the initial waves of incredulity and condescension wash over you, another shock will set in: that this demonic hell-child is genuinely talented. Aesthetically, he markets himself in the same way as any other blog-baiting internet rapper, with videos that show him mouthing lyrics as he stands in a kitchen or in front of a door holding money. Lyrics like "Girls, they try to make me mad / I try to make 'em sad" ("girls") and "Change my name / Shave my head / Tell my friends / That I'm dead" ("yesterday," which btdubs is a two-minute song that samples "Wonderwall" and ends with the sound of someone belching) say this is all a joke, but that giant "CRYBABY" tattoo on his face says that this is soooooo not a joke. When he raps about "living at the mall, yeah" on "the song they played ," it's genuinely hard to tell if he's bragging about dropping stacks at the Giuseppe store or if he's been killing time there by shoplifting from Hot Topic and flipping vape juice to underage kids. The natural first reaction to Lil Peep is confusion, especially if you are an adult. His vibe is somewhere between "shoegaze Kreayshawn," "little brother of the guy Lana Del Rey sang about on 'Video Games'," and "Hey, remember that emotionally manipulative coke dealer you met on Myspace and then dated for three months back in high school? Well, that dude's still 19, and he raps now!" I'm not sure whether it's because of enjoyment, morbid fascination, or a genuine concern about his well-being, but I can't stop listening to him. He is a member of a crew called GOTHBOICLIQUE, which also includes members with names like "cold hart," "horse head," "jpdreamthug," "wicca phase springs eternal," and "yawns." While researching this piece, I found a 4chan thread declaring him "objectively the GOAT" for getting the word "daddy" tattooed on his chest (don't worry, he also has the word "CRYBABY" tattooed on his forehead). All of the songs on his SoundCloud are tagged "#Alternative Rock," and his account on the site reveals that he's left multiple comments on songs produced by someone named Marilyn Mansion. He attacks these samples with the same half-singing, half-mumbling cadence of rappers such as Playboi Carti or Lil Yachty, cloaked in the vocal tones of mall-rockers past. Between his mixtapes hellboy and crybaby, as well as various one-off loosies and collaborations, he has rapped over samples of Brand New, Underoath, Avenged Sevenfold, Slayer, The Microphones, Sonic Youth, The Postal Service, and an acoustic performance of "Creep" by Radiohead. His songs are about doing cocaine, wanting to commit suicide, and talking to girls about cocaine and suicide. Lil Peep is a white rapper from Long Island who now lives in Los Angeles. "Used to wanna kill myself / Came up, still wanna kill myself." Lil Peep, "omfg," published 2016 " The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist shrieks with terror before being overcome." - Baudelaire, Le Spleen de Paris, published 1869
Still of Lil Peep via "white wine" on YouTube
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