Lil Peep was barely 21 years old and already an international star when he died from an overdose of Xanax and fentanyl on his tour bus in Tucson in 2017. Peep was divisive in his lifetime; a gangly outcast from Long Island with a “Crybaby” face tat and hair the color of Fruity Pebbles milk, he sang lucid and dark lullabies about death, misery, rampant drug use, and groupie sex. In the critical establishment, reflexive skepticism towards his flamboyant appearance and unsubtle blend of alt-rock, pop-punk, and trap inevitably turned into curiosity,...
- 11/20/2019
- by Danny Schwartz
- Rollingstone.com
Lil Peep was not pleased when he first received the final mixes of his Goth Angel Sinner Ep. “I keep reflecting on this moment on the tour bus when Peep heard the studio edits that I had done with the [British production trio] Invisible Men in London, and he absolutely hated them,” recalls Ben Friars-Funkhouser, Peep’s co-producer and close collaborator, who records and produces under the name Fish Narc. “He had a tantrum, and was about to leak the songs. He was like, ‘I’m not waiting for them to fuck my songs up.
- 11/18/2019
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
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