1. Lil Peep was a member of the emo rap collective GothBoiClique.
55 Facts About Lil Peep
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In 2016, Lil Peep released his widely acclaimed mixtapes Crybaby and Hellboy.
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Lil Peep participated in collaborative musical projects, leading to the release of California Girls and Vertigo.
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On November 15,2017, two weeks after his 21st birthday, Lil Peep died on his tour bus before a scheduled performance in Tucson, his second to last scheduled show on a 33-date tour of the United States.
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The Pima County medical examiner's office, which conducted toxicology tests on Lil Peep, ruled his cause of death an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid, and alprazolam, a benzodiazepine sedative.
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Lil Peep's death was observed as a great loss to 21st-century music.
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Lil Peep was born Gustav Elijah Ahr on November 1,1996, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the second child of first grade teacher Liza Womack.
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Lil Peep played the trombone and tuba, and expressed an interest in music and fashion from a young age.
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Lil Peep had a close relationship with his mother, going so far as to tattoo her initials and birthday on his arm as his first tattoo at the age of 14.
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Lil Peep moved to Los Angeles, he later explained, because living on Long Island depressed him.
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In Los Angeles, Lil Peep initially lived in Skid Row, where he dipped in and out of homelessness, staying at Savage's apartment while Savage pursued a degree.
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Lil Peep originally met Craig Xen online and was introduced to JGRXXN, who needed a singer.
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Lil Peep attended Glendale Community College during his first year in Los Angeles.
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Feelz was described by Peeps close friends as sounding reminiscent of Dylan Ross, an artist who Lil Peep studied and was inspired by.
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In fall of 2015, Lil Peep began to grow in popularity, garnered by the popularity of songs such as "Star Shopping", later released as a single posthumously, and made waves in underground hip hop circles.
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Lil Peep's popularity continued to rise after the release of the song "Beamer Boy", which led to him performing live for the first time with the rest of Schemaposse in February 2016 in Tucson, Arizona.
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Shortly after Schemaposse's breakup, Lil Peep began to associate with Los Angeles-based rap collective GothBoiClique, featuring members of the group on his full-length mixtape Crybaby.
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Lil Peep completed a majority of the mixing and mastering himself.
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In September 2016, Lil Peep released his fourth and final solo mixtape, Hellboy.
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Lil Peep said that he was only trying to "show some love" with the sample.
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Lil Peep released his debut studio album, Come Over When You're Sober, Pt.
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On October 14,2018, Lil Peep's estate revealed that his first posthumous project, Come Over When You're Sober, Pt.
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On October 17,2018, Lil Peep's estate confirmed that the lead single from Come Over When You're Sober, Pt.
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The song was originally a demo by ILoveMakonnen; Lil Peep then performed on it, spawning a partnership that created up to 20 songs.
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On March 10,2019, the documentary Everybody's Everything, which chronicles Lil Peep's life, premiered at the SXSW Film Festival.
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Lil Peep had been interested in fashion since his teenage years, and during the last months of his life he modelled for Vlone and was invited to and attended several fashion shows such as Balmain men's show at Paris Fashion Week and Moncler Gamme Bleu MFW Mens Spring Summer show in Milan.
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Lil Peep's style has been described as evoking fashion styles associated with emo and mall goth.
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Lil Peep often wore items including graffitied jackets, colored fur, and pink clothes.
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Lil Peep cited Fat Mike, Marcelo Burlon and the Casualties as style influences.
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Lil Peep was described as making lo-fi rap, being an "emo-trap heart throb" and an "emo rapper".
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Lil Peep himself encouraged the connection and persona in his musical and lyrical content, saying that he wanted to become the "New Kurt Cobain".
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Lil Peep combined elements of emo and pop punk into rap music, bringing a fresh take on the genre.
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Lil Peep is recognised for sampling beginning from his early career, including material of rock bands such as Blink-182, Real Friends, Underoath, Death Cab for Cutie, Brand New, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Oasis, Avenged Sevenfold, Thirty Seconds to Mars, The Cure, Marilyn Manson and Evanescence, among the others.
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Lil Peep had demons of his own and he faced those demons by creating music.
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Lil Peep came out as bisexual in a Twitter post on August 8,2017.
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Lil Peep took to Twitter to open up about this aspect of his personal life to his fans.
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Lil Peep was known collaborators with iLoveMakonnen, an openly gay recording artist whose music blurs the line between rap and rock.
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Lil Peep came out around the time he and actress and singer Bella Thorne began dating in September 2017.
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Lil Peep actively talked about his issues with depression, anxiety and substance abuse and stated that he had bipolar disorder.
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Alongside drug use, Lil Peep struggled with suicidal impulses that date back to his adolescent years.
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At the time of his death, Lil Peep was residing in Portobello Road, London, with his friend and close collaborator Bexey, and Smokeasac.
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On November 15,2017, Lil Peep was found dead on his tour bus when his manager went to check on him in preparation for that night's performance at a Tucson, Arizona, venue.
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Lil Peep's manager checked on him twice and found him sleeping and breathing fine, but was unable to wake him.
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Lil Peep's manager performed CPR before medics arrived, though he was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Lil Peep's death from an accidental drug overdose was a terrible tragedy.
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Jon Caramanica, a music critic for The New York Times, held a special remembrance podcast episode to honor Lil Peep following his death which was released on November 22,2017.
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Good Charlotte honored Lil Peep, releasing a cover of "Awful Things", which was shown at his memorial in Long Beach, New York on December 2,2017.
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Lil Peep would be mentioned by Juicy J on Rae Sremmurd's "Powerglide".
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Lil Peep earned legions of fans in a short time from both hip hop and emo subcultures.
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Lil Peep was at the musical vanguard and, covered in a symphony of tattoos, an emerging fashion icon as well.
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However, Lil Peep has since become regarded being an integral part of a "post-emo revival style of hip hop and rock", and had been described as "arguably the biggest emo icon of the past few years".
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The death of Lil Peep left an impact on several of his musical contemporaries.
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Lil Uzi Vert offered tribute by sharing on Twitter an edited version of one of the final photos Lil Peep had shared online.
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The SoundCloud rap scene Lil Peep originated from is notorious for its drug use, with artists often abusing prescription pills such as Xanax which have since become a go-to metaphor in their lyrics.
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Lil Peep attracted a cult following through the songs he released and their emotional, downtrodden lyrics.