There’s a distinct freedom of expression in the songs of Peep, but also Lil Tracy, Lil Uzi Vert, Rico Nasty, and others like them they playfully mix rap influences with passionate and pained pop-punk vocals, layer emo guitar loops over 808s, and lament lyrically about the inevitability of death, followed by boasts about Benz trucks. It’s music that pushes the boundaries of what both rock and rap can be, and historically have been.
Among his friends and collaborators-not to mention the artists he influenced-there’s an exciting new wave of music termed, affectionately, Bop-Punk, coined by Peep's fellow GOTHBOICLIQUE member YAWNS. His first posthumous album, the new Come Over When You’re Sober Part 2, is the first of three projects that will carry Peep’s legacy onward.
It’s been just over one year since the death of Lil Peep (born Gustav Åhr).
