“They’re the same people I’ve been fighting my whole life,” he said. He’s not worried about people hating it, because those who vocally dislike him - rap fans who see his music as a privileged take on the form, critics who’d rather see rock bands with similar themes get the attention, as well as generally hateful people on the internet (“Like homophobes and shit like that,” he said) - aren’t people he’s ever wanted approval from anyway. Now, out in Los Angeles, he’s in the very beginning stages of putting together his debut album, which he plans to release at some point this summer. “It’s there to let people know they’re not alone,” he said. He sees his music as a lifeline to other kids who are dealing with the same things. For example, there’s the opening salvo of HELLBOY’s “OMFG,” where he sings over a sample of an acoustic guitar from a Microphones record and a distorting kick drum: “I used to want to kill myself/ Came up, still want to kill myself.” This stuff could be chilling in another context, but Peep’s gloom feels triumphant, as if speaking those thoughts is what allows him to overcome them. Like the records his producers snip samples from, Peep’s best moments are blunt statements of emotion, often delivered with the abrasive bombast of a Blink-182 chorus. It certainly does to some a few of Peep’s first songs now boast over a million plays on YouTube, and his musical idols - who he won’t name specifically for fear of seeming gauche - have started reaching out to tell him they’re onboard. Its title track, Crybaby, is one of Peeps most streamed songs to date, having over 29,000,000 plays on SoundCloud alone. The wildly catchy results are somewhere between AFI and Awful Records - and whether or not you’ll like it probably depends on if that unholy marriage sounds like a good idea. Crybaby is the third mixtape released by Lil Peep. Then Peep sings, raps, or screams over the top of it, usually about death, but also about drugs and sex. The template most often plays out like this: a producer takes a recognizable sample of a guitar from a moody rock song, like Brand New’s “The No Seatbelt Song” or a hit by scene giants Pierce the Veil, and pastes on some thunderously claustrophobic drum machine programming.
In a little over a year, he’s issued a handful of shorter releases, a pair of full-length mixtapes - titled crybaby and HELLBOY - and a torrent of SoundCloud loosies.
“It takes me like five minutes to make a whole fucking song,” he said. I started out not thinking that it was going to become anything at all.” He began singing and rapping near the end of 2015, and soon realized music-making came easy to him. “I was trying to make something that sounded good. 2804 5001 1670.28 KB Album Covers Music Album Cover - Lil Peep Crybaby Dove Emoji,Ric Ocasek Emotion In 612 687 288.76 KB Qualified Empathy U2013 The. “I was just sitting in my room playing Skyrim,” he remembered. Like a lot of lonely bedroom pop projects, Peep’s work started without much ambition.