Lil peep funeral12/27/2023 ![]() ![]() This relationship can be traced in three major movements: classic hip-hop artists of the ’80s sampling rock sounds (shout out to Rick Rubin) the rap/rock explosion of ’90s rock with bands like Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, and Korn and the early 2010s through present, beginning with Lil Wayne’s 2010 album Rebirth. These artists are answering our call.ĭespite shared ideas at birth, rap and rock music have always had a bit of a strange history when mashed together. With the world figuratively and literally in flames, it seems only fitting that we’re turning our ears to not just muted expressions of angst and anxiety, but also full-throated screams of anguish. It’s a true synthesis: a natural marriage of sounds that were always cut from the same cloth of rebellion, black musical traditions, and life on the edges of society. 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).
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