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| Lil Peep performing in the Marlin Room at Webster Hall in New York, in April. Credit Chad Batka for The New York Times |
Did you know that Lil Peep was an American singer and
rapper and his songs such as "White Wine", "Benz Truck", and "The Way I See Things"
have each gained over 4 million views on YouTube?
Did you know that Lil
Peep, who over the last two years emerged as one of pop music’s
brightest and most promising young talents, blending the urgency and
dexterity of contemporary hip-hop with the raw, serrated sentimentality
of emo?
Did you know that Lil
Peep was born on November 1, 1996, and was raised in the
town of Long Beach, on Long Island, the son of a college professor
father and an elementary schoolteacher mother?
Did you know that when Lil Peep moved to
Los Angeles he began pursuing music in earnest, posting first on YouTube
and eventually on the streaming platform SoundCloud, finding a rabid
following?
Did you know that Peep put out his first mixtapes in 2015, and last year, he released two, “Crybaby” and “Hellboy,” that marked him as a potent, forward-looking synthesizer of styles with an uncanny knack for pop songcraft?
Did you know that Peep put out his first mixtapes in 2015, and last year, he released two, “Crybaby” and “Hellboy,” that marked him as a potent, forward-looking synthesizer of styles with an uncanny knack for pop songcraft?
Did you know that many
of Peep's songs were recorded in his bedroom when he was living on Los
Angeles’s Skid Row?Did you know that when Peep's toured earlier this year, he
recreated that bedroom on stage, using the actual mattress?
Did you know that Lil Peel struggled with drug use and suicidal impulses dating back to
his teenage years, he told The Times?
Did you know that Lil Peep said that his fans told him“They tell me that it saved their lives,” he said, describing what his fans told him about his music. “They say that I stopped them from committing suicide, which is a beautiful thing.”
“It’s great for me to hear,” he continued. “It helps. It boosts me, because music saved my life as well.”?
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