She was grasping her mortality—singing her heart out as much as she could, knowing that it may not go on forever. | | | | Lil Peep at the Day N Night Festival in Anaheim, Calif., Sept. 8, 2017.
(Scott Dudelson/Getty Images) | | | | | | “She was grasping her mortality—singing her heart out as much as she could, knowing that it may not go on forever.”
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| | rantnrave:// GUSTAV ÅHR—who you knew as LIL PEEP if you knew him at all which if you were under 25ish you probably did—spent a good part of his short life sitting on an old mattress in a cheap LA apartment compulsively recording his raw feelings onto a laptop with GARAGEBAND and a $200 mic. They weren't all as great as this, or this, but sometimes they were, and there's a remarkable consistency to his more workaday efforts that marked him as a major, if unconventional, polarizing even, pop star in the making. You don't have to, and shouldn't, take my word for it. Take the word of the millions of fans who found him on SOUNDCLOUD and heard their own darkness or confusion or disillusionment in his lyrics and who heard the poetry in his borderless mesh of hazy hip-hop and strangely melodic emo rock. PITCHFORK's MATTHEW SCHNIPPER, who is half a generation older, writes lovingly about how Peep reminded him of his own fog of teenage depression and of how he made it through. Peep didn't make it through; he appears to have died Wednesday by overdosing on prescription drugs. He was 21. There will be plenty of recriminations to go around, from a scene that enabled his self-medicating and didn't pay heed to that depression, to a pharmaceutical industry that, well, you know that story. "We're all complicit," HOT 97's EBRO DARDEN said Thursday morning. But today, this week, right now, we have Lil Peep's voice and his songs. The work of a fast, reckless, intoxicating, beautiful, complicated, difficult life. MusicSET: "Lil Peep Made Beautiful Music Out of Awful Things"... Today also brings SOUL OF A WOMAN, the final album by SHARON JONES, recorded in 2016 as she was dying of cancer, still in strong voice, still overflowing with heart and soul and rhythm and blues. It's great. You can also keep her in your heart this weekend by NETFLIXing BARBARA KOPPLE's 2015 documentary MISS SHARON JONES!, filmed soon after Jones' illness was diagnosed and featuring electrifying live footage... 'DESPACITO' and DACA dreamers steal the show at LATIN GRAMMYS... NEIL YOUNG is selling guitars, amps, model trains and lots more... HERBIE HANCOCK is teaching jazz online... LIZ PHAIR has a book deal... It's FRIDAY and that means there's also new music from TOVE LO, PNB ROCK, MAVIS STAPLES, JADEN SMITH, CYHI THE PRYNCE, BOB SEGER, BATHS, TIM MCGRAW & FAITH HILL, CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, T-PAIN, YVNG SWAG, KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD, GODFLESH, TALIB KWELI, MORRISSEY, PALOMA FAITH, STALLEY, PHILTHY RICH, PHINEHAS, BARENAKED LADIES and MIKE LOVE. And a SIA Christmas album. And a farewell live album and DVD from BLACK SABBATH. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| In a fast, reckless, intoxicating, beautiful life that ended at age 21, Lil Peep created a remarkably deep catalog out of hazy hip-hop, vulnerable emo, a $200 microphone, GarageBand, SoundCloud, a saggy mattress, depression and a compulsive need to record. | | |
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