Lil Peep
AKA
Trap Goose
BORN: Gustav Elijah Åhr
1996-11-01
2017-11-15
BIOGRAPHY
He was a Swedish-American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He was a member of the emo rap collective GothBoiClique. Helped pioneer an emo revival-style of rap and rock music. And has been credited as the leading figure of the mid–late 2010s emo rap scene and came to be an inspiration to urban outcasts and youth subcultures.
On November 15, 2017, two weeks after his 21st birthday, Lil Peep died on his tour bus before a scheduled performance in Tucson, his second to last scheduled show on a 33-date tour of the United States. The Pima County medical examiner’s office, which conducted toxicology tests on Lil Peep, ruled his cause of death an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid, and Xanax, a benzodiazepine sedative. His death was observed as a great loss to 21st century music. “He could have been his generation’s Kurt Cobain“, a Rolling Stone profile stated.
QUOTES
- “I wish I didn’t have the heart to love you.”
- “I feel like I’m creative, and I want to take advantage of that.”
- “Sometimes life gets fucked up. That’s why we get fucked up.”
- “I definitely think the planet is very sad. I also think a lot of people are very ungrateful, which is another big problem.”
- “Look at the sky tonight. All the stars have a reason.”
- “Tell the rich kids to look at me now.”
- “I was dying and nobody was there. Please don’t cry baby, life ain’t fair.”
- “If you’re not a fun enough character, then no one’s gonna fuck with you because you don’t have enough shit that’s different.”
- “This music’s the only thing keeping the peace when I’m falling to pieces.”
- “What you call a sin, I call a part of my day.”
