![]() ![]() “He’s basically saying, ‘No matter how big I get, that’s not gonna help anything with my mental health.’” “I would say a lot of us probably felt that way,” he says. When Peep’s music began attracting mainstream attention, it was a line from “OMFG” that people seemed to gravitate to: “I used to wanna kill myself / Came up still wanna kill myself.” The bars resonated with Nedarb because he felt like Peep was speaking for all of them in the Skid Row loft, who were learning that professional success can’t do much to cure anxiety and depression. “But at the same time, he didn’t have his family.” He was not going to stop, because he felt himself doing better and meeting people and being able to create things that people liked, that he was proud of,” says Womack. “On the one hand, being in California was something he very much wanted to succeed at. In the midst of working on Hellboy, Peep’s new management wanted him to leave the loft, and got him his own apartment in Echo Park, where he struggled with feelings of isolation. “Motorola phone, I ain't goin' home / I won't go to work, mama hate me and I know it though,” he sings on the hook. On “Drive By,” we can feel the stress of Peep being far from his family, grappling with a new environment without his usual support system. It remains Peep’s most cohesive project, and serves as a poignant time capsule of the stretch just before the then-19 year old became an ascendant mainstream hip-hop star, only to die from a drug overdose in 2017. Today, Hellboy is being released on streaming services, a somewhat herculean feat given the breadth of samples that needed to be cleared. He said that people would judge him off the way he looked, when he really just wanted to help people out,” says producer Smokeasac, who lived with Peep and a handful of other producers at the Skid Row loft where they made much of the seminal 2016 mixtape Hellboy. “He told me that he saw parts of himself in the character Hellboy. As a heavily tattooed, polarizing underground rapper, the sweet-tempered introvert felt a growing chasm between how he was portrayed and who he was, similar to the way the Mike Mignola superhero’s looks inspire fear even though he just wants to help. He’d loved Hellboy since he was a kid, and felt a kinship with him. But we also added an archive that we will add to regularly so visitors to our site can see some of Gus’s artifacts to get to know him better, as a person.In retrospect, it’s obvious why Lil Peep gravitated to a comic book character who has the appearance of a villain and the soul of a hero. We wanted to make beautiful designs and things for people wear, skate on, and generally “flex” to show their support for Gus. You connected with him because he told you that he was like you, and he expressed feelings like the ones you have. We felt that Gus’s fans-both current and future, would welcome the chance to get to know him a little better. So, to honor him, we created this website. Gus was particularly observant, and able to express his observations clearly and poetically. It was Gus’s honesty that compelled so many people, worldwide, to connect with him. ![]() I have learned from Peep fans that Gus was a powerful and influential lyricist and music artist. ![]() This website is run by Gus’s mom and brother. This is the official website of the Estate of Gustav Elijah Ahr, who came to be known by his fans as “Lil Peep.” Live Forever remains a fan favorite seven years later, treasured for its earnest lyrics and as a token of an artist still mastering the particulars of his craft. In a similar vein, the music video for the titular track (the project’s only associated video) was recorded spontaneously in late 2015 in Peep’s hometown of Long Beach, NY. Released just months before later breakthrough mixtapes, Peep’s Live Forever sees him unpolished and unrestrained all songs were recorded in his bedroom using GarageBand, over intense beats sent to him by producers he had met online. It also features samples of Jimmy Stewart in “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946), and Radiohead's "Climbing Up The Walls". The tape showcases Gus’s love for alternative and gothic rock, sampling recognizable tracks such as The Cure’s “The Drowning Man” and Marilyn Manson’s “Coma White”. ![]() Gus released Live Forever in December 2015. We are pleased to announce that Live Forever is now available on all streaming platforms. ![]()
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