Lil Peep

Gustav Elijah Åhr † (November 1, 1996 - November 15, 2017 [aged 21]), better known by his stage name Lil Peep, was an American SoundCloud rapper. He stood at 6’4”
==Early life==
Gustav was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Long Island, New York. He referred to his Long Island neighborhood as "the shittiest suburbs ever." Gustav never liked school and often skipped class. In 2013, he and his family moved from Long Island, New York to Los Angeles, California.
===Early career (2013-2016)===
On May 30, 2013, Gustav created his account, it is unknown if Gustav created the Lil Peep account actually under the name Lil Peep, as the channel URL is in gibberish. The following year, in 2014, Gustav began releasing songs on his SoundCloud account.
In late 2015, Lil Peep released his first two mixtapes, "LIL PEEP PART ONE", and "Live Forever". On the second mixtape mentioned, Lil Peep collaborated with both Yung Goth and Lil Skil.
On May 17, 2016, Lil Peep first uploaded to the Lil Peep account. He uploaded a music video called "lil peep w/ yung bruh - white tee".
On September 25, 2016, Lil Peep joined the Goth Boi Clique. The Goth Boi Clique focuses on rock sub genres such as pop-punk and grunge. The other rappers in the Goth Boi Clique are cold heart, Horse Head, jpdrumthug, LIL TRACY, Mackned, Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, DOVES, and Yawns.
===Later career (2017)===
On January 9, 2017, Steve Horowitz of Pitchfork declared Lil Peep to be the “future of emo rap.”
On August 8, 2017, Gustav came out as bisexual on Twitter, by saying “yes, i’m bi sexual.” Afterwards, a lot of his fans (both male and female) asked him if he wanted a kiss.
Seven days later on August 15, 2017, Lil Peep released his first and only album "Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1", which was often abbreviated as COWYS.
==Death==
Through most of his life, Lil Peep was a drug addict. And then, on November 15, 2017, Lil Peep overdosed on a mixture of drugs on his tour bus in Tucson, Arizona. When his manager came to check on him in preparation for the concert that night, Lil Peep was found dead.
Originally, it was believed that the drug he overdosed on was Xanax do to a video Lil Peep released prior called "When I die, you’ll love me". In this video, Lil Peep filmed himself ingesting 6 Xanax pills.
However, on December 8, 2017, it was found out that he actually died from an overdose on a mixture of fentanyl and alprazolam.
===Tributes to Lil Peep===
Many rappers music artists and celebrities paid tribute to Lil Peep after he died, these rappers Music artist and celebrities would include the now deceased XXXTentacion, (who would later passionately appear on a song alongside Peep) Diplo, (who would later appear on a song along side Peep) Charli XCX, Getter, the now deceased Juice WRLD, Post Malone, (who Peep had met A couple months prior to his passing) Pete Wentz, Marshmello, (who would later appear on a song alongside Peep) Mark Ronson, Zane Lowe, (who had met and interviewed Peep on his tour a couple weeks prior via a Skype call and was the last person to ever interview Peep) , Bella Thorne, (a former girlfriend of a former girlfriend of Peep who had started to date a couple months prior to Peep passing) Trippie Redd, (who while working with one of Peep friends Lil Tracy actually met him and we’re planning on working together on a song which ultimately never came to be) A$AP Nast, Rich Brian, (who had met Peep A couple months prior in DC before his passing) Playboi Carti, Ugly God, LIL UZI VERT, (which in the wake of Peep passing stop taking Xanax drugs which he had admitted to taking on numerous occasions and some of his songs the same drugs that kill Peep fearing that he would end up dead similar to him and would also later tribute Peep by using a picture of him as his profile picture on Twitter for a bit) Lil Xan, (Who has a massive fan of Peep and Would later during his tour in 2018 tribute Peep by playing some of his songs) lil boat, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Pump, (who had met Peep and perform live months prior to his passing) Dua Lipa, and El-P.
He also had a tribute on the Grammys. A cover of "Awful Things" was made by Good Charlotte to pay tribute. The rapper Juice WRLD made a song called "Legends" on June 19, 2018, which was a tribute to both Lil Peep and XXXTentacion, who died on June 18, 2018 due to homicide.
Lil Peep was cremated on December 2, 2017 in Huffington Station, New York. His ashes were buried in his grandfather's garden.
==Discography==
===Albums===
*Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1 (2017)
*Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 2 (2018)
===Collaborative Albums===
*Diamonds (2023) (with ILoveMakonnen)
=== Compilation Albums ===
* Everybody's Everything (2019)
=== Mixtapes ===
* Lil Peep: Part One (2015)
* Mall Musicc (2015)
* Live Forever (2015)
* Crybaby (2016)
* Hellboy (2016)
=== Extended Plays ===
* Feelz (2015)
* In the Bedroom, I Confess (2015)
* Garden (2015)
* Romeo's Regrets (2015)
* Vertigo (2015)
* California Girls (2016)
* Elemental (2016)
* Dead Broke (2016)
* Teen Romance (2016)
* Castles (2016)
* Castles II (2017)
* Goth Angel Sinner (2019)
* Friends (2021)
* High Fashion (2021)
* Changes (2023)
* Hate Me (2024)
=== Singles ===
* Kiss (2017)
* Honestly (2017)
* Nightslayer (2017)
* Avoid (2017)
* Spotlight (2018)
* 4 Gold Chains (2018)
* Star Shopping (2019)
* Gym Class (2019)
* Me and You (2020)
* Halloween (2021)
* Right Here (2021)
* About U (2022)
* Your Eyes (2023)
* Switch Up (2023)
* Hollywood Dreaming (2024)
* No Respect Freestyle (2024)
== Filmography ==
* Everybody's Everything (2019)
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