Mixing outsider, alternative rock angst with woozy, mumbling, underground
hip-hop, DIY rapper Lil Peep became a huge star with the help of social media
and was dubbed "the future of Emo" by the Pitchfork website. He tragically died
of an overdose at the age of 21 in 2017.
Growing up in the working class suburbs of Long Island, New York, his father
abandoned his family when he was a child. Lil Peep (real name Gustav Elijah Ahr)
was a sensitive child who suffered with depression and experimented with drugs.
He dropped out of high school and completed his diploma via an online co...