We’re sad to report New York-based rapper Lil Peep has died at 21.
According to The Guardian, the musician was rushed to the hospital following a suspected drug overdose, but doctors were unable to save his life.
Mere hours before his death, the artist posted an Instagram video in which he claimed he’d taken prescription drugs. “I’m good,” he says in the footage. “I’m not sick.”
Lil Peep came out as bisexual last August, on the heels of his debut album, Come Over When You’re Sober (Part One), getting released to critical acclaim.
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In another Instagram post he shared the day before his death, he wrote, “When I die You’ll love me.”
“Peep had so much more to do man he was constantly inspiring me,” producer Diplo wrote on Twitter. “I don’t feel good man.”
peep had so much more to do man he was constantly inspiring me. I dont feel good man
— diplo (@diplo) November 16, 2017
Fans and fellow stars have been paying tribute to Peep on social media, with DJ and producer Diplo writing on Twitter: “Peep had so much more to do man he was constantly inspiring me. I don’t feel good man.”
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“I’ve been expecting this call for a year,” wrote his manager, Chase Ortega. “Mother fuck.”
Producer Marshmello paid tribute, too:
“Peep was the nicest person. hanging out with him, talking to him about music, the song ideas we were going to do together and touring was so amazing.
Everyone will miss you man.”
? RIP LIL PEEP ? pic.twitter.com/7dcbMi9PJ7
— PizzaSlime (@Pizzaslime) November 16, 2017
tell ur friends u love them, talk to people about ur problems, let ur friends know they're not alone. know u arent alone. idk. im sad. depression isnt trendy its an awful rotting feeling. lil peep deserved a happy ending.
— lil phag (@elijahdaniel) November 16, 2017
please take mental illness seriously. depression & anxiety isn’t funny, cool or edgy. it’s real & it eats ppl alive. rip lil peep
— a ? (@yylevol) November 16, 2017
laugh a lil before i’m gone – lil peep pic.twitter.com/TLBxOr4le9
— Jthack™ (@AsvpJ__) November 16, 2017
Stache
Poor lil peep. Could’ve been next Aaron Carter or maybe I got that in reverse. Oh well. Lived life on his own terms. Whatever that was.
Esscourt
For the sake of humanity, I sincerely hope tattoos go out of style soon.
sfhairy
And the internet yawned and asked Who?
Rex Huskey
weak and confused does not equate to artist…good riddance Next?
Donston
He hyped up and monetized his drug use and seemed to get off on constantly showing how subversive he is. And the majority of his fan base (as small as it may be) indulged him. While the media never really called him out.
This is part of the problem with the lgbtq+ “movement”. There’s too much focus on indulging and sometimes supporting one another’s narcissism and self-destructive instincts and not enough focus on mental health. And many feel safe to do whatever without fear of being judged so long as they associate themselves with queerness. The “bi guy movement” in particular is still mired by trying to prove you’re not gay being the top priority and/or constantly trying to show how cool and edgy and complex you are. There’s still not enough focus on things like discussing the dimensions of orientation and sense of gender, developing a stabilized and content ego, dealing with past abuse, and internalized homophobia. To a slightly lesser extent that goes for the “gay movement” as well. All of this helps contribute to many of the issues we still see.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Fück off you absolute dullard cünt. YOU make us want to do drugs with your soporific pious twatitude ..uppers in this case.
RIP Gus .
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Oh and I’m lowkey straight edge so don’t even try it
Donston
You’ve never responded quite so violently before. I must’ve hit too close to home this time. It’s funny how you almost never say I’m wrong. You just say something evil or dismissive and/or sarcastic. I’m realizing how useless my attempts to be cordial with you are. It’s apparent that you’re not interested in any real conversation and you’re just too self-delusional and too full of hatred. So, I’m just gonna stop even bothering to be polite and to engage amicably:
I (and I’m certain many of the people you know) would have zero issue with you over-dosing.
Donston
Also, no where in that post did anyone bring up promiscuity. Drug use wasn’t even the main point. You don’t want to deal with reality of a lot of people’s minds and lives or have real conversation. That’s fine. You (like most here) would rather just troll and/or say a few things to make yourself feel cool or feel better about yourself. That’s cool. Just resist engaging with me then. You don’t respond to me and I won’t respond to you and I will try to avoid engaging with your numerous alternate handles.
Stache
@PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID. Damn. Talk about an unneeded over reaction. Most of Dons point was generalizing about mental health. Maybe you could use some of that.
Donston
I’m not always a saint on this website. However, Prince of Snarkness, Mo Bro and “Brian” and their multiple accounts, their arrogance, their trolling and their dismissive tendencies have ruined any potential of intelligent, real conversation in this place.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
It hit home because I’m fùcking HUMAN! i don’t gleefully rub my hands at the opportunity to sententiously pontificate my typical armchair psychologist pseudo-intellectual bullshit over the barely cold corpse of a vulnerable mentally ill 21 yr old kid (by all accounts a sweet but troubled one).
I, however, don’t wish *you* an overdose; just to get well.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Just the correctly precribed dose to get well*
Donston
As usual, you go too far and then your try to quickly “repent”. You’ve said many unprovoked horrible things to me and you’ve said many hardly justified horrible things about other people. So, please cut the sympathetic BS. You may accuse me of peddling pseudo-intellectual BS (I apologize for wanting to incite below the surface conversations), but you offer no alternative intelligence or insight. All you offer is multiple usernames, snark and excuses for sh*tty behavior or internalized homophobia.
tham
Oh course Donston also has no clue about the Music industry for the last 60 years.
Wow, shocker, another account that doesn’t seem to know anything about the US.
Donston
I’m very well aware of the music industry and the entertainment industry and the multiple going-ons. However, blaming this and other things of this nature simply on the “music industry” is empty.
kent25
That True! You have to be comfortable in your own skin to be out as a gay person we don’t have a choice. If you like girls date girls,
Eddie W
That’s True never put something out there you can’t take back
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Donstom, this is about a real person and REAL pain and not just silly egos on a website. I know that even you can appreciate that distinction
Jaxton
There is a culture of drugs and death, sadly.
tham
Are you new to music? Umm, yeah. They had a show literally called “Drugs, Sex and Rock & Roll” on FX.
It’s almost as if…you’ve never been to the United States.
kent25
Wow! That is so sad, Sorry this happen, he was so young
amanofcolours
Wowsers. I do hope that some of all ya’ll aren’t around when I die, such horrible things to say about a person you never even met (I assume). We all have our tales – you don’t know what someone has been through, is going through or is about to go through. I hope his friends and family find peace, as well as Lil Peep. Yes, it was a selfish move, yes, he was flawed, but he is still a HUMAN BEING for heaven’s sake! I don’t understand the ruthlessness and nastiness, let alone the motive behind even posting it. Whatever happened to “If you’ve nothing nice to say, perhaps it is best to say nothing”?
Donston
I agree that people are unnecessarily vicious here and all over the internet. It is what it is. And those first two posts are just damn mean. However, having real conversation shouldn’t be avoided, especially considering the nature of this site.
Knight
Amanofcolours thank you for your words there. And I agree with you; this site is particularly vicious, since it’s “tone” is gossipy and opinionated to begin with, so many of the commenters are just following along. Say or do one thing anyone here disagrees with and you are no longer a person, but a “troll/bott/fake/hater/etc’. Please keep posting here, as you bring a degree of humanity that is definitely missing.
Bradsman
I hope he’s not a role model for anyone. I have to say, I listened to some of his music and, if that’s considered great by the World today, we’re all in trouble.
Stache
He’s a role model for what not to do when you grow up. In that way he actually did something good with his life.
ShowMeGuy
When an entertainer’s death pulls more press than their entire career’s worth of work……..their career wasn’t worth much.
jhon_siders
Who ?? well its one of the rap crappers no big loss here .
Stache
Btw. Queerty. Very poor taste. I mean you couldn’t find a pic where he wasn’t doing drugs?
mhoffman953
from the above article:
“idk. im sad.” – lil phag
Nahald
Some people, who KNOW they have a problem just do not seem to want to do anything about it. That goes for drugs as well as mental health issues such as depression.
Knight
Ironically, this comes just after some of us here were quoting studies showing Bisexuals are the most at-risk group for depression and suicide. As a matter of preference, I am typically skeptical and averse to “white rappers”, as they are typically a “sanitized” and commercial version with little (to no) talent. But Peeps was actually good. Unfortunately, he was also a “peter pan”, in that he couldn’t handle getting older (of course to any sane person 21 isn’t “old”, but for someone who sees himself as a “kid”, 21 is a milestone that would be difficult). Unfortunately as well, I’ve known too many people in my own life who have chosen drugs as an escape, and ultimately as a “way out” (in their minds they are “going out” as they lived and it’s the best/most comfortable death they could ask for). Just sad and disappointing all around.
Terrycloth
Correction.the article says musician..he was a rapper ..BIG difference