Lil’ Peep: A new hip-hop and emo fusion; trap beats, tender lyrics, too much Xanax and an overdose that’s still mysterious.
DISGRACELAND
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4.6 • 13.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Lil’ Peep was a once-in-a-generation talent. Poised to become a new Cobain, Bowie or Dylan, but whose life was cut short by an overdose that’s still mysterious. Depression, anxiety and a unique fusion of hip-hop, emo, grime and raw, empathetic lyrics resulted in a deep connection to fans that in the end, may have done him in at the tender age of 21.
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| 0:00.0 | Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. |
| 0:12.7 | The stories about Little Pete are insane. |
| 0:16.5 | He died at the age of 21, the victim of an overdose that's still mysterious. |
| 0:22.1 | He sometimes suffered from crippling anxiety and depression, but bared his soul, on stage, |
| 0:27.6 | and online to millions of fans who felt a deep, empathetic connection to him. |
| 0:32.9 | He self-medicated daily with a pharmacy-sized array of street procured prescription meds and illicit drugs. |
| 0:40.1 | He was a once-in-a-generation-type voice, poised to become one of the mainstream's biggest success |
| 0:45.7 | stories but whose life was senselessly cut short. And of course, he made great music. |
| 0:53.0 | Unlike that music you heard at the top of the show, that wasn't |
| 0:56.4 | great music. That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Coke Strauss Sazo MK1. I played you that |
| 1:05.5 | loop because I can't afford the rights to rock star by Post Malone. And why would I play you that specific slice of |
| 1:13.1 | savage nudie suit cheese could I afford it? Because that was the number one song in America |
| 1:19.9 | on November 15, 2017. And that was the day Lil Pete made his final Instagram post, an eerie post filled with anxiety and depression and foreshadowing his death |
| 1:32.1 | that would come only a few short hours later. |
| 1:36.2 | On this episode, crippling anxiety, DIY emo grime, |
| 1:41.4 | too much Xanax in Little Pete. |
| 2:18.3 | I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland. Given how close it was to Showtime, some friends grabbed video of and passed out in the back of the tour bus for their Insta stories as a joke. Little did the friends know, Lil Peep wasn't passed out. He was dead. |
| 2:26.6 | The news was hard to contain. From Peep's road crew to friends in show openers, various members |
| 2:32.8 | of Goth Boy Click to fans packed inside the rock nightclub in Tucson, Arizona, impatiently awaiting for their beloved little peep to hit the stage. |
| 2:44.0 | But nobody wanted to admit to themselves or to the fans that it was real. |
| 2:49.0 | Goth Boy Click group member Horsehead went on stage, |
| 2:52.4 | likely he was in shock and performed a couple songs |
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