Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

In the studio with Kristen Hoard and we have David Piesner on the phone.

We're going to be talking about the life and music of Lil Peep.

Lil Peep died in 2017, overdosed just after his 21st birthday, and we have a recent story in the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine and online,

the tragedy and torment of Lil Peep that David Piesner wrote and reported over the last four months

and even a little bit before that in the year before that made

and made his first kind of gestures towards reporting it and it's a in-depth

piece about just what happened to a guy as we say in the sub-hepe he could have

been his generations Kurt Cobain might not have been but he could have been he was on the way in some ways and he died so young is a guy who kind of combined emo and hip-hop in a way that a bunch of people are doing it but he could have been kind of like the

superstar figurehead of that idea of that scene and we can hear Beamer Boy by

little Pete just to give you a sense of one of the ways he could sound during his last.

So we were kind of going over how to describe his music, you know, one way Christian was saying was comparing

them to a specific set of brothers from an earlier era, right?

Yeah, my first and only Rolling song cover store was on Good Charlotte.

He does sound like one of the Madden brothers.

Definitely picked up a lot of vocal cues from Emo, but one of the most interesting things to me about

Peep's music is it's not just sort of genre blending or genre matching or any of those cliches. It's just sort of more like genre ignoring

There was something just sort of intuitive and effortless about kind of mixing up

Hip-hop and Imo and Alt rock and southern hip-hop in some cases

you know it was just like his a generational thing for him I don't think he had any

interest or even awareness of genre boundaries so there was something kind of intuitive about the way he

mixed up things. But yeah the vocals very kind of emo but also with hip-op phrasing I

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