Lil peep hellboy album release date8/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Peep liked playing with opposites in his lyrics, and in Cobain he says he “…just fell in love with a bad bitch, told me that she love me too, baby I’m not having it.” Which is it, Peep? Do you want her, or are you rejecting her? The answer is both, of course. The song is simple on the surface-level but there is more at play underneath the bubblegum griminess. There is strong production from Horsehead here, whose work producing for Peep is criminally underrated.Ĭobain: Fun, catchy work here from Peep and Tracy. When Peep says a few lines later, “Want a little blow, I could get it for free,” you believe him. Those 20 seconds are infused with more raw sexiness than everything else I heard all year put together. This is a natural lyricist, the type of artist who comes along once every generation. This isn’t close to Peep’s strongest work, but it still has some moments that knock your fucking socks off: “Throw me on the floor, girl, make me sweat, scratch my back, make me bleed, I could be whatever that you want me to be…” His instinct for talky, brief, semi-melodic choruses that slide in and out of verses was remarkable. I love the casual panache in his voice when he sings, “Tatted on my face, baby I don’t give a fuuuck…”įucked Up: “Fucked Up” is more proof of Peep’s inimitable pop sensibility. He sings: “I don’t wanna die alone right now, but I admit I do sometimes / These drugs are callin’ me, do one more line, don’t fall asleep.” This is simple, haunting and abstractly effective. ![]() Like so many Peep songs from the mixtape era, when you listen close you are rewarded with wounded lyrical gems. Is this song a meta-reference to “Drive By?” Did the car from “Drive By” crash into the wall of “The Song They Played?” Probably not. Peep can’t slow down, he can’t be who he used to be. The Song They Played: Pop punk melodrama with all the classic elements. He is just another coked-out guy in the back of the nightclub, experiencing a mixture of anger and regret as he tries and mostly fails to communicate with his date. Put all the fashion, the fame, the money aside. He grounds us in the sensory experience of the setting: “I can’t hear what you’re trying to say…club lights, shining on the side of your face…” Peep is showing you what it feels like to be him in this moment. The “chorus,” where he casually intones his desire to kill himself, is disjointed in context of the verses, where he scream-sings with unending pathos about partying with a girl in a nightclub.īut where another rapper would make the party sound fun, Peep infuses “OMFG” with a stressful, overpowering immediacy. “OMFG” contains multitudes–first of all, it is basically two songs copy and pasted together. OMFG: This is probably the best song Peep ever made, despite being choppy and imperfect. It is hard to hear him sing, “Imma die, I ain’t even 25,” knowing that he was right. Like so many of Peep’s songs, it is implicit (he is driving too fast) and explicit in its reference to impending death. The production is spectacular, leaving no empty space in your headphones. “Drive By” showcases Peep’s range.ĭespite being rather femme, and comporting himself with a languid energy, “Drive By” features Peep channeling a simplistic rush of aggro, masculine vitality. It is not dissimilar in that sense from Bun B showing up on Drake’s Thank Me Later (Houston = Soundcloud in this analogy). Xavier Wulf: TeamSESH was inarguably influential on Peep’s earlier work, and Wulf’s presence on Hellboy serves as a blessing from a Soundcloud OG. Peep claims to have all the bitches he could ever want, but he is also exploding with emo intensity: “You’re the same, as my ex, fuck you…”ĭrive By ft. He sings on “Hellboy,” but he sings like a rapper, using short couplets and veering quickly from one emotion to the next. It’s easy to sing along to, and it showcases Peep’s vocal repertoire well. Peep liked to start shows with this song, and it makes sense. “Could this be him…this Hellboy?” The lead-in works well as Peep launches into something like a tagline for his career: “You don’t even know what I been through / You don’t gotta love me, your bitch do.” Hellboy: The mixtape title track starts with a foreboding vocal sample from the animated Hellboy film. But a good start, I think, is a track-by-track review of Hellboy, his strongest project. There is a great deal more writing I hope to do about Peep and my relationship with his music. Lil Peep was a shooting star, an underground legend and rising pop icon who would have been selling out arenas in a matter of years if not months. ![]()
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