![]() It was us always going through YouTube and listening to old emo bands and chopping them up to see what they’d sound like as a beat,” says Cortex, who also lived with Peep and Smokeasac at the time. “We were all sampling old emo bands we liked. The brooding Underoath sample was inspired by another Smokeasac and Yung Cortex co-production, “Sex. One morning, Smokeasac was awoken by Peep banging pots and pans above his head, and 20 minutes later, the exhausted producer had made the beat for what would become Hellboy’s title track. To commemorate one of the most influential mixtapes of the 2010s, GQ spoke to Peep’s family, friends, and collaborators about the making of each song on Hellboy. It remains Peep’s most cohesive project, and serves as a poignant time capsule of the stretch just before the then-19 year old became an ascendant mainstream hip-hop star, only to die from a drug overdose in 2017. Today, Hellboy is being released on streaming services, a somewhat herculean feat given the breadth of samples that needed to be cleared. He said that people would judge him off the way he looked, when he really just wanted to help people out,” says producer Smokeasac, who lived with Peep and a handful of other producers at the Skid Row loft where they made much of the seminal 2016 mixtape Hellboy. “He told me that he saw parts of himself in the character Hellboy. As a heavily tattooed, polarizing underground rapper, the sweet-tempered introvert felt a growing chasm between how he was portrayed and who he was, similar to the way the Mike Mignola superhero’s looks inspire fear even though he just wants to help. He’d loved Hellboy since he was a kid, and felt a kinship with him. Only two months before he passed away, Lil Peep appeared on a Video (below) by GQ Magazine to tell the stories about his tattoos.In retrospect, it’s obvious why Lil Peep gravitated to a comic book character who has the appearance of a villain and the soul of a hero. Upside down Cross Tattoo on left shoulder This is the most painful tattoo Lil Peep ever had. Lil Peep got this tattoo as a reminder that lot of people in this world are in worse situation than him so he should be always grateful and never complain. Lil Peep got this tattoo when Tattoo artist Ed Hardy was touring London. Lucky Charm Horse Shoe Tattoo on forehead He got the broken heart tattoo in 2015 after feeling very sad and depressed. But it is one of his favorite tattoos too. Lil Peep described it as a very low quality tattoo just like his low quality mood. ![]() For him it was just a random weird tattoo to have. One day Lil Peep was hanging out at the Venice beach and was so bored that he got himself the Pink Panther tattoo.Īs being a musician he had to travel a lot and he missed his mum too much so he got “Home Sick” tattooed on his knuckles. One morning he woke up and found “Get Cake Die Young” tattooed on his forehead. Lil Peep had no recollection of this tattoo. He was also a big fan of Hell Boy comics and movies. He got this tattoo after his first Mix Tape Hellboy was released in 2016. Lil Peep got Lisa from Simpsons screaming “MOM” tattooed on his throat because it reminded him that he used to call his my every time when things went wrong in his life and stressed his mum out. He was like their child so he got this tattooed on his leg for Meep. Lil Peep and his girlfriend bought a dog together named MEEP. ![]() One of Lil Peep’s friends tattooed “Miss you” on his legs. He was scared that his mother will get angry with him for getting the tattoo so he got her date of birth and initials tattooed on his forearm on the main tattoo. Lil Peep got his first tattoo at the age of 14. Mum’s date of birth and her initials Tattoo on right forearm Lil Peep used to hate Centipede and he used to find them everywhere which bothered him so much that he got a Centipede tattooed on his inner forearm. Lil Peep got his date of birth 11-1 (First of November) tattooed on his stomach. So, he got the Halloween pumpkin tattooed on his left forearm.īecause he was born on the Halloween night he got Halloween bats and other spooky Halloween stuffs tattooed behind the back of his ear. Lil Peep was born on 1 st of November on the Halloween night. So, he got PEEP tattooed on his left arm. Lil Peep’s tattoos and their meaningsĮver since he was a baby his mum used to call him Peep. Lil Peep had over 30 tattoos and a big fan of Cholo Tattoo style.Įach and every tattoo on his body carried a special meaning and stories behind them. He was part of the post-emo revival hip hop culture. He was born in 1996 and died at a very early age of 21 in 2017 (Nov). Gustav Elijah Åhr aka Lil Peep was an American rapper, song writer and music producer.
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