As details surrounding Lil Peep’s death continue to emerge, so too does the stream of tributes from fellow artists paying their respects.
Born Gustav Åhr, Peep was found dead on his tour bus in Tucson, Arizona on Wednesday night (November 15). The 21-year-old reportedly died from a suspected drug overdose.
Lil Uzi Vert paid tribute to his fellow emo-rapper via Twitter, saying he wasn’t going to judge Peep for his use of drugs.
Wiz Khalifa commented on Lil Peep’s passing during a recent interview with Complex. His remarks come just a few days after he issued a PSA of sorts condemning the widespread use of lean – another popular opiate – in modern-day culture.
“I just feel like somebody has to speak up for people who don’t believe in that or really are tired of seeing it,” Khalifa said of his recent missive. “It’s unfortunate that Lil Peep had to die and stuff like that but these are the things that people are gonna start seeing and keep happening if they don’t really relax and fall back. I’m just trying to be the responsible one to say something.”
Erykah Badu told TMZ that she feels there’s a wider mental health issue present among today’s youth.
“I don’t think the issue is music, nor is the issue drugs,” she said. “It’s mental illness. We’re only reflecting what we see. We’re trying to cope with everything around us. It’s just toxic what’s happening right now. The youth today are calibrated at such a speed where they’re so bored where we have evolved to.”
Badu added, “It’s sad, man. I wish his family well and I pray for his spirit.”
Daz Dillinger, also speaking with TMZ, said there’s an epidemic-like wave of addiction ever-present in and among the youth.
“These kids nowadays are being drug addicts. The culture is addiction. We really gotta teach the kids about that part of the game. These new scientific drugs that they coming out with will kill you quick. If they got some stuff that’ll take away headaches, they got some stuff that’ll knock you off around here, especially two Xanax pills.”
Tha Dogg Pound member later offered a PSA to anybody dabbling in prescription drug use.
“You gotta take care of yourself [and] know what you taking,” he said. “Read instead of listening to a song because the next person will take after what he did and there’s gonna be more young youth that’s dying and that’s what we gotta stop.”
RIP Lil Poop.
RIP Lil Pussy.
Man must feel good to see other people express love for someone upon their passing and knowing once you die nobodys even gonna be there or have 1 good word to say about you in death compared to the hundreds of words you utter in disrespect towards others passing be sure to let me know where your grave is when ya go so i can piss on it and light a bag of dog shit on fire on it
are you kidding? the boy was a drug addict, instead of people saying “hold up Big Sleep, you have a problem and you need help” they jsut gave him praise. Only in America you can be addicted to something and get more famous because of it (don’t get me started on “codine”/over glorified oppiods addicts)
Nah i agree its disgusting how glorified drugs are codines the dumbest shit since air duster and pill junkies are dumbasses nothing like burning out every dopeamine receptor in your brain and only being happy on a pill fuckin dumb and people arent glorifying his drug use in these tributes they are celebrating his life a junkie as he may have been he was still a human and had an impact on peoples lives and if your too narrow minded to catch that your a dipshit kids just smoke weed drop the hard shit
Wow wiz khalifa and uzi combined gotta be pushing a total I.Q score of 60… lifes never so bad that you need to sit and drown yourself with drug use as a way to cope with life.. there are people who are sold into sex slavery from birth or just slavery MODERN day and people like in north korea and other parts of the world that have never even experience personal freedoms are these people self medicating making a lifestyle of it and killing themselfs? Some maybe but a majority no they push thru life so basicaly what im saying is there are people who have it literaly a MILLION times worse from birth to death uzi verts a f a g g o t for trying to say he justifies what peep did its some pathetic shit i thought the emo trend ended back in like 2010?
RIP Lil Loser.
More like Big Sleep after that OD lmao
I’m just happy he is dead.
another real 1 lost to these streets. Peep up in thug heaven now. Rest easy homie.
I don’t feel bad if a drug addict passes away as a result of their addiction. This generation needs to wake the fuck up.
There is a reason drugs are illegal and prescriptions exist.
Lmao you understand more deaths occur from prescription drugs yearly than ALL illegal drugs combined damn your dumb