Yahoo News Lil Peep Reportedly Dies at Age 21, Months After His Debut Album: Diplo, Pete Wentz and More React
Emerging rapper-singer Lil Peep has died, according to multiple reports. He was 21.
The musician's UK rep confirmed the news to The Guardian. At this time, a cause of death is unknown.
Lil Peep-- who also goes by Gustav Åhr and grew up in Long Beach, New York -- just released his debut album, Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1, three months ago.
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On Tuesday, Lil Peep posted an eerie message to his Instagram along with a photo of his shirtless body, writing: “When I die You’ll love me.”
The next evening, just prior to the news of Lil Peep's death, Chase Ortega, who Billboard cited as Peep’s manager, tweeted a cryptic message, writing: “I’ve been expecting this call for a year. Mother f**k.”
The singer's girlfriend, Arzaylea Rodriguez, also took to Instagram to share a heartfelt message.
"I can’t believe i’m writing this. you’re in my heart. i’m always yours. I don’t have words to express what you’ve done for me in such little time," she wrote. "I love you so much. You live forever in me. I don’t know how to do any of this without you now... I love you so much. I want to wake up from this nightmare."
The two were first linked together in October when Rodriguez shared several photos of them together, including screenshots of text messages they wrote to one another.
Another person from Lil Peep's inner circle, Mikey Cortez, who collaborated with Lil Peep on the song “No Love,” posted a series of photos with his late friend to Instagram, writing: “I’m completely heartbroken and lost right now. I can’t even feel it’s not real. I love you and I’ll miss you always. One of the realest. Please someone tell me this isn’t real.”
Upon hearing of Lil Peep's death, several artists have taken to social media to remember the up-and-coming musician.
“I can’t even believe this. We were just talking last week about working on a song together and now you’re gone. You will be missed, R.I.P. @Lilpeep,” DJ Marshmello tweeted, adding, “I can't believe this ...... Peep was the nicest person. hanging out with him, talking to him about music, the song ideas we were going to do together and touring was so amazing. Everyone will miss you man @Lilpeep.”
Diplo wrote, “Peep had so much more to do man he was constantly inspiring me. I dont feel good man.”
Cheat Codes posted on their official account, “F**k, so sad. RIP lil peep. We are missing out on so much he would have done.”
Fall Out Boy bassist and singer Pete Wentz wrote, “No. Not lil peep. ...There’s something about this that hurts a little bit more... I mean @DCD2records went to his show last week- when I talked to him on ig I felt so connected. Tough to process.”
Sam Smith also reacted to the tragic news, tweeting: "Seeing the news of Lil Peep is so desperately sad."
Bella Thorne took to Instagram Stories to share a tearful message with fans, saying, "I just want to say to anybody out there who's a Lil Peep fan, you guys know how talented he was. You guys know how great he was. Well, he was even more great as a person."
She also tweeted, "F**k I don't know what to say. Peep you deserved more out of life. Life didn't do your greatness justice."
Though he was still in the early stages of his career, Lil Peep made a name for himself thanks to his genre-defying sound. His blending of rap and emo music had many debating whether he was a rapper or a singer and allowed him to appeal to a larger fan base.
ETonline has reached out to Lil Peep's reps.
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