Tim & Barry have been documenting underground music since 2000. Journey from the latest UK drill back in time to classic grime and garage, all the way to afrobeats, dancehall and RnB. Expect the unexpected.
Now an overarching style of contemporary pop, Lil Peep took the tell-all emotionally naked lyricism of emo and alternative rock and shot it through a rap lens. Listening to his music – much of which lamented the pain of simply being alive, and documented his chasing of the highs to escape it – it might have seemed almost inevitable that he would leave us at a young age, which he ultimately did, aged only 21. Also inevitable was his impact - a generation of young fans who internalise his influence as passionately as generations before them did with Kurt Cobain, or any other luminaries of pop counterculture who passed before their time.
Now an overarching style of contemporary pop, Lil Peep took the tell-all emotionally naked lyricism of emo and alternative rock and shot it through a rap lens. Listening to his music – much of which lamented the pain of simply being alive, and documented his chasing of the highs to escape it – it might have seemed almost inevitable that he would leave us at a young age, which he ultimately did, aged only 21. Also inevitable was his impact - a generation of young fans who internalise his influence as passionately as generations before them did with Kurt Cobain, or any other luminaries of pop counterculture who passed before their time.