![]() These videos and images were taken and shared by Lil Peep himself, and his friends, on their own volition. This was not grainy footage taken from a distance in a public place. They were not taken by paparazzi, or paid for by tabloids, or acquired because of a hack. The thing that's new about Lil Peep is that these videos and photos were not taken in secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other, more respected publications aren't above such actions- ET Online was the first to publish a photo of paramedics trying to save a dying Michael Jackson in 2009. The paper re-used that photo once again in 2015, juxtaposed with a photo of Whitney's dying daughter, Bobbi Kristina, lying in her hospital bed. In 2012, the paper splashed an obviously-surreptitiously-taken picture of Whitney Houston in her casket across the cover. In 1993, it paid $5000 for a photo of River Phoenix that had been acquired by a photographer who had broken into a funeral home. The publication put a photo of Elvis in his casket on its front page in 1977. The National Enquirer has been at the forefront of this for decades. It is not new for media vultures to circle after a famous person dies. Bexey, under fire from fans who were horrified by the clip, has since stated that Peep "just fell asleep" and was "snoring." (Lil Peep appears to be making no sound in the video.) The video was captured by Peep's close friend, Bexey, and originally shared on Snapchat. Within hours of his death, a disturbing video started circulating online of Peep, obviously unconscious, sitting upright but limp, head slung backwards, mouth wide open. While, on the surface, his death seems typical-ultra-creative, troubled young musician overwhelmed, too soon, by substance abuse-like Lil Peep himself, this particular tragic death is actually something the world has never seen before. Here was a young man who could look positively feral one moment and wow crowds at Paris Fashion Week the next. Here was a young man with a naturally beautiful face that was marked up by heavy tattoos, the largest of which was a scrawl over his right eyebrow that read "Cry Baby" (the title of one of his 2016 mixtapes). His music was an emo-infused take on hip hop-a new and oxymoronic combination that actually made sense in his hands. In life, Lil Peep stood out precisely because of how few places he fit in. Another supposedly read, “He passed the fuck out my brother called and I tried to get him to say hi to my brother but he wouldn’t wake up.On November 15, 2017, at the age of 21, one of the most exciting and charismatic young artists in the country died of an as-yet unspecified drug overdose in the back of his tour bus. “GBC high af because of me and my friend lol,” read one allegedly. The authorities said they were investigating text messages sent by a woman who’d visited Peep’s tour bus before his death. Local authorities speculated that the circumstances around the rapper’s death were “suspicious,” though at the time the Tucson police department was under the assumption his death was caused by a combination of Xanax and other drugs. Peep, whose real name was Gustav Åhr, died last month in Tucson, Arizona, where he was supposed to hold a concert in support of his debut album, Come Over When You’re Sober (Part One). The medical examiner did not find alcohol in his system. His blood tested positive for marijuana, cocaine and the painkiller Tramadol, and his urine tested positive for those drugs, as well as opiates such as hydrocodone, generic Dilauded, oxycodone and oxymorphone. TMZ reports that a cocktail of other drugs were also found in his system. ![]() The rapper’s death was ruled as accidental by the medical examiner. Lil Peep died of an overdose of fentanyl and generic Xanax, according to the Pima Country Office of the Medical Examiner. ![]()
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