Lil Peep, who over the last two years emerged as one of pop music’s brightest and most promising young talents, blending the urgency and dexterity of contemporary hip-hop with the raw, serrated sentimentality of emo, died on Wednesday night in Tucson. He was 21.
Lil Peep’s music — simultaneously cocky and desperate, filled with woozy singing and nimble rapping — made him one of the most promising artists in the current generation emerging from SoundCloud. In August, he released a new album, “Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 1.”
But he also struggled with drug use and suicidal impulses dating to his teenage years, he told The Times. The frankness with which he spoke about the difficult parts of his life led to an especially intense connection with his fans.
Yesterday, Diplo had tweeted his feelings about what happened to Lil Peep and the twitter was furious and trolled him the worst way possible.
Diplo tweeted “peep had so much more to do man he was constantly inspiring me. I don’t feel good man“
But to some Lil Peep fans, this was “not cool”. Fans have seen Diplo constantly supporting Lil Peep’s drug adventures on Instagram, and were upset when they lost Lil Peep to the drug overdose.
Diplo and his team have now removed the like on Lil Peep’s Instagram post now. Sounds like they had enough backlashing with the Instagram bots.