Before little peep drop tracks like Ben's truck white wine and awful things
Before blowing up on Soundcloud in YouTube with millions of plays on his songs
Including a whopping 12 million views for his music video Ben's truck at the time of this recording
Before he hooked up with Bella Thorne before pitchfork called him the future of emo
Before the young artist tragically passed away on November 15
2017 little peep grew up a social outcast who despised school and cut class to spend hours on end alone in his room
From there he began listening to Punk and rap artists bubbling up on YouTube and SoundCloud
Before long he would be inspired to create his own unique music with the $200 microphone a MacBook and GarageBand
With these simple tools little peep edged out his own unique sound which would attract fans from all over the world
Little peep was well on his way to cracking it into the mainstream, but sadly his depression and drug habits well
They would continue to plague him throughout his short life. What's going on guys?
My name is Michael cretin documenting the life and career of little peep here for you on before they were gone now
it was only a month ago when I did his before they're famous and
Well, it's you know. It's just the tragedy to lose someone so yeah now
I've covered a ton of other soundcloud artists in the past who definitely check out those videos
Let me know who you want me to document next also feel free to leave your
condolences and thoughts for the departed in the comments down below
Little people's board Gustav R on November 1st 1996 although pitchfork claims that he originally hails from Pennsylvania
Gustav spent the majority of his childhood growing up on the south shore of Long Island
New York and what he affectionately called this vidya sting suburbs ever
Little peeves mother is of Irish and German descent while his father's of Swedish and German ancestry
His mother teaches first grade his grandfather is a professor at Harvard while his father's professor at
Hofstra
Gustav grew up with an older brother and both parents until he was 14 years old at that point his father left the family and
After that well peep he never spoke to him ever again
Despite growing up in a family of teachers Gustav was never particularly
interested in
Education his high school had a closed campus so to cut class which he did frequently Gus stopped hopped on a 20-foot fence and ran
From the schools on duty security guards on top of hating class who stopped didn't like his classmates
He told Vader they were like the stereotypical high schoolers from the movies. It's hard to find people you fuck with
Yeah, I drop down after Gustav dropped out of his high school
But continued his education
Through a computer course that required only a single essay a week his mom usually ended up writing them for him
But eventually he got his diploma
during this time little peeps spend a lot of time alone in his room listening to punk and rap music he suffered from depression and
Suicidal thoughts demons he we've continued to battle for the rest of his life
But according to him the internet and underground rap circuit to save this life
Gustav got into listening to underground acts on SoundCloud and YouTube, which inspired him to try doing it himself
He bought a $200 microphone and started to record directly on his macbook the same computer
He would use for the rest of his life and for production will he use GarageBand well
He originally created his YouTube account back in 2013 is all this video still available on his channel is from
2016 and his oldest SoundCloud song dates back to 2015 that year
he was 19 years old so his earliest self produced songs have likely been wiped from the
Internet as of right now the oldest available song is veins produced by grief
But a few months after posting his first song online they began received thousands of plays
This was the first glimmer of hope for Gustav that he may have a future music as her school that wasn't going so well
He enrolled in an online local community college
But needless to say it didn't hold his interest he dropped out after a single semester
The only thing really holding his attention was his budding music career as he told pitchfork school was forced the whole time now
It's apparent that it was never very necessary to pursue his ambitions little Pete moved out to Los Angeles
Hoping to pay his rent with his soundcloud rap career
He had a dozen roommates in his apartment in Skid Row
But still his music wasn't paying the bills which forced him to return to Long Island
but before long he'd be returning to LA where he would continue to reside until very recently with his girlfriend Leila and
2015 little peep dropped his first two mixtapes little peep pop one and live forever and his extended play feels
2016 would see the release of four new EPS vertigo
California Girls teen romance and castles as well as two mixtapes cry-baby and his breakthrough project Hellboy
By this time he had teamed up with artist Jay green and ghost Mane to form the schema Posse collective
They had begun working together while people still in high school
but in April of
2016 the group disbanded after a public breakup via Twitter after this falling out little people joined goth boy cleek with artists like little
tracy cole tart doves and JP dream thug in
2017 little people would drop castles too and move to London England where he finished work on his debut studio album
Come over when you're sober part one
The album was dropped that year and features some of his most popular songs like problems awful things and Ben's truck
In August 2017 Pete came out as bisexual on Twitter little Pete would maintain a close relationship with his mother throughout his life
Although she was never able to persuade him to kick his more dangerous habits little peep used cocaine moly heroin and xanax
Even before his recent tragic passing there were signs that his drug abuse. Well. It was getting out of control
I woke up with these tattoos. This doesn't get cake da-jung I woke up with it. I had no idea
He even got it. I was stuff like that as far back as February of 2017 he tweeted
I am a depressed drug addict, and I'm nearing my breaking point everything
I love is disappearing still he remained a productive artist touring widely to perform for his growing legion of fans
And one of his last Instagram posts little P put out a video message to his fans in El Paso
Telling them that he would be seeing them that night in the video. He also mentions the drugs he had just taken I took
xanax and I was
Just hours later on November 15 2017 little P passed away
It was just 21 years old his manager chase Ortega broke the news via Twitter saying I've been expecting this call for a year
motherfuck
numerous other artists pay tribute to little Pete via social media
Diplo he tweeted peep had so much more to do he was constantly inspiring me
post below direct this message the peep writing in the short time that I knew you you were a great friend to be in a
Great person your music changed the world and will never be the same
I love you, bud forever bella thorne
Address peeps fans saying you guys know how talented he was you guys know how good he was well
He was even more fuckin great as a person Sarah Stennett CEO of first access entertainment which partnered with peep in early 2016
Released the statement about his death which said
I've spoken to his mother and she asked me to convey that she is very very proud of him and everything he was able to
Achieve in his short life
She is truly grateful to the fans and the people who have supported and loved him as for the rest of the story while it
Lives on and his friends his family and in his music because this is before they were gone now
If anyone's watching this video, and they're dealing with their own two pression, or substance abuse issues. There's a lot of help out there
There's a lot of phone lines that you can call actually leave a link to one down below. My name is Michael Crabb
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Memorial that's okay. See ya bye