![]() But the music industry needs to assume or hypothesize what the two young artists might have been like, might have accomplished if they had survived. As Makonnen himself pointed out, no one knows for sure what Peep wanted what’s left of his music can’t speak to his ambitions or their desires. But “Falling Down” was a rarer kind of release - an attempt to jointly burnish the reputations and legacies of two young artists who, at the time of their passing, were still carving out their careers. have seen modern artists grafted onto their unreleased recordings, all with the approval of the estate. ![]() This kind of label manipulation to link two artists in the afterlife is bracingly common artists like Michael Jackson, Tupac, and the Notorious B.I.G. 2, a posthumous Peep album set to be released November 9. 13 on the Billboard charts, but it was left off the official tracklist for Come Over When You’re Sober Pt. (Somewhat manipulatively, the song included an audio clip of X expressing his regret over not being closer to Peep.) The song peaked at No. ![]() Had Peep ever liked X, or wanted to collaborate with him? There were conflicting reports on whether Peep’s mother Liza Womack had agreed to the posthumous collab Makonnen called X’s parts a “tribute” to Peep, even as several of Peep’s collaborators rejected the idea there was any relationship between the two. ![]() Not long after, X himself was killed.īut what was intended by management as a touching tribute to two young artists taken before their time was complicated by X’s real-life history as a domestic abuser. X’s management reached out to Peep’s team, including Peep’s friend and longtime collaborator iLoveMakonnen, and finished the song. The official account for this song’s existence, so it goes, was that X had recorded some verses after listening to fan-uploaded snippets of the hook on YouTube, which had in turn been stripped from previews of the track from Lil Peep’s Instagram videos. A couple of months ago, “Falling Down,” a posthumous collaboration by the deceased rappers Lil Peep and XXXtentacion, was released to the world. ![]()
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