From series: Global Drug Survey rapper Lil Peep: Drogentod on Instagram The fate of rapper Lil Peep throws light on a worrying trend in American hip-H OP: The glorification of prescription medications. By Jana Weiss November 25, 2017, 15:54 Uhr49 comments Lil Peep in music video for “Girls” screenshot of YouTube © Lil Peep Inha Lt
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Xans don’t make you, Xans gonetake you, Xans gone fake you, Xans gone betray you. Rapper Lil Xan repeats se words in his SongBetrayed like a mantra, with a heavy tongue, as if he had to deliver this last Nachrichtjemandem before he rushes into delirium. Der21-year-old belongs to American rap, who described NewYork times as new underground rap in summer. Their protagonists move musically between trap and emo and feiernDrogen as ir biggest hobby. Above all, prescription medications such as anxiety solver xanax or purple, also called Lean, a cocktail of lemonade and purple codeinhaltigem cough juice. Two of substances that have a large share of current drug crisis in US: at least 59,000 Americans have died of an overdose last year. That’s 161 people a day. The President Donald Trump has refore declared a health emergency.
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LilPeep, anor rapper whom The New York Times described as “Kurt Cobain of scene”, died last week, under influence of Xanax and opiate Fentanyl. Gustav Åhr, his bourgeois name, did not correspond to classic picture of a hip-hopper. He warweiß, in face of pierced, wore a new hair color every week, from platinum blond to pink. His look was androgynous and he was openly bisexual. On his forehead emblazoned lettering “CryBaby”, under eye a broken heart. His sound difference also differs from pimp-Violence-party-battle-duct, which predominates ImUS-American hip-hop. His texts are about drugs, depression UndSuizidgedanken. His beats are slowly undmelancholisch. You could call Lil Peep’s music as an emo rap. A little reminds her of Eminem, but has hardly any ambitions to play big hip-hop game.
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This sound is also heard at XXXTentacion, Lil Xan or Swede Yung Lean. They tariffs sad boys of rap Undteilen Besides love of drugs especially ir online strategies. They belong to SogenanntenCloud rappers, derived from music platform SoundCloud, on which y publish ir self-produced tracks. With your music videos, you get millions of clicks on YouTube, so you can barely speak of underground music – video of Lil Xans betrayed was more than 44 million Malangesehen. On Instagram, where you share intimate photos, crashes UndDrogenexzesse, as if it were most normal in world, Folgenihnen also millions of people.
As Snapchat as music
Most cloud rappers are around 20, ir music and ir staging in social media impress especially teenagers. Because you may be particularly auntischempfunden, or because you have a similar Versprechengeben as casting: anyone can do it. In any case, this scene is clearly bordered by older stars. Her whole style istdezidiert of her generation. Even if y can be operated on older subcultures – such as emo, punk or, of course, classical hip-hop: ir way of making music, spreading youhas, communicating with fans is new.
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Cloud Rap can only be fixed Schlechtan stylistic standards – to different tariffs artists and ir sounds. Toger y are, however, that y sound more like a local handicraft studio than after high-gloss production. Lo-Fi are also simple texts, which are mostly repetitions based. High sealing art y are rare. Many Cloudrapper mumbling or babbling ir phrases zäsurlos to mselves. A peculiarity that is certainly not least due to your drug use, but has developed into your own style. One can interpret AlsUnvermögen as Persiflage of classical hip-hop or AlsTotalverweigerung, demarcation from establishment, rebellion against growing up. Like Snapchat as MusikalischesGesamtkonzept.
