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Marshmello And Lil Peep's 'Spotlight' Official Music Video

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Gustav  Åhr passed away on November 15th from a Fentanyl overdose.  Before Peep's awful passing, he had worked with Marshmello on a track called 'Spotlight'.   Nick Koenig (aka Hot Sugar) directed the video for 'Spotlight'. Nick had previously worked with Gus for the 'Awful Things' video.  Koenig adds:  Relationships have a way of overwhelming the meaning and context of physical items to the point of hijacking them. What once was just a household item might now be something that reminds us of that relationship to a point where it overpowers what that item was traditionally meant for. These objects end up developing a shared significance between those in the relationship.” “Like Peep’s passing, no one got to say goodbye properly but the objects he left us (his body of work both musical and social) remain ours to share in our relationship with him.” Watch the 'Spotlight' video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R1N-8SoqcM ✰RIP PEEP✰
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Gustav Elijah Åhr

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✰Introduction To Peep's Life✰ Gustav Elijah Åhr , or as we know him by (Lil Peep) was an American rapper who used unusual and different beats to his music. Gus' music was labelled as emo-type style of rap. Gus was born in Pennsylvania on November 1st 1996, but he was raised in Long Island, New York. He described Long Island as "the sh*ttiest f*cking suburbs ever" . Both of his parents were Harvard graduates and they divorced when Gus was just a teenager. Liza Womack (Gus' mother) is a first-grade teacher whilst his father is a college professor. Peep had Swedish, German and Irish ancestry. Gus also has an older brother who originally got him interested into the Gothic music scene. Where Did The Name Lil Peep Come From?    There really isn't much background to why Gus named his stage name as 'Lil Peep' other than this. "My mum has been calling me Peep my whole life, that's how I got the name. I don't know why, she tells me I look li
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