In interviews that followed the release of crybaby, and even afterwards during press runs for HELLBOY as well as Come Over When You’re Sober Pt. While some argue that he overstated a lot of his mental health issues and drug usage as being part of the aforementioned vanity/hedonism associated with Peep, it’s when you start reading in between the lines of crybaby that the vulnerable truth starts to come to an ethereal, yet somewhat unsettling fruition. At first, my surface-level thought was something akin to “jesus christ, these SoundCloud musicians are really taking liberties with these face tattoos huh,†but once the mixtape bearing the same name dropped just a couple of months later, all preconceived notions of vanity and hedonism that I had previously associated with Lil Peep had almost dissipated entirely. By the time Tracy’s (fka “yung bruhâ€) bass-blown hook smashes through the speakers, I still couldn’t help but be fixated on the massive “Crybaby†tattoo that now rested on half of Peep’s forehead.
A bold yellow Toytota FJ Cruiser then pulls up, with two figures jumping out of the backseat, and without missing a beat, a newly tatted up Lil Peep begins his verse. Whenever the video for “white tee†dropped, I wasn’t sure what to expect with the blatant Postal Service sample bleeding in the background with Nedarb Nagrom’s signature production being the only slight alteration to the beat. Review Summary: i'll be inside, i'm making music to cry to.