He soon became popular on the platform with the release of his 2015 single 'Star Shopping', and his popularity grew further with his release of mixtapes Lil Peep Part One and Live Forever later that year. īorn in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to an American mother and a Swedish father and raised on Long Island, Åhr started releasing music on SoundCloud in 2013 under the name 'Trap Goose', later changing his artist name to Lil Peep because his mother had called him 'Peep' since he was a baby. Helping pioneer an emo revival-style of rap and rock music, Lil Peep has been credited as a leading figure of the mid–late 2010s emo rap scene and came to be an inspiration to outcasts and youth subcultures.
He was a member of the emo rap collective GothBoiClique. Gustav Elijah Åhr ( Swedish pronunciation: Novem– November 15, 2017), known professionally as Lil Peep, was an American rapper and singer-songwriter.
