I don't care for his music at all. Everything about it really does repulse me.

However his music wasn't written by someone like me for me, but it does appeal to an enormous section of the young white population. I mean I know it might appeal to others, but the people dealing with the brunt of the xanx/benzo/existential depression problem right now are young white guys about my age (26) and down.

Now, I saw a lot of people last week talking about how his music is trash. It is to them, and I get that, but literally everything about Lil Peep is written from a place of sincere expression. That means that whoever it touches to is going to relate in a sincere way on many levels, rather than "I like the beat" This is why Peep was important to these people.

Now, the subset of the population that peep was speaking from and to lives in a fundamentally different world than many people who criticize and hate on him and rap artists like him. I'm not saying their protests to these artsits are invalidated, at all. I mean, I personally don't just dislike this music, it actually gets a rise out of me and makes me feel aggressive, but there's a real important sympathy there that I want to talk about.

Many young guys that listen to this sort of music literally don't see anything around them that is good or virtuous. When they go out and try to make/have friends, they find that there is no one to trust. Many don't have a father. Many have no clue how to build a social culture.

And yea, you can tell someone like that to fix themselves up, but it means fuck all half of these young guys have essentially two options. They stay in their social community, or they live a lonely life. Oh, and that lonely life will come with wrestling a drug habit without much support. This isn't really tennable. They will be lonely and in pain, and without good coping methods taught to them growing up, they will resort to the coping methods they were given.

Now I don't mean to be deterministic about this, but I am talking about an enormous number of people circling this drain. There are going to be people, lots of them, who break clean from all of this stuff.

My point is that he was speaking to the hearts of, and on behalf of a lot of young guys. People need to listen and not just flippantly regard it as shit. I mean, you can because I’m not saying listen to music you don’t like, but my point is that there’s a lot of valuble information being left on the table here.

I feel like I want to explain to people who live dealing with the hellworld more via news than interaction, that the people who live and grow up in this world, they don’t even know what it’s like to be okay. They don’t know what it’s like to be at ease, with a peaceful and quiet mind. And I don’t see many people trying to explain it or teach it to them, and that honestly pisses me off.