Lil Peep, who over the last two years emerged as one of pop music’s brightest and most promising young talents, blending the urgency and dexterity of contemporary hip-hop with the raw, serrated sentimentality of emo, died on Wednesday night in Tucson.
He was 21.Sarah Stennett, the chief executive of First Access Entertainment, a company that worked with Lil Peep last year, confirmed the rapper’s death in a statement. Ms. Stennett said she had “spoken to his mother and she asked me to convey that she is very, very proud of him and everything he was able to achieve in his short life.”
Lil Peep was born Gustav Ahr on November 1, 1996, and was raised in the town of Long Beach, on Long Island, the son of a college professor father and an elementary schoolteacher mother. (He took his name from a childhood nickname given by his mother.)
After leaving high school early — he eventually got a diploma — he moved to Los Angeles to begin pursuing music in earnest, posting first on YouTube and eventually on the streaming platform SoundCloud, finding a rabid following. He put out his first mixtapes in…
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