It’s interesting because in some ways Peep is very different to you, but I feel like a lot of the alt rappers have a similar sensibility and approach to experimenting with genre as Fall Out Boy. Yeah, I feel really lucky that I got to interview him and go to his shows because I really expected him to just become stratospherically famous and be here forever. ![]() Somebody that it would have been really interesting to have collaborated with at the time. ![]() You can always look back on things and try to imagine them differently, but yeah, that was clearly somebody who was going to be and who is an influential person. I reached out to him through Instagram, and Spencer from Panic! who I work with went to his show in Florida. I saw the scene that he had come from and it reminded me so much of where I had, and his aspirations reminded me of the stuff that we had thought. A lot of the artists Peep admired loved him too, but there was just such a limited timespan to work together. You’ve got to try and stay faithful to their music but also their values. I think about it in that way where it feels like it was such a short amount of time that Peep was here, and he was very prolific in that time – but you want to honour the fans that want to hear what else he was working on. You have to use what they have, the archived material, and find a way to stay faithful. You have to try and be faithful to the artist’s vision because they are no longer there to speak for themselves. I was a fan of his music, and I am a fan, but I didn’t know him well enough. I only knew Peep through other people and I talked to him on Instagram a couple of times. There was a lot of controversy around Makonnen’s Peep and XXXTentacion posthumous collaboration. I thought about it a lot, me and Patrick talked about it a lot. I hope that the people around me and around our band would hopefully know enough about what our intentions were that they could keep doing something cool if something happened. ![]() No one really knows exactly what it was going to be, but you’ve just got to trust. They’re becoming something more, or different, and you have to trust that the people around them know what the vision was. When I think about somebody like Peep, I think about him the same way I think about Tupac, where this person is in mid-bloom. With it being Peep and Fall Out Boy, though, I feel like it’s a fair guess to say it’s something he might have wanted. So really a lot of it was like, 'what is a way for us to fit into this song and do what Fall Out Boy would do, but do it in a way where we’re not altering the song itself?' It was a lot of subtle stuff, like changing the BPM. We’ve been working on it for maybe six months, something like that? We started working on it and then it was really about finding a way – when you’re working with an artist who’s not there to speak for themselves, you’ve got to be really careful with that artist’s legacy. So how long have you been working on the track? While no one can ever know for sure what Peep wanted, it’s clear how much he wanted to work with Fall Out Boy. Deciding what to do with an artist’s work after they die, especially one so young, is very difficult. Wentz calls it “melodic and beautiful”, adding that “if you played this on an acoustic guitar it would be a sad, pretty song” its sound is different to the rougher, more raw bedroom rap that Peep is known for, and it shows his potential. It’s a glossy, poppy song that shows signs of where Peep was heading as he grew as an artist. “I’ve Been Waiting” is another Peep x Makonnen track, but reworked with the help of Fall Out Boy and featuring vocals from Patrick Stump. ![]() iLoveMakonnen was working on a collab album with Lil Peep and one of its tracks was recently released to controversy: when Makonnen renamed “Sunlight On Your Skin” “ Falling Down” and spliced vocals from XXXTentacion into it, the choice was criticised for going against Peep’s values. You put those two together and that’s Lil Peep”. One of my favourite bands is Fall Out Boy. Peep told XXL in May 2017 that “One of my favourite hip-hop artists is Makonnen. The response to his death was bittersweet: Good Charlotte covered “Awful Things” at his memorial service, his icons tweeted their support for him, and now, he’s posthumously featured on a collaboration with Fall Out Boy on “I’ve Been Waiting – a pop track featuring iLoveMakonnen. His genuine talent, enthusiasm and authenticity meant that these artists took notice of him while he was alive, but his untimely death meant that they never actually got to work together.
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