Billy Corgan Thinks Lil Peep Was “His Generation’s Kurt Cobain”

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The Smashing Pumpkins frontman, Billy Corgan, has likened the late emo rapper Lil Peep to Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain.

While discussing the bands recently released double album Cyr, and how the band changed things up this time, Billy said to Upset Magazine that the record was “the result of [Smashing Pumpkins] trying to come into the modern world”. The magazine goes onto note that although the new Pumpkins album didn’t use ‘Lil Peep-inspired beats’, the frontman believes that Peep was “his generation’s Kurt Cobain”.

While the interview doesn’t go into further detail, it’s easy to draw some comparison between the two, with both artists tragically dying too young. With Lil Peep who died from an accidental drug overdose at the age of 21 in 2017, and Kurt Cobain who committed suicide at 27 in 1994.

The two artist also similarly had the ability to connect to their fanbases of a deep level, something not all artists can manage.

Talking to Kerrang! around the release of Lil Peep’s ‘Come Over When You’re Sober Pt. II’, producer smokeasac explained of the rapper: “Kids can relate to Peep and really admire his sound, his look, and his views on life. He’s the saviour of so many young kids of this generation, the same way that music saved us when we were young. His music is really powerful whether you can relate to the lyrics or not it just makes people feel different types of ways. Most importantly it makes people feel.”

This isn’t the first time Billy Corgan has spoken about Lil Peep, in 2018 the frontman praised Lil Peep’s “angst” in an interview with the BUILD series “Unfortunately, Lil Peep, probably of all the artists I’ve heard recently tapped into that same angst” he said. “And it’s so sad he passed away because he was just getting to the bigger part of this work.”

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