Everybody’s Everything: Review

3.6.30

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Everybody’s Everybody is a Netflix documentary about the late rapper, Lil Peep. He passed away in 2017 when he was 21 years old, from an apparent drug overdose. I had heard about Lil Peep, I had seen him around social media, I knew what he looked like and what he was doing. But I had never heard a single song by Lil Peep. This is just not my type of music and I don’t think he was ever played on any radio stations I tend to listen to. Of course, I wanted to watch the documentary to be able to have my own opinion on Lil Peep and what had happened.

Overall, I think this was a really good documentary. I’ve expressed disliking other documentaries here because I didn’t learn anything about the artist. After watching this documentary, I feel like I know who Lil Peep was. He was very close to his mother and grandfather. Though he hated school and felt bullied and dealt with insecurities, he was a positive and friendly spirit around those whom are close to him. Music was his biggest passion, and sometimes he’d only leave the house if he knew he was going to be able to record. As he music gained traction, he took his whole gigantic crew with him on the road, paid their rent, made sure everyone was good before he was. We see clips from when he was a young child, to him in high school with his friends, to him on stage performing. It’s a bit eerie to watch knowing this man is no longer present on Earth, but I gained a large appreciation for him and what he was able to accomplish in such a short period of time.

I learned on this documentary, that Lil Peep had only been doing music for less than a year. There were a few interesting featured interviewees on the show. It seems that Travis Mills found Lil Peep on Twitter, and had a large part of getting him his label deal and management team. Other interviewees were Bexey Swan, who is a similar kind of artist. A “punk / emo / pop / rapper” as they say in the film. Bexey says he found Lil Peep on Instagram, and they both had less than 1,000 followers. Peep was dope to Bexey and he reached out for them to begin making music together. Finally, ILoveMakonnen was an emotional part of the film. He expressed how perfect of a duo they were. Peep was aggressive on the outside and soft on the inside, while Makonnen was the opposite. He absolutely broke down when speaking on the passing of Lil Peep. You could feel the genuine bond they had, and the hurt he is feeling that Peep is no longer with us. (Riff Raff also makes an appearance, but was not interviewed).

So this is all cute and great, but obviously something terrible had happened. There are a lot of things that went down in this documentary that I do not like, things that I do not support, and things that I question. My first question is, there are two girlfriends that they show back and forth throughout the video. I’m confused, I wish I had a timeline, and I like the first one the best, by far. But on a more serious note, all of Lil Peep’s “friends and collaborators” were interviewed on the show. There were probably ten to fifteen of them. They were absolutely all under the influence of some sort of substances. One of them was holding a beer during his clips, another was on a couch falling over barely able to talk, many of them were very slow to talk, stuttering, they just could not get it together. A lot of this was hard for me to watch. First, it’s painful to listen to someone when they cannot hold a normal, flowing conversation, let alone when you’re being filmed for something to be broadcasted to the world. But you’re filming, intoxicated, about your “best friend” that died from drugs? I think that this is terribly wrong. Why not instead of still taking money from your friend, you go figure your life out. I hope that whoever is filming this, uses their money to help these guys, because it was genuinely scary to watch. Above all that, I had no idea that when Lil Peep passed, he was on a tour bus, with several other people, who did not check on him, for four hours. To me, you don’t sleep during tour life. They said that over and over in the film. So how come no one checked on this kid for four hours, on a tiny bus? People claim they thought he was sleeping, but this is way too much. I don’t think I could ever make up a conspiracy this horrible, but multiple parities on the documentary itself brought up the conspiracy that these “collaborators” had something to do with what happened to Peep. I mean, it was the last tour he was doing with them, as he had planned to go solo and focus on his own career. One of the members that was there with him, interviewed in complete panic mode, stating that he thinks the world will think he did it, screaming profanity every other word. Guilty is written all over your face, young boy. Additionally, another man who had been a part of Peep’s earlier stages also brought up the conspiracy that these guys had something to do with it. He said all those guys that will be featured on this film are “bullshitters.”

A sad scary thought, but it does seem suspicious. The one person I hope does thrive after this film is his grandpa. He wrote letters to Peep all the time which he reads to us on this film. What a beautiful story teller, I will say. He could publish novels, fairytales, he could do it all. My most memorable quote from Grandpa, “The shock of the paid subsides. Unevenly. But the paid never fully heals.”

RIP Lil Peep, your music is not for me, but I am so glad I got to know you from this film.