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About Gus

Mowgli Miles

About a week ago, I learned that a young man named Mowgli Miles had died. He died suddenly in December, and the news was posted on the Lil Peep Reddit page. My heart sank. I was struck by the kindness and tenderness Mowgli had shown over the years since my own son, Gus, died in 2017. We have lost someone dear. I feel the weight of his death deeply. We have lost him, but we will hold him in our hearts. We will celebrate his achievements. I will not forget Mowgli Miles. He is someone to remember and to be proud of.

Gus's Writing

So, as a little kid, Gus got to experience the pleasure of writing freely. I have all of his written work from the first grade, as well as his early writing from Pre-K and Kindergarten. It is interesting to analyze Gus’s early written work with all his other writing to think about as well. I see patterns in his writing. From the moment he began writing, as a child, until the day he died, Gus mixed reality with make-believe to express his feelings whether they were playful or sad.

What stands out the most to me when I read Gus’s early stories is how so many of them are evocative in the same way that his lyrics are.

Songs We Used to Sing, Listen to, and Read

Gus was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. We lived at 2625 Liberty St. which was right across the street from Muhlenberg College where Gus’s father worked. The house was owned by the College. The rent was cheap because we contracted to entertain students monthly with a movie night and discussion.

We had one car. It was a 1992 Nissan Sentra that my mother had bought for us brand new. Johan could walk to work, while I had the car for errands and the kids.

Gus's Music

1/10

LIL PEEP; PART ONE

For those of us who know the words to “star shopping,” the line, “shoutout to everyone making my beats u helpin me preach/this music’s the only thing keeping the peace when I’m falling to pieces,” really captures the thread that ties together the songs of LIL PEEP; PART ONE. The producers, and their beats sent via SoundCloud, Twitter, texts, and emails, sustained Gus during a low point in his relationship with his girlfriend, Emma. During that time he developed his skills as a creator of music and as a lyricist. This intense work also helped him get through a time of estrangement from Emma. Writing and singing his lyrics was cathartic for him.

Gus's Music

2/10

Teen Romance

Gus made Teen Romance over the span of about a month. He made it during an exciting and transitional time in his life—the spring of 2016. Just months before, he had flown to Tucson to perform for the first time with Schemaposse, and then ended up staying in Denver for just about the entire month of March. It was there that Gus met his good friends and collaborators, Yung Goth and LeDerrick.

Gus's Music

3/10

Diamonds

From July 27 to August 10, Gus and Makonnen had completed the first fifteen of what would be twenty-one songs and would later be known as the “Diamonds” project. They had completed these songs in Los Angeles. Makonnen had invited Gus, Smokeasac, Fish Narc, and Yung One Era to the Electric Feel studio on Sunset Boulevard. The studio had been new to Gus, and the music was a very new style for him to “hop on.” He had loved every minute of it.

Gus's Music

4/10

Live Forever

Gus was feeling good when he released Live Forever. He dropped the mixtape just before midnight on December 2, 2015--pretty soon after Thanksgiving.

Gus's Music

5/10

Feelz

We know that Gus deleted the garage band (original) versions of many of his first songs, so for those songs all we have are the bounces. As he developed fluency with the equipment and his process, he “bounced” a song pretty much as soon as he composed it. But, in the beginning, he likely did not. We know this because we can hear him playing a song on his iPhone fully one month before our first documented record of the song on his computer—the “bounce.”

Gus's Music

6/10

HIGH FASHION - Harry Fraud x LiL PEEP

Two nights. Two songs. It was a wonderful experience for Gus, one that he expressed such pride about. He really was so proud to be able to make music with Harry Fraud.

Gus's Music

7/10

Castles/CASTLES 2

Gus had come home to New York in the end of May, completed the second half of crybaby, and then someone paid for his plane ticket to return to Los Angeles on June 8. The next day, Gus dropped crybaby. Gus’s living situation plans fell through. So, he stayed for a while with a friend named Elias. Gus was busy trying to make music with a multitude of collaborators while he was staying at Elias’s house.

Gus's Music

8/10

California Girls

Gus made California Girls when he was living in Long Beach, during the winter of 2015-2016. He made every one of the six tracks on California Girls with a friend he had never met in person-- @nedarbnagrom. He wrote and recorded these songs at night, and made videos during the day, while I was at work.

Gus's Music

9/10

Hellboy

Gus made Hellboy in LA. Some people say Hellboy was Gus’s “breakthrough” mixtape. And certainly many of Gus’s fans became fans because of Hellboy. Hellboy is a gritty, raw, and very intense piece of work in which Gus expresses feelings of anger, sorrow, loneliness, and determination. It is passionate. It is daring. And it kicks. It showcases Gus’s love for the guitar. The songs Gus chose to make Hellboy arose from his work with a small group of producers. These young men sampled some great, classic guitar riffs and combined them with the signature 808s for Gus to lay his vocal on and really wobble your rear view mirror.

Gus's Music

10/10

Crybaby

Gus left Denver in April 2016 and went back to LA. He ended up staying with his friend and old house-mate, Brennan Savage, in the house they had first moved into in September 2014—When Gus was hoping to go to Glendale Community College with Brennan. Now, nearly two years later, Lederrick and Yung Goth were there, too, as were several other young men. The place was full of people and creative energy. During all that time, Gus began to make the tracks for the Crybaby mixtape.