![]() ![]() While the film does dissect Peep’s catastrophic final tour, the “why” is unanswerable. ![]() Peep’s death led to anger and conspiracy theories, and there will be some fans who watch Everybody’s Everything expecting a cracked case. “You have to be aware of your surroundings,” SchemaPosse founder Jay Grxxn says at one point, “because not everybody’s your friend.” It’s one of several pieces of wisdom scattered through Everybody’s Everything in a natural, un-didactic fashion. The film excerpts his May 2017 performance at Los Angeles venue the Echo in all its disturbing and infuriating power, as Peep stumbles on stage while being too intoxicated to remember the lyrics to “Hellboy.” He eventually finds his center and finishes the show, and no one on his team has lost any money on a gig that should have been cancelled for his own safety. Peep’s drug use is unflinchingly depicted to a point where it even subtly implicates those pulling the strings. Central to this are the letters written to Peep throughout his life by his grandfather, the leftist academic and Rhodes scholar John Womack these messages are narrated by Womack himself, whose steadfast and smokey voice crackles with love and acceptance - words ostensibly addressed to his grandson, but advice that nonetheless holds true for any young person trying to be themselves in a hostile world and, perhaps, seeking refuge from it in dangerous places. The song, which many Peep fans believe he wouldn’t have agreed to, goes unmentioned - perhaps because it contradicts the explanation Peep himself gives for his “Crybaby” face tattoo: “There’s people fighting to survive, so live on for them.”Įverybody’s Everything shines when it uses the biography format to become a guidebook for misfits who saw themselves in Peep. XXXTentacion, the deceased rapper who admitted on tape to attacking his pregnant girlfriend, appeared after both his and Peep’s deaths on “Falling Down,” a collaboration stitched together by Peep’s label. Another controversy left unaddressed is Peep’s posthumous career. ![]()
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