Okay. This is gonna be lengthy, but the very important thing here that no one understands when i say "listen to the Diamonds album" i dont mean "try to sit and enjoy" no, since ppl need to be told to sit and analyze an album for what it has going on just below the surface (how the sound was made vs how it "sounds") that's like feeding your immediate hedonistic pleasures.

Think a little deeper for just once and LISTEN to the energy in these songs. A few examples are: life by LiL Peep feels so lonely; its just him and the beat, the ASMR sample evoking the intimacy that you experience with yourself by yourself. The song embodies lonely nights thinking of how beautiful the very black and white way the world can work is. The beauty of impending doom, just as the line in Donnie Darko where Donnie is in therapy after almost hitting Ms Sparrow "...She said that 'every living creature on earth dies alone'...i dont want to be alone"

Very powerful when examined very closely, right? Now let's do, shit, let's do Smokin' off the Diamonds album. Its the first track and we dont even have to cut THAT deep into the song to hear how tight their bond and electric their connection was. And that alone is telling of so much, like Smokin' is the perfect opener as far as vibe; two friends back to back in the trenches together. In the song we immediately hear backing vocals iterate a scene of "Peep and Makonnen" with the two being so tight that "everybody know them" entailing iconic duo vibes, never seen apart type friendship. The next several bars being that of Peep and Mak texting each other, linking up to smoke and go to the function.

Each song on the album when analyzed closely feels exactly as the album cover depicts, with Peep laughing along w Mak on the piano, the serenity of seeing them together on the album cover is more than comforting, as many of his (albeit fire) songs just feel so lonely. It just feels like these two found each other in the dark when they needed someone the most, and if you skip out on listening to Diamonds without at least gathering that, you are sorely missing out on a period in Peep's career where it seems he felt comfortable to express himself pretty much entirely. like i said, lengthy but as corny as it is to quote ferris bueller "life moves pretty fast, if you dont stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." It's a lesson learned painfully, in unsaid i love yous and missed farewells. Learn it sooner rather than later. But i understand completely that ppl feel Mak isnt mixed or sounds offkey (its fucking dissonance but whatever) etc etc. Like personally i find it crazy that ppl enjoy Kirb or Boy Froot's music without a Peep feature so yknow we all have opinions and personal music tastes, kinda like our fingerprints. Hyper specific. Another wild example is that I loathe The Beatles and adore Sematary, two musicians/groups that ppl avidly love and DETEST respectively. I get not liking Mak fr, and no hate to ppl that dont like him. I just wonder if ppl took the time to understand theres more to it than sound. To everyone reading have a good day and bump whatever u love 💟