вЂњWe were all sampling old emo bands we liked. The brooding Underoath sample was inspired by another Smokeasac and Yung Cortex co-production, вЂњSex. One morning, Smokeasac was awoken by Peep banging pots and pans above his head, and 20 minutes later, the exhausted producer had made the beat for what would become HellboyвЂ™s title track. To commemorate one of the most influential mixtapes of the 2010s, GQ spoke to PeepвЂ™s family, friends, and collaborators about the making of each song on Hellboy. вЂњI guess youвЂ™d consider both of them mixtapes, but to me seemed more like an album than a mixtape.вЂќ вЂњFrom Crybaby to Hellboy, Hellboy honestly seemed more decisive and cohesive,вЂќ says producer Horse Head. It remains PeepвЂ™s most cohesive project, and serves as a poignant time capsule of the stretch just before the then-19 year old became an ascendant mainstream hip-hop star, only to die from a drug overdose in 2017. Today, Hellboy is being released on streaming services, a somewhat herculean feat given the breadth of samples that needed to be cleared. He said that people would judge him off the way he looked, when he really just wanted to help people out,вЂќ says producer Smokeasac, who lived with Peep and a handful of other producers at the Skid Row loft where they made much of the seminal 2016 mixtape Hellboy. вЂњHe told me that he saw parts of himself in the character Hellboy. As a heavily tattooed, polarizing underground rapper, the sweet-tempered introvert felt a growing chasm between how he was portrayed and who he was, similar to the way the Mike Mignola superheroвЂ™s looks inspire fear even though he just wants to help.

HeвЂ™d loved Hellboy since he was a kid, and felt a kinship with him. In retrospect, itвЂ™s obvious why Lil Peep gravitated to a comic book character who has the appearance of a villain and the soul of a hero.

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