Lil Peep's Brother Says the Rapper's Death Was 'An Accident'
Lil Peep’s brother said he’s convinced his sibling’s untimely death was an accident.
Just days after Lil Peep died from a suspected overdose, his older brother Karl Åhr, who goes by Oskar, spoke out about the tragic loss and the misconceptions about the rapper’s life.
“We [the family] have heard there was some sort of substance he did not expect to be involved in the substance he was taking,” Oskar told People magazine. “He thought he could take what he did, but he had been given something and he didn’t realize what it was.”
Oskar said that, contrary to popular belief, Lil Peep was in a good mental space prior to his death. He claimed Lil Peep’s emo, drug-addicted persona was simply an act to sell music, and that people never saw his brother (real name Gustav Åhr) as the happy person he truly was.
“He was super happy with where he was in life,” Oskar said. “It makes me laugh to think about the days we watched WWE together but [Peep] mentioned how being a hip-hop artist is like being a pro-wrestling character. You have to be an actor. He gets paid to be sad. It’s what he made his name on. It’s
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Lil Peep’s brother Karl Åhr has claimed his brother’s death was a tragic accident.
Karl, who goes by the name Oskar, has claimed that his brother’s suspected overdose could have been down to his Xanax being laced with something, meaning his death was accidental. He added that his brother was ‘super happy’ around the time of his death and therefore unlikely to take his own life.
An autopsy into his death has revealed it was most likely an overdose, although it’ll be several weeks before the toxicology results come back.
Oskar said: ‘We [the family] have heard there was some sort of substance he did not expect to be involved in the substance he was taking. He thought he could take what he did, but he had been given something and he didn’t realize what it was.’
‘It was an accident, it really was an accident,’ he added to People. ‘He was super happy with where he was in life.’
He also claimed his brother’s emo persona was merely for the stage, adding that he played a role as a rapper, and that he wasn’t really ‘sad’ behind closed doors.
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The year-old rapper and singer (real name Gustav Åhr) died Wednesday (Nov. 15) of an apparent overdose, soon before he was scheduled to take the stage at a concert in Tucson, Arizona. An official cause of death has not yet been released, but authorities said evidence indicated an overdose of the anti-anxiety medication Xanax.
“It was an accident, it really was an accident,” older brother Karl Åhr, who goes by Oskar, tells People. “He was super happy with where he was in life.” He says Lil Peep &#;was not struggling.&#;
He believes the pill his younger brother took may have been laced.
“We [the family] have heard there was some sort of substance he did not expect to be involved in the substance he was taking.&#; Oskar says. &#;He thought he could take what he did, but he had been given something and he didn’t realize what it was.”
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Lil Peep's brother broke his silence after the New York rapper died from a suspected drug overdose on Wednesday. Karl Åhr, who goes by Oskar, argued Peep's ultimately death at the age of 21 was an accident.
"We [the family] have heard there was some sort of substance he did not expect to be involved in the substance he was taking," Oskar, 23, told Peoplemagazine in a Friday interview. "He thought he could take what he did, but he had been given something and he didn't realize what it was."
One of Peep's final Instagram videos showed the rapper dropping Xanax into his mouth. The burgeoning star struggled with addiction and suffered from mental illness. He was open about his battle with drugs and depression.
But his tragic death was not on purpose. "It was an accident, it really was an accident," Oskar said. "He was super happy with where he was in life."
Peep, whose birth name was Gustav Åhr, rapped about his struggle with pills. In the song Drugz he says: "Yeah, I do them drugs, I don't give a fuck what you think/ I got blood, I got mud, I got bud, I got drank/ Only do it for the pain, it be fuckin' up my brain/"
But Oskar argued being sad was his brother's
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