“With everything that has been happening the past couple years, I haven’t been living my best life,” he says. Last month, he announced the upcoming release of the SINNER EP, his first project of 2018. “I was drunk as fuck and doing a farmer impression all night - no offense to, like, actual farmers.” Surprisingly, it was “Like A Farmer” broke Tracy out of his niche GothBoiClique fanbase. “I made that shit by accident,” he says, laughing hysterically. It was his country-rap fusion track, “Like A Farmer,” that most recently propelled Lil Tracy into the spotlight. Emo rap,” he scoffs, “I hate when people try to put me in one category.” When asked how he would categorize his own music, Tracy pauses to think: “If I had to had to classify it, it probably would be with a word that doesn’t exist yet.” Perhaps that is the only way to properly define Lil Tracy’s music, since the mixture of influences and sounds range from experimental electro, to trap, all the way to country. 79 on the Billboard Hot 100 last December.ĭespite being a foundational figure of the so-called niche genre emo rap, Lil Tracy is quick to dismiss the label. This is the last song we will ever do together.’” That song was “Awful Things,” which now sits at hundreds of millions of streams per platform, and even peaked at No. He looked me dead in my eyes and said, ‘Bro, please. “I wasn’t sure if I wanted to,” Tracy explains, “but Gus said it would be the biggest thing we’d ever do. Tracy recalls that when the two were still on precarious terms, Peep came to him, asking him to make a song together. “Gus taught me a lot,” he says, “I miss that nigga.” Just months after Lil Tracy left GothBoiClique under circumstances he prefers not to discuss, Lil Peep tragically died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl and Xanax. It’s one of many tattoos Tracy has in tribute to his friend, including a Peep candy in the middle of his forehead, and a bright red anarchy A on his face. “It means ‘Soul of Peep’ in Russian,” he says. Sitting on the roof, Tracy shows off his freshly tattooed knuckles, adorned with Cyrillic script in bold, black ink. Literally the first day we met we recorded “White Tee” and shot the video.” Tracy and Peep laid down some definitive tracks together, releasing a slew of singles alongside their melody-heavy, sample-laden collaborative mixtapes castles and CÅSTLES II. “Never in my life have I connected with someone like that. “The first day I met Peep we made a song without question,” he says. In L.A., he met the late Lil Peep, who would become both his close friend and frequent collaborator. with them, since I knew Wicca Phase before Nedarb knew who I was,” Tracy says. Influenced by Chicago drill as much as they were by early 2000s emo bands, GBC connected through Tumblr and SoundCloud long before they met in person. Once in L.A., Tracy quickly joined the ranks of the GBC (which now houses artists Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, Coldhart, Horse Head, and many others). Nedarb Nagrom, who was already producing for the emo hip-hop collective GothBoiClique, reached out to the young rapper online and invited him to Los Angeles. But his music soon began to gain traction. With no plans for the future, Tracy figured he’d eventually stop living a nomadic lifestyle and go back home. I would go to McDonald’s to charge it, and then record in the tent.” “I used to steal a lot, so I had this shitty ass mic and a Macbook. “I started making music in that tent,” he remembers. Perhaps it was this rejection of authority that led teenage Tracy to choose to move out and live with a group of friends in a tent in a Virginian forest, where he kicked off his musical career. You either work, you’re military, or you get shot or something.” Passionately involved in skateboarding and graffiti, Tracy describes his childhood as one full of rebellion. “Virginia is just boring as fuck,” he laughs. Even though he found himself back and forth between two homes, Tracy spent the majority of his upbringing in Virginia Beach. “Whenever I’d get in trouble, my mom would send me to Seattle, and when I would get in trouble there, I’d get sent back to Virginia,” he says. His father headed to Seattle, and Tracy and his mom moved to Virginia Beach.
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