8 years ago today, Lil Peep released “nineteen” thoughts on this track?
📹: @m2gh2 | prod. @smokeasac
“Nineteen” is the ninth track from Lil Peep’s 2016 mixtape, crybaby. He talks about his life as a 19 year old and how he doesn’t want to lose this girl, even though they are both going through a lot.
This is also the song that gave Lil Peep his record deal with label First Access Entertainment, after an executive was shown it by an employee. - Genius annotations
Smokeasac speaking on this track:
We recorded Nineteen shortly after I moved to LA, and Peep was living around the area at the time. I sent him the beat for Nineteen while I was still couch hopping. We found out that we lived nearby. I was aware of a local show in Whittier and got him on the line up so we could meet in person and perform Nineteen together. We performed the show to a crowd of about 5 people and he still performed his heart out as if it was a stadium show and everyone could just feel the raw emotion. We spent a few hours after the show talking and he was so excited about the song that he said that it would be one of his first songs to break a million streams and take him to the next level, and he was completely right about it. After that we spoke on a daily basis and continued to keep working together as we grew to become best friends.