Honestly I wish that I had any interest in rap outside of Post Malone and anything made past 2007 when I was a teenager (despite not being part of the age bracket that was old enough to appreciate the latter in the height of its popularity).
I think I would have had an easier time in high school had I had any interest in Lil Peep (or Juice WRLD, or XXXTentacion). But of course since they were wildly popular with the popular kids in school, I refused to have anything to do with the music because I didn't want to associate myself in any way with those twats. They barely understood the music as it was and just thought it was about having as much sex as often as possible, partying, and glorifying all the most horrendous parts of addiction... including watching all your friends overdose and die while you're too high to realize what's happening.
They all thought
"man"
"that's the life I want to have"
"just too high to care"
"and everyone thinks I'm cool for being on too much lean, xanax, and cocaine to care"
It is horrifying not medically being able to care. It feels like being trapped in a cage, but anything outside that cage scares the shit out of you. And they wanted that. Not in the warning signs of someone potentially being an addict one day, but in the way of a dumb kid who's gonna go out and buy coke but end up dead and alone, abandoned by their friends at a house party because it was cut with enough fentanyl to kill a horse.
I just hope that none of them end up doing that, as angry as their misinterpretations and glorification of addiction made me. Nobody deserves to become addicts, and no one deserves to overdose.
I'd rather they have grown up to become dickheads rather than not grow up at all.