Lil Peep’s fan-favorite ballad, “Star Shopping,” was re-released on the late rapper’s eponymous imprint on Friday. The track was initially released in 2015, but a copyright issue had rendered it unavailable on most streaming services.
The rapper’s mother, Liza Womack, wrote a statement explaining the reissue of the track.
“Gus actually composed the lyrics to ‘Star Shopping’ on his phone, in his Notes app, on August 16, 2015–right after a trip to Cambridge for his grandfather’s birthday,” she wrote. “The song wasn’t uploaded to SoundCloud until December of that year. That was Gus’s big song, as he got many views and likes on it right away–20k in 24 hours, and over a hundred thousand in a week. He was very excited about that.”
Produced by Kryptik, the song samples “Never Mess With Sunday” by Yppah. Peep previously encountered sample clearance issues due to the heavy use of pop punk and emo music in his songs.
This release comes a week after the revival of Peep’s 2016 track, “Gym Class.” Womack stated that a video for the cult hit would be re-released soon.
“Gus liked ‘Gym Class’ enough to make a video for it,” she said. “He had returned to the Pasadena house he had lived in during the fall/winter of 2014-15, but this time was collaborating with a slew of comrades he had befriended during the winter of 2015-16. He made the ‘Gym Class’ video with his friend and collaborator, Killstation. Killstation recalled that the photos used as overlays for the videos title and frame animations were drawn by Gus–using a sharpie on a paper towel, as there was no paper in their house.”
Womack directed the video for his song, “Runaway,” and she told the behind-the-scenes story on an episode of Framework below:
Listen to the song above and read all the lyrics to Lil Peep’s “Star Shopping” on Genius now.
