There’s a grainy video for the track, too, with Peep lip-syncing it on a streetcorner. And rather than going in hard over the track, the way some rappers do, Peep goes deep into his muttery, slightly nü-metal singing style. The song has a classically hiccuping, zoned-out Clams beat.
And on “4 Gold Chains,” they evidently found a near-exact midway point between their two aesthetics. Both Peep and Clams got famous for making moody, dark, obsessive rap songs - songs that stretch the boundaries of what rap even is. In a lot of ways, the combination makes perfect sense. This past weekend, the song debuted at Miami’s Rolling Loud festival. It’s a collaboration with Clams Casino, the New Jersey-born producer of gothic, tripped-out rap soundscapes.īefore his death, Peep teased the Clams Casino collab “4 Gold Chains” on social media. And now, another posthumous Lil Peep track has seen the light of day.
Since then, a few of Peep’s collaborations, including tracks with Marshmello and with the team of Juicy J and Wiz Khalifa, have come out. Last year, the Long Island-born emo-rap innovator Lil Peep died of an accidental overdose at the age of 21.
