Lil Peep Flips A Bed Sheet Into A Green Screen In Creative Everybody's Everything Clip

In a new clip from Lil Peep’s new documentary Everybody’s Everything, a bed sheet is the breakout character. The magnetic late rapper is there, needless to say, performing “Repair,” his group effort with (who would come to be) one of his closest companions BEXEY. Yet beyond Peep, this olive green spread covers 80 percent of the wall, and yes it takes a second to realize its purpose.


“When he sent clips through, he had the dustiest green screen,” BEXEY says in a cutaway interview, grinning, as well as revealing that he used green cardboard for his own scenes. “We didn’t know what we were doing. You could visualize the green line around us If I edited it.” Sitting beside BEXEY is Rayn, a videographer and another Peep collaborator. “It was brilliant, right now that you look back at it,” he says, reminiscing.


The short scene isn’t more than 30 seconds, yet Everybody's Everything directors Sebastian Jones and Ramez “Mezzy” Silyan included it because it goes beyond the veil to show Peep’s drive and creativity long before he became a household name. “He was going to prepare it work with whichever he had – whether it was a shitty VHS camera, bed sheet, or something else,” Mezzy tells MTV News over the phone. “You don’t really know what folks are working with any time making music, and each person might assume that you have access to more resources than you do. It’s astonishing to be able to see his lack of resources.”


At heart, Everybody’s’ Everything is a documentary about context. Lil Peep’s rapid public ascent from 2015 up until his 2017 death nevertheless he’d been seriously making music for four years) brought along a fascination immediately after everything was already congealed, missing out on the journey from the bottom to the best. His music was a roller coaster of bleeding emotion, not identifiable as any particular genre nevertheless containing shades of countless at the same time.


“He’s not the opening person to combine rock and hip-hop, however he was the opening person to combine characteristic of emo, screams, and trap music in a way that sounded so effortless,” Jones says. “It wasn’t chemically concocted in a lab to please those audiences; he took characteristic of what he fancied and made it work.”


“Repair” is one of these early records that contains the sound that Lil Peep place on Earth Gustav Åhr and referred to as “Gus” to companions) would grow more comfortable with over the course of his brief career. It was thick and rough, lo-fi in a way that was naked and truthful. So it makes sense that the video was similarly bare — costless although creative. “It shows the DIY attitude that he continued to stay the course of his career,” says Jones. “It also shows exactly how much work was getting done from his bedroom in Long Island.”


“Seeing that beyond the scenes moment of Gus with the green sheet, it takes you there in a way,” Mezzy says. “It sort of warms you, putting you in that specific mind place because you’re approaching it from this angle.”


The clip also specifics a larger message that Everybody’s Everything works to tell, that cash and access aren’t the only ways to be authentic to your creative self. Authenticity and real creativity come from indoor your skull. “It was fantastic seeing all these examples, music videos, and in back of the scenes footage that showed that he couldn’t be any more true than how he already was,” Mezzy says. “There’s nothing that should stop you if you’re attempting to prepare something.”


Everybody's Everything hits theaters on Friday, November 15 – an album of the same name also comes out the same day – immediately after a special one-night-only advance screening for fans on Tuesday. Check out an exclusive clip from the film above.