Late emo rapper Lil Peep garnered many fans from the world of rock and metal in his tragically short career – but perhaps one of the most surprising among those is The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, who complimented Peep in a big way in a recent interview. Discussing the band’s ace synthy double-album Cyr and how the band changed things up this time around, Billy revealed to Upset that the record “is the result of us trying to come into the modern world”. As such, the magazine notes that though the Pumpkins didn’t use ‘Lil Peep-inspired beats’ on their latest LP, the frontman believes that Peep was “his generation’s Kurt Cobain”. Read this: Kurt Cobain’s 50 favourite albums While the feature doesn’t go into further details than that, there is of course a co...
