“You know it’s fucked when the pain feel nice” are the first words you hear on LIL PEEP; PART ONE, the debut official mixtape from Gustav Åhr, better-known as Lil Peep. Then a teenager with a broken heart tattooed under his left eye, he wrote and recorded the project in his bedroom at his mom’s house on Long Island. By the time of its release in September 2015, he was blowing up on SoundCloud for his breakthrough hit “Star Shopping,” uploaded the month before. It was the dawn (and the peak) of SoundCloud’s emo-rap era, a movement whose downcast beats and despairing lyrics continue to echo through mainstream rap today. But if anyone embodied the style at its most potent, it was Peep, whose heartbreak and passion seemed to bleed through his songs. Just before the project’s nine-year anniversary, Peep’s estate announced that PART ONE—the project through which the rapper’s day-one fans fell in love with him—would at last be rereleased. Across its 11 remarkably cohesive tracks, it’s clear the 18-year-old artist knew exactly who he was: a hopeless romantic (emphasis on hopeless) with a profoundly nihilistic worldview through the cracks of which the odd ray of light occasionally pierced. “My flow go perfect with a sad beat,” he chants on “veins”—specifically slowed, reverb-drenched rock samples that set a perfectly wallowy mood for shutting the curtains and sleeping through the day. “The light’s real bright, and the noise rings in my head,” he sings on “its me,” capturing the dread of the come-down. To hear him wonder, on “shame on u,” “What if life comes after death?” is almost too heartbreaking to bear. Yet seven years after his passing, his legacy lives on.