Listen to XXXTentacion and Lil Peep’s song “Falling Down.”
Last month, ILoveMakonnen announced that he would be releasing a posthumous collaboration featuring Lil Peep and XXXTentacion titled “Falling Down.” Today, the new track, which has been co-written by Makonnen, finally arrives.
Prior to the songs release, Makonnen posted the following message – thanking XXX and Peep’s mothers for their support, “I posted a few weeks ago about how much it meant to me to know that this song I co-wrote with @lilpeep inspired @xxxtentacion to want to jump on and add some verses. Incredibly excited for y’all to hear it tomorrow. Thank you for supporting and thank you @kathrynhollowoak and @cleo_ohsojazzy !”
While speaking to XXL, ILoveMakonnen explained how Falling Down came together, “It came together from me and Lil Peep’s session in London when we were working on our album there. My manager called me one day when me and Lil Peep were in the hotel and was asking what we were doing. And it was like, “Nothing, it’s raining. You know we’re just chillin.” And he’s like, “Okay, well go write a song about the rain.” And so were like, “Okay, let’s go do that” and me and Lil Peep started working on that.”
“We wrote the hook in the hotel, then went to the studio and laid the hook down on the track. We did it with a whole bunch of other songs in London, me and Lil Peep. Kinda semi-finished it, but we never really fully finalized it. I guess like a month or so later he was playing it online, on Instagram Live or something.Then some fans had stripped a snippet and uploaded it to YouTube.”
“And then X had heard the snippet on YouTube and he wanted to be a part of it and he recorded some parts to it. [X] ended up passing away, and his mom and his family were reaching out to Peep’s management and everybody saying the song was something that [X] was very passionate about before he passed and he would really like to be a part of this and [asked] if we could make this happen.”
“So I was like, “Sure.” That’s what me and Peep were making music for, to bring people together. You know, what art does, X was another artist as well. We’re all on the same mission of just wanting to make good music. That’s hopefully what we did with this record.”
Listen to Falling Down below.
