Lil Peep & XXXTentacion's Posthumous Collab 'Falling Down' Released

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Lil Peep and XXXTentacion's posthumous collaboration has been released. "Falling Down," which was co-written by I Love Makonnen, dropped on Wednesday (September 19), ten months after Peep's fatal overdose and three months after X's tragic murder.

While fans were initially skeptical of the track's authenticity — many wondered how coincidental it was that two now-deceased rappers made a song together before their deaths — Makonnen set the record straight about the song's organic creation on Wednesday.

"It came together from me and Lil Peep's session in London when we were working on our album there," Makonnen explained to XXL. "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."

"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," he added. "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."

On Tuesday (September 19), ahead of "Falling Down's" release, X's mother, Cleopatra Bernard told fans the track was "from peep's mom and I... enjoy." 

As previously reported, X, who was only 20-years-old, was gunned down outside a motorsports store in Deerfield Beach, Florida on June 18.  Peep, who was 21-years-old, was found dead before his scheduled concert in Tucson, Arizona after overdosing on fentanyl and generic Xanax.

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