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. It features production by American record producer Clams Casino and was released on May 14, 2018, by

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and

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. It was named a "Best new track" by

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. The song is the rapper's second posthumous single as the lead artist, following up his

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collaboration "

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" from January of the same year.

Release and promotion

Lil Peep released a teaser video on his official

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account on May 28, 2017, featuring a snippet of the song with the caption " clams casino". Peep continued to tease the collaboration with Clams Casino on his

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account on November 15, 2017, saying it was "next". On May 10, 2018, Casino posted an image of Peep's aforementioned tweet on his

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, hinting that the song would soon be released. A clip of the music video was posted on Peep's Instagram account the next day, also revealing the song's release date. On May 13, the song and music video were premiered by American singer-songwriter, and close friend of Peep's,

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, while performing at the

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Music Festival in

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Music video

A music video was released on May 13, 2018, to accompany the release of the track. It was filmed in May 2017 in

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in one shot, directed by Peep himself and videographer Heavy Rayn, and edited by Mezzy. Peep loved the idea of one-shot videos and also shot the music video for "When I Lie" from the then unreleased EP ''

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'' while on tour in

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in one take.

References

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