iLoveMakonnen Shares New Song With Lil Peep: Listen

iLoveMakonnen has shared a brand new music with Lil Peep known as “Sunlight on Your Skin.” It’s an earlier model of the XXXTentacion collaboration “Falling Down,” which was launched final week. Listen to the monitor beneath.

Lil Peep / iLoveMakonnen: “Sunlight on Your Skin” (by way of SoundCloud)

In an interview with XXL, Makonnen stated that he and Peep wrote “Sunlight on Your Skin” collectively in London in 2017. “My manager called me one day when me and Lil Peep were in the hotel and was asking what we were doing,” he stated. “And it was like, ‘Nothing, it’s raining. You know we’re just chillin’.’ And he’s like, ‘OK, well go write a song about the rain.’ And so were like, ‘OK, let’s go do that,’ and me and Lil Peep started working on that.”

Makonnen additionally defined what he perceives because the distinction between “Sunlight on Your Skin” and “Falling Down”: “The difference is that me and Peep’s version is we were kinda talking to each other, answering each other. X’s version is kinda, it’s the same, but kind of honoring and bigging up Peep. It was a tribute type of thing, and I’m being a part of the song. X did his parts after Peep passed away.”

Read “What Lil Peep Meant to Me—And Maybe to You” on the Pitch.