With nine tracks featuring at least one other artist, we get a sizable amount of attempts at these defining anthems. While every track attempts to be a banger, Trippie usually needs some star power to turn his untamed energy into what could be a chart-topping hit. Where the bread and butter of this record comes from, is its collaborations. While this record is right there with Trippie’s worst lyrical performances, at least his high energy fixes what’s salvageable. Mosbey, we see some of the most random and derailing quotables in all of hip hop. Bridging his ideas together, we are thrown through the same routine of lyrical hoops that he’s always thrown us through, but his overly gross tangents and awful punchlines end up ruining entire verses and even whole tracks.
With a heavy focus on rapping, we see Trippie show off his full lyrical arsenal, which is the opposite of a good thing. Despite taking heavy inspiration from such a unique artist, it never feels like Trippie is blatantly biting off Carti as his untamed vocal cadence and focus on active in-your-face rapping is quite the opposite of what the 24-year-old visionary has blown up doing. Throughout this experience, there’s clear influence from Playboi Carti as almost the entire soundscape utilizes the same spacey synth patterns seen on records like Whole Lotta Red and Die Lit. While the LP’s 18 tracks definitely could have been cut down to an even smaller number, at the minimum each song feels like it was at least made with some sort of care and inspiration.
With 50 minutes of run time, Trippie Redd is able to make a much more focused experience that’s more consistent in quality and sound.
With his newest album, Trip At Knight, coming after a handful of promising singles, will Trippie Redd deliver the comeback record we’ve been waiting for, or will he plunder into irrelevancy once and for all?
With each new release, the Ohio rapper has gotten worse and worse and with his last two albums, Pegasus and Neon Shark, respectively receiving scores of 2.2 and 1.4 from myself, hopes for a return to form are getting more doubtful by the day. While once a prominent name in trap, Trippie Redd has been one of the most critically panned artists of the past few years.