It's a pretty sad display, but there are moments that show it's not hopeless for him. Trippie Redd tries to be a rockstar in Life's A Trip but instead comes off as a wannabe: someone with no identity trying to ride off the death of a fellow artist while riding off the coattails of others in hopes of finding one banger. Trippie Redd simply doesn't have the ability to carry a song by himself yet that has his own unique touch to it. Travis Scott provides the album's single banger with the dynamic ' Dark Knight Dummo,' where he is thankfully the majority of the track. ' How You Feel' is an average track without any ups or downs, though those whispers are pretty weird. His collaboration with Diplo, ' Wish,' provides a nice chill atmosphere and he actually delivers a pretty solid flow. He does make the most of it, though, and while there's no identity there's still at least some passable tracks. The only thing he's got for himself is that awful growl. When he's not trying to be XXXTentacion, he's riding off the coattails of every other trap artists who came before him. Trippie Redd really doesn't have a sound of his own. However, it also reveals that Trippie Redd is clearly just trying to fill the gap of emotional hip-hop that XXXTentacion has left, and doing it less effectively and less genuinely. Closing track ' Underwater FlyZone' thankfully avoids it, for the most part (it's still in there a few times), but actually shows some pain. ' BANG!' is another example of where this weird growl he does doesn't come off as rambunctious or cool it's just dumb, in both sound and execution. His voice is simply so jarring that it is the single factor that often ruins a song.
It completely takes you out of the mood the beat tries to establish. Opening track ' Together' kicks things off smoothly with a nice beat and some carefully autotuned vocals that make for a nice hook, until the end of it where his scratchy, loud annunciation of " forever" is just gross. Trippie Redd tries to be a rockstar in Life's A Trip, but doesn't realize his jarring voice and affinity for drugs doesn't quite serve him the title.įor what it's worth, Trippie Redd attempts to do something different. That misstep aside, Trippie’s confident debut is one of the best by a SoundCloud-cultivated artist to date."Rockstar" has always been an unbinding term, but it seems a lot of artists are using it pretty ambitiously nowadays. In fact, despite some aesthetic similarities to XXX and Lil Peep, Trippie doesn’t really sound like a rapper on Life’s a Trip - except on “Miss My Idols,” a recycling of his XXL Freshman freestyle which perhaps should’ve been made a bonus track. On his own terms 19-year old Trippie Redd has impacted hip-hop culture, being named 'raps next Rockstar' by XXL, Mass Appeal, Pigeons & Planes and Noisey. On “Together,” “How You Feel,” and “Underwater FlyZone,” even the instrumentals have a rock sound. Multi-platinum Ohio rapper & singer Trippie Redd releases his new album Lifes A Trip which includes his latest track 'Taking A Walk' produced by Scott Storch (10K Projects/Caroline). Take his shriek on “Wish” (“ Might just BLOW MY BRAIN”) or his moan on “Dark Knight Dummo” (“ Take a moment, count my guaaaaap”).
The lyrics are trite emo aphorisms (“ I spread my wings / I let them soar”), but just as Trippie’s voice begins to waver, he shouts out, “ I can’t do this anymore!” The tinny high-hat of the 808 stands in for the typical trap drop, and nothing can prepare listeners for the moment when Trippie rips through a rockstar wail of “ BAAAAAAANG / BAAAAAANG!” And halt the clickbait presses - Trippie is kind of a rockstar.
“BANG!,” perhaps the zenith of Life’s a Trip, starts unassuming enough with XXXTentacion-reminiscent guitar arpeggios and plodding, yet delicate, sing-song delivery. The rapper revels in the smear of sonic ugliness he creates, with his inexhaustible, constantly morphing vocalizations. First, the image of “shit” second, comparing haters to said shit (“ shitty n*ggas is some turds”) and, most importantly, a nonsense title like “Bird Shit” gives Trippie an excuse to squawk like a bird as loudly as possible in the ad-lib. You can also upload and share your favorite Trippie Redd desktop Life Is A Trip wallpapers.
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Because the imagery isn’t all that novel, Trippie could come off as another colorful creation of the mumble rap era, but as he asserts on the track “Bird Shit”: “ All that bullshit for the birds.” Like Young Thug, a clear influence on Trippie who’s also featured on Life’s a Trip, words mean less for their potential to provoke representational ideas and more as a means of conjuring emotionally-charged imagery. Tons of awesome Trippie Redd desktop Life Is A Trip wallpapers to download for free. Life’s a Trip, SoundCloud rapper Trippie Redd’s debut album, communicates much through its cover art, which distorts Trippie’s likeness into a revolting disembodied figure surrounded by various freaky/goofy cartoon characters.