Trippie Redd

Trippie Redd represents a class of young rappers less interested in crafting the perfect monument to their ideas than jacking you directly into their creative brains, approaching the fluid pace of the internet as a content delivery system with hustle and zeal. “I go in regardless of whether I’m inspired or not,” he told Apple Music about the studio. “Even when I don’t feel like working, I try and work.” You can feel it in his music, too: Jump into a Trippie Redd project—whether a proper album or his A Love Letter to You mixtape series—and you’ll hear a sound that veers from depressive, emo-influenced trap to streamlined R&B. Trippie was born Michael Lamar White in Canton, Ohio, in 1999. After his older brother died in a car accident in 2014, he took refuge in music, releasing a flurry of EPs into the digital slipstream. By the end of 2017, he’d racked up a series of increasingly high-profile collaborations, breaking through to the mainstream with the Travis Scott-featuring “Dark Knight Dummo”. Then, in 2018, he released his debut album, LIFE’S A TRIP. While interspersing more of his Love Letter mixtapes over the years, he followed with several more full-lengths, including 2023’s Saint Micheel. And 2024 saw the rapper join forces with fellow Ohioan mgk for the brooding EP genre : sadboy.