MANSION MUSIK – Trippie Redd (album)

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Trippie Redd’s new album is a bit underwhelming.

Jack Lucania, Staff Writer

Country perspective: You couldn’t pay me to play this album again. I shamefully lost over an hour of my life listening to it, and Trippie Redd lost a profusion of them.

The best way to describe Trippie’s most recent project is overwhelmingly underwhelming. Despite its title, I found it hard to imagine myself listening to it inside a mansion and, quite honestly, anywhere else in this ever-expanding universe.

Between the struggle to get through the 25-song (76-minute) tracklist in one sitting to the literal flushing-toilet-bowl sound effects, this album is, for lack of a better term, shit. For anyone interested in Trippie’s catalog, I’d urge you to stay far away from this project and rather listen to some of his earlier albums, such as “A Love Letter to You3” or his more recent “Neon Shark vs. Pegasus.”

This felt like horrible fan fiction of how Trippie Redd would’ve made Playboi Carti’s “Whole Lotta Red” as Trippie took a DJ Khalid role by saying two words and letting a random feature picked from a hat labeled “Wikipedia search results for 2010’s rappers” finish the rest of the track.

Highlights of the album 

  1. GOODFELLAS

 

This is the only song that sounds like the vocals weren’t mixed by a two-year-old. It has some cool bars sprinkled throughout, but aggressive and unbalanced baselines often overshadow them. Nardo Wick’s verse was very lackluster. His feature only provided some good ad-libs to Trippie’s mid-verses.

2. PURE

The energy Trippie and G-Herbo brought to this track were much more balanced than the rest of the album. The whistles occasionally replacing the hi-hats work well to add more personality to the bland, repetitive production. 

3. DARK BROTHERHOOD

Lil Baby has been known to turn anything he touches to gold, so having him on this track was a bit of a cheap shot on Trippie’s part. Nonetheless, Lil Baby’s verse was decent, adding just enough to make up for Trippie’s mediocre performance. 

Artist Performance: 2.5/10

Trippie sounded like a bad feature on every single one of the songs on this album. He brought occasional bars with a whole lot of filler to send to an artist whose name he wanted on the song.

Production: 4.3/10

I only wish these beats were spared from Trippie’s attempts at different sounds because some of this product has potential. Then again, if I heard each instrument side-by-side, I would not be able to distinguish the end of one and the beginning of the next.

Replay Value: 1.7/10

None of these songs made any of my playlists, and there are a couple of songs that I would listen to again. It didn’t feel enough like a cohesive album, but rather a playlist of tracks that sound the same.

Overall: 2.8/10