Trippie Redd - Romeo & Juliet

Music 4 years ago

Trippie Redd - Romeo & Juliet

Trippie Redd returns to form, but is it enough?

Trippie Redd’s debut mixtape, A Love Letter to You, was a shrill, agonized post-mortem of teenage love. Uninhibited histrionics and grandiose promises of forever— a corpse that wouldn’t be left to rest. And it came at the perfect moment.

Lil Uzi Vert had primed the radios for fried vocal melodies, and Trippie Redd’s dozens of SoundCloud peers were making emo angst palatable again. What followed was an ascent that, even by SoundCloud standards, was explosive and unpredictable.

By the end of the year Trippie Redd had hopscotched from Internet hits with XXXTentacion, to radio hits with Travis Scott, to a tour with G-Eazy.