Indulgent, polished and deeply personal, Trippie Redd’s debut studio is a course correction. Life’s a Trip succeeds by placing Redd’s narrative at its core and leaning into the inventive melodies that initially put the young rapper on the map.
Trippie’s experimentations and genre-blending on Life’s a Trip has to be appreciated (seeing as it eventually will breed a better-rounded artist).
Life’s a Trip is stuffed with forced production choices that impair Trippie’s over-the-top voice from hitting all of its quirks. It’s clear Trippie needs more time to develop his sound and iron out a direction that doesn’t feel like a detour.
Life's a Trip has some surprisingly beautiful highlights, but Trippie Redd's lyrics, song structures, and vocal consistency are still lacking overall.
This record has some excellent highlights, but sadly they get drowned out by some incredibly average cuts. This seems to be the problem with most of his projects. The album suffers from a huge drop-off in quality after track 5.
Favorite tracks: Taking A Walk, Wish, Forever Ever, Dark Knight Dummo, UKA UKA
Least favorite: BANG!
Realistically it deserves an 80/100 but it's so damn fun to listen to. The replay value makes me add 5. These songs aged so well.
Fav tracks: all of them but Shake It Up and Oopms revenge.
Trippie's first studio album is pretty good. His vocals are good. Production is better than his previous work. A lot of hits on here. Features were great.
Fav Tracks: Taking A Walk, Wish, Missing My Idols, Forever Ever, Dark Knight Dummo, Shake It Up, Oomps Revenge
1 | Together 2:44 | 63 |
2 | Taking a Walk 2:01 | 80 |
3 | Diplo - Wish (Trippie Mix) 2:56 feat. Trippie Redd | 84 |
4 | Missing My Idols 2:26 | 72 |
5 | Forever Ever 3:57 feat. Young Thug, Reese Laflare | 82 |
6 | Bird Shit 3:48 | 63 |
7 | BANG! 4:43 | 74 |
8 | How You Feel 4:34 | 83 |
9 | Dark Knight Dummo 4:16 feat. Travis Scott | 91 |
10 | UKA UKA 2:44 | 73 |
11 | Shake It Up 1:56 | 70 |
12 | Oomps Revenge 2:00 | 77 |
13 | Gore 2:42 | 74 |
14 | Underwater FlyZone 5:48 | 88 |