“Vibe” pads out the tracklist with a single verse and two hooks as Trippie raps about his wealth and sleeping around. Juice’s verses carry the weight, with Trippie along for the ride. The two rap about robbing people and making bank. “Matt Hardy 999” features the late Juice WRLD. Ski Mask takes Trippie’s edgy pop-culture-focused style and knocks it out of the park. Trippie flexes his street-cred on “Miss The Rage” and “Demon Time,” once again being outshined by fellow rappers Playboi Carti and Ski Mask the Slump God.
“Super Cell” is nearly three minutes of Trippie Redd claiming he’s like every character from anime “Dragon Ball.” It reminded me of Open Mike Eagle‘s fantastic work on Anime, Trauma and Divorce, but this song is a polar opposite of Eagle’s “I’m a JoeStar”-lacking any humor, wit and complexity. At first it seems to be a song about how unfulfilled they feel regardless of that wealth and status, but it quickly devolves into standard flex affair. On “Holy Smokes,” he and Lil Uzi Vert brag about their wealth and influence. “You hit the bitch one time, then you in love/ I had to hit the bitch one time, then I be done/ Shawty looked me in the eyes and sucked the end of my gun/ That moment forward, I knew she was the one,” he raps.
It’s inoffensive but bland with euphemisms and contradictory messaging. “Finish Line” finds Trippie infatuated with a woman who sleeps with him despite her general disinterest. In the first of many moments, he’s outperformed by the featured artist (this time by SoFaygo). Trippie Redd delivers some terrible bars like, “Yeah, you - squared, divide ’em by pi.” Math. “MP5” has a late 2000s or early 2010s vibe, sounding like something The Black Eyed Peas would’ve rapped over back in the day. He takes a shot at Rick Ross, who infamously rapped about doing that. Trippie raps about crushing up and dissolving the drug while making it explicitly clear he isn’t drugging the women around him.
It’s like reading a page out of “Ready Player One,” with Trippie name-dropping all the things he grew up watching, such as “Suite Life of Zack & Cody,” “Dragon Ball Z,” “Rick and Morty,” “Danny Phantom,” Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Transformers,” “iCarly” and “Phineas & Ferb.”Cool shows, but there’s no effort to create a clever bar using wordplay, scheming or punchlines. His metaphors are uninspired many are ham-fisted references to television. He rambles incoherently from song to song with little distinct focus to be found. The lyricism of Trippie Redd is easily the worst part here.
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