Trippie Redd Hits All the Notes
Esquire US|October - November 2022
The Ohio MC helped bring SoundCloud rap to the top of the charts. Now he's back with the final and most chaotic installment of his Love Letter mixtape series.
By John Norris
Trippie Redd Hits All the Notes

When the dreadlocked, face-tatted artist with the raspy voice and penchant for good-natured trolling broke big in 2017, many wrote Trippie Redd off as another big-talking quick hit in the mercurial world of young rap. Five years later-after a string of top-five albums, armfuls

of platinum singles, and collaborations with giants including Drake, Lil Wayne, and his late friends the generational avatars XXXTentacion and Juice WRLDRedd's doubters have been silenced. At 23, he is a Gen Z music essential. Now he's going back to the series that started it all: A Love Letter to You 5 is expected to drop in October.

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