Ohio-born Trippie Redd has risen to the highest of the rap totem pole with a harmonious mix of rock croons over his evolving hip-hop manufacturing picks. At first of this 12 months, Trippie lastly delivered ‘the rock album’ he’s at all times promised his followers, a brand new model of final 12 months’s ‘Pegasus’.

The discharge, ‘Neon Shark Vs Pegasus’, which was billed as “offered by Travis Barker” of Blink-182, showcased two clashing sides of Trippie’s different strategy to rap music: ‘Neon Shark’ epitomised his guitar-ridden punk aspect, and ‘Pegasus’ his emo-rap sound. On ‘Journey At Knight’, he explodes the idea, letting his internal baby run free. Rampant, chaotic and high-octane, this album sees the 22-year-old embrace the colorful manufacturing of hyper-pop.

One of the best instance of this (and arguably the spotlight of this report) is the wrestler-referencing ‘Matt Hardy 999’. It’s clearly a celebration not solely of Trippie’s wordplay, but additionally of the simple creativity exemplified by his late peer Juice WRLD. It’s their fourth posthumous collaboration collectively – and so they by no means miss. Over the wheezing synths and fried 808s, the 2 train their braggadocio completely, their back-to-back strategy meshing stunning, as one appears to randomly decide up from the opposite: “Asking if I like her, I informed her ‘hardly’ / Leaping off the highest rope on that bitch like Matt Hardy”.

The remainder of the album is satisfying, however not as memorable as that observe. There’s an amazing function from Detroit’s underground hitmaker Sada Child on ‘Captain Crunch’, however even that tune makes you assume: what occurred to ‘Betrayal’, the Drake collaboration teased on-line? The album’s lowest level is ‘Danny Phantom’. The tune first was launched on SoundCloud weeks after the passing of the scene’s chief, XXXTentacion, and earned combined critiques from their each artist’s fandoms, particularly when Migos’ Quavo randomly ended up on it. Now Trippie’s reprised the mediocre observe into the hyper-pop theme, becoming pre-existing vocals onto the electrocuted rap beat.

‘Journey At Knight’, like most of the rapper’s different tasks, is an uneven affair that implies an absence of high quality management. Most report in his bulging again catalogue are inclined to boast a handful of knockout tracks that preserve his identify within the zeitgeist, however – excluding 2018’s ‘!’ and 2019’s ‘Life’s A Journey’ – don’t are inclined to reward repeat listens. With 4 albums, 4 mixtapes, eight EPs and two deluxe editions to his identify since 2016, you would like he’d decelerate and give attention to longevity.