! (Trippie Redd album)

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!
Trippie Redd - !.png
Studio album by
Trippie Redd
ReleasedAugust 9, 2019
Recorded2018–2019 [1]
Genre Emo rap
Length38:22
Label
Producer
Trippie Redd chronology
A Love Letter to You 3
(2018)		!
(2019)		 A Love Letter to You 4
(2019)
Singles from  !
  1. "Under Enemy Arms"
    Released: May 29, 2019
  2. "Mac 10"
    Released: July 24, 2019

! is the second studio album by American rapper Trippie Redd. It was released on August 9, 2019, by TenThousand Projects and Caroline Records. [2] The album features appearances from Diplo, The Game, Lil Duke, Lil Baby and Coi Leray. The album also originally included the song "They Afraid of You" (featuring Playboi Carti), but was removed from streaming services just six days after its release, on August 15th, 2019. [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 59/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Pitchfork 5.5/10 [7]

! was met with mixed reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 59, which indicates "mixed or average reviews", based on 6 reviews. [8]

Rachel Aroesti of The Guardian described the album as "compelling but contradictory emo-rap", noting lyrical contradictions and concluding it "is doubtless part of the genre's forward march – but it's hard to get past the sense that White has sacrificed a coherent artistic identity in the name of progress." [6] Writing for Pitchfork , Andy O'Connor wrote that the "songs touch on being true to oneself at all costs, but these half-baked lessons land flat since Redd himself doesn't really have an identity, musical or otherwise", further commenting, "Most of what happens here couldn't even realistically be considered rapping", calling the verses "dull and unimaginative on top of being restrictive in form" and "nonsense bars". O'Connor concluded that "the most enjoyable moments feel like controlled chaos. Redd [...] does at least sound more composed. That's to his credit as a person but it's not to his advantage as an artist." [7]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 with 51,000 album-equivalent units, of which 7,000 were pure album sales in its first week. [9]

Track listing

Credits adapted from Apple Music. [10]

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."!"
2:15
2."Snake Skin"
  • White
  • Adrian Rupke
  • Matthew Crabtree
  • Hammad Beats
  • MTK
3:06
3."Be Yourself"
3:16
4."I Try"
 Chopsquad DJ 2:41
5."Immortal" (featuring The Game)
  • Hammad Beats
  • MTK
3:24
6."Throw It Away"
  • White
  • Yildirim
  • Ryan Martinez
  • Bryan Yepes
  • OZ
  • G. Ry
  • Bryvn
2:45
7."Keep Your Head Up"
3:23
8."Riot"
  • KD33
  • Stemberger
3:13
9."Mac 10" (featuring Lil Baby and Lil Duke)
2:07
10."Everything BoZ" (featuring Coi Leray)
  • Hammad Beats
  • MTK
3:25
11."Under Enemy Arms"
  • White
  • Rupke
  • Crabtree
  • Hammad Beats
  • MTK
2:42
12."Lil Wayne"
  • OZ
  • Nils
1:42
13."Signing Off"
  • White
  • Ryan Bogan
Staccato2:05
Total length:36:11

Notes

Charts

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