In this week’s Flyer, I profiled local rapper Don Trip, who signed to Interscope Records earlier this year and recently finished recording his debut album for the label, Help is on the Way.
But Trip has released an enormous amount of self-distributed mixtape music over the past year — by my rough count 8 full-length mixtapes since last August, along with several standalone singles. This is an awful lot of music to wade through, but I’ve given most of it a spin. If you’re new to Trip and intrigued, here’s an entry point — the track list with links for my own “Best of Don Trip” mix. (Needless to say most everything here is probably NSFW):
1. “Letter to My Son” (Crossface Crippler): The game-breaker. A breathtakingly raw and intimate piece of music.
2. “Halloween” (Terminator): Where Trip recounts the call from Diddy that came after “Letter to My Son” started to spread.
3. “Karate in the Garage” (Step Brothers): An early promo selection taken from the “Outtakes” of his recent mixtape collaboration with Nashville MC Starlito is probably the most purely entertaining thing on Step Brothers.
