What up gang.
Back with the real you know what’s the deal. Emo rap has become a popular sub-genre of hip hop with icons like the late XXXTentacion and JuiceWlrd taking it to new heights of within the world.
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With both the icons gone due to tragic incidents, they left the rest up to their homie Trippe Redd who has grown to be the next Emo rap artist topping the charts.
But success comes at a heavy price, one that is now haunting Trippe Redd. There has been an attempt on his life with his tour bus being shot up, and speculations are leading down two lanes; his beefs are escalating from fists to guns or he’s another victim of the industry sacrifice. Today we’re going to break it down and chop it up and give the details. You’d let me know in the comments which you believe nearly claimed his life.
Trippe has been on a high lately. The rapper has climbed in sales with each album release. He scored his first No. 1 project with 2019’s “A Love Letter to You 4”
But his most recent album “Trip At Knight” led to events that almost claimed his life.
On September 7th, early Tuesday morning, news reports hit online about a possible assassination attempt on Trippie Redd. He was on the Baltimore stop off for his Tripp At Knight tour when shots sprayed up his tour bus after the show https://youtu.be/e66xJC9Y8fE
Police reports state that the shooting happened after Trippie Redd’s performance at the MECU Pavilion, where his entourage was on the way to the airport around 3am. Authorities state that while travelling on the MD 295 in the area of Interstate 195, a whip pulled up and the driver sent shots flying through the tour bus, injuring the bus driver.
Reports went on to state that Maryland 295 was shut down in the area of Nursery Road until about 9:20 a.m. while crime scene investigators canvassed the scene, but has since reopened.
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/driver-passenger-tour-bus-shot-anne-arundel-county/37499103
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2021/09/07/bus-driver-shot-on-b-w-parkway/
Trippie has yet to comment on the situation but luckily, he wasn’t hurt and the bus driver is in stable condition. But Trippie by the most part seems like a good dude, so what or why would anyone try to do anything that could jeopardize his life? Well, this is where things go sideways. Even if he’s now successful and riding the wave to the top, Trippie has a tainted past. He has ties to the bloods and often can be heard repping his set https://youtu.be/mTdFeHSmvtE (4:04-4:09) He also broke down that his first tattoo with the number “14” on his head and about his body has a dual meaning, one of which symbolizes his gang ties to his home area 14 street. This became the point where him and his homies formed 1400 gang, though he claims they changed their ways now that he’s on to bigger things https://youtu.be/De5yfQyLk2w (0:46-1:05)
Beside his gang ties, he has also been on the wrong side of the law. In 2018 he was arrested twice. First along with his homie and rapper Lil Wop
after they got into an altercation with ATL rapper FDM Grady
As always, it was reported that this all started about a girl, Grady’s girl to be exact. FDM Grady stated that Trippe disrespected his shawty. Grady stated that he pulled the strap on Trippie but wanted to handle it like real men and put the gun down. That’s when Trippie, Wop and 2 other homies jumped him and gave him a universal beat down leaving him bruised up and with a split lip https://youtu.be/-q4uUYy3UgI (0:00-0:25) https://youtu.be/NAdZhpl2EVg Trippie Redd and Wop were booked on 2 misdemeanor charges for fighting and criminal trespass, with Trippie also being charged with simple battery.
https://www.tmz.com/2018/05/30/rappers-lil-wop-trippie-redd-arrested-fighting-atlanta/
Just a month after posting bond, he was arrested yet again in Atlanta, this time for allegedly pistol whipping a shawty to the noggin. The girl’s account states that she went to Trippie’s homie crib with a friend, but she had beef with Trippie’s homie and wasn’t welcomed at the crib. She states she got into it with the girl and Trippie’s homie before Trippie came running down and that’s when he slang the iron to her head https://youtu.be/6mysbnpT00c (0:08-0:36) He was charged with battery and aggravated assault https://www.cbs46.com/news/rapper-trippie-redd-accused-of-hitting-woman-over-head-with-gun/article_37d523a0-d72e-5be7-be6b-1bf178dad811.html
Slowly his list of enemies was growing and the likelihood of someone wanting to get back was increasing. He was finding success, but Trippie’s street mentality kept getting in the way. He would partner with close friend 6ix9ine to drop the viral song “POLES1469” in April 2017 https://youtu.be/Abm2b07XFYM The two was signed to the same label and seemed to be the duo on the rise. That quickly went sideways when reports of 6ix9ine’s pedophilia charge became public. Trippie not endorsing anything of the sort posted a vid cutting all ties with 6ix9ine https://youtu.be/9vU4r6aiD0I That beef escalated way further than anyone thought. Even Akademics had to pull the label heads aside and try get them to stop feeding into the beef for sales because it was deeper than simply rap and if they went on tour together it would end in stabbings and gunshots https://youtu.be/yhhbmBvD3Zg (22:58-23:47) And he just might have been right because guess what? A girl was in between their beef, and we know once a shawty gets involved, then bodies start dropping. Trippie was with a shawty named Ayleks https://youtu.be/-1fiFX0KPpQ (2:20-2:31)
They would have a falling out and stopped linking. That’s when 6ix9nine being the troll he is dropped a bomb that would hit any man’s pride. He posted up a clip in bed with Ayleks herself https://youtu.be/2DrOTDElTLg The two were later seen on a regular basis on 6ix9ine’s live taunting Trippie https://youtu.be/FyYv0nDduao Trippie Redd took the bait and was ready to go to war, pulling up to 6ix9ine’s moms spot with the strap and wishing death on both his mother and daughter https://youtu.be/mTdFeHSmvtE (1:45-1:55) https://youtu.be/7BCeKpe6e98 (0:31-0:37)
Many automatically began pointing the finger at 6ix9ine as the one that orchestrated the hit on Trippie’s life on the tour bus, but given his now bad reputation as a rat and basically an outcast from many street dudes wanting his head, it’s more likely to be another of his beefs that actually nearly ended in gunfire once, FDM Grady. Rumors began circulating that Grady never let it slide, even after banning Trippie from Atlanta https://youtu.be/-q4uUYy3UgI (0:10-0:19) With Trippie’s highly publicized tour which has all his movements basically in the open air was the perfect opportunity to get back his revenge.
But there’s one more angle that is being theorized as the cause for his near downfall. While things with him and his opps was escalating from online to physical altercation, he was about to have a fight on the spiritual front for his life. It’s long been rumored that the industry and fame often come with persons selling their souls to get ahead, whether through the illusive organization illuminati, or other dark means. I did a video speaking on that earlier on, I’ll link it in the description for you to check out, it’d open your eyes to a lot of dark clouds in the industry.
Trippie was already associated to being a pawn for the devil due to his persona, lifestyle and tattoos like the one along his forearm with demons with the words “demons at play” https://youtu.be/Daa_uTCtWZs (3:36-3:39) He also held a close relationship with another rapper heavily suspected of having sold his soul, the late XXXtentacion
Him and Trippie would fall out when X began beefing with Drake and Trippie was a fan of Drizzy. X would go the low road and start linking with his opp 6ix9ine to get back at Trippie and that soured their friendship https://youtu.be/6whQ0t9RHy0 (1:13-1:45) X had a way of losing the friends close to him due to his apparent dark lifestyle. Once close homie Ski Mask The Slump God distanced himself for fear of his life and his family after X threatened to sacrifice him along with his loved ones
X himself has also admitted to his demonic energy ties https://youtu.be/3ZPbVsSPl-A (0:20-0:27) and has referenced the devil many times in his songs. In his track titled “I spoke to the devil in Miami, he said everything would be fine” he repeats the words “Anima Vestra,” which means “Evil in my heart/soul.” https://youtu.be/DxvLc2a6Iao Listen to this clip, it’s almost like he knew his soul was no longer his own and could go at any moment https://youtu.be/qzqhXpM2V7w (1:56-2:45) X was a good soul but often felt misunderstood and valued those that saw him for who he is and showed him love. Even when his friendship with Ski Mask went downhill, he reached out desperately trying to patch things back https://youtu.be/D19YIHBsmw4 Many associate his demonic ways into the loss of his life and is now tying it into Trippie’s apparent similar lifestyle and connection with X nearly turning him into a sacrifice as well.
We might have lost many others to rap beef gone bad, and even greats like XXXtentacion that has been plagued with demonic energy until his passing, but I’m glad that this video isn’t one about Trippie Redd suffering any of those fates and that whatever or whoever tried to get at him failed in their attempt. We’re all going through hell in this world, and I just want everyone to see the light and find their way, whether with family, love, or success. Prayers out to Trippie Redd. It seems to be open season on rappers this time around.
Catch you all in the next one. Peace up and peace out.
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Chad is a professional journalist specializing in Hip-Hop culture and writing music reviews.
