Trippie Redd

Michael Lamar White II, known professionally as Trippie Redd, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Born and raised in Canton, Ohio, he has contributed to the progression of emo rap and rage, a subgenre of trap music.

From Canton, Ohio's SoundCloud underground to mainstream recognition, Trippie Redd emerged as a defining voice of emo rap's explosive run through the late 2010s, channeling melodic vulnerability over trap production on albums like *LIFE'S A TRIP* and *Pegasus*. His connection to Lil Peep positioned him at the heart of a movement that weaponized introspection and distortion as genre staples, though his prolific output—six studio albums in five years—sometimes obscured his strongest material beneath bloated tracklists. Signed to Alamo Records under the Interscope umbrella, Trippie's influence lingers less in chart dominance than in legitimizing the intersection of singing and rapping for a generation of SoundCloud artists who rejected rap's traditional gatekeeping.