Trippie Redd Showcases Vulnerability With 'A Love Letter To You 5' [Review]

If you’re a fan of Trippie Redd there is a high chance you’ve laughed, cried, danced to a song or songs off of his A Love Letter To You series. Trippie doesn’t disappoint on his latest and final effort of the series which spans across 19-tracks.

Trippie pours his heart out from the go as he’s joined by Corbin for 'Take Me Away' for a serenading collaboration across an ethereal production to mark the pairs first collaboration. This bleeds straight into recent single and a personal favourite ‘Last Days’ which captures the overarching themes of the project which consist of love, heartbreak and everything in between.

The album continues to the trip down heartbreak avenue which coasts through various guitar-driven instrumentals and beat breaks that act as a void for Trippie’s layered vocals. 'Thinking Bout You' holds place for Trippie’s fascinating vocal performance to shine as he gives more of an optimistic outlook on his love tale before toning it down again on 'Praying 4 Love'. One of many iconic samples comes on 'Romantic Fantasy' that incorporates a pitched up sample from Ja Rule’s 2000-classic 'Thug Lovin' featuring Bobby Brown.

Well in his emotions by this point, Trippie links up with his childhood idol Lil Wayne - across a beat resembling something off of Weezy’s iconic The Carter 3 album - who blesses us with one of his best verses for a minute. Perhaps one that Trippie has kept safe in the chamber for a while. Marking the centre-piece of the album, Trippie taps up Roddy Ricch for 'Closed Doors' which has all the minerals of a modern-day love song and is destined to be a fan-favourite.

As we reach the final chapters of the project we are flooded with guest features that include The Kid Laroi, Bryson Tiller, Skye Morales and Tommy Lee Sparta on fiery riddim 'Helicopter' incorporating sounds birthed on his recent mission to Jamaica earlier this year. To close the project, he gifts us a trap induced banger with 'Trip McKnight' which is due to go off at forthcoming festival sets at Reading and Leeds. All in all, Trippie doesn’t disappoint and it’s perhaps his best body of work to date at the hands of hand-selected features and his most transparent self.

7/10

Listen to Trippie Redd's new album A Love Letter To You 5 here!