| ! | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Trippie Redd |
| Cover: | Trippie Redd - !.png |
| Alt: | Trippie Redd's face in clouds, some of which being in the shape of his face, with a red exclamation mark underneath. |
| Released: | August 9, 2019 |
| Recorded: | 2018–2019[1] |
| Genre: | Emo rap |
| Length: | 38:22 |
| Label: |
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| Prev Title: | A Love Letter to You 3 |
| Prev Year: | 2016 |
| Next Title: | A Love Letter to You 4 |
| Next Year: | 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 featured Playboi Carti, on the song "They Afraid of You". The song was mysteriously removed from streaming services just six days after its release, on August 15th, 2019.[3]
! 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.
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." 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."
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.[4]
Credits adapted from Apple Music.[5]
Notes
| Chart (2019) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Estonian Albums (IFPI)[7] | 16 | |
| Latvian Albums (LAIPA)[8] | 11 | |
| Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)[9] | 25 | |
| US Billboard 200 | 3 | |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[10] | 2 |