I’ve been recording since I was 16 years old, but been rapping since I was 11 years old. Like they say, “Practice makes perfect” after you do a couple hundred songs you’re going to find your style.īut you’re a fairly new artist, right? How long have you been rapping? Your delivery and tone is very impressive, how long did it take you to balance that out? I can’t tell anybody that it wasn’t my name, “Stop calling me that!” You gotta take that and run with it. The “Don” came from battle raps, and from there they kept calling me that. It just so happens that it has a ring to it, so I kept it. I didn’t even name myself, the fans named me. “Don Trip” that’s a unique alias my dude, how’d you come up with that name? I get messages from all kinds of people, even older people. I get it from the women who’s fathers have left. I get love from the fans that did not grow up without a father. It’s shocking, but I get emails from men and women. I didn’t expect people to like the record, I was just venting and it just happened to work out. “Letter to My Son” is an honest record that’s getting some burn.Īre you surprised by how much attention it’s getting? With the help of some of the top producers and hitmakers from the South, like Cool & Dre, DJ Toomp, David Banner and more, and a no-nonsense approach to how he spits, Don Trip might just win. Trip promises to deliver a well-rounded Hip-Hop album, one that will not only put him on the map and further etch his hometown into Rap history hounds’ minds, but one that will also bring back what’s lacking in the game today-honesty.
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You can buy “Mental WARfare” via Bandcamp or download a free, low bitrate version via Live Mixtapes.With Help Is On the Way, his upcoming debut album on Interscope to soon come, Memphis bred MC Don Trip confirms that he’s out for much more than just “venting” on wax. Much like Curren$y before him, Starlito is a much stronger artist post Cash Money Records and if he can manage to keep this energy up we have no doubt he’ll be able to go as far as his ex-label mate. Calling “Mental WARfare” his best work is hardly a stretch. On one of the “Lito Speaks” interludes he talks about “going that much harder” and it shows. From bits of knowledge in the first/intro about how holding back tears gives you headaches to a self-confessed moment of paranoia as he admits to thinking three or four cars were following him on his way to a family dinner. The interludes (accurately titled “Lito Speaks”, 1-3) are short phone recorded chunks inside head. Not only do song transitions make sense, and work well, but song concepts and interludes work to keep the central theme of juggling mental health in the forefront. by DJ Burn One)Ī big part of what makes “Mental WARfare” one of Starlito’s strongest releases in his discography is a level of cohesion throughout that isn’t as well executed on his previous releases. The former doing it so effortlessly he actually loses himself in it “Hold up, I think maybe I was supposed to have four more bars. A mellow, faded beat that neither Starlito or guest Don Trip have a problem finding the pocket of, and staying all the way in it. While it’s a somber song with a sobering piece of storytelling, it ends with a positive and romantic message “Make love, fuck sex.” The song transitions smoothly into one of our favorite tracks on the album, the DJ Burn One produced “Chill”. That last track sees Starlito dealing with the consequences of misplaced love (“Love, the worst drug they got out right now”), and the lack of it in an immediate family. The ease with which he manages to switch between heavy, trunk rattlers like “Live From The Kitchen”, “The Ville” to more laid back, inspiring and cautionary tale tracks such as “Nortriptyline” (a drug used to treat depression) is admirable, and a versatility most rappers aspire to.
This is a big aspect of Starlito’s music as he carries the torch for absent friends and continuing in music when a label all but forgot about him.
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Starlito’s charm is in full effect here (not to say it isn’t throughout the entire tape), sounding genuine and passionate as he vents the frustrating aspects of his life.
The first song, “Hope for Love” opens the album with a struggle and loner anthem, a great opener he uses to lament the distance between best friends thanks to prison and other unspecified circumstances. “Mental WARfare” finds Lito laying both heart and mind bare on majority of the seventeen track tape. Starlito’s follow-up to the the straight to YouTube, jacking-for-beats mixtape “ For My Foes” is every bit the personal journey the title and cover art suggest.
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