Ye made a bold claim during a recent livestream that he invented rage music, and Trippie Redd isn’t having any of it.
Ye Declares Himself the Inventor of Rage Music, Trippie Redd Calls Cap
There’s a battle going on over the origin of rage music right now thanks to Ye declaring on a livestream this past weekend that he invented the rap sub-genre. Trippie Redd has been quick to call out the Chicago MC in a fiery response. On Saturday (April 26), Ye was interviewed by controversial streamer Sneako on the Parti video platform in Spain, and the conversation covered many topics, from Cam’ron recently dissing Ye to Drake being a great sparring partner.
As usual, Yeezy’s new music was also discussed when Sneako asked him what his goal was with the sound of the unreleased music he has. The 47-year-old Chicago rhymer is currently working on the WW3 album, which he’s changed the name of to Cuck, in addition to Donda 2. Surprisingly, Ye claimed he invented rage music during the chat.
“Some of that sh*t is not finished what you heard, but it’s like, it’s that rage, but for me, I invented rage, bro,” Ye said. “‘Blood on the Leaves.’ Just take it back. I invented. I invented this whole rage sh*t. Trav [Travis Scott] worked on Yeezus, he was one of the main producers. Yeezus is that energy. And ‘Ni**as in Paris.’ ‘Ni**as in Paris’ is the first time ni**as is moshing. We got Black people moshing. That was just some White boy sh*t.”
Trippie Redd caught wind of Ye’s words and immediately shut down the chatter. He sounded off by dissing Ye and calling him out for using other artists. While Trippie didn’t actually say Ye’s name, it’s obvious who the remarks were aimed at. Last night (April 27), the 25-year-old Ohio rapper went off on his Instagram Story and set the record straight by naming himself, XXXTentacion, Playboi Carti and Lil Uzi Vert as the artists responsible for pushing rage to rap’s forefront.
“The inventors of the rage sound is me, X, Carti and Uzi,” Trippie maintained. “We paved the wave, we popularized it. I’m not gonna let you old-a*s ni**as say you invented something that you ain’t invent. Ni**as need take they pills, man. These ni**as be psychotic, like out of they f**kin’ mind. Your old ass ain’t invent sh*t. That’s exactly why I ain’t pull up on his old a*s. ’Cause he always just wanna put people beneath him and sh*t. You ain’t really for the Black people. You ain’t really for your people, ni**a. You be using ni**as, and you lost right now.”
Trippie even shared some sage advice for new artists on the come up about protecting their sound to avoid being used by other artists that came before them.
Usually Trippie is a Ye fan, but looks like all that has changed with Ye’s new claims. The same day Ye stood 10 toes down to say he invented rage, Trippie went on his X account to tell his fans that they should compare his upcoming new album, NDA, to Ye’s Donda or Life of Pablo eras. “U gotta compare this new music to sh*t like Travis or ye donda/life of Pablo era or drake sh*t even sza and Chris brown I’m on that timing rn,” he tweeted.
So, who’s really responsible for creating the sound of rage? There are many artists that can lay claim to it in their own ways, including Ye, Kid Cudi, Chief Keef, Travis Scott and Trippie Redd, among several others, and there’s an argument for how each of them contributed to its sound and evolution. Rage is similar to punk rock in that it can have a chaotic energy to it, whether that’s from the aggressive sounds of the beats, using big bass, 808s and trap drums paired with distorted and experimental production, or the aggressive lyrical content that takes on many sonic shapes—emo, screamo, melodic rapping or in-your-face bars.
Ye released his Yeezus album, featuring “Black Skinhead” and “Blood on the Leaves,” in 2013, which Travis worked on extensively. Travis has built an entire career on raging, and his 2014 Days Before Rodeo tape showcases that. Then there’s Mr. Rager himself Kid Cudi, who dropped his Man on The Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager in 2010. Chief Keef’s raging track “Faneto” arrived in 2015. Tracks like Trippie Redd’s “Poles1469” came out in 2017, but he had plenty of mixtapes before that in 2016 that featured his own raging sounds. There’s even more from XXX, Carti and Uzi, whose Luv Is Rage in 2015 is self-explanatory. Looks like the true originator of rage should be crowned by the fans.
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See Ye take ownership of rage and Trippie try to stop him from rewriting history below.
