Trippie Redd has heard what some followers have been saying concerning the uncooked sound of his new album Mansion Musik. In a chat with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe this week, Trippie reacted to the pushback from some followers concerning the Travis Scott-featuring observe “Krzy Prepare,” which has a buzzing, EQ-pushed-to-red high quality to it.
“Each time I learn folks speaking about this album, they usually’re complimentary, however they’re like, ‘What’s up with the combination on ‘Krzy Prepare?’ I don’t perceive why it appears like that,’” Lowe advised the rapper concerning the on-line grumbling.
“I used to be held for ransom on my challenge. They needed me to pay them one million {dollars} as a result of they’d all my data. Each single final one, all of the options,” Redd mentioned of the unidentified hackers he claimed grabbed his tracks, forcing him to rush-release the 25-track challenge that includes collabs with Chief Keef, Future, Lil Child, the late Juice WRLD, Lil Durk, Nardo Wick and extra.
And whereas he would solely establish the alleged perpetrators as “some hackers,” Trippie mentioned due to the alleged ransom menace he needed to “rush the challenge out.”
Trippie added, “They’ve been hacking and leaking like loopy. No less than my final 2-3 albums they… I don’t know the way they do it.” He mentioned that the perpetrators had gotten a maintain of the Scott collab and he didn’t even have the completed model in hand, solely the uncooked vocal observe Scott had despatched to him. So his engineer didn’t even combine the Scott vocals they usually needed to “run with” the uncooked file as a result of “if I didn’t the entire challenge was gonna launch.”
He doesn’t know the way they’re doing it — he mentioned hackers did the identical along with his 2020 album Pegasus, which leaked two months early — however getting Musik out as quickly as attainable was his repair. “They’re going to listen to it regardless they usually’re gonna hear the unhealthy combine regardless, so I’m gonna put it out unmixed and see what they suppose,” he mentioned.
The excellent news is Trippie plans to repair the combination and re-upload a cleaner-sounding model in some unspecified time in the future.
The rapper additionally talked about his love of conspiracy theories — whereas spinning some wild ones about historical rocks in center Earth with secrets and techniques embedded in them — and mentioned he’s engaged on an unique anime challenge animated by The Boondocks‘ Carl Jones as nicely two completely different, unnamed motion pictures.
Take a look at Trippie’s interview with Lowe under.
