This week’s Spin column: Don Trip’s “Letter To My Son” and how it went from YouTube to rap radio relatively unscathed. I haven’t gotten to say much about Trip but he’s quickly becoming one of my favorite rappers around. Go get Step Brothers if you haven’t already.
Though interest is still growing in Don Trip’s “Letter to My Son,” the song dates all the way back to September 2009, when a YouTube video surfaced of the Memphis rapper in a home studio. The description read, “i use music as an outlet so i say whateva i feel like sayin no matter who or what it involve”; and the video showed Trip, shirtless and gaunt, with a chain dangling from his neck, unloading a three-minute rant about how he’s not allowed to see his son for more than an hour a week, over a soulfully manipulative beat
Don Trip is a rapper out of time. Although his imminent hit did begin as a quasi-viral video, and he’s ridiculously prolific in a way that caters to the blogs, he can’t be bothered with rap’s prevailing trends. He wears basketball shorts and, like, button-downs from Target, not streetwear. His approach to rapping is that of a work-a-day hustler, and his in-studio videos often show him gripping a notepad (and more recently an iPad), or staring off-camera at a piece of paper taped to the wall with lyrics scrawled on it. It’s a subtle way of rejecting the noxious, post-Jay-Z myth that “good” MCs don’t need to write their raps down…
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