I'll be the first to confess that I've been sleeping on Don Trip. While I was familiar with the name and I'd come across a few tracks over the years, the market is always so saturated with new artists that it's difficult to filter out the ones that our truly worthwhile. "Wake Up" is my wake-up call.
A punchline-driven hustler's anthem, the track finds Trip at the top of his lyrical hustle over a dark instrumental that would have sounded right at home on Young Jeezy's cinematic The Recession LP.
Does Trip have what it takes to "Wake Up" the mainstream?
Quotable Lyrics:
I wink my eye at your bitch and her pussy jump out her jeans