The cops who showed up at Trippie Redd’s door weren’t the ones running the show. Police from Davie, Florida helped serve a search warrant at the rapper’s $8 million all-black mansion on Tuesday (Oct. 6), but a department representative told Complex that the City of Miami Police Department is the agency actually leading the investigation.
That detail raises more questions than it answers. Nobody has said publicly what the warrant was for, what officers were looking for, or what, if anything, they took from the property.
The house itself is no secret to fans. Trippie’s blacked-out mansion has become something of a calling card, so a police visit there was always going to get people talking online.
As of now there’s no word from Trippie or his team about the search. There’s also been no announcement of charges or an arrest connected to the warrant, which leaves the situation sitting in a strange limbo.
The timing lands just weeks after Trippie stirred things up in a very different way. Late last month he left a long comment on Instagram calling out record labels for pushing what he described as “small ceiling” artists.
His frustration was aimed squarely at executives who give fresh signees a push like they’re Lil Uzi Vert. According to Trippie, it doesn’t work “because none of these new artists are Uzi or Juice [World] or [XXXTentacion] or me.”
He argued that the names he listed have “great real songs that can be played by all, not just kids.” Then he went further and turned some of the criticism on himself.
“The industry is weird right now. A bunch of wannabes doing the same music. I’m actually sorry for contributing to this fast food hipster music,” he wrote. “We might have looked the same, but the music is not the same.”
He backed that up by pointing to his own catalog. “You can’t play me a ‘F*ck Love’ or a ‘Taking a Walk’ by any of these new jits,” he said. “It’s all turn up, drink, pop a pill, no meaning.”
Those two songs make his case pretty neatly. F*ck Love” was his collaboration with XXXTentacion, and “Taking a Walk” came off his 2018 debut album Life’s a Trip, a record that showed he could slow down and sing rather than just scream over 808s.
Trippie came up out of Canton, Ohio and broke through in 2017 with the mixtape A Love Letter to You and the single “Love Scars.”
That wave of SoundCloud-era rap made him one of the faces of a sound that a lot of younger artists have been copying ever since, which is exactly the trend he was complaining about.
Not everyone agreed with his take, of course. Some fans saw it as a veteran gatekeeping newer artists, while others felt he was saying out loud what plenty of listeners already think about the current crop of label pushes.
For now, the Instagram rant and the police search are two separate stories happening to the same artist. Until Miami police explain what they were after, the bigger question hanging over Trippie’s mansion stays unanswered.
