Machine Gun Kelly and Trippie Redd have announced a joint EP titled Genre: Sadboy that’s slated to arrive later this month.
Announced with a video on social media on Wedneday (March 20), the Ohio natives confirmed the emo-rap effort will arrive on streaming services on March 29.
“Genre:sadboy 3/29 a project by us,” MGK wrote in his caption.
The pair have collaborated multiple times in the past including 2019’s “Candy” on MGK’s Hotel Diablo album, and 2020’s “All I Know” on MGK’s pop-punk album, Tickets To My Downfall. Trippie also opened for the Cleveland artist on his 2022 Mainstream Sellout tour.
Following the aforementioned pivot to punk/rock with both Tickets and Mainstream Sellout albums, Machine Gun Kelly made his return to his rap roots with 2023’s street single, “Pressure.”
After releasing a series of YouTube freestyles, Kells then released his most recent single in February, the SlimXX and BazeXX-produced “don’t let me go.”
The Cleveland star shared a music video for the new track in which he elaborates on his vulnerabilities and weaknesses, addressing his emotional instability, childhood trauma, suicidal tendencies and substance abuse as well as succumbing to trust issues from being ignored despite publicly crying for help.
“Before my dad left this Earth, he made sure I took on every quality I didn’t want/ I was supposed to die at birth, gave me another chance, I fucked it up, gave me another one/ I’ve been running from secrets I hid as a kid, I never confronted ’em,” he raps about his past, alluding to abandonment from both his parents from a young age, before saying he still forgave his mother.
About concealing his internal struggles, he spits: “Who am I when the music stops?/ And the character that I’ve been playing is really just broken and fuckin’ lost/ I swear I’ve been telling you over and over again in all of these songs/ But they don’t hear nothing I’m writing ’cause they’re too busy trying to write me off.”
Regardless of the concerning admissions throughout the song, it ends on an optimistic note as he asks fans and listeners to give him space to recover.
As for Trippie Redd, his last release was 2023’s ALLTY5 album, which featured a deep roster of guest contributors including Corbin, Lil Wayne, Roddy Rich, The Kid Laroi, Tommy Lee Sparta and Bryson Tiller.
