Trippie Redd Says He, XXXTentacion, Playboi Carti, and Lil Uzi Vert Pioneered Rage Rap: ‘We Popularized It’
The “Miss the Rage” artist isn’t a fan of another rapper claiming to be the genre’s creator.

Give him his flowers or he’ll take them himself.
Trippie Redd is seemingly responding to chatter about who created the subgenre of rap that often involves more yelling than rapping, video-game-type beats mixed with guitars, and lots of emo spirit, also known as rage rap.
The 25-year-old rapper posted to his Instagram stories on Monday responding to Ye’s declaration that he created rage rap. Trippie says the band of inventors includes himself, XXXTentacion, Playboi Carti, and Lil Uzi Vert.
“We paved the way,” he says the in video. “We popularized it. I’m not gon’ let you old-ass n****s say you invented something you ain't invent. N****s need to take they pills, man.”
He continued:
"N****s be psychotic, out of they fucking mind. Your old ass ain’t invent shit. That’s exactly why I ain’t pulled up on his old ass, because he always just wanna put a n**** beneath him and shit. You ain’t really for Black people. You ain’t really for your people, n****. You be using n****s, and you lost right now.”
Trippie Redd goes off on Kanye for claiming he invented "rage" music 👀
— Kurrco (@Kurrco) April 28, 2025
"The inventors of the rage sound is me, X, Carti and Uzi... I'm not gon' let you old ass n**** say you invented something you ain't invent. N****s need to take they pills man." https://t.co/T4BhiVofiG
In a clip going viral, Ye claims he created the subgenre with this 2013 song “Blood on the Leaves” from his album Yeezus.
“I invented rage, bro,” Ye says in the clip. “Yeezus is that energy and ”Niggas in Paris." “N****s in Paris was the first time n***** was moshing. We got Black people moshing—that was just some white boy shit.”
Trippie ended his video cautioning the next wave of artists to stay aware of people leaching off their creativity.
“Keep a hold of y’all craft, man,” he said. “Don’t give y’all shit out to these old n****s, ’cause they just wanna get around you, find out your sound, use you, and then dump you, n****. They won’t fuck with you ever again. All these n****s cutthroat.”
Trippie also recently responded to people comparing him to Playboi Carti.
"I'm 1 they fav rappers fav rapper idk y they compare us like we ain't bruddas that's my dawg lol 14/00," he wrote on X.
The two share the 2021 single “Miss the Rage." The song peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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