TRAPPY BIO
The imminent rise of Boston rapper Duffle Bag Trappy has culminated in the form of his long-awaited, appropriately titled debut studio album Stay Down 4 The Come Up.
After releasing eight mixtapes over this decade including his buzzworthy Trappy in 2016 and Sane the following year, Stay Down 4 The Come Up was originally released on July 4, 2019 and has emerged as Trappy’s best work of his career.
The 12-track album contains production from Big Homie Gwap, Brown Beats and Adam Salvo who provided a hybrid of mid-to-uptempo Southern-style trap beats and booming 808 bass knocks, and retro East Coast boom bap with filtered samples and R&B keyboard motifs.
“It’s a straight hip hop album. What they can expect from it is based on the title that they can stay down from anything they’re going through,” Duffle Bag Trappy said.
Trappy brings a wide range of hardcore lyricism and versatile rhyme styles. The song content of the standout cuts on most of the project include tireless hustling and motivation for capital gains on “Get Paid and “The Chase,” self-reflection on friendships gone wrong and loyaty on “Feel Like” and “Crazy,” torn between desires of money and love “Misunderstood” and “My Type.”
The album is also 18 years in the making since he first entered a recording studio at the tender age of 11.
“I started making music because I wanted to embrace the pain of the street life in a way where people will be eager to listen rather than judge me,” Trappy said.
Duffle Bag Trappy has performed live mostly at the Middle East in Cambridge, Mass. alongside other Boston hip hop artists including Gbgflee, Minnie Clay, Roxbury Rell, L-Ski, SlizzardMuzik, Zooside Mafia, Rizz Cooke, KiKi Banks, Daetyme, & Mikeanthonii.
He often gets compared to his musical inspirations Jadakiss, Styles P, Wiz Khalifa, Dave East, Vado, Meek Mill and the late Chinx Drugz.
“Right now, they don’t see it for me but once I’m on that big stage, I bet they’ll be reaching for me,” Trappy said.