In his most popular music video "Trap Life" he is seen in his natural habitat - the trap! "...." He's with his thug homies, casually cookin' up cocaine into crack, smokin' blunts, sippin' lean - you know the usual trap shenanigans. Fredo Santana is the quintessential trap artist - moreso than all of the popular ones. He actually lives in the trap - day in and day out - complete gangsta, and doesn't write the most intelligent lyrics ever.
He's got great producers on his tapes, but somehow they managed to tear the quality to crap on a lot of his album. Renown producers like 808 Mafia, Young Chop, and Mike WiLL Made It. That might be a more of a mastering problem, putting too much gain on the limiter. They possibly did this as a stylistic element to make it seem as more of a "classic trap tape". Something that's hard to explain, you'll just have to listen to it. He also has big artists on his tape, like Soulja Boy, Chief Keef, and Future.
Throughout his mixtape "Fredo Kruger", random ad-libs are placed that say "THIS IS A TRAPAHOLICS MIXTAPE" and "Damn, son! Where'd you find this?" I think this just makes his whole trap tape seem way more amateur. This, along with the fishy quality of the tape and the terrible lyricists and rappers on the tape make the whole mixtape nearly unlistenable. I'll bump it a couple times, but more than that it'd give me a headache. This ain't no quality, classic trap tape by any means.
What Fredo does do good on is being the cliche trap artist that the world needs. He is one that sets the bar for mediocre trap music. I'll give him that. One of the biggest things about trap music is the image of the artist, and by all means is he a trap artist. He LIVES the trap life. All of his beats are very trappy, his lyrics are terrible and completely about living the trap life, and he ain't no phony. I think you can see that with his multiple facial tattoos including an upside-down cross in between his eyes, above his nose. I do respect him for sustaining the image and life of a trap-dude, but I can't say I do for more than that.
Fredo is the cliche trap artist that you think about when you hear trap. I don't know how he hasn't been arrested; he boasts about pushing kilos in every single one of his songs. Even his music video for "Trap Life", which has 1.6 million views, is of him and his "300" homies selling crack and smoking drugs. I envision Fredo's career quickly dying out from him being arrested, murdered, overdosing, or losing ambition to write a bar, as he's shown he hasn't written a good bar in his whole career. I'll make one exception "Me and Fredo got yo bi*** playin' hot potato".
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