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A Love Letter to You 4 is the fourth commercial mixtape by American rapper Trippie Redd. It is also the fourth installment in the A Love Letter to You mixtape series. It was released on November 22, 2019, by TenThousand Projects and Caroline Distribution. The project features guest appearances from Lil Mosey, Juice Wrld, YNW Melly, Chris King, Quan'ta, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Smokepurpp, Tory Lanez, DaBaby, Lil Yachty, Pi'erre Bourne, Youv Dee, Lil Wop, and Mariah the Scientist. The deluxe edition was released on February 21, 2020, featuring additional guest appearances from Chance the Rapper, Russ, Young Thug, Lil Tecca, Lil Durk, G Herbo, and SahBabii. Production was primarily handled by Pi'erre Bourne, Nick Mira, Taz Taylor, and Igor Mamet, among others.

Background
A Love Letter to You 4 was announced by Redd in an Instagram on from August 31, 2019. It serves as the fourth installment in the A Love Letter to You mixtape series. However, neither of these tracks appeared on the officially released version; rather, they both appeared on Pegasus (2020). The deluxe edition of A Love Letter to You 4 was released on February 21, 2020 includes 8 bonus tracks. The 5-year anniversary edition was released on November 22, 2024 with the tracklist rearranged. ==Songs==
Songs
Overview Of the project's organisation, Redd stated in an interview with Lyrical Lemonade: "I studied the way I put all of my projects together and that's how I came up with the concept for this album. To make it be one section about love, one section is alternative rock, one section is rap." Thematically, the song concerns Redd's desire to refrain from chasing love after his past relationships. Music Feeds described "Love Sick" as "throwback '90s R&B – K-Ci & JoJo for the Bryson Tiller gen." The song was originally due to appear on Internet Money's B4 the Storm, but Taz Taylor gave the song back to Redd for A Love Letter to You 4. The next song, "This Ain't That", introduces the first feature of the mixtape in Lil Mosey. The song is also the first collaboration between Redd and Lil Mosey; AllMusic praised the song for its catchiness, Towards the beginning of the track, a sample of an anime shine sound effect, used in various cartoons such as Naruto, is used. HotNewHipHop praised the song, writing, "This is one of the better songs from Redd's new album and, to be completely honest, it might be one of the smoothest cuts he's ever released." On the next song, "U Deserve It" – a collaboration between Redd, Quan'ta and Chris King – the artists focus on an unspecified girl that they feel indebted to. Redd had previewed a snippet of the track on his Instagram account on October 9, 2019, along with a caption that read "💞ALLTY4". The song was leaked in late September 2019 under the title "Blinded". The song features vocals from XXXTentacion's "Heart and Yours" vlog published in January 2018 on his YouTube channel before being deleted. Lyrically, the two rappers speak on themes of disease and violence. , whose creator Dr. Seuss can here be seen working on How the Grinch Stole Christmas! in early 1957 "The Grinch", the thirteenth song on the mixtape, sees Redd continually switch up his delivery over a bass-heavy Pi'erre Bourne instrumental. The beat was originally used by Kevin Gates on his August 2019 track "Double Dutch (In Amsterdam Witt It)". The song samples "Hit a Muthafucka" (Chapter 2: World Domination) by Three 6 Mafia and is produced by DJ Paul and TWhy Xclusive; the former of whom is a member of Three 6 Mafia. Tracks 16–21 The sixteenth song, "M's", sees Trippie Redd, Lil Yachty, and Pi'erre Bourne boast of their extravagant lifestyles. This song marks the first collaboration between Redd and Pi'erre as a vocalist, In the song, Redd raps the first verse and hooks whilst French rapper Youv Dee gives the second. The song samples Kenji Kawai's "Making of Cyborg", the main theme from the anime Ghost in the Shell. In the next song, "Abandoned", Redd and Mariah the Scientist duet about lost love. The song marks the artists' first collaboration together. The song is a sequel to "Can You Rap Like Me" from the first installment of the A Love Letter to You mixtape series, which is similarly produced. The deluxe edition's second song (and second single), "The Way", sees Redd and featured artist Russ sing about how they both find ways to make their relationships work. This song also samples a viral YouTube video from 2009 of a young boy confessing his love to a girl on the playground of his school, which Redd plays on in the bridge of the song. The deluxe's third song and lead single, "Yell Oh", is a collaboration between Trippie Redd and Young Thug in which the two rappers talk about their respective nights with girls. The conclusion of the song features a sample sourced from a Halloween witch decoration, sold by the company Grandin Road. The track marks the second collaboration between Redd and Young Thug, following "Forever Ever" (''Life's a Trip''; 2018). An alternate version of the track featuring 9lokkNine in addition to Lil Tecca leaked on January 3, 2020. Bourne also produced the next track, "Even Steven", which sees Redd rap about sex and violence. The song opens with a sample from the internet meme 'Kazoo Kid'. The deluxe edition's seventh track, "Amazinggg", marks Redd's first collaboration with SahBabii. In an interview with Pigeons & Planes, SahBabii explained that it was director Aidan Cullen – who at the time was working with SahBabii filming the video to "Double Dick" (Barnacles; 2020) and who had extensively worked with Redd for the visuals to A Love Letter to You 4 – who suggested the two should collaborate. Other The track "Bad Vibes Forever" (by XXXTentacion featuring Trippie Redd and PnB Rock) from the album of the same name was originally included amongst a second version of the mixtape that Trippie Redd had uploaded. However, as the track appeared on Bad Vibes Forever two weeks later, Redd removed it from the mixtape. ==Packaging and promotion==
Packaging and promotion
The first single from A Love Letter to You 4, "Love Me More", was released on November 1, 2019. The second and third singles, "Death" (featuring DaBaby) and "Who Needs Love", were released on November 12, 2019, and November 19, 2019, respectively. On November 26, 2019, Redd added his collaboration with XXXTentacion, "Bad Vibes Forever" to A Love Letter to You 4; The deluxe cover was initially a recasting of the standard cover in a purple shade, however Redd later removed the alternate cover. On November 22, 2024, Redd released the 5-year anniversary edition of the album. Tour Trippie Redd's 'Love Me More Tour' began in Seattle on January 22, 2020. The tour saw Redd headline 38 shows in the United States. He also performed in Europe from March 29, 2020 for 8 shows. ==Critical reception==
Critical reception
A Love Letter to You 4 received generally positive reviews from music critics. Cyclone Wehner of Music Feeds stated that though "Trippie isn't yet a hip-hop superstar to rival Travis Scott, Young Thug or Lil Uzi Vert", "[h]appily, his latest mixtape, A Love Letter To You 4... could change that." Redd himself said in April 2020 that he considered A Love Letter to You 4 and ''Life's a Trip'' his best projects. However, many critics also criticised the project's lack of consistency. David Aaron Brake of HipHopDX wrote: "However chaotic a break-up might feel, [A Love Letter to You 4] lacks the cohesion necessary to thoughtfully express some of [the] complexities of love and relationships," adding that the mixtape "lacks a guiding theme" and that Trippie Redd comes across as "stale and guarded". Fred Thomas of AllMusic added that "Enthusiasts of Trippie Redd's brand of quasi-visceral heartbroken emo rap will have plenty to enjoy, but discerning listeners might have to pick a few favorite songs and discard the rest." Himself responding to criticism of the project's length, Redd stated: "I'll put it this way—if you gonna keep the same flow on every damn song, I don't wanna hear 30 songs from you bro. But, if you got a n***a that's doing a rock song here and there, some R&B songs, some rap songs, some catchy wavy type shit, using different melodies, then I don't care how long it is. I love sitting through albums. I do it all for the fans. A lot of people just be critics. I let the critics be critics, but the fans, they don't care how much I drop." Ryan Feyre, writing for RapReviews, concluded, "Despite its unevenness, A Love Letter to You 4 has something for everyone. And for those who've been there since the beginning, you should expect nothing less from [Trippie Redd]". Similarly, Wehner of Music Feeds judged that "ALLTY4 might be more adventurously curated, and more consciously conceptualised. But, perhaps for Trippie, such an approach would undermine the project's authenticity. Indeed, ALLTY4 may be for Trippie what 2016's Jeffery was to Young Thug – a mixtape that presents a statement of direction as a mood." ==Commercial performance==
Commercial performance
A Love Letter to You 4 debuted atop the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 104,000 album-equivalent units (including 14,000 copies as pure album sales) in its first week. Trippie Redd outsold Jason Aldean (9), who took the number two spot with 83,000 equivalent album units. The project was Redd's first US number-one album and his fourth top ten album, following !, which debuted at number three in August 2019. The mixtape also charted in the top 30 in 9 other territories. Additionally, the mixtape accumulated a total of 125.9 million on demand streams from the set's songs that week. In response to his accomplishment, Redd published two Instagram posts captioned "#1" and "love you guys" respectively. From the record project, "Who Needs Love" (58), "Death" (59), "6 Kiss" (60), "Love Me More" (79), "Hate Me" (84) and "Bad Vibes Forever" (85) all charted within the Billboard Hot 100. "Love Sick" (9) and "Leray" (25) both charted within the Bubbling Under Hot 100. On November 9, 2022, "Love Sick" and "Leray" achieved Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). On October 8, 2020, "Death" achieved Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). On July 21, 2021, "Who Needs Love", "Love Me More" and "6 Kiss" also achieved Platinum certification. "Hate Me" and "The Grinch" achieved Platinum certification on November 9, 2022. On October 8, 2020, A Love Letter to You 4 was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). ==Track listing==
Track listing
Notes • The track "Bad Vibes Forever" from the album of the same name, was originally included amongst a second version of the mixtape that Trippie Redd had uploaded but later removed, due to it appearing on Bad Vibes Forever two weeks later. • The track "All For Me" also appears on the album Deadstar 2, without the voice memo ending by XXXTentacion. • "RMP" is an initialism for 'Richard Mille Plain'. • "Yell Oh" and "Otf Knightmare" are both stylized in capitals. • "How I Was Raised" also originally featured American rapper 9lokkNine, but did not appear on the final release. ==Charts==
Charts
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