Trippie Redd Responds After Wack 100 Questions Rappers Who Paint Their Nails

Trippie Redd has responded after Wack 100 questioned why some of Hip Hop’s new generation wear fingernail polish.

The veteran music manager posted a video on Instagram on Tuesday (February 14) in which he asked his followers for more clarity on the nail polish trend that has been adopted by artists like Trippie, NBA YoungBoy and Lil Uzi Vert.

Rather than criticizing it, however, Wack said he was simply hoping to gain an understanding of the fashion choice and invited “youngsters” to educate him in the comments section of his video.

“I’ve been getting this question about the youngsters wearing fingernail polish,” he began. “Me personally, I don’t wear fingernail polish — I’m from a different era; I’m a ’70s baby. I wear one earring, not two. That’s just our thing.

“So I say, ‘Shit, I gotta ask the youngsters.’ ‘Cause I know a lot of youngsters — Trippie Redd, NBA [YoungBoy], Lil Uzi [Vert] — I know these men, these men are not feminine, these men are not gay, they’re very masculine, they’re very stand-up individuals.”

He continued: “But they’re bringing them up like, ‘Yo, Wack, they wearing fingernail polish. Why?’ I say, ‘I don’t know, it’s a different era.’ When I grew up, n-ggas was sagging their pants. My parents and uncles was like, ‘What y’all doing with your ass out, n-gga? That’s gay.’ But it wasn’t gay, it was just some trendy shit we was doing.

“So now I’m coming to y’all. To to the youngsters out there, I’m hearing something about emo and all this other shit. Can y’all leave a comment down below on what the fingernail polish represent? Because of some of the youngsters I mentioned that I know, I don’t think it means it that [they’re feminine]. I just think it’s another type of movement.

“But I don’t know. They’re asking me this fucking question on Clubhouse and I ain’t got no answer for it, so I’m not gonna make no assumption about it. So y’all leave a comment below so I can go back and have this conversation.”

Trippie Redd answered Wack 100’s request via a comment on Akademiks’ Instagram page, informing the 43-year-old executive that he wears fingernail polish as a way to both express himself and practice self-care.

“It’s a way of expressing ur feelings,” he wrote, before adding: “Being true to your self and self care.”

Wack 100 isn’t the only Hip Hop personality who has addressed the increasing prevalence of fingernail polish among rap’s current crop of stars. Last year, Soulja Boywent on a rant about rappers wearing lipstick and painting their nails, saying it’s something he has never done and never will.

“Why don’t you go on your favorite rapper’s Live and ask him why he got fingernail polish on? Or ask him why he got lipstick on?” he said on Instagram Live while applying chapstick. “Nah, you wanna come to a real n-gga’s Live, a real gangster and play with a n-gga talking about some chapstick, man. Stop playing.

“But when your real favorite rapper put fingernail polish on his nails, y’all don’t see that shit huh? Y’all don’t see that though, huh? He a gangster, right? … Y’all like to play with the real n-ggas, go play with the… n-ggas that actually put shit on they’re nails.”

He concluded: “Why y’all wanna play with a real gangster? I ain’t never put no motherfucking lipstick on and I never will.”

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NBA YoungBoy seemingly responded during an Instagram Live broadcast of his own days later, admitting people criticizing his painted nails “hurt[s] [his] feelings.”

“Everybody want to talk about my nails,” YoungBoy said as he showed them to the camera. “I done fucked them up, huh? You heard me, everybody want to play with the Slime, but it’s all good.

“You know I’m a big troll, as long as I ain’t no bitch troll. You can talk about my nails all you want, bitch. I know somebody who wish they could paint they nails right now…So mama, how do you think I should go about this because you hurt my feelings. I ain’t never do none of y’all anything.”

The Baton Rouge rapper previously explained that wearing makeup — which he began doing last year in his “Black Ball” music video — makes him feel “comfortable.”

“I like painting my face, putting makeup on,” he said on Clubhouse. “I like to look in the mirror and see everything black. Like my eyes and shit. That’s one hundred percent real! That’s me being myself. I feel comfortable that way … It give me like the goth feeling, like rockstars.”