Genre: Sadboy

Genre: Sadboy (stylized genre : sadboy) is a collaborative extended play by American rappers MGK and Trippie Redd. It was released on March 29, 2024.

Background
MGK (formerly Machine Gun Kelly) and Trippie Redd are both Ohio natives and collaborated on several tracks prior to the release of Genre: Sadboy. They first collaborated in 2019, when Redd was featured on the track "Candy" on MGK's fourth studio album, Hotel Diablo. Redd was featured again on "All I Know", a track off of MGK's 2020 album, Tickets to My Downfall. A majority of the album was recorded at Record Plant Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California.

Release
The duo announced the album in a March 23, 2024, Instagram post featuring a snippet of the song "Lost Boys". On March 25, 2024, in response to a post about the album's release, a producer named Kaixan wrote on X, "the way I just learned I have a beat placement in this this morning and I know it's bout to be the worst song I've ever heard." Following his tweet, Trippie Redd responded and said he was removing Kaixan from the album. On March 26, 2024, they released their first track, "Lost Boys", as a single with an accompanying music video. Genre: Sadboy was released on March 29, 2024. A mini-documentary, directed by Sam Cahill, was released alongside the album, giving fans a look at the rappers' creative process in the studio, as well as behind-the-scenes music video footage.

To promote the album, the duo announced two free concerts, scheduled for April 2, 2024, at Irving Plaza in New York City, and April 4 at the Bluestone in Columbus, Ohio.

Critical reception
Upon release, Genre: Sadboy received generally negative reviews from critics. According to HotNewHipHop, Genre: Sadboy "didn't get the best reviews". Fred Thomas of AllMusic felt that "none of it feels authentic" and concluded that the album "wallows painfully somewhere between unfinished and unlistenable". Sheldon Pearce of NPR felt that "While the surface-level signifiers of emo rap are all here, so are its worst impulses — the genre's meagerness, its latent callowness and underlying futility — and it can never quite blend its two markers into anything transformative." He also argued that what he perceived as a poor blend of rap and pop-punk in the album "highlights what made [the genre] so effective in the first place".

Track listing
Note
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Personnel

 * Colin Leonard – mastering
 * Fabian Marasciullo – mixing
 * Matthew Testa – mixing
 * Shaan Singh – engineering
 * Conner Harris McFarland – engineering assistance (tracks 2, 8)