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Donovan Reid

Artist Highlight: riptony

riptony is a 22 year-old, lone star state inhabitant, having grown up in Fort Worth, TX. In only a short period of time omnisciently, over the course of what he would describe as 3 years or so, he has been able to explicitly shift his focus towards more directness and instruction with his capability. Learning how to cater to other music softwares, while carving out his own social media fanbase, and furthermore expanding his tools in the box. With that came meeting a lot of great people and access for him and those around him to build off each other.


A niche market he's actually carved out for himself is on TikTok to teach people an array of tips and tricks on Blender, a 3-D modeling website, all the while showcasing his music and some updates on his artistry. Niztopia is a person of interest when it comes to his TikTok career, as he thanks him for push to create one. "What helped me a lot was staying consistent and trying to make videos that offered something to people." You'll see him feature a lot of his 3-D work on Spotify and whatnot which only adds to the element of the music, how fitting It is.

Back to the music tip, "reallyliveit" is an insanely mesmerizing string of chords on speed which just serves as another testament to his unique use of editing and arrangements alike. His most popular song to date being "COLLECT ME" with a number of others like Fvtal, Chanelfather, and Caponeti a slick and quick play on frequencies and bouncing off each other's voices.


Collaborations have shown to work thus far for Tony as they all curate this thing of its own entity. A diamond in the rough so to say, “LMAO!” is a recent track of Tony’s in collaboration with Caponeti along with four producers (rest and vivi; Sherif XR and PK), which came to fruition in New York when Tony had elected to add the finishing touches having linked up with Sherif.


"LMAO! is one of my favorite songs ive ever been apart of, shoutout to everyone who was involved in that one it really was a team effort...At first LMAO! didn’t have the beat switch and I didn’t really plan on dropping it. But then i sent the stems to Sherif and bro went so crazy with a loop PK made I had to drop it. Me and Sherif ended up meeting in New York and finished arranging the song and putting some final touches on It."


Although his catalog isn't as thorough as we may like or want, the singles he has put out, all allude to this genius persona of music that feels like Minecraft and GTA meshed into an amalgamation of music. I believe fans allure to the fast music sound, especially with the rise set particularly out of the hip-hop genre. riptony does a fascinating job at capitalizing all the while sowing the seeds of his own sound. Some lasting words from the man artist himself:


"Keep on the lookout for more stuff with the homies! Everyone i’ve worked with so far are people I f*ck with super heavy and i love watching them grow. I just want to keep having fun creating stuff, more music, more 3-D visuals, more everything. Its easy for life to get in the way so, I hope I can just keep making stuff I love and enjoy the process."


Stream "LMAO!" down below!

Follow riptony:

IG: @riptony__


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