Listening to Aquakultre’s DON'T TRIP is like stepping into a Halifax house party in full swing. Throughout 12 jam-packed songs, CBC Searchlight award-winning rapper and neo-soul songwriter Lance Sampson is joined by over 20 guests from locations spanning the globe. This roll call includes New Jersey hip-hop hero Ransom, South African R&B singer Amarafleur, Toronto based R&B and pop artist Tafari Anthony, and Halifax’s Zamani Miller, daughter of Delvina Bernard from legendary a capella group Four The Moment.
Despite its massive guest list, DON’T TRIP is a deeply personal project. The album was originally conceptualised as a five-song EP based on the first three weeks of a budding relationship with his partner Julia, when they barely left her bedroom. Eating ice cream and pizza, drinking wine, and listening to Lauryn Hill records was the start of a passionate love affair. Yet after reaching out to musicians he admired, DON’T TRIP expanded into the most ambitious project of Aquakultre’s career.
1. I Can Wait ft. Chudi Harris, Zamani Folade, Nixx
2. Milk & Honey ft. Tafari Anthony, Markus Aurelyus, Amarafleur
3. Magic
4. It's All Good w. Trobiz ft Lakita Wiggins
5. Don't Trip
6. Lunch ft. Joolsannie
7. Getting Close (interlude) ft. Sargeant X Comrade
8. You Got Feets ft. Owen O'Sound Lee, pHoenix Pagliacci
9. Hitwoman w. losersupreme
10. Africvillean Funk w. Trobiz
11. I'm For Real w. DK ft. Ransom and DJ Uncle Fester
12. Late Nights (skit)*
13. Karamel w. DJ Chidow & Myūjikku ft. Vadell Gabriel*
* not on LP
