BRAND NEW SOUL
Justice Tripp frees his mind and “does his thing” on the latest from Angel Du$t.
On one of the greenrooms at Baltimore’s Ottobar, a music venue in Charles Village, the walls are covered in doodles of the...erm... male anatomy. So much so that the employees refer to it warmly as the “dick room.” On an overcast, muggy day in July, I stand in this room with iconic Baltimorean Justice Tripp—the creative force behind hardcore mainstays Trapped Under Ice and the more inscrutable Angel Du$t—while we wait for our photographer to set up for the big shoot.
We discuss the doodles, choosing our favorites and discussing the artists’ “creative choices.” Justice likes one stylized with a human torso on the shaft, pointing out the artist’s anatomical knowledge of human musculature. It's clear he knows a lot about it too, naming the muscles on this cartoon dick as he stands there a bit hulking himself in his Gold’s Gym tank top. When I ask him later about his fitness habits, he launches into an anecdote about some shady Russians his mom took in when he was growing up.
