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Trim (song)

2025 song by Playboi Carti and Future

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ133821008 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Trim" (stylized in all caps) is a song by American rappers Playboi Carti and Future. It was released through AWGE and Interscope Records as the nineteenth track from Carti's third studio album, Music, on March 14, 2025. The song was produced by TM88, Akachi, CSD Sid, Macnificent and Sonickaboom.

Content

The song sees the rappers detailing their luxury lifestyles and also revolves around sex and partying. The chorus is built around the term "trim".

Critical reception

Billboard placed the song at number 17 in their ranking of the songs from Music and in ninth place on their list of the album's best guest features. Mackenzie Cummings-Grady wrote that "When Future finally enunciates and decides to rap, the result is exactly what you want from a Pluto verse. Carti's grainy baritone meshes perfectly with Future's galloping pace" and "The result on 'Trim' isn't anything groundbreaking, but it's impossible not to nod your head along to its undeniable groove." Ben Beaumont-Thomas of The Guardian remarked "Future's triplet flow is fearsome and relentless on Trim, as if putting his nose to your face and backing you towards a ledge". Christian Eede of The Quietus, on the other hand, stated that Future "largely phones it in" with his performance.

Personnel

Credits and personnel adapted from Tidal.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Trim (song)” as 2025 song by Playboi Carti and Future. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Trim, song and Playboi.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Trim, song and Playboi providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q133821008. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Trim (song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.