Laughing Stock By TRICKSTAR Is No Joke: Ookay and Bailo’s New Trap Persona Ignites with Break Room Records Launch
You can’t call yourself a trap fan in 2025 without clocking TRICKSTAR—the masked duo made up of longtime friends Ookay and Bailo—who just dropped one of the most energizing debut EP in recent memory: “Laughing Stock”. Released via Insomniac’s new imprint Break Room Records, Laughing Stock is a sly, high-impact throwback to trap’s golden era, delivered with just enough mystery, grime, and swagger to make the genre feel dangerous again.
Celebrated with an intimate pop-up at Heds on Melrose on March 27, the launch event brought together a roomful of heads and heavy bass. Think grainy VHS visuals, limited merch drops, and a crowd that knew every drop before it landed. From the start, TRICKSTAR made it clear this wasn’t just a new project—it was a movement.
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The two producers began collaborating again early last year, reconnecting over their shared love for trap’s earlier days. Their chemistry quickly reignited, and the tracks followed. We caught up with Bailo before their set who said that the energy and nostalgia of old-school trap came naturally once they started making music together.
Since then, TRICKSTAR have been on a tear. They dropped “Bad Boys” with Marshmello and Lil Jon, a blistering collab already past the 1M stream mark. They opened for Tape B at his sold-out Palladium show, grew their Spotify monthly listeners to over 600K, and launched the very first release on Break Room. They also recently threw down a marathon B2B set in Houston that fans are still talking about.
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Visually, TRICKSTAR leans into chaos with purpose. Bailo appears in a half-masked* ala* the Phantom styled as a mischievous trickster, with a star at its center. He said that, Ookay plays the jester, his face hidden behind a patterned handkerchief. The masks aren’t just for anonymity—they’re characters, alter egos meant to channel a different creative energy, separate from their solo identities.
That spirit bleeds into Laughing Stock, which plays like a coded message to fans who grew up on SoundCloud-era bangers. It’s cinematic, loud, and unapologetically fun. You’ll hear echoes of the melodic chaos of Ookay’s Thief, and Bailo’s Bronx-born, bass-forward DNA all fused into something chaotic but intentional.
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At the Heds party, TRICKSTAR closed the night with a set that felt like controlled chaos in costume—masked, unleashed, and tossing out new material like they had nothing to lose and everything to prove.
With Laughing Stock, TRICKSTAR have planted a flag. Not just in the trap revival, but in what it means to reinvent yourself without erasing where you came from. It’s old friends in new masks, bringing back the noise. Check out TRICKSTAR when they come to you city this year!
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