Songfacts®:

• "Wish" is a collaboration between Diplo and the Ohio rapper Trippie Redd. Released on both Diplo's California EP and Trippie's debut album, Life's a Trip, the track became an emo-trap hymn for those who are trying to feel something - anything - through the fog.
• "Wish" centers on Trippie Redd's emotional exhaustion and struggle with mental health, set against a backdrop of hedonism and fame. Once you've got the world, Trippie implies, what's left to wish for? The result is a song about the hollowness that follows fulfillment, the trap behind the trappings. He's desperate to step back from the noise, from the cameras, from himself. Then comes the gut punch:
  
  Wish you'd get out my face, might go MIA
  Might just blow my brain, I'd be Kurt Cobain
  I can't feel my face, I can't feel my face
  
  It's as stark as anything in the emo-rap canon, invoking one of music's most haunting cautionary tales. Like Lil Uzi Vert's "XO Tour Llif3" or Juice WRLD's "Wishing Well," "Wish" lives in that uncomfortable space where emotional honesty meets self-destruction.
• Beneath all that lyrical darkness, Diplo builds a dreamy, synth-washed melody that makes the heartbreak sound deceptively beautiful.
• Trippie first teased the track on Instagram back in October 2017 with the caption "Make a wish. The world is yours [Produced by: @diplo]." Fans were so eager that a low-quality leak hit the web weeks later, and it was eventually released on May 23, 2018. Diplo later explained the song's creation: "I met Trippie at a party in LA. He was like me, kinda chilling on the side, and I was really interested in making a song. We traded a few calls and linked up in the studio one day and made 'Wish.'"
• "Wish" came with two very different music videos. The first, directed by Matt Keane, plays like a fever dream in a mansion: Trippie hangs with baby goats, swings from a chandelier, and watches fireworks burst from nowhere. The alternate 2020 video takes a darker turn, depicting Trippie killing clones of himself until, in a grim twist, he's accidentally killed by his own film crew. Art imitates torment.
• The song initially hovered below the Hot 100, peaking at #4 on Billboard's Bubbling Under chart in 2018. But "Wish" refused to fade. In 2025, clips of his 2019 Audiomack Trap Symphony performance, where he delivered the song backed by an eight-piece orchestra, caught fire on TikTok, propelling it onto the Hot 100 for the first time.