Complex

Real Trap Sh*t? The Commodification of Southern Rap's Drug-Fueled Subgenre

With a little help from Lady Gaga, “Trap music” has migrated from Dirty South strip clubs to hip cosmopolitan dance floors. How real is that? A few weeks ago, Lady Gaga’s DJ White Shadow uploaded an ...
Westword

From UGK to Chief Keef: A look at the history of trap in rap and its subsequent influence on drill

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Uproxx

Run It Back: How T.I.’s ‘Trap Muzik’ Coined A New Expression For A 2000s Gangsta Rap Revival

Run It Back is a retrospective review of a classic or game-changing hip-hop releases whose style and sound still resonate with listeners in the modern, streaming-driven era. Hip-hop has always been a ...
Uproxx

With ‘Pretty Girls Like Trap Music’ 2 Chainz Claims His Crown As King Of The Trap

From the outset, it’s clear that the rapper formerly known as Tity Boi (calling him this should be a requirement of pretty much any feature about 2 Chainz from now until infinity, by the way), had one ...
NPR

The birth of trap music and the rise of southern hip-hop

In 2003, T.I. and other Atlanta rappers created new subgenre of rap: trap music. Twenty years later, its influence is everywhere. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: About two minutes into the song, "Y'all Scared," ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

‘Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story’ chronicles the power of Atlanta hip-hop and trap music

For the first two decades of rap history, the focal points were New York and Los Angeles. When Atlanta’s OutKast won best new artist at the 1995 Source Awards, they were audibly booed. Atlanta’s ...
Los Angeles Times

Trap karaoke is about more than hip-hop and more than karaoke

Stepping to the front of the stage before a large crowd, the young woman introduced herself simply as “Boo.” Dressed in a colorful bomber jacket, jeans and glasses, Boo is short with a soft, ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rapper Jeezy will play 'Let's Get It' album at St. Louis concert. Here are its 5 best songs

Rapper Jeezy is a storyteller of the trap. Alongside rappers like T.I. and Gucci Mane, Jeezy became a pioneer of trap rap, a subgenre of hip-hop, when it first emerged in the early 2000s. The ...
The Atlantic

The Trap

Clockwise from the left: Offset, Quavo, and Takeoff of the trio Migos; Future; and Lil Reek (Illustration by Matt Williams) Future’s music also showcases the current hallmarks of the southern-born, ...
レッドブル

A brief track-by-track history of trap music

This heavy reliance on production explains why trap has, since 2012, flooded into electronic music, spawning massive international hits and making trap a two-pronged affair. Its trap-rap stars are now ...
ABC News

'Rap Trap': He got his big break in hip-hop. Then his lyrics helped put him behind bars for decades

Rapper Mac Phipps was convicted of manslaughter and served 21 years in prison. When McKinley “Mac” Phipps Jr. signed with No Limit Records in 1997, the up-and-coming rapper had big dreams. “When I ...