What is trap music? According to T.I., on the title track of his genre-defining Trap Muzik, it ain’t no album and it ain’t no game. Indeed, the origins of trap go beyond music — beyond even the ...

Much of the discussion around producer-helmed rap albums favors the so-called boom-bap variety. Where fans clamor for their favorite lyricists to lock in with one producer, like Nas and Hit-Boy, Gibbs ...

In a recent interview with Angie Martinez, T.I. said--among other things--that he created trap music. “There was no such thing as trap music prior to [T.I.]," he said. "No such thing. It didn’t exist.

The introduction of the sad trap genre is the epitome popular culture evolving and reinventing pieces of itself to fit the youth’s changing perspectives, and though it still promotes questionable ...

On Saturday, Zaytoven, Sonny Digital and Metro Boomin sat together for a hour-long conversation. Hosted by Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York, it was part of the “Trapped” edition of their ...

Gucci Mane is the latest rapper to stake his claim as the inventor of the rap sub-genre trap music. On Friday (April 6), the Atlanta rapper posted a Flash Back Friday photo that looks like it was ...

Trap Jazz (now streaming on Hulu) takes us to Atlanta, Georgia, where musicians and childhood pals Chris Moten, Cassius Jay, and Devon “Stixx” Taylor have drawn on the distinctive rhythms and themes ...

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Members of The Sainted Trap Choir rehearse a dance choreography in a church in uptown ahead of their performance at the Knight Theater on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. A festival aimed at amplifying Black ...

In a new interview with Power 105.1's Angie Martinez, T.I. says he's the originator of trap music. By Carl Lamarre T.I. has never been bashful about his standing in Southern rap. In a new interview ...