Last week, both Gucci Mane and T.I. have both staked their claim as inventors of trap music. And rightfully so, both are innovators of the subgenre. Tip claims the music started with his 2003 album ...
For the past decade-plus, trap music has indicated a particularly narrow musical aesthetic. It's referred to a particular breed of Southern street rap, featuring ominous synthesizer sounds, booming ...
I watched history unfold at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on Friday (Sept. 19), and let’s just say trap music never looked more regal. Grand Marnier and multi-platinum rapper, Future, ...
The Roland-TR808 is the backbone of a lot of trap rap and EDM, and now the two genres are beginning to intersect. Credit: Joe Holmes In the mid-aughts a wave of steely-eyed southern rappers introduced ...