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 ...

Xavier Lamar Dotson, professionally known as Zaytoven, has become synonymous with the sound of modern trap music. From his early days experimenting on cassette tapes in a friend’s studio to producing ...

Earlier this month, Future found himself off the Billboard charts for the first time in over three years. He’ll most likely jump right back near the top when he releases the new music he recently ...

Learn the origins of trap music, its evolution from Southern US streets, why it connects with Nigerian listeners and find out how trap differs from rap. Trap gets thrown around so casually that almost ...

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 ...

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," ...

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 ...