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 ...

Trap music. It does not belong in a modern dance club filled with dubstep tunes and strobe lights. Trap music. It does not involve Waka Flocka lyrics strung throughout a dance remix. Trap music. It is ...

When music as a career choice is still debated in Indian households, what makes the son of an Indian computer engineer take it up — that too trap music — full time? “Curiosity and passion,” says ...

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.

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 ...

Trap is the perfect crossover between EDM and hip-hop. In fact, this genre is responsible for some of music’s hottest artists, from T.I. and Waka Flocka to, more recently, RL Grime and Flosstradamus.