A Quick 7 Min. History of Trap Music: Who Really Started It?
The #historyoftrapmusic is actually a pretty interesting story. #trapmusic has probably been the most popular sub genre of rap for quite some time. It's spawned a host of artistic offspring, and like it or not, shaped an entire generation.
You can always tell a trap song by the signature beat style-it's stuttering kick drums, and hi-hats and of course 808s and synths.
Not long ago both TI and Gucci Mane staked clam as being the inventor of Trap music, and weather you got off the porch in 2003 to TI's Trap Misik album or in 05 with Gucci's Trap House, you might argue that one of them actually did. But the fact is, the roots for what would be latter crowned "Trap Music" was actually laid out years earlier than either of the 2 rappers.
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Three 6 Mafia/Dj Paul & Juicy J deserved much more inclusion in this. Literally all of todays rap or trap music has been influenced by them. Their lyrics are used as adlibs for songs and their sound has been duplicated numerous times. That said this is definitely a very informative video my guy 💯
@carolinsheikholeslami1753
Жыл бұрын
fr this slob on my knob shit is so old and sounds exactly like modern songs
@prowlerbog
Жыл бұрын
Pfff all this trash started when little Wayne came up with that stupid style of his. Singing out of his nostrils and looking clownly. Now all trap sounds like that and no one is an exception to the rule. It’s fucked up, repetitive, empty, soulless and stupid. Change my mind.
@TRFAD
Жыл бұрын
Right?! and what about Zaytoven?
How can we talk about the history of trap without mentioning Tommy wright III
@donnybb2020
10 ай бұрын
Exactly you get it 💯
@Sajlo2010
19 күн бұрын
heez mo memphis shit
Trap music didn't really get mainstream attention until Tip debuted & put trap music on the map nationwide
If Memphis were never here, we wouldn’t have trap, period. If you disagree, listen to a Memphis song like “drag em to the river by lord infamous” and speed it up to 1.25 speed, it’s a trap beat. Memphis rap is the father of trap music
You deserve SO much more views and subs. Was trying to explain trap to my mom (and myself) and this helped.
Thanks man. I appreciate you taking the time. I understand better now.
How you forget oj da juiceman
Your way of bringing order to the chaos through a geographical lenses is most helpful.
God, this is EXACTLY the kind of video and information I was looking for. Thank you!
This was great man . Being 27 I didn’t apreciate trap until about the Zaytoven/ Migos/Future era. And of the videos I’ve seen so far, this seems to be the most accurate and informative.
@513hook513
7 ай бұрын
I aint gonna lie. It wasn't nothing like the Jeezy/Gucci era. They had the streets on 🔥
Subscriber from Chandigarh,India bro.
@takeflight2142
2 жыл бұрын
Thx bro glad ur here
Kurtis Mantronik also had a big influence on the trap sound with his work in the '80s.
Gucci is the epitome of what trap music is ,...
@1dawg243
11 ай бұрын
And that’s terrible
T.I definitely influenced me a lot!! It’s crazy how hes like underrated and don’t get talk a lot now
Memphis made all this sound son
Went through a few phases- Started in the early 2000s was extremely unique and few people doin it while the whole bling bling and ringtone sound was poppin, 2008-2014, I like to think that as the golden age when it came into its own, was still true to its roots, was fresh, popular but not necessarily mainstream, and then post 2015, where it got poppy, saturated everyone doin it and it’s just getting further from its roots and as mainstream as it gets
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“Trap” is not short for trap house. The “trap” is any place drugs are sold. It could be a house, it could be a gas station, it could be a block, it could be a cut in the woods.
@linkintheskywithrupees
15 күн бұрын
trap is also a verb now. "Trappin"
Great video good stuff man
So, if I'm understanding this correctly, "trap music" is a bass-heavy and drum-heavy instrumental with lyrics about drug-selling, pimping, and (for the ladies) stripping, made in the South in response to West coast gangsta rap. Forgive me if I sound really ignorant, but that just sounds like almost every rap song that I hear, minus knowing if it originates in the South. Is it just that trap music is everywhere, or am I missing something? I don't listen to rap often, but the other kinds of rap I can think of, that sound distinctive, is gangsta rap, autotune rap, pop rap, rock rap, country rap, and "consciousness" rap like Naz or Lupe Fiasco. Forgive me if these aren't actual genres. Sadly, I'm still not sure if I can identify trap music.
@takeflight2142
Жыл бұрын
The best way to sum it up is basically Trap music is southern (specifically Atlanta) biased gangsta rap
Schooly D from Philadelphia created gangsta rap. NWA & Ice T popularized it.
Bro your doing better then a great job explaining much❤
Nice video earned a sub
ppl should never forget how edm trap, ended up circling back and influencing the original
Can’t give a history lesson on trap music without mentioning ghetto mafia
fire video
T.I.
I liked it. But I think it Would be better if you played some trap music and explained its evolution from a musical perspective. Play clips. Talk about the style. What actually makes it trap? Etc.
@takeflight2142
Жыл бұрын
I feel you but KZread is quick to copyright claim videos for the slightest reason 😂
How did the scary sounding off key music get started in trap music and what was the influence? It's hard on the ears compared to the 90's gangster rap melody of Dre, tupac, Biggie etc. Thanks!
@relixtheundergod
2 жыл бұрын
Three 6 Mafia specifically producers DJ Paul and Juicy J but if you want to go even deeper- check out the producer and dj, DJ Squeeky. And if you really want to go even deeper, check out DJ Spanish Fly. Influencer of ALL said producers.
All y’all is wrong trap music originated in Atlanta by hitman sammy sam being the first trap rapper even though he rapped about drugs his trap meaning or the original mean for trap was the housing projects back in the day they were referred to as death traps or the dope traps. Atlantas projects were huge and built one way in one way out. So you would get trapped and killed or trapped In the projects.
@Jimmy-Jump
11 ай бұрын
Trap music was invented from Decatur
Zaytoven invented trap music.
BOOM BAP BOOM BOOM BAP!
Not true. The creator of trap was a Puerto Rican dude named DJ Fortuno, he brought his beats to atlanta to Gucci Mane in 2001. They loved how he used the drums as a base line pitching up and down and the combination of the hi hats. Then he brought the beats to a studio in a trap house. They stole his ideas.
Project pat started trap music do your research
This shit sound like a high school essay. Loosen up!
How about busta rhymes? Was he one of the first people that his tracks sounded like trap?
What is the song in which TI sit on a throne wearing white Tee
What ever happened to Warren G? Sigh....
Causin Drama 1999.
GHETTO MAFIA STARTED TRAP MUSIC!!!!!
Is Outkast technically trap ? And 3 6?
@SodaSeezn
6 ай бұрын
yes...
@Bigsteppa651
4 ай бұрын
@@SodaSeezn no. OutKast is Southern Hip Hop. Triple 6 was crunk/buckin underground hip hop
You being way too inclusive with this lol You can't just say a southern rapper who raps about selling drugs is a Trap rapper. ATLANTA made a Completely different sound, coined a new term, and created a Subgenre all on its own. While Memphis and Houston had a big influence on Hip Hop in general, they didnt have a big Influence or any at all on Trap. Atlanta Greats like Dungeon Family and Ghetto Mafia coined that term and gave birth to it and they were nowhere included in the video. You're shedding the Atlanta Identity to include southern rappers who happened to rap about selling drugs sometimes to expand the "Trap Universe" and it is just not that Expansive as far as it's Conception is Concerned.
@jamusjones5237
Жыл бұрын
Exactly , ...period
@kenkroc2296
Жыл бұрын
Facts
@1dawg243
11 ай бұрын
They didn’t coin the phrase trap music. Tip did. Using the word and coining the phrase is two different things. No one called it “Trap Musik” before Tip
Latinos started trap life but Gucci mane make it happen
Bothers me to no end that the young people of today consider Travis Scott to be trap music
@takeflight2142
10 ай бұрын
Kids these days 😂
Memphis made the sound but it wasn't trap music it was gangsta music which selling drugs is a part of but Atlanta made that trap shit
@bhka6423
9 ай бұрын
Memphis laid the foundation for Trap music, but Memphis Rap sounds distinct from modern Trap music and 2000‘s Trap. Memphis rap sounded less electronic and had a horrorcore sound. In fact, many Memphis rap songs don’t even sound like Trap music AT ALL (listen to some early Skinny Pimp songs) except for the 808 drums (that were also used by LL Cool J or Afrika Bambaataa). Memphis Rap also had some West Coast influence. You can hear it when you listen to King of Da Playaz Ball or Can it be.
It needs to go away now. Hip hop is getting stagnant.
gansta rap actually started on the east coast moved to the west, know ur history youngblood!
@zaydagoat6952
Жыл бұрын
Nwa made it popular u cant deny that og
@theactorjohnlarroquette
Жыл бұрын
@@zaydagoat6952 ofc, but everyone knows that, credit where credit is due. Schooly D!
@DoneDeal2
Жыл бұрын
Kool g rap 😎
There's this kid online tryna deny that memphis played a part in how trap came around and im just here fuming thats the dumbest thing i ever heard bruh hea doubling down on it too "no one knows tommy wright hes irrelevent" 🤦🏾🙄
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