Trap Music

trap music is based on use of the 808 roland drum machine, pitched and re-sampled hiphop/rap vocals, pipe flutes, gangsta synth leads, and various fx. similar to rap without the main vocal, trap music has been gaining lots of attention from major dj’s and labels. although, the style originated many years ago, trap music has recently been making a new school comeback in many new forms such as “trap”, “chirp”, “seapunk”, “psytrap”, and “trapstep”. earliest known examples can be found by artists such as triple six mafia, ugk, swisha house, and gucci mane. tempos range widely from 135-175bpm which is uncommon for most major genres of electronic dance music (edm).

in laymen’s terms, trap music would be best described as a recipe;

1/3 hip hop (tempo and song structure similar) – however vocals are usually pitched lower or higher
1/3 dubstep (similar drum arrangements, different builds and drops)
1/3 dub (low frequency focus and strong emphasis on repet-tiveness throughout a song)
this is trap music:
tnght – bugg’n (hudson mohawke x lunice)
music you listen to while selling your dope in da trap mostly southern rap, t.i., jezzy, lil webbie, bun b, etc
t.i. even named his h-t alb-m this
yo, bert put on some trap music, the package just arrived, it is grind time
a genre of hip hop music that is supposed to discuss about “life in the trap”. however, it completely fails at doing that. rather than seeing trap rappers paint vivid pictures of hustling scenarios in their music (what mafioso rappers used to do), we instead see them using elementary rhymes while glorifying drug use, s-x, money, and hoes. it’s even worse when they try to describe street violence, because instead of using imagery to elaborate on street violence, they just say some sh-t like “i shot a n-gg- after i pulled a trigga/ f-ck these n-gg-s, i’m a real killa” worst of all, trap beats are the most annoying thing ever. trap beats consist of annoying high-pitched synths with too much b-ss and snares that don’t even sound like real snares.
these b-tches love sosa
o end or no end
f-cking with them o boys
you gon’ get f-cked over
rari’s and rovers
these hoes love chief sosa
hit him with that cobra
now that boy slumped over
they do it all for sosa
you boys ain’t making no noise
ya’ll know i’m a glo boy
your clique full of broke boys
g-d ya’ll some broke boys
g-d ya’ll some broke boys
we gbe dope boys
we got lots of dough boy
-chief keef

while chief keef writes rhymes similar to those of dr. suess and rhymes “boy” with “boy”, he seems to forget about actually rapping about “the trap,” the most fundamental aspect of trap music
trap music = rap/hiphop + dubstep + techno/dance + h-lla base + “d-mn son where’d you find this”. supporters enjoy this new genre, especially those who enjoy all the music genres included into trap. listening to trap may blow your mind and be -ssociated with having a good -ss high/fade/day/night. its up and coming and has been rapidly gaining fans the past few years.
guy #1: hey! you heard of trap music? check out this mix i downloaded from youtube. it’s f-ckin dope!
background music: “run da trap”
friend #1: this sh-t f-cked up my speakers!! i still think its sick doe.
friend #2: this is gay, i don’t like rap.
friend #3: i don’t like techno.
friend #4: turn this sh-t up!!!!!!!!!!!
a type of rap music where rhyming ”n-gg-” with ”n-gg-” is apparently acceptable because of the ”raw and gritty” nature of the songs.

typical trap music verse:

“we crazy killier n-gg-s one super n-gg-
big black n-gg- n-gg- n-gg- n-gg- n-gg-
sup my n-gg- n-gg- you a n-gg-
me and my squad be n-gg- n-gg-s”
jeff listened to some trap music and changed his name to apple juice killa, sold oregano to his homies and rhymed n-gg- with n-gg-.
(electronicdancemusic) b-ss music that shares similarities with dub-step. although they shares drum arrangements it is often accompanied with the (hey) -ssociated with some southern rap. the builds and drops of the b-ss are more subtle in trap music than dub-step.
“hey have u heard that styles&complete version of “bulls on parade”? is that dub-step”? -dj uneducated

“yeah, like a billion times…you hear the “hey” in there that sounds like a lil’ jon song” – dj educated

“yeah”- dj uneducated

“that makes it “trap music”” – dj educated
trance + rap = trap

and just like that, we’ve all been mind f-cked~
rl grime ~ mercy
that’s all you need to know about trap music.

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