What is cheat music? According to T. I. , in the name of its Muzik gender definition trap, it is an album and it is a game. In fact, the origins of the trap go beyond music, in the corners of Atlanta, where drugs are treated and elastic are filled in the houses where the crack is cooked, weighing and packed.

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These days, you are more likely to listen to the word “trap” in an elegant dance club than in an underground hip-hop club, but long before Trac is affiliated with a safe flavor of dance music, defended a few rappers with a hard nose whose life, according to the call of the genre, trapped in the drugs of American ghettos. Before the trap, a musical trope, it is a literal trap and a means of survival.

The trap, as is known in rap circles, is tangentially connected to the trap as is known in EDM circles. The DJs such as Flosstradamus, UZ and Baauer borrowed competitive production elements of traps traps, which were fired since 808, almost collars and vintage melodies, to increase the power of their epic drops. In addition to some musical qualities, electronic trap and rap have little in common.

The roots of the rap trap, which will now be called only “trap” or “trap music”, were sown in the south in the 90s with acts of gangsta-rap such as 8 ball & mjg of Memphis, teacher P de nola and UGK of Port Aurthur, many of which financed their dream of rap with illegal activities such as the sale of drugs and reds. Music did not look like cheat music as we know today, but trapped music in a broad sense: music in life without the option of ascending mobility.

During the last 90 in Atlanta, the term “trap” began to refer in particular to Crackhouse, and the rappers like Outkast, Ghetto Mafia and A-Dam Dame began to come with the word in their music. Outkast, one of the cleanest acts to attract classic attention at that time, used the word in “SpottieottiDopiscous:” “The United plot service and the other people from the subsequent workplace did not remind you because you had a cloudy urine, so now you return to the trap, fair, trapped. “

While Outkast warned his listeners to avoid traps traps, other rappers kissed the life of the drug, calling themselves “trap stars”, with the amount of “work” so that they can return because, well, they all deserve to be proud of their work. For a safe time, the trap was a derogatory term for rap sometimes ignorant, which is unfair, because those MC were only taking advantage of the life they have experienced, which they perceived as their only career option. It is not necessary to say that rapping in this life even though everything has become fashionable, and as the millennium changed, it has become difficult to distinguish which rappers were geniunal journalists and who were artists of functionality.

In 2003, the trap plan came here in the study album of Atlanta T. I. , Trap Mazik. YOU. He explained his intentions: “Whether it is in the trap for the sale of the drug, which buys in the trap to buy drugs, which he considers in the trap to leave, whatever the case, I review to face all the facets of this lifestyle. ” The album has covered the glamor of this life (“24’s”), the tragedy (“be easy”) and everything else. And not only told the history now a family of the trap, the production of DJ Troomp, David Banner and T. I. He himself began to resemble the sound that we checked to catch music today.

Two years later, the rapper of Atlanta, Young Jeezy, published his trap or death of Mixtape, as well as the multi-platin let’s get it: Thug motivation 101, and Trap Music exceeded its full type of rap. “And then what”, which represents the manufacture and sale of crack, the main single from the album and presented in MTV and radio stations throughout the country.

Even the great advertising successes such as “My Hood” (who borrowed the dominant melody of “Rubberband Man” by T. I. ) remained close to the granulated drug life: “Remember when I was 16 years old with a Bankroll / shown in a corner like a soft post / call us stars of the track / even before stopping, we ran towards them. ” The production of Shawty Redd, Mannie Fresh and Drumma Boy also established the production trends that would be synonyms for trap music.

The same year, some other Atlanta rapper, Gucci Mane, would publish his first album, Trap House, largely produced through Zaytoven, who marked a seal dispute with the young Jeeezy in the song “Icy” and an accusation of homicide at Gucci. In the coming years, Gucci has published a large number of Mixtapes, some of which with the remarkable DJ Trap-A-Holics trap.

In 2007, Gucci founded 1017 Brick Squad, the label that would have some of the maximum traps figures of the new decade, adding Waka Fanka Flame, Lex Luger and Chief Keef. Under his new label, after a six -month imprisonment period, Gucci published the state vs. Radric Davis in 2009 and the appeal: Georgia Most Wanned in 2010, its two maximum success albums.

In 2010, Lex Luger took the impulse of the trap. When generating the maximum of the clues for Flockaveli by Wacka Fankka Flame and several clues in Teflon Don de Rick Ross, Luger has the essential manufacturer of the final sound. His taste presents exclusive hi-huks, low necklaces and antémica melodies, and his paintings with Flowa and Ross adapt to the party. This is where EDM and Trap are beginning to know and why Lex Luger is one of the maximum influential EDM and rap manufacturers in the beyond five years.

Where Lex Luger and Flowa brought some of the lightest, but absolutely explicit, of the music of the trap to date, an exercise, a trap derivative founded on Southsoid Chicago, brought it back on the dark side. Exercise is the antithesis of the classic sound of moving rap of Chicago; It is hypnotic and nihilistic music, without self -awareness or what would be considered as a rap conventionally lyrical, and is deeply connected to the challenge of Chicago’s violent crime. The drill was founded through the deceased rapper Pacman as a representation of the life of the gangs of Chicago Southside. There are no full animals. Without filling.

This is where the long execution of the trap is headed and where until now the maximum vital trap manufacturers have returned in terms of influence. The national training escape can be attributed to a single song, “I don’t like” through chef Keef, produced through Young Chop, which lists Lex Luger, Zaytoven, Drumamma Boy and Shawty Redd as precursors of vital flavor. Given the KEEF despite all Rich, the first national drilling album, critics hate music. Again, they hated the trap when it also began.

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