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 💯
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.
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
“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.
dj spanish fly was also creating music at that time, i highly doubt mantronik was one. however i will say that ryuichi sakamoto's stuff somewhat resembled uk grime which is kinda eerie considering futurista!! came out when dizzee was in nappies 😂
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.
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
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.
before even tommy wright three six mafia. Let's takk abt DJ SPANISH FLY doesnt get more og than that!!! this guy was droppin the trap style beats back in 84 85 86.. before NWA even got together.. (just as 3 6 started way before bone thugs, even if it was just paul n infamous 😂)
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.
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.
Zaytoven and lex Luger are the ones who pioneered todays sound. Three 6 Mafia delineated The boom bap sound. I wouldn't call it trap. However, I don't think trap would be possible without their groundwork
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.
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
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.
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.
listen to skimask troopaz sticc up n tell me that beat dont sound like drill or another song they made Violence that had a metal punkish vibe to it .. memphis didnt just have horror orey sounds they had chiller tapes n funnier ones esp from mack dle like pervert and the start of Aint Barrin No Blood Stains @@bhka6423
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" 🤦🏾🙄
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 💯
fr this slob on my knob shit is so old and sounds exactly like modern songs
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.
Right?! and what about Zaytoven?
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
Trap music didn't really get mainstream attention until Tip debuted & put trap music on the map nationwide
How can we talk about the history of trap without mentioning Tommy wright III
Exactly you get it 💯
heez mo memphis shit
and dj spanish fly in 1987. that guy doesn know 🤦🏾
You deserve SO much more views and subs. Was trying to explain trap to my mom (and myself) and this helped.
“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.
trap is also a verb now. "Trappin"
Thanks man. I appreciate you taking the time.
I understand better now.
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!
Great video good stuff man
How you forget oj da juiceman
Subscriber from Chandigarh,India bro.
Thx bro glad ur here
Kurtis Mantronik also had a big influence on the trap sound with his work in the '80s.
dj spanish fly was also creating music at that time, i highly doubt mantronik was one. however i will say that ryuichi sakamoto's stuff somewhat resembled uk grime which is kinda eerie considering futurista!! came out when dizzee was in nappies 😂
Gucci is the epitome of what trap music is ,...
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
Nice video earned a sub
Can’t give a history lesson on trap music without mentioning ghetto mafia
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.
I aint gonna lie. It wasn't nothing like the Jeezy/Gucci era. They had the streets on 🔥
Bro your doing better then a great job explaining much❤
Schooly D from Philadelphia created gangsta rap. NWA & Ice T popularized it.
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
fire video
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.
The best way to sum it up is basically Trap music is southern (specifically Atlanta) biased gangsta rap
TIP👑👑👑👑
Memphis made all this sound son
What is the song in which TI sit on a throne wearing white Tee
ppl should never forget how edm trap, ended up circling back and influencing the original
💯 kinda forgotten but a worthwhile discussion
damn even uk's edm styles lol
Zaytoven invented trap music.
before even tommy wright three six mafia. Let's takk abt DJ SPANISH FLY
doesnt get more og than that!!! this guy was droppin the trap style beats back in 84 85 86.. before NWA even got together.. (just as 3 6 started way before bone thugs, even if it was just paul n infamous 😂)
That gangsta walk nd cement shoes tha shit 💯
@ you know ! 🤜🏾
How about busta rhymes? Was he one of the first people that his tracks sounded like trap?
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.
I feel you but UA-cam is quick to copyright claim videos for the slightest reason 😂
Is Outkast technically trap ? And 3 6?
yes...
@@SodaSeezn no. OutKast is Southern Hip Hop. Triple 6 was crunk/buckin underground hip hop
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.
Trap music was invented from Decatur
T.I.
Zaytoven and lex Luger are the ones who pioneered todays sound.
Three 6 Mafia delineated The boom bap sound. I wouldn't call it trap. However, I don't think trap would be possible without their groundwork
BOOM BAP BOOM BOOM BAP!
GHETTO MAFIA STARTED TRAP MUSIC!!!!!
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.
Exactly , ...period
Facts
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
Causin Drama 1999.
Project pat started trap music do your research
nah it was DJ Spanish Fly by half a decade lol
This shit sound like a high school essay. Loosen up!
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.
you realise memphis rappers were doing that 10-15 years before 2001? lol.
atlantans have the funniest revisionist history lol. memphis is where its at, check out dj spanish fly's stuff from 1987 to 1990
Bothers me to no end that the young people of today consider Travis Scott to be trap music
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
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.
listen to skimask troopaz sticc up n tell me that beat dont sound like drill or another song they made Violence that had a metal punkish vibe to it .. memphis didnt just have horror orey sounds they had chiller tapes n funnier ones esp from mack dle like pervert and the start of Aint Barrin No Blood Stains @@bhka6423
Latinos started trap life but Gucci mane make it happen
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" 🤦🏾🙄
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!
Nwa made it popular u cant deny that og
@@zaydagoat6952 ofc, but everyone knows that, credit where credit is due. Schooly D!
Kool g rap 😎
a quick 7 min vid how hip hop died