With a calendar comprised of reunion tours and golden era anniversaries, the past few years have been mostly celebratory for hip-hop. As the genre approaches its fifth decade—after having been ...

Members of The Sainted Trap Choir rehearse a dance choreography in a church in uptown ahead of their performance at the Knight Theater on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. A festival aimed at amplifying Black ...

Fetty Wap's "Trap Queen" has been the song of choice for most of the summer in Paterson, N.J. When we first got wind of it in July, the song's rough draft had around 500,000 plays on SoundCloud. It is ...

Much of the discussion around producer-helmed rap albums favors the so-called boom-bap variety. Where fans clamor for their favorite lyricists to lock in with one producer, like Nas and Hit-Boy, Gibbs ...

If you’ve driven down Howell Mill recently, you might have noticed one of the homes on the street is not like the other. The bright, pink one with the word “trap” written on the front in big, black ...

T.I. talks Trap Music and his key role in turning it into a musical genre. T.I. also offered his Mt. Rushmore of Trap Music: Trap Music originated in the Southern United States, particularly in the ...