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 ...

In 2003, T.I. and other Atlanta rappers created new subgenre of rap: trap music. Twenty years later, its influence is everywhere. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: About two minutes into the song, "Y'all Scared," ...

Trap gets thrown around so casually that almost any rap song ends up wearing the label. You hear someone rapping over a beat with drums? That’s trap. A song has a heavy bassline? Trap. A rapper uses ...

Learn the origins of trap music, its evolution from Southern US streets, why it connects with Nigerian listeners and find out how trap differs from rap. Trap gets thrown around so casually that almost ...

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 ...

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 ...

The introduction of the sad trap genre is the epitome popular culture evolving and reinventing pieces of itself to fit the youth’s changing perspectives, and though it still promotes questionable ...

Recently, there was a very public back-and-forth between Gucci Mane and T.I. about who invented trap music. The blow-by-blow has been well-documented, and it’s started a very public debate—some of the ...