A Quick 7 Min. History of Trap Music: Who Really Started It?

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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

God, this is EXACTLY the kind of video and information I was looking for. Thank you!

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.

Subscriber from Chandigarh,India bro.

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Latinos started trap life but Gucci mane make it happen

Gucci is the epitome of what trap music is ,...

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 💯

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.

gansta rap actually started on the east coast moved to the west, know ur history youngblood!

ppl should never forget how edm trap, ended up circling back and influencing the original

How can we talk about the history of trap without mentioning Tommy wright III

Memphis made all this sound son

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Your way of bringing order to the chaos through a geographical lenses is most helpful.

You deserve SO much more views and subs. Was trying to explain trap to my mom (and myself) and this helped.

Bro your doing better then a great job explaining much❤

How you forget oj da juiceman

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.

How about busta rhymes? Was he one of the first people that his tracks sounded like trap?

It needs to go away now. Hip hop is getting stagnant.

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" 🤦🏾🙄

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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

Great video good stuff man

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.

Kurtis Mantronik also had a big influence on the trap sound with his work in the '80s.

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.

Causin Drama 1999.

Thanks man. I appreciate you taking the time.
I understand better now.

Project pat started trap music do your research

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

Bothers me to no end that the young people of today consider Travis Scott to be trap music

Is Outkast technically trap ? And 3 6?

What is the song in which TI sit on a throne wearing white Tee

GHETTO MAFIA STARTED 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.

Trap music didn't really get mainstream attention until Tip debuted & put trap music on the map nationwide

Can’t give a history lesson on trap music without mentioning ghetto mafia

Zaytoven invented trap music.

Schooly D from Philadelphia created gangsta rap. NWA & Ice T popularized it.

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.

T.I definitely influenced me a lot!! It’s crazy how hes like underrated and don’t get talk a lot now

This shit sound like a high school essay. Loosen up!

atlantans have the funniest revisionist history lol. memphis is where its at, check out dj spanish fly's stuff from 1987 to 1990

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 😂)

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