Phoenix rapper Trap has released a new song from his forthcoming mixtape, I Never Sleep. The song is called “My Gucci” and features Trap flowing over a trippy beat and a Slick Rick “La Di Da Di” ...

For the past decade-plus, trap music has indicated a particularly narrow musical aesthetic. It's referred to a particular breed of Southern street rap, featuring ominous synthesizer sounds, booming ...

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 is the perfect crossover between EDM and hip-hop. In fact, this genre is responsible for some of music’s hottest artists, from T.I. and Waka Flocka to, more recently, RL Grime and Flosstradamus.

Everyone from Sabrina Carpenter to the Jonas Brothers are lip-syncing to a mashup of 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up?" and Nicki Minaj's "Beez in the Trap" In August 2025, TikTok user @dj.auxlord created a ...

Just because Brian Tyree Henry plays Paper Boi, a budding rapper in the FX series Atlanta, doesn’t mean that he actually knows trap music IRL. Suggested Reading The Story of Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat ...

Listen to the trap songs that show the sub-genre’s evolution from street-level hip-hop to chart-topping pop phenomenon. This heavy reliance on production explains why trap has, since 2012, flooded ...

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 ...