How do y’all define Trap Music?

IllmaticDelta

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it's all about the production

Trap is a style of popular music that developed in the late 1990s to early 2000s from Southern hip hop in the United States.[1][2] It is typified by double or triple-time sub-divided hi-hats,[3] heavy kick drums from the Roland TR-808 drum machine, layered synthesizers and an overall dark, ominous or bleak atmosphere.[4][5]

The content isn't that unique. It's basically the same as any other drug game/gangsta related music from the other regions in the USA. What is different is the localized lingo.
 

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Right now its a sound to me, a different kinda beat

808s sub bass, heavy kick drums, double or tripledtime sub divided high hats

But of course its roots come from memphis/ ATL nikkaz rappin about the ''trap'' which is a drug or stash house

so the term might come from rappin about trappin but I think its evolved to become a subgenre of rap identified by a different type of beat

I could be wrong but its my perception :yeshrug:
 

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i never liked it. it didn't sound human to me. it sounded very computerized and not well thought about. not all of it though.
 

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It is more than just production that's why people refer to the style of production as trap beats. If you're referencing trap music, it's the production coupled with the content, lifestyle, and/or lingo. There's a quote from 2Chainz explaining it when he talked about his album Pretty Girls Like Trap Music.
 
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