Did this trap shyt start with Luger's Hard in the Paint?

[Turbulent]

if we talking about the Trap sound and maybe more specifically the drum patterns then my guess is Shawty Redd.

 

[JustCKing]

The whole trap craze did not start with Jeezy/Shawty Redd. What Jeezy and Shawty Redd were doing was an expansion of what T.I./DJ Toomp were doing. The sound that T.I./DJ Toomp had was birthed from Master P and UGK's "Break Em Off Somethin" according to Toomp. Lex Luger's sound was a combination of the Memphis sound (where Drumma Boy, another architect of the modern trap sound is from) and Shawty Redd's.

That said, Lex Luger's style of trap is what started the whole influx of these new trap producers. From that came EDM trap. It's also when other artists that weren't from Atlanta or even the South jumped on the trap bandwagon. Kanye had Lex co-produce a song for him. Then when Watch The Throne was coming out, Lex produced "Ham". In the South, it was "the sound". Gucci was putting on trap producers and Rick Ross drove that sound into the ground.

 

[28 Gramz]

That said, Lex Luger's style of trap is what started the whole influx of these new trap producers. From that came EDM trap. It's also when other artists that weren't from Atlanta or even the South jumped on the trap bandwagon. Kanye had Lex co-produce a song for him. Then when Watch The Throne was coming out, Lex produced "Ham". In the South, it was "the sound". Gucci was putting on trap producers and Rick Ross drove that sound into the ground.

That Ross/MMG trap sound was never that hot to me, and the shyt has aged like spoiled milk.those brass and horns sounds have always been generic as fukk.

Lex probably the most overrated trap producer of all time.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

Before Lex Luger did rappers from other regions rap over "trap" music?

Everything in life is about timing and Lex Luger came out in I guess, the second wave, second generation of "real" trap producers.

The general feel & sound of trap can't be restricted to a specific region anymore in 2015. Very specifically Trap is some Atlanta shyt but HAM is a trap song in sound. Even Drill music is a derivative of Trap. It captures a similar feel and sound too

Just cause it's a Lex Luger beat don't mean it's trap breh..

in 2015, if you're not from Atlanta and you're rapping on some trap shyt... you just trying to get heard anyway possible.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

Some of the photoshops from the Jeezy's Biggest Movie Ever thread from Hamster

 

[Danie84]

Lowkey, Cool Breeze East Points Greatest Hit was Trap Musik predecessor