No. T.I. was clearly influenced by Cool Breeze and has even name checked Goodie Mob's "Dirty South" before. He's also heavily influenced by UGK, Eightball & MJG, and NWA. DJ Toomp credits Master P's "Bout It" and "Break Em Off" as being influential in the sound he created for T.I. What T.I. did was take all of that and build on Cool Breeze's reference to the trap and developed "trap music". He expanded on it and labeled the sound. He also brought it to the mainstream.
Noisey: Gucci Mane is the most influential rapper of the last decade.
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No. T.I. was clearly influenced by Cool Breeze and has even name checked Goodie Mob's "Dirty South" before. He's also heavily influenced by UGK, Eightball & MJG, and NWA. DJ Toomp credits Master P's "Bout It" and "Break Em Off" as being influential in the sound he created for T.I. What T.I. did was take all of that and build on Cool Breeze's reference to the trap and developed "trap music". He expanded on it and labeled the sound. He also brought it to the mainstream.
Yaboysix
That nikka
They right. Trap and drill.nikka got the most rap kids out this bih! ! Lol
what rap kids tip birthed?
Kanye?
Only Lil Wayne child we got now young thug..oh and he Gucci's too. lol.
what rap kids tip birthed?
Kanye?
Only Lil Wayne child we got now young thug..oh and he Gucci's too. lol.
Nah man you might as well just say every rapper that raps. Future? Maybe? Wiz? Ok and Thugger? Of course.. but everybody else nah 
Prince Cairo
Authentic
Hipsters obsession with those 2 is based around the fact they dont view hip hop as art and think ignorant rap is funny to listen to ironically. Same hipsters that made lil b.
@ the most influential rapper being someone who cant go gold.
Hipsters obsession with those 2 is based around the fact they dont view hip hop as art and think ignorant rap is funny to listen to ironically. Same hipsters that made lil b.
I don't identify as a hipster so I can't really say for sure, but I think that while the irony is there to some degree, they do appreciate the fact that both are talented.
Both Cam and Gucci are talented, there's just no two ways about it.
As for not going gold, who gives a shyt. Album sales in my opinion are the single worst metric to use when having a thorough conversation about music.
Biscayne
Ocean air
Wait a minute? We're giving Gucci Mane the credit for inventing Trap Music? No one person can get credit for that. TI's debut album Trap Muzik came out in 2003. Gucci was still underground, but he was only one of many underground artist with that sound and style of rapping. 2005 is when Trap had a distinct sound. And Gucci yet again, was only one artist out of a couple(Jeezy/Boyz N The Hood, Young Dro, Shawty Low) to really put Trap on the Map. I guess his cadence is the only real influential thing. But even THEN, there were many others with that similar lazy cadence. And what's the deal with Noisy and these other Hipster publications and their obsession with the Atlanta rap scene? It's like they just discovered Southern hip hop and strip clubs 2yrs ago.
i like how nikkas skipped all over this postNot only this but just look at who the hottest producers are right now.
808 Mafia ,Zaytoven and Metro Boomin all come from the Gucci umbrella (808 Mafia came up under Waka...Gucci protege).
3 years ago Gucci dropped 3 different mixtapes with 3 different producers..fast forward to 2015 and there have been 4 different rappers this year to do Zaytoven only tapes
#FreeWop
Biscayne
Ocean air
But even Trap Music as we know it today, is just an amalgamation of Jeezy/Gucci/Dro and basically every Trap rapper of 2005-2010 and Lil Waynes re-introduction of Lean inspired music in Southern Hip-Hop(basically continuing UGK and 3-6 Mafias introduction of Lean-inspired hip-hop to the mainstream 1999/2000). Gucci was one of many. Just one of many. That "Sound" has been around. Today trap is drastically different sonically than what's been popular for the last 15yrs. Trap music is old.....it really is.
Tommy Knocks
retired
lil b
Biscayne
Ocean air
It was meh. Some episodes were interesting. Other episodes showed nothing you didn't already know if you've been listening to hip-hop for the last 10-11yrs. #Atlanta #Strip Clubs #Guns #Dope Boys #Gentrification #Atlanta=Capital of Black Upward Mobility, #Atlanta=Transportation/Logistics Hub, making it a hub for drug distribution, #BMF
^^^That's basically what all those Noisey/Vice vids boiled down to. But all of this had been said before in Atlanta rap songs.
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
All you nikkaz on Gooch, Wayne, jeezy dikk.
You better not ever in ya life say sumfin outta order to:
Art Barr
As I am the very fukkin reason you have a place to talk about Dem nikkaz at, period.
Plus, I am totally sick of these new publication writers trying to be me.
The thread topic should be.
Why does every rap critic at these magazines wanna be:
Art Barr
You better not ever in ya life say sumfin outta order to:
Art Barr
As I am the very fukkin reason you have a place to talk about Dem nikkaz at, period.
Plus, I am totally sick of these new publication writers trying to be me.
The thread topic should be.
Why does every rap critic at these magazines wanna be:
Art Barr
Biscayne
Ocean air
That's all well and dandy. And an interesting read. But Gucci didn't create Trap Music.Gucci is extremely talented. And dude is a great rapper.
I'm gonna echo my mans Yams right here cause the shade people who dikkridd lyrical rap constantly throw at rappers like Gucci is tiring and boring
Nah we gotta thank weezy for the trash direction it's been going in 