Real Talk, should Trap music just become it's own genre?

[Wild self]

I have a hard time to believe that the same genre that produced "Paid in Full" "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" "Illmatic" and even albums in the 00s like "A Long Hot Summer" and so on, be in the same genre as these auto tune singing, hard hook making, slow delivery trap stars on turn up beats.

Just best for both rap and trap music to separate and be happy being their own entities.

 

[Wild self]

@PhonZhi @The HONORABLE SKJ

 

[Matt504]

Trap music is it's own genre, Gucci makes this distinction on a few songs.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

I basically is in my opinion.....Guns & Roses and Jon Mayer shouldn't both be (and aren't) considered Rock & Roll because the both feature guitars.

 

[Wild self]

Trap music is it's own genre, Gucci makes this distinction on a few songs.

But some people call it Hip Hop music

That shyt is far too different.

 

[Matt504]

But some people call it Hip Hop music

That shyt is far too different.

Those people are wrong.

 

[ManxOfxThexYear]

Why can't they co-exist together in the same genre? Why do they gotta be segregated?

 

[Insensitive]

I don't think "Trap" music is so far removed from the other styles that preceded it
(Snap and Crunk for example) that it needs to be considered an entirely new genre.

If we omit trap then we can go just a lil further back and omit Pastor Troy, Lil Jon &
the eastside boyz or David banner, go even further back and you eliminate 3-6 Mafia etc.
And if Trap music isn't safe what about Hyphy music ? Do we go on a Bay Area purge next ?
Because that sounds pretty damn different from Eric B. And Rakim.
What about Bounce music ? What about Texas/Houston Screw ?

If you ask me "Trap" music fits in Hip Hop and where it fits is as a sub-genre.
"G-Funk (or really P funk...) is a sound and it sounds distinctly different from Boom Bap
and as it got more sophisticated you'd be hard pressed to say it's similar to that.
"Boom Bap" is a sound and it's distinctly different from the more 808 heavy
sound that preceded it in the 80's.
"Crunk" is a sound and it's very different from the sampled soul beats
of last decade not to mention they're two different styles that co-existed.
"Soul beats/Chip Munk" sound is different from Boom Bap as well, "Jazz Hop"
is different as is "Instrumental Hip Hop".

This list is not exhaustive and if you ask me they're all different but they all fit under the Hip Hop
umbrella. Not to mention they all have similar ideas musically from rapping to production tools.


And I gotta ask man what is your beef with "Turn up beats" or "Music for social settings" ?
I've noticed almost all of your posts concerning trap or really any party music are filled
with this disdain and scorn for music that's primarily made for parties and dancing.

Even then "Trap" is just a sound it has no bearing over what's rapped over it.
"Alright" from Kendrick's album sounds very contemporary and clearly borrows heavily from
the "Trap" sound yet the ideas communicated over it are pretty far removed from RHQ/Young Thug/Migos.

 

[Kitsune]

fukk the south, its influence and legacy on the genre is the equivalent to what crack did in the 80s

 

[SuburbanPimp]

How? Isn't Trap Music rap?

What makes it so different or unique

Its nikkas talking about selling drugs, right?

I disagree because I argue with my potnas about what Trap Music is..

For instance, I don't consider Future a "trap rapper"

Real Trap Music is actually kinda dead to me, it's just producers making "trap" beats

 

[Kitsch]

 

[AMcV'88]

all that mundane J. Cole is rotting your brain.

 

[AkaDemiK]

trap music is it's own genre out in europe....it's not quite like the rap trap shyt we bump tho..



they got the idea for this new genre from us too...

 

[mobbinfms]

It's time to file for divorce. Trap is going to have to pay substantial alimony to boom bap though.

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Gucci Already told yall he ain't no rapper he fukking grave digger