So who really started trap music?

[TRFG]

Breh 3 6 Mafia was probably had the first and best Trapping song I ever heard.

Dope Boy Fresh

 

[Youngblood Priest]

I dont know why nikkas keep talking bout no limit.

C.M.P.
Hit man sammy sam
Cool Breeze
The hard boyz
Kilo (sometimes)
Thug nation
Ghetto mafia

What yall need 2 know about

Followed about T.I.

See, that's just it. A real a town head have to tell these dudes folk. nikkaz in the A been trapping, so that should tell folk where it comes from.

 

[Youngblood Priest]

You motherfukkers keep talking about the sound. The ? was who started trap? Stupid!!!!!!!

 

[Monoblock]

If we speaking strictly ATL then the answer is:

and probably

 

[Harry B]

This is a super vague question, you've got to define trap first.

I mean did UGK even use the word Trap until Tip and them made it hot? Isn't that an Atlanta term?
As long as it's 808 driven beats, fairly high tempo and the subject of matter is the trap is usually the definition we go by today right..


Per how we define trap today, it's got to be Jeezy, T.I., Gucci and them. By a very broad definition, Three 6, UGK, Scarface..?

It's too hard with the cutoff points, someone says Jeezy then you have T.I., Then you have three 6 and Master P/TRU, then you have UGK then you have Face and then multiple different underground cats.

 

[H.I.M.]

Who was the 1st to put the WORD trap in a song title or put it in the title of their album?

T.I. right?

Were there rappers in ATL describing the act of distributing non-government regulated narcotics as "trapping" before T.I.?

If so...can anybody post any examples? I know alot of 90's era Memphis rappers would say the word "trap" every now and then in a song...but never heard it in a song title or seen it on a album or tape cover.

Now the SOUND of trap music is thudding 808 basslines over cinematic instrumentals + dopeboy raps with catchy repetitive hooks...Squeeky, Zirk, Paul, Juicy and an assortment of other Memphis artists from the 90's were doing this style of rap before anybody i can think of...

 

[DeuceCypherUno]

m not saying this is the first ever but this could be one of the first "modern" trap songs that predates all the t.i. shyt...and it's on a multi-plat album...

 

[ManBearPig]

Chicago

 

[h2o_proof]

Mike Dean created the formula

 

[Banned Account12]

Gucci Mane created trap music

/discussion

these fraud ass nikkas yall postin neva sold no dope

 

[tehparadox]

TI, not jeezy

 

[StaxMalone]

Drumma Boi, Shawty Redd, Zay, Lex, 808 Mafia etc + Random nikkas rappin bout bricks, slangin etc = Trap shyt

I would agree that Jeezy was the first to really get out there with that "trap" sound, I also agree that Triple 6 pioneered it along with some other M-town groups. It blew up outta ATL though

 

[blackzeus]

no limit records

Mr. Ice Cream Man. but I think it depends about what you mean. if you mean rappin' about trappin', you could go all the way back to guys like Jay Z, Biggie, Too Short, Bone Thugs, etc. If you mean the southern style with the adlibs and all that sh*t, yeah definitely T.I./Jeezy.

 

[Salamis]

Khujo from Goodie Mob mentioned it on Thought Process.

In Statesboro and my little cuz Mark Twain, all my
Folks that hang with me when I was out in the trap or when I was goin'
Thru one of our episodes, only god knows

 

[Taadow]

ay @Taadow have you got a copy or link to the original version of Federal. i thought i got it last week but ot sounds the same as the reissue i had. i didn't even know it was a reissue til someone on here said something about it.

Naw, I got a version off ITunes.