Trap Music

About

Trap Music is a music genre known for its use of 808 kick drums, multi-layered synthesizers and generally dark hip-hop sound. Online, the genre gained notoriety with the song Turn Down For What soundtrack and is often featured in montage parody videos.

History

The word “trap” was originally coined in the 1990s in Atlanta, Georgia to describe locations where drug deals were made. During this time, rappers who often discussed drug dealing were called “trap rappers,” including UGK, 8Ball, Three 6 Mafia and Master P.

Second wave

Trap music gained mainstream popularity when hip hop producer Lex Luger^[5] started producing the instrumentals for multiple rappers including Rick Ross, Jay-z and Kanye West, and heavily influenced the production of Waka Flocka Flame´s debut album “Flockaveli” who’s second single Hard in Da Paint (shown below) skyrocketed his popularity.

Lex Luger signature production, which includes heavy use of hard-hitting 808’s, crisp snares, frantic synth keys, and bombastic orchestration of ominous brass, strings, woodwinds and keyboards^[6] was then heavily used in other songs until it became the standard sound for trap music today.

Related Memes

Damn Son! Where’d You Find This?

Damn son! Where’d you find this? Is a popular sound sample or trap music drop used very often on trap musics.^[2] The origin sample has been voiced by the 42 year old music producer Shadoehaze^[3].

On Feb 6, 2013; the producer Shadoehaze uploaded an introduction video to brief more information behind the popular sound sample made by himself. On Dec 27, 2013 the website Vice has published an article detailing other infos about the Shadoehaze. On Sep 10, 2014 youtuber Nyanners published a rap cover “I am ur leader” featuring the sample at the beginning.

Turn Down For What?

Turn Down For What? refers to a popular trap EDM single produced by DJ Snake featuring rapper Lil Jhon, which celebrates the state of being turnt, the single has received a lot of popularity, specially on the internet with the official video receiving 151,849,360 views and 905,299 likes, as well as spawning multiple parodies. For more info

Airhorn / Airhorn Remixes

Airhorn refers to a sample commonly used in EDM music, although it tends to heavily appear on trap EDM tracks, it has gained infamy among the music community, normally criticized for its annoying sound and heavy use among multiple tracks, it has thus been used as a joke among multiple music remixes on soundcloud or youtube and montage parody videos which frequently uses trap music.

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