Hip-Hop Wired

2 Chainz Rolls Out Pretty Girls Like Trap Music Playlists With Spotify

In anticipation for his upcoming album, Pretty Girls Like Trap Music, 2 Chainz is teaming with a group of curators for a series of Spotify playlists. For the first, 2 Chainz has linked up with ...
AllHipHop

T.I. Explains The Origins Of Trap Music And How He Made It An Art Form

T.I. talks Trap Music and his key role in turning it into a musical genre. T.I. also offered his Mt. Rushmore of Trap Music: Trap Music originated in the Southern United States, particularly in the ...
The Fader

Trap’s Latin American Takeover

Ever since bubbling up on the streets of the South, the slippery, low-end sounds of trap have dripped not just across the country, but throughout entire world, eventually trickling into Latin ...
Rolling Stone

Inside Latin Trap, the Viral Sound Too Hot for American Radio

In 2015, Jorge Fonseca, a veteran A&R for Sony Music Latin, made a trip to Puerto Rico in search of new sounds. “When you go to the island, the streets speak to you,” he tells Rolling Stone. “You hear ...
Hypebeast

Zaytoven Defines What Trap Music is, Once And For All

On Saturday, Zaytoven, Sonny Digital and Metro Boomin sat together for a hour-long conversation. Hosted by Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York, it was part of the “Trapped” edition of their ...
NPR

The birth of trap music and the rise of southern hip-hop

In 2003, T.I. and other Atlanta rappers created new subgenre of rap: trap music. Twenty years later, its influence is everywhere. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: About two minutes into the song, "Y'all Scared," ...