But to understand the birth of trap music, we have to go back to the origins of hip hop and the parties of the Bronx, in 1970s New York, with DJs and MCs such as Afrika Bambaataa, Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash, and others who rapped over mixed beats. The word “trap” started to emerge in the late 1990s, via the Dungeon Family collective. Trap music is a rap subgenre that appeared in the early 1990s in the poorest neighbourhoods of Atlanta (USA), the home of trap houses, which are houses where crack and other drugs are produced and sold, and where consumers find themselves “trapped”, talking their own underworld and their own slang, outside the margins of the system. If you’ve never heard of trap, you’ve probably heard it without realising on the phone of someone sat next to you on the underground or in the piped music of a store or shopping centre while you were buying stuff you never knew you needed in the sales.
Max Besora, co-author of Trapologia (2018), offers a review of the history of this style of music that has seduced half of the world’s young people.
The boom of this genre has a lot to do with the democratisation of access to new technologies, whether creating or disseminating musical creations. Trap is much more than controversial lyrics and voices combined with auto-tune.
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