Trap music is a genre that is starting to gain quite a bit of momentum through the ever growing sub-genres of dance music culture. Although this new found hype towards trap music, or EDM Trap Music as some may call it, has recently emerged, there is a history behind the origin of the Trap genre that is all but new. Trap music fist emerged coming primarily from the south, a genre filled with a hard attitude that you can feel in the sound of the brass, triangle, triplet hi hats, loud kicks, snappy snares and low end bass samples that are used when composing tracks. The percussion samples of choice when making trap music are usually originate from the Roland TR Drum Machine. As well as some of the iconic trap music producers like Lex Luger, Zaytoven, and up and comer Young Chop. A number of stylistic offshoots of trap developed, which in the latter half of gained a rise in viral popularity and made a noticeable impact on dance music. And the Trap Music genre continues to evolve as it progresses. Take a look at this 20 minute documentary from Clubtapes.


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Trap is a subgenre of hip hop music that originated in the Southern United States during the late s. The genre gets its name from the Atlanta slang word "trap", which refers to a place in which drugs are sold illegally. This is the signature sound of trap music. However, the modern trap sound was popularized by producer Lex Luger , who produced the influential Waka Flocka Flame album Flockaveli in , and cofounded the prolific hip-hop production team Mafia. Originally, lyrical themes revolved around the general life and culture in the "trap" or in the actual southern "trap house" where narcotics are being sold. The term "trap" referred to places where drug deals take place. Other topics also include street life, acquiring wealth, violence, American vehicles, and life experiences that artists have faced in their southern American surroundings. Trap music employs multilayered thin- or thick-textured monophonic drones with sometimes a melodic accompaniment expressed with synthesizers ; crisp, grimy, and rhythmic snares, deep kick drums, double-time, triple-time, and similarly divided hi-hats , and a cinematic and symphonic use of string, brass, woodwind , and keyboard instruments to create an energetic, hard-hitting, deep, and variant atmosphere. Later in , they released the popular "Pocket Full of Stones" from their major-label debut album Too Hard to Swallow.
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