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  "slug": "trap",
  "name": "Trap",
  "aliases": [
    "atlanta trap",
    "trap music",
    "mumble rap"
  ],
  "description": "Atlanta from 2003: 808 sub-bass tuned to a note, hi-hats rolled into triplets and thirty-second-note bursts, and a sparse, ominous synth line. Within a decade it was the default rhythmic grammar of pop worldwide.",
  "origin": {
    "place": "Atlanta, Georgia",
    "year": 2003
  },
  "lineage": [
    {
      "genre": "memphis-rap",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/memphis-rap/",
      "inherited": "The rhythm, wholesale. The triplet hi-hat, the tuned 808, the chanted hook and the murk are all on Memphis tapes from a decade earlier — Atlanta's contribution was the budget and the mixing desk."
    },
    {
      "genre": "g-funk",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/g-funk/",
      "inherited": "The regional model. Atlanta learned from Los Angeles that a city outside New York could build its own industry, its own producers and its own accent, and then decline to apologise for any of it."
    }
  ],
  "bpm": {
    "min": 130,
    "max": 150
  },
  "updated": "2026-08-31",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/trap/",
  "trackCount": 8,
  "curatedBy": [],
  "playlists": {},
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    {
      "rank": 1,
      "trackKey": "t-i--trap-muzik",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/t-i--trap-muzik/",
      "title": "Trap Muzik",
      "artist": "T.I.",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/t-i/",
      "year": 2003,
      "label": "Grand Hustle",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The album that named it. T.I. was describing a place — the trap house — and the word ended up describing a drum pattern instead.",
      "alsoOn": [],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/T.I.%20Trap%20Muzik",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=HbljDWnX684",
          "exact": true
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "trackKey": "bone-crusher--never-scared",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/bone-crusher--never-scared/",
      "title": "Never Scared",
      "artist": "Bone Crusher",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/bone-crusher/",
      "year": 2003,
      "label": "So So Def",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Atlanta at maximum volume, and the record that made the rest of the industry look south. Crunk rather than trap strictly, and the door it opened is the same one.",
      "alsoOn": [],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Bone%20Crusher%20Never%20Scared",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIjCkw3Jfg",
          "exact": true
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "trackKey": "dorrough--ice-cream-paint-job",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/dorrough--ice-cream-paint-job/",
      "title": "Ice Cream Paint Job",
      "artist": "Dorrough",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/dorrough/",
      "year": 2009,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Not Atlanta, and a good demonstration of how quickly the template travelled. Everything is the 808 and the hook.",
      "alsoOn": [],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Dorrough%20Ice%20Cream%20Paint%20Job",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=0yfArN-e2OU",
          "exact": true
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "trackKey": "waka-flocka-flame--hard-in-da-paint",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/waka-flocka-flame--hard-in-da-paint/",
      "title": "Hard in da Paint",
      "artist": "Waka Flocka Flame",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/waka-flocka-flame/",
      "year": 2010,
      "label": "Warner Bros.",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Lex Luger's production is the moment trap becomes maximal — enormous brass, a snare roll that functions as a countdown, and no melody to speak of.",
      "alsoOn": [],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Waka%20Flocka%20Flame%20Hard%20in%20da%20Paint",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=WkkC9cK8Hz0",
          "exact": true
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "trackKey": "migos--versace",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/migos--versace/",
      "title": "Versace",
      "artist": "Migos",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/migos/",
      "year": 2013,
      "label": "Quality Control",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The triplet flow arrives as a mainstream event, twenty years after Memphis was doing it on cassette. Rhythmically the most consequential rap record of the decade.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Migos%20Versace",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=rF-hq_CHNH0",
          "exact": true
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "trackKey": "future--codeine-crazy",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/future--codeine-crazy/",
      "title": "Codeine Crazy",
      "artist": "Future",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/future/",
      "year": 2014,
      "label": "Epic",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Trap admitting to being sad. Future's use of Auto-Tune as an expressive instrument rather than a correction is the other great innovation here.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Future%20Codeine%20Crazy",
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        },
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          "exact": true
        }
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    },
    {
      "rank": 7,
      "trackKey": "migos-featuring-lil-uzi-vert--bad-and-boujee",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/migos-featuring-lil-uzi-vert--bad-and-boujee/",
      "title": "Bad and Boujee",
      "artist": "Migos featuring Lil Uzi Vert",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/migos-featuring-lil-uzi-vert/",
      "year": 2016,
      "label": "Quality Control",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "A number one built from a hook, a sub-bass and almost nothing else. By this point the form had stopped being regional and become simply how records were made.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Migos%20featuring%20Lil%20Uzi%20Vert%20Bad%20and%20Boujee",
          "exact": false
        },
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        }
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 8,
      "trackKey": "waka-flocka-flame-featuring-roscoe-dash-and-wale--no-hands",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/waka-flocka-flame-featuring-roscoe-dash-and-wale--no-hands/",
      "title": "No Hands",
      "artist": "Waka Flocka Flame featuring Roscoe Dash and Wale",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/waka-flocka-flame-featuring-roscoe-dash-and-wale/",
      "year": 2010,
      "label": "Warner Bros.",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The friendly end of Lex Luger's run, and the one that stayed on radio longest. Trap could be menacing or it could be a party; the drums did not change.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Waka%20Flocka%20Flame%20featuring%20Roscoe%20Dash%20and%20Wale%20No%20Hands",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=skhxizRYxps",
          "exact": true
        }
      }
    }
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}