TI really was King of the South

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ghetto mafia was the first.

to his credit, TIP made the term trap popular.
but the sub-genre itself, didn't get poppin like that until jeezy.

1) They weren't mainstream artists, they were local. It was a sound tjat was bubbling on ATL's underground, but didn't gain traction on a national level until T.I.

2) It isn't about who said it first

3) It isn't even about who popularized the term

As a sub-genre, it wasn't established until T.I. dropped Trap Muzik. Before T.I., that kind of music had no context. It wasn't wven referred to as such. After T.I., it was more than a buzz word and evolved into a sub-genre. You could say Jeezy revolutionized it or evolved it or whatever, but even Jeezy wasn't poppin until he became a trap rapper.
 
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