Trap is this generations New Jack Swing

[Complexion]

Check it:

• Both started off as a small, local offshoot styles of production that had their own distinct sound from the parent genre.

• Both blew up so that everyone started biting/being influenced by the wave.

• Both had people switching their styles up, thematically as well as musically.

• Both bought a level of "coarseness" to the genre that wasn't present before.

• Both had the clubs bumping.

• Both touched the mainstream.

• Both got over saturated to the point of being played out due to how formulaic it had all become due to lack of innovation and everything sounding the same.

• Both almost killed the genre they sprung from.

Feel me? ​

Only difference is Trap is wiggedy wack and NJS is fonky fresh!

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*does the Running Man* ​

 

[Deuterion]

I feel where you’re going but you are basically describing what happens when trends meet corporate.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Imagine listening to trap in 20 years

 

[TEH]

Check it:

• Both started off as a small, local offshoot styles of production that had their own distinct sound from the parent genre.

• Both blew up so that everyone started biting/being influenced by the wave.

• Both had people switching their styles up, thematically as well as musically.

• Both bought a level of "coarseness" to the genre that wasn't present before.

• Both had the clubs bumping.

• Both touched the mainstream.

• Both got over saturated to the point of being played out due to how formulaic it had all become due to lack of innovation and everything sounding the same.

• Both almost killed the genre they sprung from.

Feel me? ​

Only difference is Trap is wiggedy wack and NJS is fonky fresh!

​

*does the Running Man* ​

Great analysis

drop a link to your blog / YouTube

 

[Goon for hire]

Trap has been popular longer than njs ever was.

The rest is pretty spot on though.

Im just waiting for the next trend to start to be honest, trap beats are extremely repetitive and even the “new and best” trap beats sound like something I hear before. Outside of carti and uzi the production all sounds the same to me

Or maybe I’m just getting and thinking all that shyt sounds the same

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Trap has been popular longer than njs ever was.

came here to say this..NJS lasted a few years, seems like trap is going on a decade long run now

 

[Standing on business]

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/was-the-new-jack-swing-the-mumble-rap-of-r-b.560755/

 

[Big Boda]

at first I looked at this thread as troll bait because of the high quality music produced by New Jack Swing. Now i'm thinking back. Michael Jackson began to champion new jack swing and brought Teddy Riley to produce his entire Dangerous album. MJ also had songs with rappers like Notorious B.I.G. decades later we see Chris Brown and Gucci Mane on a trap song

 

[Billy Ocean]

Trap has been popular longer than njs ever was.

The rest is pretty spot on though.

Im just waiting for the next trend to start to be honest, trap beats are extremely repetitive and even the “new and best” trap beats sound like something I hear before. Outside of carti and uzi the production all sounds the same to me

Or maybe I’m just getting and thinking all that shyt sounds the same

Naw, they mostly sound the same. You don't lose the ability to discern the similarities/differences between sounds as you get older. I like alot of trap shyt but can't nobody in the world can tell me the beats mostly don't sound the same.

 

[Complexion]

Great analysis

drop a link to your blog / YouTube

Don't have one breh, just slicing and dicing on the The Coli Dot Com

Trap has been popular longer than njs ever was.

came here to say this..NJS lasted a few years, seems like trap is going on a decade long run now

You've got to consider how the consumer base has exponentially increased in between the 90s and now. If you scaled them both you'd see their runs would be proportionate in relation to that.

 

[CrimsonTider]

This is a reach

Trap has evolved and NJS didn’t.

also how did Trap nearly kill the genre? Rap has thrived ever since Trap was introduced in 2008

 

[Able Archer 83]

Trap is to hip-hop what the nWo was to WCW.

This is a reach

Trap has evolved and NJS didn’t.

It's "evolved" in the way a disease evolves a resistance to antibiotics.

also how did Trap nearly kill the genre? Rap has thrived ever since Trap was introduced in 2008

It's sold a lot of albums, but has it creatively thrived? Is it leading anywhere?

Disco sold millions of albums in 1979, yet a lot of those were Village People records.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Trap is to hip-hop what the nWo was to WCW.



It's "evolved" in the way a disease evolves a resistance to antibiotics.



It's sold a lot of albums, but has it creatively thrived? Is it leading anywhere?

Disco sold millions of albums in 1979, yet a lot of those were Village People records.

Yes it has creatively thrived. Do you even pay attention to rap?

 

[feelosofer]

Lets see if the trap music of today will be played 30 years later like New Jack Swing is.

 

[karim]

Yes it has creatively thrived. Do you even pay attention to rap?

I don't know what these brehs are complaining about creatively and soundwise, the trap era is ten times better than the terrible weak ass claps, simple melodies and auto tune era that came before