trap music saved hip hop......

[Jerz-2]

Hip hop should be like a buffet catering to a vast array of different styles and experiences throughout black culture in America. Trap music is but one of those dishes served in the hip hop buffet and is a welcome balance to other forms and styles of hip hop. I co-sign this thread.

Agreed.

More to the point, though...I just think hip-hop is more cyclical than people want to believe or accept.

These type of "shifts" - when a new form or style of rap hits, and it reinvigorates the culture - are a necessary part of the growth of hip-hop.

Like....the way trap music came along and bumrushed the rap world, is the same type of "shift" that happened when, say, NWA dropped, or when DMX dropped.

Things go in cycles, man. Just in different forms.

That's just LIFE.

 

[TRILLWAVE]

Trap music is/was a blessing

 

[labelplant]

To me what we as know as "Trap Rap/Trap Muzik" started with this. I realize there was other songs that could be considered Trap before this and this wasn't even the first Jeezy/Shawty Redd song but this really set off the movement.

 

[Big Mark]

LOL

The worst things to ever happen to black people

1. Slavery
2. Gangsta rap
3. Reality TV shows (i.e bad girls club, basketball wives, etc)
4. Trap music

LOL - This a black, Southside of Chicago brother saying this too!

 

[Evildead]

You can't dispute the truth. I've been saying it for years.

This didn't happen overnight, it was a longtime coming. What people don't understand is Trap continues to evolve, while others stayed stagnant.

The other fact is no matter how lyrical or talented a rapper is..not everyone can do authentic trap if they tried.

But the MVP of Trap isn't the simply the rappers like Jeezy, Gucci, and T.I...it's the producers that changed the sound of what hip hop is today.

Evil

 

[Gotright]

You can't dispute the truth. I've been saying it for years.

This didn't happen overnight, it was a longtime coming. What people don't understand is Trap continues to evolve, while others stayed stagnant.

The other fact is no matter how lyrical or talented a rapper is..not everyone can do authentic trap if they tried.

But the MVP of Trap isn't the simply the rappers like Jeezy, Gucci, and T.I...it's the producers that changed the sound of what hip hop is today.

Evil

the beats

 

[Evildead]

To me what we as know as "Trap Rap/Trap Muzik" started with this. I realize there was other songs that could be considered Trap before this and this wasn't even the first Jeezy/Shawty Redd song but this really set off the movement.

Young Jeezy - Over Here ft. Bun B - YouTube

Not even close..

'Over Here' isn't the record that blew Jeezy. What changed Jeezy's world was the Epic fire that came from classic mixtape 'Trap or Die'.

Before it was easy to even get tapes like it is now, I remember jumping in Forums and proclaiming that nothing was touching this. The rest was history after the back to back Icey record, the 'Boyz in da hood' album & 101 dropped.

I remember when T.I. was first bubbling and showing up on mixtapes before his debut album dropped, I remember people sleeping on Gucci's first album.
But people still don't give credit to that ridiculous run that Cash Money made after Juvy dropped 'Ha'. All on the strength of 80 songs strong produced on the back of Manny Fresh.

Alot of credit can go around during those early years all the way till now. But what people would never take seriously then, has outlasted the rise and fall of entire regions.

But, what goes around comes back around..Kendrick is a perfect example of it.

Just my take..no disrespect..

Evil

 

[labelplant]

Not even close..

'Over Here' isn't the record that blew Jeezy. What changed Jeezy's world was the Epic fire that came from classic mixtape 'Trap or Die'.

Before it was easy to even get tapes like it is now, I remember jumping in Forums and proclaiming that nothing was touching this. The rest was history after the back to back Icey record, the 'Boyz in da hood' album & 101 dropped.

I remember when T.I. was first bubbling and showing up on mixtapes before his debut album dropped, I remember people sleeping on Gucci's first album.
But people still don't give credit to that ridiculous run that Cash Money made after Juvy dropped 'Ha'. All on the strength of 80 songs strong produced on the back of Manny Fresh.

Alot of credit can go around during those early years all the way till now. But what people would never take seriously then, has outlasted the rise and fall of entire regions.

But, what goes around comes back around..Kendrick is a perfect example of it.

Just my take..no disrespect..

Evil

Over Here was in Streetz Is Watchin and was the "big single" off that tape. Streetz is Watchin came out before Trap or Die. But ya much love, you broke it down pretty well in other aspect.

 

[Evildead]

Over Here was in Streetz Is Watchin and was the "big single" off that tape. Streetz is Watchin came out before Trap or Die. But ya much love, you broke it down pretty well in other aspect.

Nah I won't pretend Jeezy didn't put in work or even claim that record didn't do what it was doing for him at that time. I still remember see it on Jamz at the time it came out. I'm just saying if you look at how he completely took it to a new level flow, swag, and delivery on 'Trap or Die' which followed onto '101' it was crazy to behold. Just from what I saw at the time, that record didn't 'start' it all. But, you know what you definately have a good point if you felt that was a part of his movement.

I just remember hearing 'Miss me with that Rap', 'Air Force ones' and 'Get your mind right' and trying to tell cats in person or when I used to spin that what Jeezy was doing was next level. The rest is history when '101' did drop.

Evil