Saturday, June 29, 2013

Careful, its a Trap.




Electronic Trap which is usually just referred to as Trvp is a newer genre of music, it was inspired by the dirty south hip hop type of Trap which was made popular by T.I. , Gucci Mane and Young Jeezy. Its is played at around 130 to 175 BPM and it shares the same 2/4 (half-time) beat structure as dubstep and most hip hop tracks. Other similarities between the older dirty south hip hop trap and this newer electronic trap include the 808 kick drum,  snare drum rolls, hi hat rolls and chopped vocal samples usually saying something like "What  What  What".  This electronic Trap is being referred to as the new Dubstep, and i can definately see that happening here in Atlanta. Alot of people got into electronic music a couple years ago through dubstep, but dubstep was really just a fad and it has faded out as of recently, so it seems like all those people have now jumped on the Trap bandwagon.  There is alot of very good Trap tracks out there and alot of Trap remixes as well, such as the one above of Awolnation - Sail,  but when i go to the club and the DJ plays Trap, for some reason he tends to leave out all the melodic Trap music and just ends up playing an hour long set of ghetto crunk Trap.  There was even a case last year in Chicago where Trap producers Flosstradamus were banned from performing their set as police said last time they almost caused a riot.

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