Rage Rap
Rage rap is a loud, high-energy offshoot of trap built on buzzing, distorted synthesizers and heavy 808 bass.
The synth leads borrow from electronic dance music and video game sounds, and vocals are shouted, chanted or heavily Auto-Tuned to stir up mosh pits. It grew out of Playboi Carti's 2020 album Whole Lotta Red and takes its name from Miss the Rage, a 2021 song by Trippie Redd and Playboi Carti. It is brighter and more electronic than older trap.
Artists it is known for: Playboi Carti, Trippie Redd, Yeat, Ken Carson.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, around 2020
- Also called
- rage, rage music
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 18%
About 15,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have rage rap among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Rage Rap artists
Playboi Carti
Lil Uzi Vert
Yeat
Ken Carson
Destroy Lonely
OsamaSon
Nettspend
Che
Nine Vicious
Glokk40SpazThe rage rap artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.