Trap
Trap is a style of hip hop from Atlanta marked by booming 808 bass, fast skittering hi-hats and dark, heavy melodies.
The name comes from Southern slang for a house where drugs are sold, and early lyrics describe that life. Producers build beats from Roland TR-808 kick drums, rattling hi-hat rolls, sharp snares and gloomy synth or string lines, usually at a slow, half-time pace. It grew out of 1990s Southern rap, took its modern shape around 2000 and now runs through much of mainstream rap and pop.
Artists it is known for: T.I., Gucci Mane, Jeezy, Future.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Atlanta, 1990s to early 2000s
- Also called
- trap music
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 35%
About 29,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have trap among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Trap artists
Don Toliver
Future
A$AP Rocky
Lil Uzi Vert
Metro Boomin
Gunna
Lil Baby
Lil Tecca
Tory Lanez
Bryson TillerThe trap artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.