Trap Soul
Trap soul is a blend of R&B singing with the booming 808 bass, skittering hi-hats and dark mood of trap production.
Vocals slide between melodic singing and half-rapped lines, usually over slow tempos, minor-key keyboards and lots of empty space. The name was popularized by Bryson Tiller's 2015 album T R A P S O U L, though singers had been working over trap beats for a few years before it. It is close to alternative R&B but more tied to hip hop, since the drums and bass come straight from Southern rap.
Artists it is known for: Bryson Tiller, 6lack.
- Family
- R&B & Soul
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, mid-2010s
- Also called
- trapsoul
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 11%
About 9,500 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have trap soul among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Trap Soul artists
PARTYNEXTDOOR
Bryson Tiller
Lithe
Ty Dolla $ign
Dutch Melrose
Jacquees
Jutes
Nobu Woods
Majid Jordan
DarciThe trap soul 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.