T.I. is apparently not only the king of trap music, but he invented it, according to a recent interview he did with author/radio personality Angie Martinez on Power 105.1’s The Angie Martinez Show. The Hustle Gang mastermind claimed that before he came along, trap music wasn’t even a thought. It had yet to even take its first breath.
“We want to make sure that we give everybody the best T.I.P. album that we can give them,” Tip said when speaking on his new project. “I’m going for trap music on this. Because a lot of people don’t really, really know that I created trap music. There was no such thing as trap music prior to [T.I.]. No such thing. It didn’t exist. It was Outkast and crunk, like that’s what it was. Organized Noize and crunk.”
While the Atlanta rap mogul could be considered a pioneer of the genre, it’s unlikely people will agree that he is the originator, although he did say his second album, Trap Muzik, started it all.
T.I. has been supporting his new Hustle Gang artist RaRa and participating in VH1’s Hip-Hop Squares, while presumably finishing his next studio album. He also just wrapped up an appearance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, where he dressed up like Tupac Shakur and performed some of the late rapper’s music. Check out the clip of the interview above.
Can’t dispute that King
UGK Begs to Differ!
There was ” Trap Music” before T.I.
He just really gave it a name.
People don’t know wtf they are talking about U.G.K. all the way.
T.I. defined the sound of trap music tho. I think that’s what he meant to say. Cuz I’d say U.G.K. 1st too, but T.I.’s sound gave alot of ppl a whole new wave
TI was talking about trap before anyone else. Although the sounds was different and he did go pop
T.I. helped bring it mainstream and so did jeezy.
You ain’t no OG. Gucci pushed it all the way wtf you talking about?
He sorta did…but not so much him atlanta itself really between t.i gucci mane jeezy and even they didnt INVENT trap music it was around long before them…there just the ones who put a brand to it because look back to the original P$C crew all trap rappers who were around when t.i started up so didnt they invent it then too? Its dumb to say your the inventor of street music
Will this certified snitch midget please take his money & go away
From a mass consumption standpoint TI put trap music on the map, commercially. Most definitely three6 and UGK had it going, but until Tip put it on front street, no one was doing it and being commercially successful with it. He basically set the game off, regardless of the twists and turns away from it he’s taken throughout his career. Hopefully this new album is a banger, but still, I find it’ll be difficult to bring that real street shit when you’ve been years away from it.
It will be a poppy album with an iggy azalia feature
Bruhhh if iggy gets a feature on a “trap album” I’m officially done w tip.
I quit fucking with tip when he got all into the desperatation to cling on to fame shit with his little pussy reality tv show and his constant race baiting he race baits now and plays it as a subject because it sells now but where was he when his career was coming up and he wasnt sayin shit? David banners a guy i can respect on that front since the early 2000’s banner was about talkin racism in his music and still does today tips just a dick rider at this point just hanging onto the tip of relevance lol
So let me get this straight…..TI say he invented Trap Music but Trap beats which came first been out since the late 80s early 90s… saying you created Trap Music means you was the 1st person to rap about Trap things on a song and we know that’s a lie!!!……. TI…… have a __ seat homey!!
Outkast was the first to use the word trap in a song
Trap = music about selling drugs
We’ll that goes back to the beginning of rap
Trap muzik is a classic album can’t take that away
Invented no
Popularized definitely
Trap and street music is basically same different name, people in atl start calling it trapping, everbody else was calling it hustling,
really no different from what Master P/no limit was doing, same as Cash money, ugk, Eightball and mjg. From the standpoint of when people starting calling it trapping Ti was one of the guys at the front in the start, but Jezzy would be the main guy IMO also Ti first 2 albums can be considered trap but after that he went more mainstream which wasn’t a bad look his albums were hit and miss tho. He would drop a good album then the next one would be below average. T.i is in that stage were he’s no longer at the top and his popularity has faded and he starting to act out he doesn’t know how to handle it. He will do a record with anyone remember when he was rolling with Iggy when she was hot and he was defending her left and right and when Iggy cool off T.i act like she never existed, I lost a lot of respect for him when he started doing tracks with Young thug a cat that pushes that down low agenda.
Anyone who doesn’t see trap rap is inspired and was created by Lil Wayne is an idiot
Really? Lil Wayne? Go find a chair so you can sit down.
Yes. It’s true if he means he popularized it and helped it blow up to the level it’s at today. A lot of people forget, but T.I. came out with the album “I’m Serious” in the early 2000’s, with hard hitting bangers like “Dope Boyz”, and he was sounding like NOBODY else in Atlanta at the time. This was pre-Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane, and it wouldn’t be a stretch to say he opened the lane for them and the Atlanta rappers that would come next. Outkast, and their unique sound, dominated Atlanta, and its sound, and the radio was filled with R&B/hip-hop duets and their anti-version (50 Cent). Atlanta trap rappers weren’t a thing yet, and you’d find it REALLY hard to find someone actually use the term “trap” in their music; something that you would have no trouble doing today. On his second album, called “Trap Muzik”, he furthered the now ubiquitous trend. Who else had an album with the word “trap” in the title, or even a song using the term between 2002-2004? And I mean a mainstream rapper. Anyone out there who can enlighten me otherwise, I’m open to it. 🙂
Master p trap music been out ugk
TI is the definition of WACK and can’t make a good record to save his life. Why do you think he’s going backwards and doing a whole trap album? Every song is gonna sound the same, the subject matter is going to be all the same, etc. All geared toward the kids. TI is horrible. Oh and he looked like a clown in that 2pac outfit with them skinny jeans and huge ass timberlands. Look like freaking clown shoes on that tiny body. What an idiot
Who gives a fuck? Let him take credit for that wack as genre anyway. Ya’ll debating in whobused a word first in there raps? Ya’ll got more time then I do fuckin nerds lol
Try “Pocket Full of Stones” By U.G.K.. Came out in 1992. This racist, libtard, hypocrite, convicted felon, genocide promoting, piece of shit was already snitching on people in Jr. High back then. Please…
Its over for T.I. he had his run. Ain’t nobody checking for his music now
LOL you wild for that one, but def FACTS, he be trying to act like it didn’t happen
i care, said no one.
TI reminds me of Fabolous. Extremely talented MC whos resorted to pandering to move units
WHY would ANYONE wanna take ‘credit’ for that mess, it’s like admitting YOU STARTED AIDS or something! #BeEmbarrassedBeVeryEmbarrassed
This ignorant, racists, tiny little man needs to sit the fuck down.
The world started to notice southern music around “97” . But truth be told the South from the early 80’s partied to nothing but southern music all night long . Trap music started in the 80’s .
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before 2003 who came out with anything labeled trap?
jeezy was 04-05
gucci was 05-06
gotti was 04-05
shawty lo- 04-05 rip
Make em say ughhhhh, imo no limit, silk da shocker, bird man, juvenile, got boys made trap music
Long before master p and cash money records came along . The richest artist was a southern artist . In “88” Luther Campbell was worth 30 Mill . He was richer than Big Daddy Kane , ‘ll Cool j ,Run Dmc ect or any west coast artist . And he sold all those records as a independent . #FACTS
Actually, Cool Breeze’s East Point’s Greatest Hit was one of the first ATL albums strictly dedicated to the trap. From top to bottom it was all trap. He kicked off the trap talk on Soul Food in ’95. Alot of folks in the A don’t even recognize him as the real pioneer of it. Part of the DF and still doesn’t receive his just due.
But also have to give credit to the Hard Boyz and Ghetto Mafia (Decatur)
…But that was Dungeon Family / Organized Noize style music – not the same as trap music. The lyical content was about trapping, but he didn’t bring a new musical style to the game like T.I. did
The content is what I think is the point of his claim, that there was nobody referencing the trap until he came around which I disagree with. If he is equating introducing the concept of the trap with bringing a new style to the game then that I feel is incorrect. Now, he did end up being the one who made it popular. No arguing with that. And would even go as far as saying the SOUND was made popular by the producers themselves, not necessarily the artist.
Another southern fact the game tries to hide : DJ Magic Mike had platinum and gold records INDEPENDENTLY put out . Long before Funk Flex or Dj Clue or any DJ in the East or West . The South set that trend but the game tries to hide it . Dj Magic Mike had more money than ANY Dj in the 80’s and early 90’s . #FACTS
He also brought the snares and bass to southern rap in a fashion that they still use to this day! “Feel the Bass” is southern hip hop 101!
Letter to the system go hard bitches.
All lives matter. Just not to each other apparently. Being black and from Chicago I see firsthand that we are the only ones killing ourselves daily, not whites. Also, whites aren’t the ones that enslaved us it was our own people that did that to us. African warlords sold us to the whites and Spanish. These are hard honest facts we all have to learn to live and deal with.
NO.
This is a fact. Nobody knew what he trap was u til The.I. came out. I remember hearing the term on an Outlast album but T.I. and Toomp made the sound and lyrics that detailed it. Stop acting like Tip isn’t a legend because he is. He just does a lot of corny stuff now. 01-06 he was hella Smoove and laid backand even dressed fresh now he’s trying to blend in with the young guys and does corny stuff.
yes he is no doubt ti is is in my top ten
i have been saying this for years ti invented trap and jeezy & gucci perfected it.
thank you tip
BULLSHIT! Gucci Mane – Trap House, original song. Song came out way before T.I I Remember that. Trap Music is Gucci Mane and Young Jeezy
boy you don’t know nothing bout what you are talking bout…tip was doing trap music waay before wop and jeezy took his whole swag from ti,..but ti still didn’t invent it
Thats nothing to be proud of pimp
Tru was the first ones damn ghetto dope
Gucci mane’s trap house came out after trap muzik. Nobody was bringing it to the forefront like t.i. Before August 2003.
TI did invent trap music.
Back in 96 I lived in Decatur GA…There was a rap group called Ghetto Mafia…they had albumbcalled in Decatur and all they talked about was the trap,…trap this trap that the whole album…Tell TI stop fakin
i’m convinced T.I. stand for The Informant. only thing this little man be innovating is snitches smh
Fuck this white hating c00n
What is Trap? Master P’s 1996 ice cream man could be considered Trap. Or is it the beat?
i believe it’s the beat, rapping style and lyrical content? i’m no expert on the subject so if i’m wrong someone can correct me. Three Six Mafia was doing it waaaay before T.I. thou
don’t get it twisted doe not sayin T.I. sound like Three Six Mafia but aren’t they kinda heralded as some sort of pioneers when it come to this “trap” thing?
Three 6 pioneered crunk, not trap. They started out doing horrorcore and then moved into crunk in the late 90s. T.I. is right about inventing trap as we know it.
crunk was more lil jon not 3-6.
Ghetto Mafia rapped about the trap first in 96. Dungeon Family also rapped about the dope game being a “trap”.
Idk why this man gets so much hate. His music isn’t as good lately but he put the A on his back for a solid 8 years. To be honest, I think it’s funny y’all mention him in the same breath as Gucci and Jeezy.
Idk why y’all mention Gucci and jeezy in the same breath as tip lmao
He definitely popularized the term “trap” but the sound associated with trap music today is different from his earlier work. That said, T.I. unquestionably has one of the best flows the game ever seen and for a period of time he was arguably the best of that era. For whatever reason he doesn’t seem to get that respect that a Lil Wayne or 50 does as someone who was once one of the biggest artists in the world…
Fukers don know no rap…give the man his dues. T.I. created trap.
He didn’t say he invented the WORD trap, he said he invented TRAP MUZIK, nobody had ever referred to that type of music as Trap Music before he did it, if somebody did, WHO AND WHEN???? The beats that he used back in the early days, Im serious, trap muzik, urban legend and the subject matter is clearly reflected in the music these “TRAP” artist are putting out today!! He went and put out KING and yall act like yall forgot who started it….
Facts TIP started this trap %hit
TRIPLE SIX MAFIA ARE THE TRUE ORIGINATORS…. THAT IS ALL
Three 6 mafia was crunk and gangsta rap bro. Do your research.
T.I. totally was the first to release a trap album but Jeezy and Gucci helped heavily develop what the genre became. They’re like a Holy Trap Trinity lol
trap house, dope house. tomato, tomatoe. you just gave it a new name with atl slang. still a lame for that 2pac outfit and when flip kicked ur ass in htown
Wayne is the orginator of Trap Swag when he dropped his first few trap swg traxx all other rappers were in a transition period. 99% of rappers today try to cop Wayne 101% he has does the most harm to rap music and he is the most overrated rapper of all time.
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Dj Squeaky is the originstor of memphis rap so he is creator of trap.
Facts he did.. 2002/2003
3 words three 6 mafiaaaa made trap music
Three 6 mafia was crunk and gangsta rap bro. Do your research.
Jeezys TM101 made music popular.
Biggie smalls – end of discussion