I'm trying to figure this out. Looking online, but just confused...

Is it instrumental hip-hop?

7/11 by Beyoncé & Rae Sremmurd's Black Beatles are popular examples. Or you can turn on the Top 40 station and radio stations that play new rap hits. You can't miss it there. It's been on the radio for years now. Even some modern country songs have trap beats.

MickyDolenz said:

7/11 by Beyoncé & Rae Sremmurd's Black Beatles are popular examples. Or you can turn on the Top 40 station and radio stations that play new rap hits. You can't miss it there. It's been on the radio for years now. Even some modern country songs have trap beats.

Thanks. So how about Prince's "Laydown"... is that trap?

noobman said:

Thanks. So how about Prince's "Laydown"... is that trap?

I don't know that one. I've heard very little of Prince's music past the album that was only sold at Target.

MickyDolenz said:

noobman said:

Thanks. So how about Prince's "Laydown"... is that trap?

I don't know that one. I've heard very little of Prince's music past the album that was only sold at Target.

You can hear the song here if you want:

https://www.youtube.com/w...Erza7LieSM

What I'm hearing from trap songs is, electronic dance music, but with a slower beat.

Crap music, spelt with a T.

noobman said:

You can hear the song here if you want:

https://www.youtube.com/w...Erza7LieSM

I wouldn't say that this is trap. People can't sip their syrup to this song.

It could be chopped n screwed though. Screwed mixes & trap are listened to by folks drinking syrup (aka "purple drank") in the same way there's "stoner rock" for rock music.

Its a hi hat pattern.

StrangeButTrue said:

purplepolitician said:

Basically every song sounds damn near the same

You must be talking about Tejano & reggaeton

A plague on the 2010's hip hop that I hope gets left behind.

Its a mutant strain of Timbaland.

MickyDolenz said:

gotcha.

it's old.

like Billie Eilish...

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So it's a slow bass and snare beat... with a fast syncopated high-hat pattern on top?

noobman said:

So it's a slow bass and snare beat... with a fast syncopated high-hat pattern on top?

triplet highhats that sound like a lawn sprinkler.

Cinny said:

The genre seems to be in its most negative state ever, glorifying pills at every turn, and everyone copying the next guy.

I'm used to at least some fun, positivity, romance, and ORIGINALITY. I could probably enjoy trap more if the lyrics also hadn't taken a turn for the worse like it is part of the trend. I suppose the times are worse for young people.

Kids stopped singing (autotune and Drake), playing instruments (Garageband), sampling other artists (inflated royalties, Blurred Lines), and the arts were defunded systematically across our country for the last decade. Music performance has become a visual medium primarily for children.

StrangeButTrue said:

sampling other artists (inflated royalties, Blurred Lines)

There are still big hit songs with A sample in them, but I prefer the wild west era of sampling where there were at least a half dozen 12-bit samples in the song and none of them cleared.

This thread reminds me of the time my parents told me what I listen to is garbage and not music lol.

rapper said:

This thread reminds me of the time my parents told me what I listen to is garbage and not music lol.

I admire older folks that can appreciate today's music. I really can't. Something fundamentally seems to have changed to me regarding what is considered musically "pleasant" or "unpleasant".

I think when your brain gets to a certain age, it gets tough to adapt musically.

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rapper said:

This thread reminds me of the time my parents told me what I listen to is garbage and not music lol.

Absolutely. I didn't think it would happen to me. For the longest time, hip hop had a core set of elements that helped to maintain a certain approach to the music being made. Standards for MCing (no biting), DJing (digging as an art), but it's all out the window now for what sells best in a failing economy and vacuum of talent in its original vein.

rapper said:

This thread reminds me of the time my parents told me what I listen to is garbage and not music lol.

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I don't see anyone arguing that it isn't music...

noobman said:

rapper said:

This thread reminds me of the time my parents told me what I listen to is garbage and not music

I think when your brain gets to a certain age, it gets tough to adapt musically.

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SCHRILL???

is that why it's all so bass heavy now?

through an "AM" phone it sounds like doodoo.

but, put the buds in.

ahhhhh...

go to the disclub.

AAAHHHHHHH!!!

Put it in a commercial...

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

StrangeButTrue said:

rapper said:

This thread reminds me of the time my parents told me what I listen to is garbage and not music lol.

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I don't see anyone arguing that it isn't music...

It "reminds" me of that

Trap Music wasn't a genre. It was started by T.I. in 2003 as a "term". It was music played in the trap house, a.k.a. the dope house. Trap music, trap house music, dope house music was all the same thing, basically; dope man rap. The southern hip-hop sound had the high hat triplets already and as other artists continued on with the sound, it evolved.

ENTER INTERNET APPROPRIATION.

The internet started calling everything with a triplet or staccato high hat and heavy bottom "trap" muisc.

[Edited 1/10/20 15:02pm]

Mickey, what part of this is Prince.org don't you get?