Last week, both Gucci Mane and T.I. have both staked their claim as inventors of trap music. And rightfully so, both are innovators of the subgenre. Tip claims the music started with his 2003 album ...

Gucci Mane and T.I. have been embroiled in a tit-for-tat about who invented trap music for over a week. Gucci posted a flashback Instagram post commemorating the day he feels he invented trap music.

In a recent interview with Angie Martinez, T.I. said--among other things--that he created trap music. “There was no such thing as trap music prior to [T.I.]," he said. "No such thing. It didn’t exist.

In 2003, T.I. and other Atlanta rappers created new subgenre of rap: trap music. Twenty years later, its influence is everywhere. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: About two minutes into the song, "Y'all Scared," ...

Learn the origins of trap music, its evolution from Southern US streets, why it connects with Nigerian listeners and find out how trap differs from rap. Trap gets thrown around so casually that almost ...

Trap is the perfect crossover between EDM and hip-hop. In fact, this genre is responsible for some of music’s hottest artists, from T.I. and Waka Flocka to, more recently, RL Grime and Flosstradamus.