Who Created Trap Music? | Everyday Struggle

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On today's #EverydayStruggle, Jeezy joined Joe Budden and DJ Akademiks to talk about the history of trap music and who he feels invented the genre.
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[@richswavy3626]

I think people forgot that Jeezy just turned 40 years old this year that's why he's so mature

[@ddw1127]

Jeezy likes to trap. Jeezy likes to smoke. Jeezy likes to mix arm and hammer with his coke.

[@shotbynolan1705]

Demetrius Washington still goesss

[@Juganator]

Still my shit 10 years later.

[@baltazartrejo1511]

Demetrius Washington 🔥

[@majestymxnt7384]

T.I., he was the first to have an album named "Trap Muzik" and bring it to the mainstream.

[@cget]

He ain't create it though lol

[@majestymxnt7384]

Stephen Pamphile Uh, yea he did. He was the first one to dub the style of music "Trap music", therefore he created it.

[@theoneyedking]

Trap has been around earlier than t.I whole career. It started way back in the 1990's, and didn't start to get recognition until mid 2000's.

[@majestymxnt7384]

Majestic knife Listen, trap has been around before Tip, I get that, however, trap music is a genre. Who dubbed it "trap music"? No one but Tip.

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[@1996connor]

UGK, 8Ball & MJG, Tommy Wright III and Three 6 mafia. I regard them as the 90's guys who created trap music.

[@ChachinAKAChino]

Clifford Harris. A.K.A. T.I. brought this to the mainstream.

[@WillOnCode]

ChachinAKAChino. ict t talked about it in the 80s tho

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[@agentrocklee]

Tip brought this to life 💯💯💯

[@kushcloudstv1196]

T.i I’m so serious album where it all began

[@FatGirlsSmellLikeBreakfast]

agentrocklee the clipse

[@BabsW]

It's always nice to hear rappers speak after they've become wiser and matured.

[@slayrrrrrrrr]

Jeezy the type dude to lose a basketball game and be like “basketball don’t matter”

[@LightUpDaBomb1]

maal dayr lmaooo

[@Perfect_NoPractice]

I heard Outkast call it the trap 1st!

[@SecondTake123]

Three Six created it and won an Oscar for it!

[@tarekr792]

5:11 Joe looks so in love with jeezy lmao

[@MTCMCMXCI]

tarek regragui Joe lost his mind for a bit because yeezy spoke for him lol

[@qcwarrior1181]

😂😂 I noticed that shit too. He had the dreamy eye stare.

[@richiebuz]

T.I Jeezy Gucci are the three Godfathers

[@barringtonmorris90]

Richie Buz Ludacris.

[@richiebuz]

Barrington Morris Luda ain't Trap

[@richiebuz]

Monkeeh Three 6, UGK, No Limit, Dungeon Fam were forefathers but those 3 popularized and made it what we know most today.

[@richiebuz]

Jordan Sharpe Facts. T.I started it Jeezy molded it Gucci elevated it

[@trentonmullins4948]

Richie Buz nah 3 6 mafia started it

[@krishnansen1301]

Ice T and UGK were talking about it way before, but Gucci, Jeezy and TI made it mainstream.

[@mikeyytu9283]

Krishnan Sen lol not Ice T

[@mareo187]

Krishnan Sen yeah they did but didn't glorified the subject. Unlike Jeezy and T.i and the ones you mentioned which they did glorified the trap life at the time, they don't glorified to a point that it have to be in nearly every song, most of the songs are actually a combination mostly conscious based with some trap elements. As for the new fools in this era they say some nonsensical and praise the lifestyle like it's a good thing and praise others who do it or want people to do the same. The media think its a good thing, which they keep sugar coating the fact while trap music is for people who wants to have fun and can still be manipulative which is happening now and lot dumb kids/teens are actually mirroring the actions of those rappers and think it's cool to disrespect adults at the same damn time.

[@LifesAGamble_420]

If u not from ATLANTA..... U really don't know where trap music came from...it was a term said in Decatur..the Dec.....ghetto mafia was the first niggaz talking about that trap shit.... the song is" in Decatur "..... #faxxxxxxxxxxxxxxts

[@SoulOfTheSouth]

MIKE MILLIONS Ice T was the first trap/gangsta/hustler rapper in the mid 80s. He was rapper to talk about that lifestyle so yes he is the first trap rapper.

[@SoulOfTheSouth]

Krishnan Sen I think they should get Ice T, Bun B and Scarface as guests on the show because they really don’t know shit on Everyday Struggle.

[@mikeross5627]

Jeezy real as fuck

[@mathewmara2184]

I love Jeezy. Listen to him speak! You feel the sincerity! You feel the struggle, and you sense the pain and the disgust for that life while also feel him drawing upon it to help him get past the every day struggles of success. No pun intended. The realest rapper I've ever heard speak, second to only maybe Jay or Em

[@cindyhawkins5663]

UGK was the first rappers I ever heard talking about selling dope... Pocketful of stones

[@mikelavishton5926]

They were doing that in mid to late 80’s already.

[@mikelavishton5926]

Nwa and others

[@dictionary9150]

dude NWA had a whole song called Dopeman back in the 80s

[@nestofsnakes7055]

I think Three Six Mafia helped create it too

[@bweizee]

SNAKE NEST the next big hit soundcloud.com/bennett-tran/hurtinallthetime

[@bobbyhyman4277]

Fat joe and Biggie talked trapping before it was popular

[@chopperqm13]

sound wise, if you listen to the beats DJ Paul and Juicy J made you can see where metro etc got there ideas from....it was called crunk but that evolved into shorty redds shit which turned into lex lugar...

[@MrEOM41]

Naw they were more krunk than the trap...if anything they were drug abusers lmao

[@edgarflint5371]

Memphis,tn started trap music but we never get our respect

[@ksager123]

Edgar Flint fact

[@ksager123]

Edgar Flint check out my remakes bro

[@Chi3fsTA]

DJ Paul deserves all the credit for them hard ass 808s

[@bigtimewillie8846]

Before Gucci Mane, T.I., and Jeezy, there was Master P

[@Mikebaggs]

U both correct

[@BatmanTheHomie]

Lil pump created trap music that's why he the trapper of the century

[@D4L4N]

dj quik

[@dambaadeyemi3233]

spice 1

[@tyronegriffin3198]

DJBVA08 I was saying the same shit MASTER P brought the real struggle to the game....... It's to check my crack house ........ Great song

[@Medpasta]

More importantly, who created Clickbait

[@raheemwilson894]

Med complex

[@jahronbartlett8920]

jeezy so on point my G

[@Mjoekelo]

RESPECT!!!

[@KidFrancTV]

Reverend Jeezy preaching.

[@shakediddy]

I️ peep Jeezy got them new veneers inn! Tht Bul living Goooood!

[@judithjackson1086]

Jezzy legendary bih!!! Snowman

[@jordnotfound]

The title should've been Jeezy talks motivation. 🔥🎁

[@kingtreal1314]

Niggas been talking about selling dope since NWA made "Dope Man". Master P even made multiple songs in the 90's about selling dope. One of them was called, "Time to check my crackhouse". Shit ain't new. The only difference is that Atlanta niggas gave it a name and T.I. claimed it.

[@milyinzmoran6804]

Spoken like a tru trapper 😎

[@queenjazz90]

t.i. started trap music period. never heard of it b4 him. give the king his credit.

[@Infam0usKiller]

Shawty Pimp Gankin Fools

[@JeremyJones]

Jeezy a legend

[@jenniferunger7483]

Jeezy needs to stop letting ego trip him out. When you're "the realest" you don't have to remind everyone. " I'm the realest, don't believe me? Just ask so and so, they'll tell ya."

[@aaronr164]

Did anyone hear Jeezys American Dream snippet? Cole snapped🔥🔥🔥

[@princevegeta9763]

1:07 Joe used to do that shit too, look at that smile as if he's reminiscing.

[@hyoriethejindo]

UGK 4 LIFE

[@dambaadeyemi3233]

outkast big boi said it first on aquemni so now u back in the trap just that! marinade on dat

[@kick5000]

Trap music was created by every nigga in the hood that picked up a pen and said I don’t wanna be here no more ...that’s how I got good nigga wanna be out the hood

[@ruffalo4053]

THE SOUTH....PERIOD...JEEZY MY FAV!!!!!!!!!!

[@dictionary9150]

nwa had a song called dopeman

[@cget]

Jeezy, nor Tip, nor Gucci created trap. What I'm curious about is who's the pioneer of the sound producing wise

[@Toetothunder]

Stephen Pamphile dj toomp

[@quanathan]

the captions on the video called tupac "two pockets" 1:55

[@datboyjt08]

That's why I fuck with Jeezy.

[@SHADOW-ph4ic]

Ya'll all wrong N.W.A. did it back in 1986 wit "Dopeman". No more talk.

[@reddriclioncourt101]

Ghetto Mafia started it for Georgia back in 1994. They were the first ones talking bout hood/drug shit (in Georgia) check their albums. T.I. only gets credit for placing the name Trap Music on an album first.

[@TheFlogame]

Master P!

[@kevinmarce5098]

Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz

[@kidsoulworld6879]

It was not a rapper or anything vocal. It was a producer. A group of producers making alternative versions of Southern Hip Hop

[@Infam0usKiller]

So what’re you saying

[@kidsoulworld6879]

@@Infam0usKiller Producers made trap

[@thebrasschannel5821]

cool breeze "eastpoints greatest hits" is the first trap album

[@AlwaysClutch]

Just the title is a loaded question

[@HunterDvorak98]

Definitely Three 6 Mafia and UGK

[@hostileaks4495]

Pocket full of stones was first trap song I heard

[@ElTrokeroLokochon]

I'd say the whole Memphis scene created "trap" music. They were the ones who who started using those type of beats. The subject matter may not entirely be about trap, but it's definitely the backbone of what we hear today. Of course Three 6 mafia, Tommy Wright, Dj Squeeky, Dj Zirk and the rest of the underground scene of Memphis is way better than today's rap.

[@FreaKyWTK]

I like this guy

[@kylepickus5712]

Jeezy really does “put on”

[@irwinfletcher3879]

Decatur Georgia based group Ghetto Mafia were using the term trap in the late 90's way before T.i. even made his 1st album I'm Serious or Trap Muzik him making it mainstream means nothing.

[@themollymachine]

Snow man.... you dead to me! talking that "I'm tryin to be a better person" shit

[@mesus3701]

christina aguilera - I Turn to you was the first Trap Song

[@lordfriezachristresurrecte7657]

UGK

[@nsmith3128]

Jeezy and T.i dont mess with each other like that no more. Ive seen him answer that question with more praise to T.i b4. Its something brewing.

[@XanCakes1]

Stupid question, slim Jesus SMH

[@bweizee]

Connor MMA fan the next big hit soundcloud.com/bennett-tran/hurtinallthetime

[@funny6808]

Connor MMA fan w

[@SecondTake123]

lmao

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[@flyghtmyleage6041]

lol sounded like AK wanted to start beef "T.I. SAID HE DID" like nigga, stfu nerd ass

[@kinganimation912]

Damn Jeezy matured and evolved like af

[@brandonculpepper1955]

🐐

[@tholliday1472]

Jeezy is Realist 😎😎😎

[@zesldn]

Days Before Rodeo the best trap album

[@dominiquedespres3776]

i Zes Ds2

[@danieloceans9652]

TI ... with “I’m serious” and then “Trap Musik” and the rest is history Well he brought it into the mainstream

[@metatroncube4396]

I had never heard Jeezy's music before this interview but based on the based shit he just said, I'm hittin up apple music

[@biggarah11]

METATRON CUBE living under a fucking boulder

[@metatroncube4396]

he's so fucking good holy shit, don't know how I slept.

[@metatroncube4396]

I got trap or die 3, Church in these streets and seen it all plus a few singles. What am I missing, probably abunch of fire mixtapes

[@lancehuff5050]

METATRON CUBE thug motivation 101(classic) the inspiration,the recession,its that world(mixtape)

[@chief36]

I don't think Jezzy had a clear cut plan on how he wanted to wear his hat today🤔

[@jaybubblez7468]

Master P "Ice Cream Man"

[@robertarmstead8567]

Jeezy for President

[@olskoollover01]

80's and 90's hip hop in new York , the South , and west coast was called hustling or drug dealing music After 2000 they start calling it trap and mostly started in Atlanta

[@Neo.Jordon]

Bone Thugs, then to rvidxr klvn, then migos/Drake, and it was unstoppable after that

[@novrandy20]

T.I. may have had an album called Trap Music but the sound wasn't trap at all...real talk listen to the album if I'm lying and that's my favorite album of his

[@TreSwayy]

thatssopiff yes the fuck it was. You niggas know nothing about trap i sweat. DJ Toomp is the producer. He is a trap lord.

[@novrandy20]

Trevison R. I stand by what I said NIGGA.

[@nikeboy8826]

yooo for realll! thats what I just said in my comment before I read yours

[@TreSwayy]

thatssopiff you know nothing about nothing. So just sit down bruh

[@novrandy20]

Trevison R. Boy STFU you mad bored

[@theohanna3561]

T.I. cause he took it mainstream with his King album

[@skaterboi65]

I fw Jeezy bruh

[@tezz2bumpinn]

8ball & mjg and three6ix mafia

[@pongobabongo]

Officially it was T.I, the closest they got before T.I was THREE SIX MAFIA with Mystic Stylez in ‘95, classic

[@BasicallyPlugs]

Tf they got a thumbnail of -jeezy- for Phat Gucci the *TRAP GOD*

[@bweizee]

Almighty the next big hit soundcloud.com/bennett-tran/hurtinallthetime

[@giovanniortiz7837]

Facts fat Gucci the trap god

[@jasonking6885]

Joe was talk crazy bout wheezy now he laughing and sitting the edge of his seat

[@TRAUMATIZE]

Miami Bass then it moved to ATL then moved to Caribbean Latin Trap Music nuff said.

[@u.u.upatreonrequests8679]

DJ Paul & Jucie J created TRAP O wait... he not talking about production..👀

[@kabeperry4702]

Gangsta rap and trap is different

[@knowledgeborn8210]

T.I started doing trap music first as far as underground go then mainstream... then Jezzy And Gucci

[@SonGoku-fb8bk]

Pac biggie a few others started “gangsta music” master P, ugk, birdman started with the southern gangsta music, then “trap music” came more mainstream with T.I, Gucci, Jeezy... but boosie and webbie kept that southern gangsta music alive, and then Lil wayne changed hip/hop forever...

[@culturenuitytv9687]

Pocket full of Stone UGK 1992

[@HaTRiCeL]

What about flosstradamus ?

[@joeyjr4145]

T.I.P

[@Nehuiable]

but trap started to get real attention with the aesthetic shit that thaiboi digital, yung lean and his crew did, after them, a lot of people started to do it and mix it with all kind of stuff, but if we talking bout who did it first i think it was three six mafia

[@jason15212]

TIP

[@eb9723]

Snowman⛄

[@IRoseFromTheConcrete333]

Curtis Blow

[@vancejacobs5552]

They didn't use the term trap music back then but people like ugk and 36 maifia with project pat was rapping about it but they was also diong crunk music but getto mafia was the first to me in Atlanta talking about trapping in the late 90s even gucci maine favorite rapper back then was project pat these young kids thing young jezzy or ti or Gucci maine started it even if you go way back you can say E 40 or scarface from the geto boys was rapping about sailing drugs who you think young jezzy and ti and Gucci maine got they influence from they didnt come out into the 2000s you cant forget about master p ice cream man and the tru album back in the late 90s that was banging too way before jezzy and ti or Gucci was thought off even eightball and mjg with coming out hard a classic trap gangster album

[@Mac_DNH]

You are correct b. Ghetto mafia and CMP were the first ones outta Atlanta talking trap shit. WAY before tip Gucci and jeezy. Real Atlanta niggas know the history. TI may have made an album and a song... but in the streets people knew who was talking that trap shit.

[@traeevans]

vance Jacobs yup

[@traeevans]

Foolish Wayz foh

[@dmonleon24]

wizzop GUCCI MANEEE

[@OpusKingOfficial]

He said dont call him trap but had a mixtape called "Trappin Aint Dead" haha

[@bikabek1027]

Tip Harris!!! Fuc y’all thought

[@ko_fasho]

T.I. GUWOP JEEZY. End of debate. 🙅🏾‍♂️

[@mikebrown8117]

T.I.P 2nd album TRAP MUZIK

[@leach713]

Ugk did I got a pocket full of stoneeees

[@brandonaust]

TI. Gucci Mane, Jeezy started Trap PERIOD.

[@rezzlewire8204]

brandonaust three 6 mafia ma g

[@darthnegrus9255]

brandonaust Nope...36 Mafia made the drum and snare patterns that are still in use in every song today.

[@brandonaust]

I can dig that I did come up on tripple 6...DJ Paul did start a wave

[@chipskylark5086]

Me. I created trap. I want my royalties.

[@chrisjimenez6712]

it wasn't one person but all of them that created trap music

[@treymurray118]

Future

[@junotoofficial8883]

Zaytoven t.i ,gucci mane, young jeezy with slight help from soja boy thinks bout it who rapped like that before them