Introduction
Trap music is a sub-genre of Hip Hop and the aim of this research topic is to find out if it is the most popular genre of today.My hypothesis is that it’s the most popular genre of today and I am basing that off radio play, most views and most searches.In this research I will be discussing the Origin, Artists, Famous hits and Production, meaning, and locations of trap music, and also a pie-chart survey of what peoples Favourite genre may be to determine if this is the most popular music of today.
There is Hundreds of Musical Genres around the world and some popular forms which are known worldwide would be Hip Hop, Rnb, Trap, Rock and pop Music.
Trap Music has seen a rise in popularity in the past few years and is the most recent genre of music to have such an increase in hit singles.
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Picture above is Future singer/Rapper of famous hit “Mask Off”.
Trap Music Is a form of hip hop, Dance Music and Dub, a musical crossbreed that is seeing a huge rise in popularity in recent years.Famous “Trap” Artists you might have heard of would be acts such as Future, Bryson Tiller, Young Thug and Lil Uzi Vert and hits such as “Trap Queen” by Fetty Wap or “XO Tour Life”.I believe this is a new wave in hip hop and became popular in early 2009.Trap Music Began in Atlanta(Also where a lot of the most famous artist of this genre are from) and was first formed in the 1990s however I believe it sounded very different to the nowadays Version.In order to compose a quality trap song a lot of Credit would go to the producer who would compose a trap track by the use of stuttering kick drums, hi-hats, 808s and oodles of synthesizers aswell as voice editing thses are all effects usually found in Trap Music.According to Popular website Thought.Co “History of trap music” Henry Adaso( May 12, 2016).
Trap music is very popular in New York, Toronto and Texas.This music is very popular because of catchy rythems and melody that most listeners can relate to around the globe
making it easy for the new genre to go Mainstream(Which it already has).
To get a better understanding of this, the biggest hit trending on Youtube right now (07/12/2017) is “Post Malone – Rockstar” which is the genre of trap music.
I have composed a bar chart survey to ask the question “what is youre favourite Music Genre?” in aim to record data, It will show if Trap Music is the most popular genre of today and my hypothesis is that is it is.
The Term “Trap” means an abandoned house where drugs are held and used.
Trap Music Producers Play a vital role in the process of how a trap song is put together due to how the beat can really make a trap song a hit.There is a 50 50 divide from the artist and Producer, famous producers in this genre such as Lex Luger, Zaytoven and Young Chop use technology such as The Roland TR-808 Drum Machine.A song goes 50 50 in the process regards to composing a song
Modern producers of the new trap music genre that have been emerging above the rest include artists RL Grime, TNGHT (Hudson Mohawke x Lunice), Flosstradamus, Baauer, DJ Sliink, Heroes x Villians, UZ, LOUDPVCK, gLAdiator, and Luminox. And the Trap Music genre continues to evolve as it progresses.
There is a lot of voice leading when it comes to the singing in trap music also.
In order to determine if this is the most popular music genre of today, i composed a pie chart survey of a sample range of 20 people(10 Male 10 Female) from different age groups 20 +
I asked a series of 2 questions to each individual:
- “What is your favourite Music Genre?”
- “What is your Favourite Artist/Band” (In the Genre they picked)?
(1).11 Individuals Chose Trap Music, 3 were unsure and and 6 didn’t choose trap as they chose a different genre.
(2).8 Individuals (out of the 20) chose a trap Rapper as their Favourite artists, 4 did not choose an artist in trap but in hip hop (Trap is a sub Genre of hip hop).5 chose artists of different genres and 3 of the remaining were unsure of having a Favourite artist.
Source 1:”Evolution of trap” -
https://runthetrap.com/what-is-trap-music/
Conclusion
After recording all the data I required and gained a lot of knowledge on different genres.I also gained a lot information on trap music and how people are not really familiar with the term yet listen to the genre alot or at least know of it which was a surprise.A common term I have heard while conducting the survey was the term “Mumble Rap” Not all individuals are on the side of trap music and are in fact against it and totally dislike it some even disown it, even some listeners of the genre were critical about it, however I found that devoted listeners are more intrueged with the instrumental than the singer/rapper.Out of all 20 individuals (10 Male 10 Female) I found and interesting fact that, out of all the artists and genres the individuals picked “Future” (A Trap music Artist) was the most frequent name thrown out there, therefore it is evident that this particular genre has ,in some ways the most popularity.
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