Ranging anywhere from 80-140bpm, both US and UK urban beats feature unique rhythmic tropes. Let’s look at a few… When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The Roland-TR808 is the backbone of a lot of trap rap and EDM, and now the two genres are beginning to intersect. Credit: Joe Holmes In the mid-aughts a wave of steely-eyed southern rappers introduced ...

In 24 hours, a 72-year-old man from Chicago went from an unknown, amateur producer to a small viral phenomenon. Last Monday, Arthur DuBois walked into Haven Studio with a simple mission: find someone ...

This heavy reliance on production explains why trap has, since 2012, flooded into electronic music, spawning massive international hits and making trap a two-pronged affair. Its trap-rap stars are now ...

Trap gets thrown around so casually that almost any rap song ends up wearing the label. You hear someone rapping over a beat with drums? That’s trap. A song has a heavy bassline? Trap. A rapper uses ...

In the decade since Young Jeezy’s Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 album was released, Atlanta’s trap sound has moved from the crack house to the charts You used to want to stay away from the trap: ...

Trap Jazz (now streaming on Hulu) takes us to Atlanta, Georgia, where musicians and childhood pals Chris Moten, Cassius Jay, and Devon “Stixx” Taylor have drawn on the distinctive rhythms and themes ...