The trap-soul genre has made a comeback in the hip-hop industry. This week Migos royalty Quavo extolled the genre's soulful fusion of hip-hop and R&B in a tweet, calling it the next wave in music. In ...

What is trap music? According to T.I., on the title track of his genre-defining Trap Muzik, it ain’t no album and it ain’t no game. Indeed, the origins of trap go beyond music — beyond even the ...

If Chicago is the second city, MC Tree is its second son. The data will tell you that he’s a few tiers below the city's global superstars and national celebrities, but Tree — born Tremaine Johnson — ...

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 ...