duel- that is, the clash between the CEO and the streetside hustler-had been settled. He’d recently received a Grammy nomination for “Blurred Lines,” was Iggy Azalea’s mentor and defender, and was the patriarch of a reality-show family. envisioned Dime Trap as the second installment of a trilogy that began with 2014’s pop-leaning Paperwork. For the first time in years, he sounds less like a copyright lawyer and more like a contributor to a culture he loves.īack in 2015, T.I. “I made it album… but WE MADE IT A GENRE!!!!” This pivot from ownership to participation animates Dime Trap. “Trap Muzik wouldn’t be shit without ALL OF US,” he wrote. dropped the language of invention and proposed the genre was a group effort. But last month, announcing a new pop-up museum dedicated to trap, T.I. staked his claim to the genre’s origins on his 2003 album, Trap Muzik, arguing the proof was there in the title. Trap has become such a force-in hip-hop, in music, in style-that its creators can credibly say they have helped shape modern culture.

For the past year, T.I., Gucci Mane, and spectators have been embroiled in a debate about who invented trap music.

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