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 ...

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 ...

It’s been four years since El Paso producer Riot Ten started taking his headbanging, bass-heavy trap sounds beyond the desert Southwest and into clubs and venues nationwide. It’s been three years ...

Gucci Mane and T.I. have been embroiled in a tit-for-tat about who invented trap music for over a week. Gucci posted a flashback Instagram post commemorating the day he feels he invented trap music.

DJ Speedy teases forthcoming album with Waka Flocka Flame and why hip-hop and EDM work. By Ashley Lyle DJ Speedy is not new to the music industry. With a career spanning over 20 years, the South ...

Electronic dance music, or EDM, represents a broad range of subgenres created primarily for nightclubs, raves and festivals. The earliest EDM dates back to disco in the 1970s. The genre has since ...