SUMMERS: All week, to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop, we're looking at key moments that helped define the genre. Today, the birth of trap music and the rise of Southern rap. SUMMERS: In 2001 ...

“When I signed with No Limit my goal actually was to be the biggest rapper in the world,” Phipps said in an ABC News Studios documentary, “Rap Trap: Hip-Hop on Trial,” which premieres on ...

By Gail Mitchell So what happens when three best friends from Atlanta — each packing their own estimable music credits — come together to pool their talents? A new genre tagged “trap jazz.” ...

Future’s music also showcases the current hallmarks of the southern-born, Atlanta-dominated subgenre of hip-hop known as trap, which now permeate nearly every corner of popular music ...

Atlanta’s hip-hop culture would eventually ... of getting into the music business, and some had to be coaxed by managers like Coach K. “When talking about trap music and guys that allegedly ...

Hip-hop wouldn’t sound the same ... of the Migos,” said A.R. Shaw, author of “Trap History: Atlanta Culture and the Global Impact of Trap Music.” “They kind of followed him, even though ...

When the needle hit the records on DJ Kool Herc's turntable, launching hip-hop's start 50 years ago, the sound pushed a new culture into the arts, especially music ... out the logo, a T-shirt ...

Hip-hop was born in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary ... Rat,” by Motorcycle Mike and the Rat Trap Band on Hodisk Records. However, the tale ...