What was trap before lex luger

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seems trap nowadays has either lex luger or some lex luger wanabe making the beats and it all sounds kinda the same, who was producing trap before? and how did it sound like?
 
Young Jeezy + Shawty Redd - Thug Motivation 101 and other albums
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The term "trap music" been around for a while tho with artists like T.I. and such
 
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hmm they use the same progressions, i thought it was some sort of lex inovation, but lex is def way better than whoever produced those songs
 
DJ Toomp, Drumma Boy, Nasty Beatmakers, The Runners, Shawty Redd, Midnite Black, Lil'Jon, Zaytoven, and many others have been making that sound before Lex Luger got hot. That's what's so funny about aspiring producers who are begging and obsessing over trying to recreate Lex's sound to make the same beat. Luger really isn't making anything we haven't heard before. He's just in the spotlight a lot more than those guys are right now.

I won't knock his game though.
 
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i aint really heard none of lex luger's shit. but to say he's better than shawty redd is atrocious! shawty redd is one of the hands down hardest producers in the past five years. trap music would still be that shit that ti talked about. ti talked about trappin, but shawty redd made a brand out of it.

shawty redd was going so ****ing hard on them first two cds. im laughing out loud right now because he was ridiculously good. i remember staying high all the time bumpin thug motivation. that nigga gave me goosebumps.
 
Lex Luger got some hot tracks. But I been reading credits recently and realized he doesn't produce half the stuff i thought he did. Not sure if dudes bytin him or if they all came out at the same time. Kinda like "chipmunk sampling" back in 2001.
 
Shawty was the pioneer of this "trap" sound that you hear from mr luger





 
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trap is blending horror movie score-type sounding music with dirty south drums. Shawty redd said that in an old issue of scratch
 
Shanty redd started it all.... Everything out now is just a watered down imitation of what he was doing 5-6yrs ago. Smh crazy how ppl give lex credit for this hah smh
 
ANY 90's three 6 mafia albums, along with dj squeeky. I think its safe to say those guys influenced these "trap" beat guys... why the hell do we even call it that??? The shyt is nothing butt slowed down booty/bass music... but I hate how they try to make every last beat sound epic an triumphant. Paul,Juice and squeeky had variety.
 
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HEAVY_WEIGHT said:
ANY 90's three 6 mafia albums, along with dj squeeky. I think its safe to say those guys influenced these "trap" beat guys... why the hell do we even call it that??? The shyt is nothing butt slowed down booty/bass music... but I hate how they try to make every last beat sound epic an triumphant. Paul,Juice and squeeky had variety.
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I think the term "trap" or "trapping" was first used in a 8 ball and Mjg song not sure though. It means to hustle/sell drugs. The "trap beat" what you hear today was started by Shawty Redd. Zaytoven in an interview said even his sound which is unique was influenced by Shawty Redd. The epic scary sound is just part of the genre. It would be like complaining why does every reggaeton beat have that same drum pattern when thats what makes it reggaeton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggaeton
 
That is what "trap" means now.... back in the way early 90s trap was georgia slang for the hood/ghetto. When I first heard the term it wasn't in music yet. When I heard it in a rap it was in the first goodie mob album. They spoke of the hood when using it.

"shrugs"
 
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That is what "trap" means now.... back in the way early 90s trap was georgia slang for the hood/ghetto. When I first heard the term it was'nt in music yet. When I heard it in a rap it was in the first goodie mob album. They spoke of the hood when using it.

"shrugs"
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Thank you! The net is funny to me because of the terms they make up for what they don't really know about. I never heard the south called the dirty south, then Goodie Mob makes a song called the dirty south which has nothing to do with dirty south "music" that people put a name for on a beat that sounds like it came from the south. Without the net shit would all still be called dat south shit which includes plenty of styles. I'm still old school......"trap" ain't nothing but what "crunk" has become but it's still that south shit period for those younger outside of the south who teaching the younger. We used to be like "that shit gets me crunk". Nothing but slang used in the ATL that people can categories music that sounds like that one word they hear often. T.I's album was called Trap Muzik, but niggas we're spittin that trap shit in the deep underground waaaaay before Trap Muzik came out. Same as in New York. But the shit wasn't call CREAM music.......Yo kid music......Dun music.........woohaaa music.....but it all sounded similar yet different. Friends of mine used to get on me and say....."nigga we don't want to hear that yo kid shit. Pop this shit in." I call when people take 80's pop and chop it up with crazy drum patterns that Dipset music.

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Puppet said:
trap is blending horror movie score-type sounding music with dirty south drums. Shawty redd said that in an old issue of scratch
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I guess you can say dirty south is a genre and all that other shit that came from it is some sub shit.
 
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LOL & Lex being better than Shawty Redd or Drumma Boi. Their way more versatile than him & he got his whole style from them, smh. I like some of his joints though especially the ones with Ross/MMG.
 
901_Rice_Street said:
Thank you! The net is funny to me because of the terms they make up for what they don't really know about......
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I noticed this a long time ago......and if you try and school em, they treat you like you don't know what you talkin about. lol.
 
Neox said:
I love how Lex and Waka changed the radio. :)
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They didn't. Luger got his entire sound from guys like Shawty Redd, Midnite Black, DJ Toomp, 3-6, Lil Jon, Drumma Boy, people like that. Hell if you wanna go back even further we're talking about No Limit beats when Master P was hot.

Everybody's heavily influenced by somebody or something. I give props to Luger, but I hate it when people act like the sounds he's using are something nobody's ever heard. The ONLY difference is his beats are currently in the spotlight. His beats are what everybody wants. It's no different than when the Runners blew up after "Everyday I'm Hustling" or when Trakstarz blew up after "Tipsy" and so on.
 
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