END THREAD? Lol, please. T.I. factually coined the term(until someone can prove otherwise)making what he called "trap muzik" back in 03 what it was regardless of what it became.
That's like someone saying even though it was called "hip hop" in '78, it's not real hip hop unless it sounds like it does in 2012. I also find it funny that someone can pinpoint it to Jeezy like there weren't underground cats with the same sound even before streetz is watching. Someone is waaaayyyyy too much of a Jeezy fan.
And you can't even say "streetz is watching" commercialized the current sound of trap. Jeezy bounced around too much from beat to beat(they weren't all what you'd call "trap" now), and streets is watching isn't a well enough known album. that's like saying sped up soul samples were commercialized by old Cam'ron mixtapes...no...it was commercialized by Jay-Z's multiplatinum Blueprint album, and even though old Cam mixtapes put the sound out there, underground NYC artists had the same sound before as well.
It's astonishing that people think a sound can be pinpointed, lol.
(c)2000, but what if it just dropped yesterday?
I understand what you wish was right, but what would make something like "They No" by Shawty Lo trap music without opening the door for a million other songs to be the same? And you know good and damn well "They No" was considered "Trap Music".
You can try to explain what it became, I got ears, I know what it sound like now. I can/do make the shyt. Doesn't change that it evolved from a foundation and other stuff was considered trap music before Jeezy was ever heard of. Other stuff than the current sound was considered trap music after the fact as well.
"Cashin Out" has all the elements of a trap song, but I bet you have a hard time admitting it's one if you think too hard about what is/isn't trap because it was so...COMMERCIALIZED.
