Jul 1, 2017

It's obvious that both of the genres is a reaction to their roots, trap derives rap and metal from rock. Whats interesting is that if you look at the trends there's also a similar evolution further down the line.

Metal was obsessed with making the most noise, striking the fastest and most distorted riffs, growling the loudest, etc. There's a shift in focus as the black metal scene emerged, where being the loudest wasn't the most important, but rather the atmosphere and aesthetic above anything else.

Trap also had this similar parallell, where in the early 2010's you had trap production obsessed with making the 808 kicks pump the hardest, orchestrated huge soundscapes, triple and quadruple time high hats combined with borderline shouting out vocals. For example Lex Luger & Waka Flocka, Mike Will Made It, Rick Ross, etc. What then happens is DJ Spinz crafts his own 808s, which revolutionized the new atlanta scene. About every trap release in the 2013-2014 period utilized his kicks and everyone in the scene had them. After that, the tempo slows down and you dont have the same type of 808 spam x sextuplet hi hat w 8 layers of arpeggiated synths. Like with Barter 6 the focus shifts to moody atmospheric ballads.

Basically the scene was so saturated with attempts at aggressive club bangers, and then suddenly hit a peak with Spinz 808s. After that, simplicity, atmosphere and melody became the natural reaction. You can hear this to this date if you compare Future's 2017 releases to his earlier projects, 2 Chainz especially if you compare the moody PGLTM to something like BOATS or Freebase.

While we think we're musically moving forward, are we just repeating ourselves over and over with new subgenres?


tl;dr music trends are predictable

also sorry for the length its probably super messy im just hi af venting some thoughts

 

Jul 1, 2017

God bless spinz808.wav

 

Jul 1, 2017

Never said anything bout real hip hop lmao, was always first to defend trap s---. Just saying it's the wave and everyone wants to be a trap rapper because of it. Dumbass.

 

Jul 1, 2017

Metallica had like 6 #1 albums. Not to mention hair metal pop s--- like Guns n Roses and Def Leppard.