The King of the South is coming back for the crown. The Atlanta rapper’s next album will be a call back to his 2003 album, Trap Muzik.
During an interview with Power 105’s Angie Martinez, Tip
made the announcement. “We’re just going to make sure that we give
everybody the best Tip album that we can give them,” he said. “I’m going
for trap music on this. A lot of people don’t really know that I
created trap music. I didn’t think I got that old.”
“There was no such thing as trap music prior to me,” he
continued. “No such thing. It didn’t exist. It was Outkast and crunk. It
was Organized Noize and crunk.”
In 2003, Tip released his second album Trap Muzik,
which spawned his first major hits, including “24’s,” “Let’s Get Away,”
and the Kanye West-produced “Doin’ My Job” and “Let Me Tell You
Something.” The intro explained the album’s concept. “This ain’t an
album,” he rapped. “This ain’t a game. This the trap. Trap Muzik!”
Since then, the term “trap music” has taken a life of its
own, becoming a sub-genre along the way. Today, it’s one of the more
popular forms of hip-hop. But this isn’t the first time Tip has asserted
this claim. In 2012, he said the same thing to Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex.
“Before I came in the game, it was Lil Jon, Outkast, Goodie
Mob,” he said at the time. “Okay? So you had crunk music and you had
Organized Noize. There was no such thing as Trap Muzik. I created that. Yes, I did. I coined the term. It was [my] second album, it dropped in 200
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
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