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| Discussion: Lady Gaga helps TRAP music migrate Feb 17th 2013, 15:53  Quote:
With a little help from Lady Gaga, "Trap music" has migrated from Dirty South strip clubs to hip cosmopolitan dance floors. How real is that?
A few weeks ago, Lady Gaga's DJ White Shadow uploaded an instrumental track to his Soundcloud account and initiated a contest.
The contest winner—whose groggy vocals relied on a series of absurd hip-hop cliches ("posted in the trap strapped with the AK, aimin' at your fitted cap," "chopper in the chopper on the way to a sold out show," etc.)—was announced, and an ambitious pitch-shifter discovered that the winning track's vocals sounded remarkably similar to Lady Gaga herself.
The Gaga song is just the latest evidence of the rising media profile of a pseudo-genre known as Trap. As more artists signal their general awareness of What People Talk About Online, "Trap" has been undergoing a series of these mainstreaming moments, further legitimizing it as a phenomenon.
| Hew else :alexz: source : Complex Music |  |
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