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Here is a brief history and family tree of trap music and its subgenres, including music from each genre's era!
You can also use this family tree as sort of a bucket list to listen to every trap song and its subgenres


- Trap Music (1990s Atlanta, Georgia)

1990s-2003: Origins

• Cocaine In The Back of the Ride, from UGK's EP The Southern Way
  

2003-2015: Rise in Mainstream Popularity

• B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast), the second single from Rick Ross' 4th studio album Teflon Don
  

2015-Present: Universallly Mainstream

• Black Beatles, the 3rd single from Rae Sremmurd's 2nd studio album SremmLife 2
  

   - Cloud Rap (Late 2000s, Southern USA) 

2001-2011: Origins

• Clouddead's self titled debut album, cLOUDDEAD includes many aspects of cloud rap
  

2011-Present: Brief Mainstream Exposure

• A$AP Rocky's debut album Live. Love. ASAP also uses cloud rap aspects
  

   - Drill Music (Early 2010s Chicago, Illinois)

2012-2017: Emergence

• Love Sosa, the second single from Chief Keef's debut album Finally Rich
  

2017-Present: Revival

• Crazy Story, King Von's debut single from the album Grandson, Vol. 1
  

2014-2019: Early Attention

• Hot N****, a debut single from the debut EP Schmurda She Wrote by Bobby Schmurda
  

2019-2022: Re-Emergence

• Dior, the single from the albums Meet the Woo, Meet the Woo 2, Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon and Faith by Pop Smoke
  

2022-Present: A Second Re-Emergence

• Munch, the single from the EP Like..? by Ice Spice
  

      - UK Drill
2016: Brief Mainstream Ubiquity

• Lets Lurk by 67
  

   - Phonk (1990s Southern USA)

1990s-2017: Memphis Sounds

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2017-Present: Rare Phonk

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      - Drift Phonk (Late 2010s, Russia)
2020-Present: TikTok

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   - Plugg (Early 2010s, USA)
2013-2017: First Wave

• Gassed Up, the single by Nebu Kiniza
  

      - Second Wave / PluggNB (2017-2020, USA)

• Nun To Me by Kankan
  

         - Soft Plugg

• Highschool by Jaydes
  

         - Vamp Plugg

• XANAX by st47ic
  

         - Hyperplugg

• clueless +kurtains (lunamatic + holidaykiss) by kuru
  

   - Rage (Late 2010s-Early 2020s USA)
2021-Present: Surge in Popularity

• Miss the Rage, the single from the album Trip at Knight by Trippie Redd and Playboi Carti
  

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