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
- Cloud Rap (Late 2000s, Southern USA)
2001-2011: Origins
- Drill Music (Early 2010s Chicago, Illinois)
2012-2017: Emergence
- UK Drill
2016: Brief Mainstream Ubiquity
- Phonk (1990s Southern USA)
1990s-2017: Memphis Sounds
- Drift Phonk (Late 2010s, Russia)
2020-Present: TikTok
- Plugg (Early 2010s, USA)
2013-2017: First Wave
- Second Wave / PluggNB (2017-2020, USA)
- Soft Plugg
- Vamp Plugg
- Hyperplugg
- Rage (Late 2010s-Early 2020s USA)
2021-Present: Surge in Popularity
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
- B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast), the second single from Rick Ross' 4th studio album Teflon Don
- 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
- 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
- Crazy Story, King Von's debut single from the album Grandson, Vol. 1
- Brooklyn Drill (Mid 2010s New York City, New York)
2014-2019: Early Attention- Hot N****, a debut single from the debut EP Schmurda She Wrote by Bobby Schmurda
- 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
- 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
- Drift Phonk (Late 2010s, Russia)
2020-Present: TikTok
- 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