Top 10 Best Trap Rap Songs of All Time
Hate it or love it, trap rap has produced some great songs. Like all genres, there is something for everyone, with tracks that can meet your standards and match the expectations you have set for the genre.The requirements for this list are as follows: The song must follow the common characteristics of trap rap. Specifically, it should have lyrical content that is darker than gangsta rap but softer than the horrorcore elements of Memphis rap. While it is true that these genres can blend, thanks to 808 hi-hats, kicks, and snares, among other elements, if that happens, the song must be influenced by trap rap rather than belonging predominantly to another genre. Likewise, trap rap must be one of the main genres in focus, not just an influence.
Also, I don't see the point in restricting artists, so feel free to include as many as you see fit, no matter who the artist is.
Oh, and one more thing. If you don't see a song you enjoy on this list, feel free to add one of your own. After all, that's what subjectivity is all about. Am I wrong?
Memes aside, you want trap songs that have a point? This does have a point. It's political, aggressive, and urban in the most bleak and schizophrenic of ways.
All staples of Denzel's work, and that's up front with other songs he's released recently like Hate Government and Equalizer, along with ULT and Zeltron 6 Billion to an extent.
Great song! Catchy melody, and I really like the flow of the last verse.
Here's a quote explaining why this song is great and how it highlights the hatred of Kodak Black on this site.
"This song's beat is so good that not even Kodak can ruin it."
That's it. This song's beat is so good that the producer for Bodak Yellow ripped off its melody. Regardless of what you think of Kodak, you cannot deny this beat's power and emotional appeal. You really can't. Doing so while highlighting the lyrics would be missing the point of the music.
It's sad, bleak, hopeless, and kind of depressing. It's Kodak at his most passionate and hungry, his most ready. He's ready to take that beat and flow over it with truthful lyrics so much so that the beat will be an afterthought compared to it. You hate Kodak Black for his crimes? Fine, I don't really care. You don't like Tunnel Vision? Fine as well, all it has going for it on there is the beat. But to brush this off as another rap song is just beyond ignorant, it's beyond mindless. It's the most human thing I've ever seen from the genre, and considering its overall bleakness, that's beyond impressive. Everything is potent, from the beat to the progression to the performance by Kodak. It's all perfect.
And that's why I personally love this song. It's my favorite trap rap song, and nothing you say can change my mind.
This is it. The pinnacle of it all. All being Travis Scott, that is. One half is a mask of melancholy and psychedelic triumph, the other is a dilapidated breakdown into hedonism's full extent.
While Travis holds his own singing over the natural ambiance and bass, the twisted, almost deranged piano loop fully encapsulates the darkness of the second half. Young Thug does his own thing, landing a top 3 verse on Rodeo in the process. For all the garbage Bieber gets slung at him, he does what's expected of him here.
Top 3 song for all the artists involved, bar none.
The Newcomers
This is the song that shows what trap is all about. Fantastic production, great and unobvious flow from Offset, straightforward but funny and engaging lyrics. I've come to appreciate it more and more, and for me, it's a genre-defining song.
This is way better than everything else on the list.
Chief Keef pays his dues here, overseeing, allowing, and contributing his craft and voice to carry the next generation of rappers up the charts and into the bed of Kylie Jenner. Well, at least for Travis Scott, anyway.
Oh yeah, this song goes hard.
The beat is hypnotizing, the hook is so catchy, and the features are great. By far the most creative club banger I've heard in my life.
Lyricism, melody, vibes, and flow are all insane. The beat is so wild, and it numbs your brain in a way. Surreal and emotional.
Here's a comment from a guy on RateYourMusic that perfectly summarizes the importance and quality of HIDP.
"Too ignorant, but gets over on charisma, entertainment value, and adherence to old-school crunk ethics with plenty of new, even more crude ideas as well."
It's vulgar, but in the best of ways. Y'all like edgelords swearing? This should be right up your alley then.
Crazy to think Chief Keef created an entire subgenre of rap at the age of 16.
That's impressive.
Oh yeah, this song is great, pretty much vaulted Drill into the mainstream, so it gets bonus points for that.