A new kind of populist electronic music called "trap" has been skirting the mainstream for a few months now, but hasn't yet broken through. Could a bunch of silly viral videos make the genre a ...

Trap is the perfect crossover between EDM and hip-hop. In fact, this genre is responsible for some of music’s hottest artists, from T.I. and Waka Flocka to, more recently, RL Grime and Flosstradamus.

Much of the discussion around producer-helmed rap albums favors the so-called boom-bap variety. Where fans clamor for their favorite lyricists to lock in with one producer, like Nas and Hit-Boy, Gibbs ...