Curated playlist

American trap musicians

Roddy RicchRoddy Ricch spent eighteen weeks atop the Hot 100 in 2020, more than any other artist that year.
Young ThugYoung Thug was expelled in sixth grade for breaking a teacher's arm.
Playboi CartiPlayboi Carti, the Atlanta rapper born Jordan Terrell Carter, walked onto the stage at Rolling Loud in Miami on the 15th of December 2024 with one hour and fifteen minutes to fill. Weeks earlier he had told fans he would play his…
Lil WayneLil Wayne left school in tenth grade after his mother found a gun in his bag.
Megan Thee StallionMegan Thee Stallion's mother took her to recording sessions instead of daycare.
DiploDiplo, an American DJ and record producer, played a set from a hot air balloon at the 35th Burning Man festival. This was in August 2023. Then a rainstorm turned the grounds of Black Rock City, Nevada, into a mud pit. He left on foot and…
Travis ScottTravis Scott, born Jacques Bermon Webster II, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer from Houston, Texas. Within a single twelve-month span, three of his songs entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number one. No artist…
Juice WrldIn 2020, the rapper Juice Wrld was streamed on Spotify more than 5.9 billion times, which made him the fourth most streamed artist in the world. He had died the year before. The name is pronounced "juice world", and it belonged to a young…
XXXTentacionXXXTentacion, born Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy, was shot dead on the 18th of June 2018 near a motorcycle dealership in Deerfield Beach, Florida. He was 20 years old. At the time, he was a rising and deeply polarizing figure in hip-hop.…
Post MalonePost Malone, born Austin Richard Post, failed an audition in 2010 for the Texas metalcore band Crown the Empire. He had gone in as a guitarist. The audition ended when his guitar strings broke, and the band turned him down. He was a…
ASAP RockyASAP Rocky became a radio name in August 2011, when his single "Peso" leaked online. Within weeks, Hot 97, a high-profile New York station, was playing it. The song helped push cloud rap, a style of hip hop, into mainstream attention. The…
T.I.T.I. became a worldwide star under a name that, by his own account, almost nobody had ever used for him in real life. The Atlanta rapper, born Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., said as much to MTV News in October 2015. "It's kinda awkward to be…