More so than any other music since the blues, hip-hop is all about stories. And its stories are both criminal minded and grand, making them enthralling and unbelievable, but also making them only as interesting and convincing as the teller. That's why, despite being blackballed by the industry, without a major-label recording contract, heads still gravitated to District Heights realest son, Trappa, like the planets to the sun. Trappa, born Tray Jenkins 18 years ago, is the real deal, the genuine article. He's a man of the streets, intimately familiar with its codes and its violence, but still, Trap, an incredibly intelligent and deliberate man, holds himself with a regal air as if above the pettiness which surrounds him. Couple his true-life hardship with his knack for addictive, syrupy hooks, it's clear that Trappa has exactly what it takes to ride down the road to riches and diamond rings. Trappa is real, so he does real things.
That's why people know Trappa today. That's where it built from. I skipped what a lot of rappers have to go through to get put on. I skipped Doin 2 many shows, I skipped Freestyle Fridays on the radio 95.5, the Lyricist Lounge -I skipped all that. I made my name on the mixtapes, on the streets. And im still working at it today. That's the hardest thing to get right there." Despite so many things going his way, Trappa is not prepared to take it easy. "People will tell me all the time, 'Look at your set up. You're guaranteed to make it.' I get upset when I hear that. Ain't nobody guaranteed nothing. I feel like they're looking at the situation wrong cause I don't take advantage of nobody. I don't work less because you're working harder. I work real, real hard even though I know Gang Green's there. There there, they support me 110%, but I don't want to put no extra pressure on Them when I can do it. At the end of the day, I find myself working twice as hard."Working twice as hard and still hungry.Born in Atlanta Georgia, to a African American mother and a African American father, Trappa moved to the Ft. Washington neighborhood of Maryland at age 13. With his father in and out of the prison system, Trap's mother was left to raise him. Dropping out of high school before his 16th birthday, Trap began performing his rhymes on street corners, where he gained local fame and appeared on several mixtapes. Together with two other local aspiring artists, Yung City, C*Dogg and G-Staa, ReneGade was created. Trappa would later sign a record deal with the label after it was established as a subsidiary of Interscope RecordsEarly on he took to writing various musings-ghetto poetry, loose narratives; nothing quite structured, though he was influenced by rap gods like Big Daddy Kane and Slick Rick. "I listened to Big Daddy Kane a lot, cause that's what my pops listened to," he says. Trap's favorite songs were Rick's "Young World" and Kane's "Smooth Operator," and "Ain't No Half-Steppin'." High school didn't agree with Trap, so he dropped out before his 18th birthday. The freewriting he had been doing had morphed into full-fledged rhymes, but that was a secret. "I never let nobody know I did it," he says. But he soon got his courage up. "I started rhyming outside and everybody started telling me, 'You should shop your material.' This is before I even got in the studio." Trap appeared on local mixtapes becoming one of the neighborhood's best unsigned rappers. His only competition was a childhood friend named B. Streets. One day, Streets, along with another childhood friend who rapped under the name Yung City, approached Trap with the idea of becoming a group. If Trap wanted to be down, he could be part of the crew that they were calling ReneGade. Trappa was down. "I always felt like if I was to get into doing rap professionally, I wanted to get into it with somebody who was from my neighborhood," he says. "Who better than people who I've known my whole life?"We're just a team of teenagers trying to make our own way in this music industry. We strive to make it together as a team not taking hand outs from other people. FearLess Records is a self made label created by me Trappa. All of our recordings our done in my studio, but dont get it twisted its not a real studio with the booth and all dat its in my room and I live in an house so thats how i know I got a team of serious grinders bcause if u aint serious then you cant get down with the team!!!!I edited my profile at Freeweblayouts.net , check out these Myspace Layouts!
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