Modern Trap Music or Today’s Hair Metal

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It’s been over 2 years since Chuck Berry’s Death and Hip-Hop Usurping Rock Music’s popularity on the the Billboard Charts. The music landscape today seems vastly different compared to 30 years ago when Rock was king and Hip-Hop was still in it’s infancy. During my time working as a server at Orochon Ramen in Little Tokyo, I would routinely clean up the outside patio while 80’s radio tribute stations played on the sound system. As I continually listened more and more I started seeing more and more similarities between Hair Metal and Modern Trap Music. This is picked my interests and I started consuming various documentaries, albums, and art by provocateurs of metal and trap and music and found some key commonalities behind there music. Hair Metal and Modern Trap music are similar genres by each of them having an attention to visual aesthetic and limited substance but escapist.

As a matter of fact, the genre Hair Metal in its proto-type form and infancy started in the early 1970’s with bands such as the New York Dolls, Kiss and Alice Cooper. Hair Metal bands that would take influences from the burgeoning Glam Rock and Shock movements but added on with more aggressive guitar playing coming from Heavy Metal. From a lyrical standpoint deferring to write songs layered with substance choosing rather to highlight partying…