{"id":92271,"date":"2021-11-15T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=92271"},"modified":"2021-11-15T13:43:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:43:40","slug":"nigerian-trap-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/nigerian-trap-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The best Nigerian trap of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nigerian music continues to experience some noteworthy metamorphosis. Each passing day, the West African music market is inundated with a spectrum of sub-genres that transcends the all-too-familiar Afropop or Afrobeats, as it is popularly known. While there are often big name drops like Wizkid<\/a>, Burna Boy<\/a>, Tiwa Savage<\/a>, Davido<\/a> when discussing Nigerian music, a closer look captures many more exciting voices putting in the graft to prove that Nigerian music is much more than Afrobeats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While rap music has long been embedded in Nigerian culture, at the cusp of these developments is trap. The doggedness of its purveyors has made optimists of skeptics concerning the sound\u2019s mainstream viability.  Though Lagos remains the epicenter for Nigerian music, the country\u2019s capital Abuja has become a homestead for local trap, with correspondents like PsychoYP<\/a> and Straffitti – who are members of Apex Village, a popular hip-hop collective that houses some of the most recognized trap stars in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artists like Rema<\/a> have shuffled in between genres to deliver stellar trap-leaning records like \u201cAlien\u201d, \u201cSpaceship Jocelyn\u201d or \u201cTrap Out the Submarine\u201d while artists like PsychoYP, Cheque remain steeped in the sound\u2019s renaissance with each release. The potential, however, gets more assuring as global music entities like ONErpm and Empire exercise priority interest in these trap correspondents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, here\u2019s our favourite trap records released this year by Nigerian artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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