Description
Trap music mirrors the coldness, meanness, brutality, dehumanization, and desperation of the collapsing neoliberal order. Gangsters are fearless and endlessly innovative entrepreneurial heroes, and Trap music is their TED Talk. Extending what Young Jeezy said about the rap game being the same as the trap game: the trap game is a microcosmic facsimile of macrocosmic capitalism.
Reality in the hood, a vicious cycle of addiction, suppliers, gangs, crime, police, and prisons, all part of a system designed to sustain this process, is a perfect miniscule model of reality around the globe, a larger vicious cycle where powerful states administer political and physical violence, destabilize resource-rich regions, manufacturing terrorism and war, while arms dealers make Trillions. Trap music comes from a visceral experience of survival on the love-less streets, but is a mirror image of the world at large: the neo-Darwinian nightmare of late stage capitalism in its rawest form.
