Trap Shit
Trap Music Pioneer UZ Is Remastering His Iconic Tracks and Selling Them As NFTs
It’s 2012. SoundCloud is the biggest thing in music since the iPod. UZ, Baauer, Flosstradamus and HU₵₵I are dropping the craziest songs you’ve ever heard. You show your friends and become an aux legend. Life is good. Before SoundCloud’s broken business model drove artists away like bad breath, it was the epicenter of electronic music discovery. And the advent of trap music on the platform led to the genre’s explosion—with UZ’s fabled “Trap Shit” series serving as ground zero. Considered a pioneering trap artist, UZ was emblematic of the golden era of SoundCloud, when bedroom producers could scrap together 808s and a simple chord progression and blow up overnight. Just ask RL Grime, who abandoned his mainstream dance music alias, Clockwork, after th...
