It's the philosophy in which you have to hustle, deal drugs or do something illegal to survive. If not you might as well resort to dying because you ain't gonna make money.

a slang term used in the dirty south refering to either hustlin (trap) or die

Trap or die relates to the term "eat what you kill." Many jobs in the world are commission based. At commission only jobs you "eat what you kill" meaning you only make money on the business you bring to the company and if you don't bring any business in, you don't eat. Hence the phrase "trap or die." It describes what you have to do to survive. In order to eat what you kill, you must trap or die...

A collection of sounds and words assembled by the rapper Young Jeezy, consisting mostly of him moaning "yyyeeeeaaa" at random intervals and mildly incoherent words dealing with getting some poonannie from his girl after a hard day of thuggin'.