The slang word trap has numerous definitions, but is mostly used to refer to any place where drugs are being exchanged. BUT! an Intelligent well known musician “Lil Trap” transformed it into a well known acronym newly defined, Meaning growing up or living in or around an a unpeaceful environment. Modern Day Used to refer a household with violence,abuse,neglect,intimidation, profanity,or crime intellectuals ect.
Me being rasied in a trap home and making it out in the condition of feeling peaceful taught me how to be courageous when handling or being brought into a harmful conflict or conflicts.
The term “The Trap” aka The Ghetto aka The Hood had to have been first used by some plumber. A trap is a uniquely shaped pipe used under most household sinks that retains a small amount of water, which creates a seal that keeps the foul smelling sewage gas from the drain pipe from coming back out into open space. If you think about it, we use the term “The Trap” to refer to the hood, where crime is rampant and a place where society wants to keep the people living there from coming out into the suburbs. So I personally think it is strange that rappers glorify the trap because it is a governmental system that is put in place to repress the people living in poverty even further from better living standards and opportunities.