'trap' without rapping doesn't really appeal to me - i've tried listening to lex luger instrumentals before and its alright, but i miss the rapping. what would those zaytoven beats be without gucci mane playing off them? wouldn't shawty redd beats be boring, or lack something, without jeezy's enunci-shouting over them? rappers give those beats vitality, contrast, personality and - importantly - context. its an interesting question - e.g. are the elements that make up a lex luger track effective in of themselves or do they depend on the social context that they arose from, as represented by a rapper like waka or even (fake or not) rick ross?
i've been in that position in the past where i've bemoaned mcs (and of course there are many shit ones) but i've come to see the call to strip black music of voices, esp. music that was MADE FOR voices, as somehow suspect (and not necessarily racially so). i guess i view everything through that energy flash prism.
anyway, i have in the past said that 'trap' music should inspire uk producers so i'm cringing at myself now. but then - look at jungle, which was inspired by hip hop but was certainy no rote replication of it, but rather a transformative technical mutation of that original blueprint? i'm not into white suburban guys wearing bandanas on their face or whatever, i can only see that being a flash in the pan.
i mean apart from anything else, ''trap'' is surely on the verge of dying a death within rap music! its ubiquitous, yes, but that very fact makes me suspect that it will lose its influence soon, become utterly exhausted.