Listen to Tonn2Lit’s “Trappa of the Year”: New Rap Music Today

Tonn2Lit: “Trappa of the Year”

From the first listen, the digital bounce of D.C. rapper Tonn2Lit’s “Trappa of the Year” had me nostalgic for spacey ATL trap gems like Mike Will’s joints on Future’s Pluto and Hoodrich Pablo Juan and Spiffy Global’s Master Sensei. Trap music has long been a major influence on the street anthems of the DMV, and that feels even more true lately. (Listen to MoneySet’s Free Tall Set Got You or Baby Jamo’s Backdoor Con Artist and tell me otherwise.) As for Tonn2Lit, he had a moment a couple of years ago with a run of no-frills DMV crank that hit like a battering ram. The bleeps and bloops on “Trappa of the Year” add some new sauce to his hot-blooded yet routine dope-dealing rhymes. “Servin’ that white girl to a cracker” is a fine enough bar that I’ve heard rapped a zillion different ways, but it sounds so much better on a beat that is the pummeling DMV sound gone virtual.

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