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- ALL ESCAPE ROOM’S COME WITH A PRIVATE TOUR OF THE MUSEUM
- Museum Hours
- The ancestors of Nettie Washington Douglass still have stories to teach us. She just hopes we are ready to listen.
- Inside Atlanta's iconic Trap Music Museum as it nears its 4-year anniversary
- Photos: Inside T.I.’s Trap Music Museum and Escape Room, an English Avenue hit
Bricks of white powder wrapped in plastic are stacked against the wall. A purported drug dealer, barking orders after outing visitors as narcs, forces them to face the wall while he wraps a blindfold around their eyes. In pure blackness, the “cops” are sent off to wade through a sea of pokes, prods, and electric shocks—really—from, presumably, “trap stars” (actors, of course), weaving though skinny corridors leading to, hopefully, the exit. On October 28, a portion of the proceeds from the haunted house will go toward breast cancer awareness advocacy group I Will Survive. There are also plans to work with charity groups such as the Boys and Girls Club before the season is over.
ALL ESCAPE ROOM’S COME WITH A PRIVATE TOUR OF THE MUSEUM
The second phase of the adventure, dubbed the “Apocalypse Zombie Kill Experience,” yields visitors a full-metal toy gun, which comes loaded with 150 [imaginary] bullets. In the middle of the recreated closet, which features some of T.I.’s clothes, as well as a handful of assault rifles and other guns, his Grammy award is typically on display, symbolizing his hard-fought graduation from the trap life to that of international acclaim. Soon after clearing the trap kitchen and picking up the heavy gun, a horde of live “zombie crackheads,” as Allyn Glover, owner of 13 Stories, describes it, stalks after visitors and accosts them at every turn.
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Museum Hours
Naturally, trap music plays as you explore the museum, which also houses a full bar, an add-on escape room, the pink Chevy from artist 2 Chainz’s infamous “Pink Trap House,” and an opportunity to pose with Jeezy’s cocaine snowman while holding prop bricks of cocaine. The one-of-a-kind, interactive experience is known to attract large crowds of hip-hop music enthusiasts who line up to see Atlanta's music legacy preserved with memorabilia, an escape room and art carefully selected that reflects the timeline of the emergence of trap music. Inside a dimly lit room, an abundance of “cocaine” decorates a table in a snowy smattering.
The ancestors of Nettie Washington Douglass still have stories to teach us. She just hopes we are ready to listen.
It includes Champagne, and you can enjoy the museum as an experience. You can even stop by our bar to check out the “Trap Drankz” carefully created by our curators, along with other companies, like PATRON. "We want to make sure that people know where trap music came from." "I hate the #PinkTrapHouse," Greenforest Community Baptist Church Youth Pastor Al Hollie Jr recently posted to his Facebook page. "Its very disappointing that our African American Brothers and Sisters are excited to take pictures in front of the Pink TRAP house . Though it's not a real Trap House, the representation of the Trap House is responsible for destroying the black community." For the event, he flipped a home, located on 1530 Howell Mill, painting it pink and writing the word “Trap” on the front to mimic his album’s cover art.
Assuming attendees make it out alive—these zombies take more than a single headshot to put down—they’re then thrust into pure paranoia, cast as undercover cops in a hostile drug den. At 2 Chainz’s Haunted Pink Trap House in Newnan, thrill-seekers can fire a fake assault rifle at “zombie crackheads” in a dark, damp trap house. But the limited-time attraction offers far more than a setting to scream and unload lead on undead junkies; it also offers a chance to give back. Being reservation only, thursdays are usually a no line, no wait.
There’s a pink stove and pink widebody car, likely from the 1970s, in the front yard, too. Gucci, along with artists like Young Jeezy, Yo Gotti, and T.I., propelled trap into national recognition in the early aughts, but its roots trace back to ‘90s rap groups UGK and Outkast. Today, names like the Migos, Future, and Young Thug have become synonymous with mainstream rap itself. What ties most of them all together is Atlanta, the city they hail from, where trap reigns supreme.
It’s a site where constant artistic innovation is fueled by the hopes that life can be more than a never-ending hole of dematerializing dreams. Trap Music Museum is an interactive experience that uses art to showcase the rich culture of trap music, one of the most popular genres of music today. By paying homage to the inspiring trials and triumphs of today’s biggest trap stars and providing a platform for emerging artists. Desailly made the deliberate choice to not author words to accompany his photography. Instead, he leads the book with definitions of a trap (in the object sense), a trap house, and trap music, so that, as he puts it, his mother could make the connection between the three. His decision was also informed by his background and experience—or rather lack thereof, really—in the neighborhoods that helped birth trap music.
It’s no surprise that the museum has enjoyed tremendous success, and not just because of the Westside community. People have come from near and far to experience the curious phenomenon that’s allowed trap culture to be seen through a less-than-clandestine lens. The whole ordeal is complemented by injections of trap music, which, at times, is drowned out by live actors uttering daunting promises of death.
The CCTVs cycled through images of dirt lawns and driveways infested with overgrown kudzu—and also the cars passing by, and who was in them. He got the impression that someone really cares about their security. Halim said the museum's message is bigger than the music. She said the site's appeal is a come-up story that connects with the very community the music is generated from. Music lovers from all over the country make a pitstop at what is now a prominent tourist destination. Every Wednesday, Miller said, the Trap Music Museum staff mills about English Avenue and surrounding neighborhoods in search of ways to help.
The showcases in the museum on Travis Street in Atlanta's Westside display the evolution of the subgenre and its impact on the entire music industry. ATLANTA — For nearly four years, the iconic Trap Music Museum has served as a music landmark in the south. “We had to really fix it up because, on the last day of the Pretty Girls Love Trap pop-up, they demolished the car, spray-painted it, and jumped on it, and let out a lot of aggression,” he added with a laugh. The first thing visitors see when they stroll into the somewhat unassuming stone- and wood-clad structure is a to-scale replica of a pint-sized convenience store—the kind you can still find all over much of non-gentrified Atlanta. Follow us on Twitter to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. Visitors can also pay $10 per person to skip and go to the front of the line.
Between his Mamiya 7, Pentax 67, and Mamiya RZ67, Desailly photographed bags of marijuana slumped on the kitchen floor, money scattered on trap house tables and strip-club floors, men rapping in makeshift recording studios, and teens holding their guns. Beyond documenting its surface details, Desailly also harnesses light and color to distill what the trap feels like. East Atlanta can be gritty and dark, but it’s also blanketed by Southern heat, with streaks of sunlight peeking through the leaves of maple trees. When warmth isn’t felt in the atmosphere of the images, it’s communicated through red motifs and the warm color casts.
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