Trap Music Museum, Atlanta, United States

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• Recycling Inspiration With Discarded, Mistreated, Forgotten Vinyl Records & CD's
• SUNDAY: 12:00PM - 10:00PM
• Atlanta’s newest landmark is taking social media by storm thanks to 2 Chainz
• ALL ESCAPE ROOM’S COME WITH A PRIVATE TOUR OF THE MUSEUM
• Using Art To Showcase the Rich Culture of Trap Music
• Photos: Inside T.I.’s Trap Music Museum and Escape Room, an English Avenue hit
• The Worlds First Hip Hop Museum

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.

Recycling Inspiration With Discarded, Mistreated, Forgotten Vinyl Records & CD's

Ride by the "Pink Trap House" as it has become known, and you will see all types of people from diverse backgrounds taking selfies and the like in front of the one-story structure. ATLANTA, GA -- With a fresh coat of audacious pink paint, a modest home on Howell Mill Road in northwest Atlanta has become the city's newest tourist attraction, beckoning hundreds of people to the site each day.

SUNDAY: 12:00PM - 10:00PM

“So, I cannot be an ambassador or explain why I saw what I saw there.” Desailly emphasized that the images should have their own voice. Glover says that his company and 2 Chainz’s record label teamed up in an effort to show how scary the trap life can be—with lighthearted twists. For decades, he said, haunted houses have glorified murder and mayhem through a theme park lens. Rarely—if ever—is dangerous drug culture exhibited in the same manner. It features a replica crack cocaine cook site, artwork dedicated to some of trap music’s biggest names, and a recreation of Atlanta rapper T.I.’s—Clifford Harris, one of trap’s forefathers, is also a museum curator—closet, which was raided by police in 2007.

Atlanta’s newest landmark is taking social media by storm thanks to 2 Chainz

Like us on Facebook to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. Thursdays are usually a no line, no wait happy hour. The Haunted Pink Trap House is open every Wednesday through Sunday through October 25, October 26 through November 4, and November 9-11 at 320 Temple Avenue in Newnan. Tickets start at $22 (plus fees) can be purchased in advance here. Najja Parker is a video and news correspondent for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Black culture team.

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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.

ALL ESCAPE ROOM’S COME WITH A PRIVATE TOUR OF THE MUSEUM

“We want to make sure we put a black-owned business in the heart of a community that the city has forgotten, and show the city that a successful business can be driven in a forgot-about area,” he continued. Like the Pink Trap House, the museum was initially meant to be a pop-up, but visitors and those who missed out on the opportunity demanded the attraction stay put. Was then arrested on federal gun charges, but it’s important to note that the Trap Music Museum is not an effort to glorify criminal activity. Next, visitors are ushered into “Grandma’s living room,” a dank den complete with boarded-up windows, childhood portraits of now famous musicians—look out for T.I., 2 Chainz, Cardi B, 21 Savage, and Migos, among others—jars of prop weed, and dime bags of fake cocaine. We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the world’s hidden wonders. Consider supporting our work by becoming a member for as little as $5 a month.

Desailly spent two months in 2018 criss-crossing neighborhoods in the Georgia capital to photograph what life in the trap looks like. A trap house is typically where drugs are produced and sold, but it’s also a locus of community. It provides an enclave for argument and agreement; simply watching television; or, not least of all, the creation of trap music, which derives its themes from all of the above. In this way, the trap is a paradox, providing a means for its inhabitants to escape itself.

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.

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Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz wants to halt demolition of 'Pink Trap House' - Curbed Atlanta

Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz wants to halt demolition of 'Pink Trap House'.

Posted: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 07:00:00 GMT [source]

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.

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.

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.

She is an engaging on-air talent, who has served as a host for the newsroom’s special projects and events, such as the movie premiere of “The South Got Something To Say,” a documentary chronicling the rise of Atlanta hip-hop. Earlier this month, the artist hosted a listening party to promote his latest project "Pretty Girls Like Trap Music." To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.

And locals have been stopping to pose in front of what has now been deemed as the #PinkTrapHouse. When Vincent Desailly walked into the living room, he noticed the two television screens on the wall. One was tuned to Netflix’s Narcos, while its counterpart, nearly double in size, displayed six far-reaching views of the surrounding southeast Atlanta neighborhood he was visiting.

The museum's art curator, Adlia Halim, said the space preserves the legacy of the music and its impact on Atlanta's culture. And his creative team envisioned the space and converted it into an art gallery with a variety of exhibits. The home, located at 1530 Howell Mill Road, was painted and renovated as part of an album listening party for local rapper 2 Chainz. Although the car had to be towed earlier this week due to a busted front window, the rapper replaced it with a yellow Lamborghini only for a few hours, according to his Instagram page. While the event ended more than two weeks ago, the house is still decorated.

The whole experience is a provocative, over-the-top, and a daringly honest look at this aspect of Atlanta culture that has given rise to a gritty, pulsating, and entirely new style of music. Founded by Atlanta rapper and actor T.I., one of trap music’s forefathers, the museum showcases his recreated closet, featuring clothes, assault rifles, and his 2008 Grammy for Best Rap Performance, which helped catapult him and trap music to international acclaim. (Spoiler alert, for those who don’t what to know what happens next.) But then comes the crack cocaine cook site, a dingy kitchen full of pots and pans encrusted with the white cake of illegal street drugs—not to mention mad scientist types covered in blood.