Trap Muzik

T.I. stands in a white T-shirt in front of a weathered house on the cover of his second album, looking calmly at the camera, with his name in big red and white letters and the title below.

The Atlanta rapper used the word "trap," slang for a house where drugs are sold, to describe his music, and Trap Muzik, released on 19 August 2003, gave the style its name. Songs like "24's" and "Rubber Band Man" mixed street stories with big, bouncing Southern production.

The house behind him on the cover is the trap of the title, and the image turned a local word into a genre. Within a decade, trap had become the dominant sound of popular rap around the world, and T.I. was one of the stars who carried it there.