Atlanta rap veteran T.I. is turning the camera toward trap music’s origins with a new documentary spotlighting the genre’s early architects and cultural impact.

The Grammy-winning rapper partnered with producer Drumma Boy to create The Birth of Trap Music, a documentary short set to premiere April 25 at the Atlanta Film Festival. The film explores how trap music emerged from Atlanta’s streets and grew into a dominant force in hip-hop.

T.I., real name Clifford Harris Jr., remains one of the genre’s central figures. His early 2000s releases helped define trap’s sound and carried the movement beyond the South. Now the rapper is helping document that history through firsthand voices from the culture’s pioneers.

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