Hollywood, Florida Native Kingant Ushers In A New Genre With Therapeutic Trap Single “What it Waz”

Regardless of what you might have thought about the trap and drill genre, you can forget it right about now. Yeah, that’s right. Scrap the biases, reopen and re-enlighten your mind before listening to this emerging MC hailing from Hollywood, Florida by the name of Kingant. After allowing the beat to set the tone for the first couple of seconds, Kingant comes off the cuff with a hard edge sermon. “They say I’m actin different, that’s just what it waz.” Kingant is letting the congregation know that it’s shakin’ time, and he’s a lone soldier who is not one for the antics or unnecessary politics. Time after time, the artist walks the straight and narrow by consistently stating his position and sole mission; to separate himself and only keep those around who have true intentions.

Everyone is familiar with hardship, trials and tribulations, as well as tragedy. The artist might not have gone in-depth on this track, but if a listener was reading between the lines, they would easily be able to decode the blatant yet hidden messages in between the lyrics. If I can’t afford to talk about the same shit was a person, it would be Kingant. As the beat bangs on, the artist reflects on his personal transformation; “lately I been on a different route, some shit I don’t discuss.” 

2021 is quite the time to be alive as the ushering of a new era continues, where several things can be true at the same time. This era is about 30 years removed from the time gangsta rap was being excoriated by the likes of Calvin Butts and Jesse Jackson. Gone are the days of undermining Trap music. On this track, Kingant showed the listeners that it is gangsta to express your vulnerabilities on record without hatching a plan that involves a Draco, ak-47, or a semi-automatic. We are not thugs who use rap as an alley way to manifest our lustful and gory desires or ideations. The majority of us are street journalists who are just trying to preach our gospel. We don’t view our music as the late C. Delores Tucker called it, “gangsta porno rap.” Kingant, like many other MCs, is a street reporter who has shown the great ability of communicating what many young Black men have struggled with; expressing our pain.

“I remember days that I was down and people doubted me. People in my life left me broken.”

To all the readers, let me introduce y’all to what I now dub as Trap Gospel/Trap Therapy.  Be on the lookout for KINGANT, who is at the very forefront of this new movement, along with artists like Rod Wave, Roddy Ricch, Jaywall, and Morray (just to name a few). Trap Gospel has arrived and it is here to stay. This sub genre challenges the stereotypes of what “street music” can really sound like. In this new era, artists in our community will continue to write and rewrite what the epitome of creativity, storytelling, and street reporting is supposed to embody.

 

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