Vaportrap
tagStarted early 2010sPeak 2013–2017Last big hit late 2010s
Vaportrap fuses vaporwave's plasticky nostalgia, glossy synth kitsch, and slowed digital decay with trap rhythms and rap-adjacent beat structure. It sounds like neon mall memory with sub-bass.
History
The style grew out of internet beat culture where vaporwave, cloud rap, and trap production communities overlapped. Blank Banshee became the best-known name, and the lane influenced later internet rap aesthetics, beat tapes, and visual identities more than it dominated radio-facing rap.
Defining artists
Essential listening
Sources
- Vaportrap / vaporwave overlap reporting and cloud-rap histories