Major Rap Producer SugarHill

(HOUSTON, TEXAS) - February 23, 2006 - Multi-talented Producer/Rapper Trapp (of Deff Trapp Records) is recording his new album Keep It Gangsta at the legendary SugarHill Recording Studios with SugarHill Engineer James Garlington. This album will be his first solo debut.

Trapp has had an extraordinary career, starting out as a producer in the underground Houston rap scene, working with acclaimed Houston artists including the legendary DJ Screw.   

His popularity as a producer exploded in the mid 90's leading to a west coast move, to work with rap heavy weights including Tupac Shakur and NOTORIOUS B.I.G.   His collaboration with them resulted in a single release " Stop The Gunfight" featuring Tupac , B.I.G . and Trapp , to help reduce gun ownership in 1997.   The song became a Billboard hit allowing Trapp to become the only Houston Rap artist to gain national radio airplay in 1997 other than the Ghetto Boyz.

He continued his success by developing his own entertainment label Deff Trapp Records/Entertainment, venturing into filmmaking; one of his first movie releases includes a highly anticipated DJ Screw documentary "Screwed For Life" to be released with a soundtrack.  

Keep It Gangsta has been a work in progress at SugarHill since October 2006, where the songs were tracked and mixed in SugarHill's Studio A.  Trapp plans for an album release in April 2006.  

The first single off the album "Chopped & Screwed'" has already received radio airplay on 14 major radio stations across the South including Houston's Party 104.9FM.   Prominent DJ Mean Green has also dubbed it as a "favorite" upcoming single.

"James is the first engineer I've worked with, in my 20-year music career, that I'm truly able to be creative with," commented Trapp on his working relationship with SugarHill Engineer James Garlington.

He continued to discuss his new album, "With my first single Chopped & Screwed, I've taken the "screwing" technique to another level; instead of screwing down the whole song, I've screwed some parts of the song while keeping the melody intact."