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How to Kill Your Own Genre: The Trapsu Lesson
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How to Kill Your Own Genre: The Trapsu Lesson

By Taona Oswald Chipunza · February 27, 2026

Tantoe Wavie created something original. His fans protected it so fiercely that nobody else wanted to touch it. Now Trapsu is a niche sound when it could have been a movement. This is how gatekeeping kills genres.

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