Talent, it can become a trap.
Experimenting is part of the process. I remember when I was younger, I spent a whole year just writing on straight trap beats because I just wanted to be able to do that at a high level. So it’s about perfecting your craft in every way.
As you get older, I have seen it a lot… fighting among siblings. The reason is usually money or spouses. But my kids don’t fall into that trap.
To me, my studio is my trap house. That’s where I trap out of; that’s where I hustle. That’s where I make my money.
My favorite soul artist, I would have to say D’Angelo. That’s R&B, soul. Trap artist, I would probably have to say…Young Thug.
One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
I don’t play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don’t have to worry where the laugh is going to be. But comedy is harder than drama.
The term ‘perjury trap’ means interviewing someone for no underlying crime and no other purpose except with the hope that the person forgets something, or another witness remembers things differently. Either way, somebody gets charged with perjury.
I didn’t want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.
In the case of ‘Disobedience,’ the very secretive way of life and religion and tradition that the North London Orthodox Jewish community has was a huge invitation to explore an unknown world. And also a possible trap, and I tried to overcome that by portraying it, hopefully, with great nuance and detail and texture.
I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how I look and I don’t fall into the trap of judging myself by my appearance.
I seldom reraise before the flop no matter what my hand is. By so doing, I’m able to disguise the strength of my hand and can trap unsuspecting opponents who interpret my smooth call as a sign of weakness.
I come from hip hop for sure, and there are basic elements of that, but then I’ll take from somewhere else, like samba, and do it with trap drums. I like going places other people haven’t gone before.
In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It’s also a psychological trap that can stop one’s growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
Some people say I make hip-hop. Others see me as doing EDM. Some people might look at me as a trap artist, but I’m not really stuck to any of those.
Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.
A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.
The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don’t really want to do.
I didn’t want to fall into the trap of complacency.
Everywhere I went, people would tell me that trap and reggaeton was for men, not women. I wasn’t being taken seriously, and I was often being told to do something else.
My sister listened to reggae, and my homies listened to trap music.
I could’ve made more of an effort to go back to theatre but I fell into the trap of recognition, fame and money.
I’m still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.
I can show these folks I can do more than just the ‘trap.’ But what I realized is the trap is what they really recognize me for – that’s what they want to hear.
College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids.
I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps.
Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking ‘equal’ means ‘the same’ and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.
I don’t ever want to be a person that I’m not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that’s the time when they lose themselves.
If you built a successful company the first time, it’s really important not to fall into the trap of resting on your laurels and doing the same thing the next time. It’s stepping into the unknown that enables you to create something fresh, new, and innovative.
Rules limit you, and once you start thinking about what the audience wants or expects, it becomes a trap that a lot of artists fall into.
I work hard to be able to set myself apart from everything else that’s going on in the trap genre.
Romantic love is a trap designed to get two people to overlook each other’s faults long enough to get some babymaking done. It generally only lasts for a few years at most.
I love trap music and street music.
If you start imagining an audience for yourself, you don’t do justice to the job. You fall into that trap of a self-image.
You’ve got to be really careful that you’re not falling into the Hollywood trap, you know?
I didn’t want to be one of the 10,000 kids on the internet making beats. I went out there and got recognized as the white boy in trap music and made a name for myself.
Modeling is a great beginning, but it’s also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.
We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.
I’ve been lucky to have opportunities with David Lynch in ‘Lost Highway’ and Jennifer Lynch in this movie ‘Surveillance,’ so I’ve always boomeranged around a little bit, and no one has caught my foot in the trap yet, but I think if I move fast enough… ‘cos I think I got trapped a couple of times.
I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don’t fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren’t a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.
When I made ‘Tales of Tacobella,’ and I made ‘Sugar Trap,’ it was like people literally trying to say that like, either that they made it, or that they helped make it, and then they continued to try to steal the flow, try to steal the aesthetic of everything I tried to build.
I’m doing bass trap; I’m doing EDM songs.
I’m such a strong believer in making yourself happy. Almost in a selfish way. There are a lot of trends, and obviously you can get swept up into them. But I feel like if you just write songs you love, it can have trap beats in it or whatever’s going on in the moment, but you don’t stop loving songs.
The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
One gets wrapped up in reacting to one’s own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.
I like a lot of ratchet, trap music. Definitely 21 Savage. We need some music like that. ManMan Savage. A lot of the Atlanta scene. But Philly, too.
When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that – if you don’t get that runner’s high every day, you feel like, ‘Oh my God, I’m losing it.’
When Nas and AZ send you a track, you know it is serious business. Same with Styles P and Jadakiss – then it is serious business. But when you get a trap music track, you know it’s time to dumb it down.
‘Trap Lord’ is basically the writer of the hood. It’s the kid that’s from the hood, from the trap, who’s going to preach to his friends and his homies. Because they’re not going to sit in no church. So they listen to me instead of going to a church, because I understand them, and that’s really what the ‘Hood Pope’ is.
I never say ‘nagging.’ I think that ‘nagging’ is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it’s a trap that we’ve created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it’s a term men created.
It’s really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you’re a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.
