Latin trap

A direct descendant of southern hip hop and trap, and influenced by reggaeton, R&B and urbano music, it gained popularity after 2007, and has since spread throughout Latin America.

Vocals include a bend of rapping and singing using synthesizers and voice distorted autotune, often in Spanish, while still maintaining the trap style sonic circuitry.

Puerto Rican reggaeton and Latin trap singer Ozuna states that it originated in 2007 with the song "El Pistolón", performed by Arcángel & De la Ghetto, Yaga & Mackie, and Jowell & Randy (the former two were duo at the time).

In mid-2015, Cuban artist TRAUMATIZE from Miami, FL releases "Aguadulce" Latin trap record, a collaborator of the American Hip Hop group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.

This new sound eventually gained popularity in Puerto Rico, and many Latin trap hits emerged, such as Anuel AA’s "47 Remix" Bryant Myers' "Esclava Remix", Farruko's "Ella y Yo", and De la Ghetto's "La Ocasión", the latter to which Ozuna and Anuel AA credits with expanding Latin trap internationally.

[17] In April 2018, the song "Te Boté", a mix of Latin trap and reggaeton, was released by Nio García, Casper Mágico, Darell, Ozuna, Bad Bunny and Nicky Jam.

[19] In 2018, Cardi B's hit single "I Like It" featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin became the first Latin trap song to reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

On May 6, 2022 Bad Bunny released his album Un Verano Sin Ti reaching the milestone of most-streamed artist globally in one day, with 183 million streams.