Dime Trap also happened to follow the 15-year anniversary of T.I.’s own Trap Muzik. The Trap Music Museum now holds greater significance than it did during its launch: Similar to 2 Chainz’s Pink Trap House for his 2016 album Pretty Girls Like Trap Music, the museum began as a promotional stunt for T.I.’s own Dime Trap. The oft-sold out “Escape the Trap” is now open seven days a week. The museum is an easy sell for a weekend night its hours of operation are 4 PM to midnight Fridays, and noon to midnight Saturdays and Sundays. But when the museum closed in November 2018 after launching the month prior, more than 2,500 people signed an online petition to stay open. The Trap Music Museum was “supposed to be open for two months,” says marketing director James Miller. built feels alive because the culture it celebrates is alive. Museums have a reputation for being “repositories for ancient Greek statues and Renaissance paintings,” as Ford Foundation president Darren Walker recently argued, so quiet that you can hear dust settle. But the prop table scales and actors posing as crackheads aren’t the only reasons why navigating the building feels surreal. “It’s a safe way to view the trap,” says Krystal Garner, the Trap Music Museum’s general manager. It’s a more complete before-and-after image, laying out how trap music documented the aftermath of the ’80s crack epidemic down South, and ended up shaping pop culture at large. That is why the “Escape the Trap” experience is now only part of what has become the Trap Music Museum. They wanted folks to understand why the trap, and the music it birthed, exists in the first place. Then they decided it wasn’t enough to make patrons just feel like they were in the trap. The initial plan was to find an abandoned bungalow somewhere in town and decorate it with couches dumped curbside.

and the team behind Grand Hustle decided to make it themselves. “I wish they had a trap version of this.”

He and William “Bem” Sparks, who manages business partnerships for T.I.’s label Grand Hustle, had taken their wives (Tip’s is Tameka “Tiny” Harris, of Xscape fame) to a medieval-themed escape room, refashioned to look like a castle. They became a novel basis for family outings, corporate team-building exercises and, for Atlanta hip-hop trailblazer T.I., a couples date night. Starting in 2015, escape rooms, where folks actually pay to get locked in a themed room, then seek clues and solve puzzles to find their way out, had finally made their way stateside.

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