“There is an immense distance between "Trap Queen" as recorded on a wintry Paterson, N.J. day in early 2014, and "Trap Queen" heard today, coast-to-coast, coursing through the airwaves, from passing cars, across packed dancefloors. It isn't the first record to traverse the massive void from the bottom to (nearly) Billboard's apex. The rocket-ride from obscurity to obsession happens every few months”
