Trapbone is a multidimensional, polysemic word that describes a style, an instrument, and a man. Eryk D. Radical developed trapbone as a musical technique in response to the gaping void in contemporary music left by the popularization of synthetic instrumentation. As a traveling street musician, Eryk discovered limited opportunities available to the abundance of college-educated musicians; a highly skilled constituency within the poor community; and distasteful police practices towards marginal groups. Not only did these police practices expose tendencies towards abuse within police departments, it identified particularly susceptible communities, music students. Therefore, Eryk designed trapbone as a strategy to equip musicians with ways to participate in and become fixtures of an increasingly globalized culture and economy. Trapbone combines high classical techniques, jazz improvisation, trap rhythms, and southern band culture. As a philosophy, trapbone also engages Black Radical Thought as a framework for attaining and sustaining liberation. Eryk D. Radical is Trapbone.