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Dec 1, 2022 · The South ran off with the hip-hop crown for many reasons: musical ingenuity, Atlanta’s growth as a cultural epicenter, rap’s natural expansion as it entered into its second decade of life.
Aug 15, 2023 · The album propelled Southern hip-hop to the masses, and featured a track entitled "Dirty South." The term, first used by Atlanta rapper Cool Breeze, gave a name to the burgeoning hip-hop movement south of the Mason-Dixon line. Instead of rejecting the coastal elitism of hip-hop, the Dirty South embraced it — in fact they sold it.
Aug 3, 2020 · Our list of the best songs, albums and mixtapes by Southern rappers is a celebration that recenters the South as a creative center of hip-hop and honors the region for all that it has given to us.
Aug 21, 2017 · Hip-hop critics tend to talk like Atlanta inherited hip-hop’s center of gravity from New York, as if there wasn’t a 10-year stretch when Georgia’s crunk rappers and trap pioneers shared ...
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Jun 10, 2008 · During the decade of 1997–2007, rap music produced in cities such as Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis, Miami, and Houston transformed the margins into the rap mainstream. These years saw southern artists rise to national prominence, with a related surge in major label interest and investment in southern rap, a process encapsulated and expressed by the idea of the Dirty South. Through an ...
Feb 2, 2024 · It also turned Scarface into a star. From the moment he utters, “I sit alone in my four-cornered room staring at candles,” the song creates a level of paranoia that haunts far beyond its five-minute run time. It’s not just one of the great Southern rap songs, it’s one of the greatest hip-hop songs of all time, period. 4. T.I.,
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Aug 3, 2020 · A 2012 Rolling Stone list of the 50 Greatest Rap Songs featured four (a 2017 update of the 100 Greatest Rap Songs only turned up 11 more); a 2017 Complex list of the 90 Best Rap Albums of the '90s ...
