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Though the Atlanta hip hop scene began to gain traction in the 1990s, its roots are grounded in underground artists and local talent who paved the way. So, how did Atlanta become recognized by The...
The success of LaFace and SoSo Def led to Atlanta as an established scene for record labels such as LaFace parent company Arista Records to set up satellite offices. In 2009 The New York Times noted that after 2000, Atlanta moved "from the margins to becoming hip-hop's center of gravity, part of a larger shift in hip-hop innovation to the South."
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Atlanta in 50 Objects. In 2009, an article in the New York Times referred to Atlanta as “hip-hop’s center of gravity.”. Although Atlanta’s music scene is diverse, it is perhaps the city’s hip-hop scene that has garnered the most national attention and commercial success.
Jul 19, 2023 · That is how its hip-hop scene became the center of the rap universe, the last semblance of a monoculture. Its unique perspective is born of a place that is as fascinating as it is complicated. The ...
Their calling card isn’t Brooklyn, Queens or the Bronx, where hip-hop originated. Nor is it South Central or Compton, the Mecca of rap on the west coast. Inconceivably, their home is in the American South, Atlanta, Georgia, aka “The ATL,” now recognized around the world as hip-hop’s center of gravity.
Jul 19, 2023 · This, too, is the story of Atlanta. Its Black culture feels singular, yet mirrors other Black experiences, throughout the South and elsewhere in the nation. That is how its hip-hop scene became the center of the rap universe, the last semblance of a monoculture. Its unique perspective is born of a place that is as fascinating as it is complicated.
Sep 22, 2016 · Atlanta’s emergence in the mid-1990s as what the New York Times called “hip-hop’s center of gravity” coincides with the AHA’s announcement of their plans to demolish all of the city’s housing projects, making it a place of primary importance in the study of the intersection of music and built environment and how the two work in ...
