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Southern hip hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip hop, or dirty south, is a blanket term for a regional genre of American hip hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Memphis, and Miami —five cities which constitute the "Southern Network" in rap music. [1] [2] [3]
Aug 15, 2023 · The power of L.A.'s emergent style of gangsta rap was the first attempt by an outsider to change hip-hop. As L.A. rappers began to give those from NYC rappers a challenge, the surrounding cities were solidified under the East Coast banner. Often lost in the retelling of hip-hop’s birth are cities, regions and states in between the coasts.
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Rap is the musical practice of hip hop culture that features a vocalist, or master of ceremony (MC), reciting lyrics over a beat. Rap music is an example of what scholars have called polyculturalism, which refers to the notion that various racial and ethnic groups have historically exchanged and borrowed ideas and cultural practices. 1 Black and Latinx youth in New York City, many of them ...
Early foundations for southern rap emerge come from Miami bass in the mid-1980s made famous by X-rated rappers 2 Live Crew. The sound is grounded on a deep, bass-driven groove that speaks to this cosmopolitan area dance music scene, including Latin rhythms and African-Caribbean song styles like soca, cumbia, rumba, and plena.
Aug 3, 2020 · Stream NPR Music's Southern Rap Canon Playlist. For decades, the East Coast's cultural hegemony, which delineates the rap South as inferior, has been upheld and largely uninterrogated, most ...
- Briana Younger
Aug 7, 2020 · 'The South Got Something To Say' Is A Celebratory Canon Of Southern Rap. August 7, 2020 • NPR Music has launched The South Got Something To Say, a canon of Southern hip-hop. Its creator, critic ...
Aug 7, 2020 · Some of the earliest Southern rap leaned heavily on outside influences — Atlanta's MC Shy D sounded like Run DMC on Miami Bass beats; P.A., the first Dungeon Family group to release an album ...
