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- In the mid 1980s, cities throughout the Southern United States began to catch on to the hip hop music movement. The Geto Boys, a hip hop group from Houston, were among the first hip hop artists from the Southern United States to gain widespread popularity.
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The Geto Boys, a hip hop group from Houston, were among the first hip hop artists from the Southern United States to gain widespread popularity. Southern hip hop's roots can be traced to the success of the group's Grip It!
Aug 15, 2023 · Those words, uttered by a young André 3000, echoed through the South. Although the Atlanta group was the first Southern group to achieve mainstream recognition for their work, the first Southern hip-hop group to reach commercial success was the Geto Boys from Houston.
Aug 3, 2020 · That honor likely goes to the Sequence, the group comprising Angie Stone, Cheryl "the Pearl" Cook and Gwendolyn "Blondy" Chisolm from South Carolina, and its 1979 song "Funk You Up," the first...
- Briana Younger
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...
- Maurice Garland
May 24, 2017 · Thrust from a South Carolina housing project into the national spotlight, the Sequence were also America’s first Southern rap group.
Aug 3, 2020 · Full stop. But is it a Southern album is where the discussion gets foggy, much how it's always been for Virginia hip-hop. Supa Dupa Fly is an amalgam of sounds and genres, from hip-hop, R&B and ...
Feb 17, 2015 · In 1980 all rap was still primarily party music and given much of the South’s acceptance on equal terms of partying and preaching, it should surprise no one that the first rap record cut in the south, Danny Renée And The Charisma Crew ‘s “Space Rap,” was a disco-rap tune that did little to challenge that perception.
