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Miami. New Orleans. 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.
The Birth of Southern Hip Hop. Though there were certainly smaller artists cropping up in cities like Atlanta, New Orleans, and Miami, the first well-known southern hip hop group was The Geto Boys, who hailed from Houston, Texas. The group’s second studio album, Grip It!
Aug 10, 2023 · Juana Summers. 8-Minute Listen. Playlist. Enlarge this image. T.I.'s 2003 album, Trap Muzik, gave a name to a specific flavor of Atlanta rap that reflected the city's street culture....
- Noah Caldwell
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 · August 7, 2020 • NPR Music has launched The South Got Something To Say, a canon of Southern hip-hop. Its creator, critic Briana Younger, and NPR's Rodney Carmichael explained the project on...
In the months and years following 1995, Southern rap artists would go on to become global icons. T.I. rose out of the trap houses of Bankhead to pioneer trap music, bringing Jeezy and Gucci Mane ...
May 6, 2024 · The birth of Southern Hip Hop was a reaction to the explosion of Hip Hop culture emanating from New York and Los Angeles in the 1980s. The success of southern rap music can be traced to the early success of acts like MC Shy D The Geto Boys and 2 Live Crew.
