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Aug 21, 2017 · We’re also ranking the best Southern rap albums, imagining the André 3000 mixtape we all deserve, and arguing about what even constitutes the South anymore.
- The Ringer Staff
Aug 15, 2023 · The birth of Southern hip-hop begins at the 1995 Source Awards, where Atlanta based hip-hop duo OutKast won Best New Artist and Best New Rap of the Year for their debut album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. As André 3000 and Big Boi walked on stage, they were put with a chorus of boos.
Aug 3, 2020 · In the '90s and early 2000s, when the Source was held as the bible for all things hip-hop, only two Southern artists ever received the coveted 5 Mic rating — OutKast, for Aquemini, and...
- Briana Younger
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Aug 3, 2020 · "Back That Azz Up," from New Orleans rapper Juvenile's debut album 400 Degreez, is the Pavlovian song of Southern hip-hop. (Crime Mob's "Knuck if You Buck" clocks in at a distant second.)
Jan 5, 2017 · Hip-hop's inception and ascendance into a global industry is a phenomenon that, unlike most American music genres, happened with little to no participation from the Southern US. It isn't that...
The music was a reaction to the 1980s flow of hip hop culture from New York City and the Los Angeles area and can be considered the third major American hip hop scene, alongside East Coast hip hop and West Coast hip hop.
Feb 2, 2024 · Decades later, the South has emerged as THE preeminent leader in hip-hop, and looking back it’s easy to see why. When other regions got stuck in their comfort zones, locking themselves into one sound, the South constantly innovated, and eventually, others followed their lead.
