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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 · 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.
Mar 17, 2024 · Miami Bass music emerged in the 1980s as a genre that would redefine the Southern hip-hop scene. This groundbreaking sound was pioneered by artists such as 2 Live Crew, whose bold and explicit ...
- Michael A Davis
Aug 3, 2020 · Southern rappers' contributions to the genre have long been underestimated in favor of coastal hegemony – but the region has long steered the sound of hip-hop and deserves its story told in full ...
- Briana Younger
Aug 7, 2020 · Houston's Ganksta N-I-P and Memphis' Gangsta Pat shared similar namesakes but their content (Ganksta, one of founding fathers of "horrorcore" hip hop, rapped about killing children...
- Maurice Garland
Mar 24, 2021 · Podcast. How the hip-hop generation revolutionized the South. By John Hammontree. March 24, 2021 9:53 AM. In 1995, André Benjamin and Antwan “Big Boi” Patton took the stage in front of a hostile New York crowd. The Source Awards had just recognized Outkast as the Best New Rap Group.
Aug 7, 2023 · 6 min. First in a series of five Retropolis stories looking back at key moments in hip-hop history during the week of its 50th anniversary. Before the Southern sound took over hip-hop — and...
