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During the decade of 1997–2007, rap music produced in cities such as Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis, Miami, and Houston transformed the margins into the rap mainstream. These years saw southern artists rise to national prominence, with a related surge in major label interest and investment in southern rap, a process encapsulated and expressed by the idea of the Dirty South. Through an ...
The Sound of Southern Hip Hop · Playlist · 284 songs · 2.9K likes
Hip-hop from the Dirty South reflected its environment: bass blasts made for car stereos, slow tempos for slow cruises, lyrics about the streets, and shout-outs to local thriving neighborhoods. Mid-’80s Miami bass groups like 2 Live Crew turned electrofunk into a rumbling, bawdy party that dominated clubs and parks.
West Coast hip hop is a regional genre of hip hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originated in the West Coast of the United States.West Coast hip hop began to dominate from a radio play and sales standpoint during the early to-mid 1990s with the birth of G-funk and the emergence of record labels such as Suge Knight and Dr. Dre's Death Row Records, Ice Cube's Lench Mob Records ...
Jun 15, 2021 · Bradley’s introduction, “The Mountaintop Ain’t Flat,” is a personal introduction to her background as a product of the American South. More specifically, her entry point to southern hip-hop via Outkast suggests another entry point for how we examine American southern hip hop beyond just being culture producers.
Aug 3, 2020 · Our list of the best songs, albums and mixtapes by Southern rappers is a celebration that recenters the South as a creative center of hip-hop and honors the region for all that it has given to us.
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.
