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Southern hip hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip hop, or Dirty South, is a blanket term for a subgenre of American hip hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Memphis, and Miami. The music was a reaction to the 1980s flow of hip hop culture from New York City and the Los ...
SUMMARY. Dirty South Rap is a subgenre of hip hop music that emerged from the southern United States in the mid 1990s, that drew from hardcore rap, gangsta rap, bounce music, miami bass, chopped and screwed music, and incorporation of live instrumentation found in southern styles. It often blended the more aggressive hardcore rap with slower ...
Aug 15, 2023 · Some critics attribute the ascension of Southern hip-hop to the fatigue of the East vs. West Coast rivalry. Others say hip-hop was in need of a new start after the early passings of the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. Whether both claims are true or false, the Dirty South was the future. Notable Southern Hip-Hop Artists & Labels
Hip-Hop CultureHip-hop culture has always had a complex relationship with race. From its inception, the relationship between hip-hop and race has been fragmented, decentralized, and, in many ways, fluid. Hip-hop emerged in the Bronx, New York, in the early 1970s. The economic environment that catalyzed its development reflected the negative ...
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 ...
Jun 10, 2008 · 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 ...
Aug 11, 2023 · Hip Hop’s Golden Age. From around 1986-95, hip hop went through a period of unprecedented creativity. As part of mainstream culture but, crucially, not bound by the restrictions of major labels, rappers and producers explored every avenue of beat production, flow and lyrical topics, together with sampling from a huge range of old records.
