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Aug 21, 2017 · Hip-hop critics tend to talk like Atlanta inherited hip-hop’s center of gravity from New York, as if there wasn’t a 10-year stretch when Georgia’s crunk rappers and trap pioneers shared ...
- The Ringer Staff
Aug 15, 2023 · A Brief History Of Dirty South Hip-Hop. 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. Although the ...
Jan 5, 2017 · Each album on this list corresponds with a moment in which a Southern rap act ruled rap's greater dialogue and provided profound context for what it meant to be Southern in the genre.
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- Scarface - The Diary (1994) What can you say about the icon Scarface? Besides being one of Hip Hop’s greatest storytellers, he’s also among the rawest and most honest.
- UGK - Ridin' Dirty (1996) OMG!!! This third effort by Port Arthur, Texas’ favorite sons, UGK, is nothing short of a game changer. While their first two albums of Too Hard To Swallow and Super Tight were funky and explicit introductions to Bun B and the late Pimp C, it was this album that provided a bluesy, soulful, and raw look in the streets of P.A.
- Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994) This was a game changer for the south. This album marked an entire new era for Hip Hop as we saw the emergence of Andre and Big Boi, two late teens who had talent all over their bodies.
- Scarface - Mr. Scarface Is Back (1991) After bringing his trademark brand of macabre, raw, and halfway insane lyrics with the Geto Boys for two albums (Grip It!
Aug 3, 2020 · It's been this way for the past 15 or so years, since around the time Nas named his 2006 album Hip Hop is Dead and set off a tsunami of finger-pointing and finger-wagging about who killed it.
- Briana Younger
Aug 7, 2020 · August 3, 2020 • Stream the songs, plus selected tracks from the albums and mixtapes, that comprise our list of the 130 greatest releases in Southern rap history. A series documenting the best ...
Aug 3, 2020 · 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 soul.
