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Southern hip hop's roots can be traced to the success of the group's Grip It! On That Other Level in 1989, the Rick Rubin-produced The Geto Boys in 1990, and We Can't Be Stopped in 1991. By the mid-1990s, Atlanta had become a center in Southern hip hop music.
Aug 3, 2020 · There's long been a dismissal of Southern rap that's rooted in a kind of respectability politics that mirrors that of anti-Black racism and white classism — Southerners, and by extension their...
- Briana Younger
Aug 15, 2023 · Hip-hop sound traveled to New Orleans, where bounce was born in the city’s housing projects, and to Memphis where it became buck and crunk. In Atlanta, snap and trap music reign supreme, while electronic bass booms along the beaches of Miami. In every state, hip-hop took on a new voice, new moniker, and new identity.
Aug 7, 2020 · Much like the culture it originates from, Southern hip-hop is going to continue to grow and redefine itself as artists live, people move and neighborhoods change. Jahdai Kilkenny for NPR hide...
Aug 10, 2023 · Today, the birth of trap music and the rise of Southern rap. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SUMMERS: In 2001, a young rapper from the Bankhead neighborhood of Atlanta released his debut album.
Apr 24, 2024 · Southern Hip-Hop (Southern Rap, or Dirty South) is a broad term for a regional genre of Hip Hop music that emerged in the Southern United States in Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Memphis, and Miami. The birth of Southern Hip Hop was a reaction to the explosion of Hip Hop culture emanating from New York and Los Angeles in the 1980s.
Mar 24, 2021 · Dr. Bradley makes a convincing case that the South’s hip hop generation used their music to respond, remix and reinterpret their parents’ and their grandparents’ civil rights struggles, as well as the whole of Southern history.
