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Southern hip hop

"Dirty South (music)" redirects here. For the Australian DJ and music producer, see Dirty South (musician).

Southern hip hop
Stylistic origins
Cultural originsMid 1980s, Southern United States especially Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis, and Miami
Subgenres
Regional scenes

Southern hip hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip hop, or dirty south, is a blanket term for a regional genre of American hip hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Florida—often titled “The Big 5,” five states which constitute the "Southern Network" in rap music.[1][2][3]

The music was a reaction to the 1980s flow of hip hop culture from New York City and the Los Angeles area and can be considered the third major American hip hop scene, alongside East Coast hip hop and West Coast hip hop.[4] Many early Southern rap artists released their music independently or on mixtapes after encountering difficulty securing record-label contracts in the 1990s. By the early 2000s, many Southern artists had attained success, and as the decade went on, both mainstream and underground varieties of Southern hip hop became among the most popular and influential of the entire genre.[5]

  1. ^ Burks, Maggie (September 3, 2008). "Southern Hip-Hop". Jackson Free Press. Retrieved September 11, 2008.
  2. ^ Wilson, Jocelyn (2007). "Outkast'd and Claimin' True: The Language of Schooling and Education in the Southern Hip-Hop Community of Practice" (PDF).
  3. ^ Sarig, Roni (September 7, 2007). Third Coast: Outkast, Timbaland, and How Hip-hop Became a Southern Thing. Hachette Books. ISBN 978-0-306-81647-5.
  4. ^ Sanneh, Kelefa (April 17, 2005). "The Strangest Sound in Hip-Hop Goes National". The New York Times. Retrieved September 11, 2008.
  5. ^ Bradley, Regina (January 29, 2021). Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South. UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-1-4696-6197-1.

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