Southern hip hop, is a form of American hip hop music that emerged from a late-1990s club-oriented vibe in southern U.S. cities, including Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Nashville, Atlanta, Memphis, Birmingham, New Orleans, Charlotte, Virginia, Miami, Orlando, Shreveport, Little Rock, and Baton Rouge. The music was a reaction to the 1980s flow of hip hop culture from New York City and California, and can be considered a fourth major Am...
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Southern hip hop, is a form of American hip hop music that emerged from a late-1990s club-oriented vibe in southern U.S. cities, including Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Nashville, Atlanta, Memphis, Birmingham, New Orleans, Charlotte, Virginia, Miami, Orlando, Shreveport, Little Rock, and Baton Rouge. The music was a reaction to the 1980s flow of hip hop culture from New York City and California, and can be considered a fourth major American hip hop genre, after East Coast hip hop, West Coast hip hop, and Midwest hip hop. Many early Southern rap artists released their music independently or on mixtapes after encountering difficulty securing record-label contracts because unlike the East Coast or West Coast, the South did not have a metropolitan area large enough to exert influence on the national scale.
The first rap from the Southern United States to gain national noteriety was Bass music from Miami, Florida. This genre of music was primarily designed for dance clubs and...
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