Southern hip hop

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

Southern hip hop
Stylistic origins	Hip hop - Bounce Music - Country
Cultural origins	1980s, Southern United States
Typical instruments	Drum machine - Turntables - Rapping - Sampler - Synthesizer - Human beatboxing
Derivative forms	Crunk
Subgenres
Bounce - Snap Music - Miami Bass - Atlanta hip hop - Chopped and Screwed (complete list)

Southern hip hop, also called southern rap, is a form of American Genre music influenced by hip hop that emerged from a late-1980s club-oriented vibe in southern U.S. cities, including Houston, New Orleans, Shreveport, Nashville, Atlanta, Charleston, Memphis, Virginia Beach,Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Birmingham, Mobile, Orlando, Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville, Jackson, Little Rock, Baton Rouge, and Oklahoma City. The music was a reaction to the 1980s flow of hip hop culture from New York City and California, and can be considered a third major American hip hop genre, after East Coast hip hop and West Coast hip hop. Many early Southern rap artists released their music independently or on mixtapes after encountering difficulty securing record-label contracts in the 1990s.

For more information on music from one specific area, see Atlanta hip hop.

Style

Southern hip hop is marked by exuberant production. Lyrics are fairly straightforward and are typically about car culture, fashion trends, dances, nightlife, sex and unique Southern slang.

Notable musicians

• Further information: Category:Southern hip hop musicians

External links

• Film New Flavors: The Emergence of Southern Hip Hop (2008)
• 'Ya Heard Me' Documentary
• News about Southern hip hop artists
• Local Houston Rappers and Hip Hop Artists
• Matt Miller, "Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the U.S. South, 1997-2007", Southern Spaces, 10 June 2008. http://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997-2007