southern rap

Rap music originating from the southern states of the United States; particularly from Miami, New Orleans, and Atlanta. Southern rap has never been as popular as East Coast rap or West Coast rap but has produced many individual popular tracks.

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Late Monday, rap superstar Cardi B -- who shares a child with rapper Offset, another southern hip hop act -- took to Instagram to speak up for 21 Savage's Atlanta credentials.

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Trap is, apparently, a style of popular music that developed in the late 1990s to early 2000s from Southern hip hop, a bleak, dark style which is heavy on bass and synthesizers and took its name from places where drug deals occur!

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His illustrious career has made him a true pioneer in the Southern Hip Hop Movement.

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She also addresses her own positionality as a researcher from the North who began by questioning the authenticity of the Southern Hip Hop popular among the girls and the role that schools should play in promoting media literacy in young girls.

Hip Hop's li'l sistas speak; negotiating Hip Hop identities and politics in the new South

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