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"The South Got Something to Say": Atlanta's Dirty South and the Southernization of Hip-Hop America

"The South Got Something to Say": Atlanta's Dirty South and the Southernization of Hip-Hop... :HH6N “The South Got Something to Say” Atlanta’s Dirty South and the Southernization of Hip-Hop America by Darren E. Grem In a stark contrast to the days when Sherman’s troops occupied this Confederate fort outside Atlanta, the city’s rappers now have invaded the rest of the country’s hip-hop scene, burning up the charts, unfurling the Dirty South’s banner, and spreading its culture across the nation as they southernize Hip-Hop America. Photograph courtesy of the Collections of the Library of Congress. y the summer of  , the Atlanta-based rap group OutKast had watched their first album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, achieve plat- inum sales of over one million. This feat earned them an award for “Best New Group” from The Source magazine and an invitation B to attend the hip-hop publication’s second annual awards show in New York City. Goodie Mob, another Atlanta group, joined them on the trip up north. As Big Gipp, a member of Goodie Mob, remembered, their reception from the New York audience was less than favorable: “When Big Boi and Dre [of OutKast] got out there at those Source Awards, everybody was like, ‘boooo, boooo, boooo.’ I remember it was just OutKast and the four Goodie Mob http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

"The South Got Something to Say": Atlanta's Dirty South and the Southernization of Hip-Hop America

Grem, Darren E.
Southern Cultures , Volume 12 (4) – Oct 18, 2006
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University of North Carolina Press
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:HH6N “The South Got Something to Say” Atlanta’s Dirty South and the Southernization of Hip-Hop America by Darren E. Grem In a stark contrast to the days when Sherman’s troops occupied this Confederate fort outside Atlanta, the city’s rappers now have invaded the rest of the country’s hip-hop scene, burning up the charts, unfurling the Dirty South’s banner, and spreading its culture across the nation as they southernize Hip-Hop America. Photograph courtesy of the Collections of the Library of Congress. y the summer of  , the Atlanta-based rap group OutKast had watched their first album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, achieve plat- inum sales of over one million. This feat earned them an award for “Best New Group” from The Source magazine and an invitation B to attend the hip-hop publication’s second annual awards show in New York City. Goodie Mob, another Atlanta group, joined them on the trip up north. As Big Gipp, a member of Goodie Mob, remembered, their reception from the New York audience was less than favorable: “When Big Boi and Dre [of OutKast] got out there at those Source Awards, everybody was like, ‘boooo, boooo, boooo.’ I remember it was just OutKast and the four Goodie Mob

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Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Oct 18, 2006

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