2022 Coli Census...
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Tha South of the South 
VirginiaSlim75
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VA born and raised reppin the South
murksiderock
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Every region is like this fam, they can all be broken down into subregions...
The South definitely has distinctive areas, most of Virginia is an entirely different kind of South than the rest of the South; "Virginia southern" for the most part is much more blended as a hybrid of the lower Northeast and old school coastal southern characteristics...
Never been but I've been told parts of Florida is also a different kind of South, same as you described for Texas...
The greater Memphis region that extends across the Arkansas and Mississippi deltas, into Central Sip, is a culture unto itself. Tennessee (outside Memphis) and Kentucky are they own thing, West Virginia is this Ohio/VA/KY/PA hybrid state, Louisiana is its own thing, then you have the Gulf Coast South that basically unites the Houston to Tampa Bay areas of the South along the Gulf...
And while most people won't consider Maryland a southern state, one is either ignorant of traditional South identifiers or in outright denial if they doubt there are southernisms throughout Maryland--->it isn't heavily southern but there are southernisms there certainly...
Carolina and Georgia are the same place, Arkansas and Oklahoma are Texas-lite...
The point is you have subregions but all of these subregions are still a variant of the larger South, and you can do this everywhere else. The Northeast isn't just Greater New York. There's New England which can be subdivided itself, the Great Lakes Northeast that bleeds into The Mid, the Interior Northeast, etc...
The West isn't just California obviously, and the Midwest has the Upper Mid, the Great Plains, the Lower Mid, Great Lakes, etc...
But all these subregions share larger characteristics typical of the larger region...
murksiderock
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Where at in VA?
I guess I am mainly talking musically but also culturally:
Listen to Timbo and then listen to Luke.
No one would categorize those as anything remotely similar.
I been rhyming since 8 YO in NC and we were straight East Coast up until the 2000s. Then I noticed dudes tryna jock the ATL sound here.
But trust me, if someone with that ATL type style woulda stepped in a cypher where I was at in 96 they wouldn't get four bars out.
I still can hardly understand them. Snow On the Bluff needed subs damn near.
That's what I mean. If you just had the product there's no way youd lump "the South" together as one type
areohbee824
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murksiderock
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Where you from in NC? I been coming back and forth here since '05 and the Little Brother/Cole type rappers always been rare in my experience...
I been to all the major cities here and have lived in Raleigh, Fayetteville, and Charlotte...
It's Mid-Atlantic.
3rd Ward Swangin
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Southwest Gulf Coast Texas
By 05 everyone was on the "Dirty South" style.
I knew Ski Beatz as a youngn. We from the same town. Ski produced on Reasonable Doubt and he made Camp Lo first album.
Listen to Original Flavor - Ski was a pretty big rapper here and he started out rapping when he went to NY - Can I Get Open. The one with JZ on it.
That was where we were thru the 90s. That kinda shyt.
In fact: Payroll Records. They got shyt on YouTube. Skis old label he was signed to here. Time To Get Paid. Versatility. More examples
AStrangeName
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Houston (really Missouri City), Texas
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K.O.N.Y
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North east- NYC the bronx
About Dc, its decidedly mid-atlantic to me. DC and the dmv as a whole is the transition region from north to south and vice versa
About Dc, its decidedly mid-atlantic to me. DC and the dmv as a whole is the transition region from north to south and vice versa
