Houston started the souths takeover for hip hop and no one recognizes it

[28 Gramz]

ATL been hot since the early 90's breh. Kriss Kross and TLC set the game on fire in 1992, outkast came in like 93 or 94. ATL been had the south crown. The 05 Houston run ended because the industry started hating on the H, it's like they wanted ATL to be the only remaining major hip hop hub in the south. Dallas need to get put on. They music is lit and it been lit. Jewish execs want to keep the spot light on Atlanta cuz them Texas nikkas too smart business wise and won't get ripped off, which means less money for them cacs.

Houston fell off cause they kept trying to remake Still Tippin..and Mike Jones was their flagship artist.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

ATL been hot since the early 90's breh. Kriss Kross and TLC set the game on fire in 1992, outkast came in like 93 or 94. ATL been had the south crown. The 05 Houston run ended because the industry started hating on the H, it's like they wanted ATL to be the only remaining major hip hop hub in the south. Dallas need to get put on. They music is lit and it been lit. Jewish execs want to keep the spot light on Atlanta cuz them Texas nikkas too smart business wise and won't get ripped off, which means less money for them cacs.

Dallas did get put on. Unfortunately, they were making some of the WOAT music in rap when they got on. Mostly empty party songs that you can't even play years later. Think it was around late 08-09. Stanky Leg, Hit'em With That Flex, Ricky Bobby and all that other garbage

 

[Motife43]

atlanta wave died tho...ti n luda was the only ones left..

majors saw the hustle of ..slim n swishahouse..n cham

if these nikkas doin this ...on there on...flip was doin it...n slim himself...got better shyt than flip...flip burberrying a jag...slim payin cash for bentleys..somethin up in that damn nawf...we gotta look

Around that time Jeezy was bubbling and by 06-07 he became the 3rd guy in that Atlanta triumvirate (w/ Tip and Luda). While Slim, Flip, Paul Wall, Cham, Mike Jones might've been the biggest names and bigger than a lot of Atlanta artists, Atlanta still had its steady flow of consistent 2nd tier guys (Killer Mike, P Troy), fad artists (D4L, Rockstar movement, dance songs) and one hit wonders still gettin solid nationwide love. Houston couldn't really say that about the 2nd tier guys (Ro, Devin, Trae etc). I love Houston, love the music, it's prolly my favorite city to hear rap from and all that. So it sucks to pit them against my city especially when the artists from those cities have a lotta love for each other.

Maybe they were in that wave of the South movement that pushed Atlanta to the forefront, but to say they STARTED the takeover is much.

From my knowledge and research over the years, the Southern timeline for mainstream prominence goes like:

Miami (80's-early 90s) > Miami/NO/TX/MEM/ATL (92-2005) > Since 2005-06 Atlanta took the crown and ran

Somebody correct me if necessary

 

[Playaz Eyez]

From my knowledge and research over the years, the Southern timeline for mainstream prominence goes like:

Miami (80's-early 90s) > Miami/NO/TX/MEM/ATL (92-2005) > Since 2005-06 Atlanta took the crown and ran

Somebody correct me if necessary

That's pretty much how it was. It also doesn't help that with how technology brought everybody together, it killed off regional sound. There's dudes in every part of the US that sound like they're from Atlanta. Can't really tell where anybody is from

 

[Tommy Sheppard]

still tippin....n slim thugs freestyle being a hook...started it all..the entire industry went monkey see monkey do...

soon as paul wall dropped killed em with sittin side wayz

lil jon would like a word with you, when get low dropped in 03 is when the south took the game by a chokehold.

 

[Zero]

 

[JustCKing]

The Houston wave was big, but ATL struck 1st:

Lil Jon & Tha Eastside Boyz (throw in Lil' Scrappy & Trillville, and Crime Mob)
Bone Crusher
Ying Yang
T.I.

^^^ all blew up 2003-2004. That's not even mentioning how huge Kast and Luda were at the time.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Thought this was gonna be a early 90s rap a lot thread ... There's zero case to be made for the OP's premise...That Houston run came in a post Duegon Family, post No Limit/Cash Money, post Crunk era world...And was contemporaneous with the beginning of the trap movement...labels were late tapping into that Houston scene and finally did do trying to capitalize on and recreate the regional gone national success that new Orleans and ATL already had

This is revisionist history like a muhfukka

 

[Buckeye Fever]

still tippin....n slim thugs freestyle being a hook...started it all..the entire industry went monkey see monkey do...

soon as paul wall dropped killed em with sittin side wayz

Bumped sittin sideways on the way home from work yesterday


A lot of the shyt poppin today is weirdo shyt

 

[Palm Tree's & Blunts]

atlanta wave died tho...ti n luda was the only ones left..

majors saw the hustle of ..slim n swishahouse..n cham

if these nikkas doin this ...on there on...flip was doin it...n slim himself...got better shyt than flip...flip burberrying a jag...slim payin cash for bentleys..somethin up in that damn nawf...we gotta look

I remember that swishahouse shyt was big out here in long beach. That was like around the time I was in junior high.

 

[Vandelay]

Atlanta blew up first, OPs premise is that of someone from Texas

 

[Monoblock]

atlanta wave died tho...ti n luda was the only ones left..

majors saw the hustle of ..slim n swishahouse..n cham

if these nikkas doin this ...on there on...flip was doin it...n slim himself...got better shyt than flip...flip burberrying a jag...slim payin cash for bentleys..somethin up in that damn nawf...we gotta look

So much truth in this. I always get irritated when people always say Houston fell off when they couldn't be anymore wrong. People need to understand that these nikkas were making so much money the majors came groveling to the city and its artists. The reason our music disappeared on the majors is b/c these cats refused to get fukked over with these wack deals and figured very quickly that they can make more money and have more freedom doing the music themselves. Slim spoke on this, Paul spoke on it and Cham.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

If we gonna keep it a buck the Geto Boys were the first act from the South that got big and earned respect. UGK (tho not quite from Houston) didn't get as big as the Geto Boys were just as influential. Everything else we heard from the South at the time was that bass music

 

[shopthatwrecks]

So much truth in this. I always get irritated when people always say Houston fell off when they couldn't be anymore wrong. People need to understand that these nikkas were making so much money the majors came groveling to the city and its artists. The reason our music disappeared on the majors is b/c these cats refused to get fukked over with these wack deals and figured very quickly that they can make more money and have more freedom doing the music themselves. Slim spoke on this, Paul spoke on it and Cham.

N slim wasnt even 29 n bought his masters n him n kill kyleon contract from interscope

 

[shopthatwrecks]

If we gonna keep it a buck the Geto Boys were the first act from the South that got big and earned respect. UGK (tho not quite from Houston) didn't get as big as the Geto Boys were just as influential. Everything else we heard from the South at the time was that bass music

G wasnt bigger than 2live..