Is any city more lost and forgotten than Memphis? *is anyone out there*

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Memphis rap runs DEEPER + had more influence than anywhere in the South, yet once it was the South's turn to get to running things - the footprints Spanish Fly, Ten Wanted Men, Hypnotize Minds and all dem made in the sand were washed out to sea. That late 80s/ early/mid 90s Memphis sound was taken and switched up and made into all the shyt you hear today*, and the majority are none the wiser where it came from - yet all the Southern legends that get that 40 tipped in their memory on wax are from either: H-Town, ATL or the NO. *don't nobody mention that 90s baby lo-fi shyt neither.

Memphis let their own fathers die

 

[SuburbanPimp]

I always said that late 90's Memphis underground rap scene was heavily slept on... Triple Six Mafia, 8Ball & MJG, Playa Fly, Gangsta Pat, Kingpin Skinny Pimp.....

 

[61 Corpses]

Memphis artists never got their deserved props. So many dope rappers and great lyricists

Memphis' problem has always been that them nikkas always beef with eachother

 

[osama bin fly]

3 6 Mafia basically invented the trap sound

 

[Danie84]

You can also say Three Six created the Drill scene

...with better lyrical content of course

 

[infamousred]

it's a fact that three six has a better discography than the large majority of the rap game.

 

[keond]

Memphis artists leave the city as soon as they blow.

 

[H.I.M.]

Yo Gotti's rise played the biggest part in destroying the Memphis sound, particularly when he switched up his style around 05/06 and started sounding like a broke ass Jeezy... When Gotti took over the city, all the newer generation of Memphis rappers started to sound like him veering away from the original Memphis sound. And Memphis rap basically went extinct (as far as having a distinctly unique sound) while the spinoffs of that sound live on today (trap & drill rap) and are now the most influential styles of rap.

 

[H.I.M.]

Memphis artists never got their deserved props. So many dope rappers and great lyricists

Memphis' problem has always been that them nikkas always beef with eachother

ALL cities have rappers that beef.

3 6 Mafia basically invented the trap sound

DJ Squeeky/DJ Zirk/8Ball & MJG really.

But 3-6 were definitely the ones that made the sound famous.

it's a fact that three six has a better discography than the large majority ALL of the rap game.

Amended.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Yo Gotti's rise played the biggest part in destroying the Memphis sound, particularly when he switched up his style around 05/06 and started sounding like a broke ass Jeezy... When Gotti took over the city, all the newer generation of Memphis rappers started to sound like him veering away from the original Memphis sound. And Memphis rap basically went extinct (as far as having a distinctly unique sound) while the spinoffs of that sound live on today (trap & drill rap) and are now the most influential styles of rap.

Exactly, instead of Gotti carrying on what was laid before him, he 'imitated' the 'imitation' of what was laid before him.

 

[malbaker86]

Young Dolph gonna bring Memphis back

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Young Dolph gonna bring Memphis back

Dudes flow is really really bad.

 

[TheRtist]

Yo Gotti's rise played the biggest part in destroying the Memphis sound, particularly when he switched up his style around 05/06 and started sounding like a broke ass Jeezy... When Gotti took over the city, all the newer generation of Memphis rappers started to sound like him veering away from the original Memphis sound. And Memphis rap basically went extinct (as far as having a distinctly unique sound) while the spinoffs of that sound live on today (trap & drill rap) and are now the most influential styles of rap.

any links to Yo Gotti's original sound?

 

[H.I.M.]

any links to Yo Gotti's original sound?

He went thru several phases before he decided to transform himself into a bootlegg Jeezy.

Early on when he 1st started, in the mid-90's he kept it purely Memphis 100% with the tongue twisting flow and lyrical content.



A few years later in the early 2000's he developed a different, but still relatively unique style, delivery & flow.



Then around the time of Cocaine Muzik I he started to morph into a Jeezy clone

 

[H.I.M.]

That nikka blacked out on Stackin' them G's.

He was only 14/15 on there too.