As an old head, born in 78, Older sisters had me listening to Rakim, LL and Kool Mo Dee in the mid to late 80’s. By the early 90’s it was PE, Uncle Luke and NWA. Shortly after around 91-92 in Cincy we was on Scarface and early UGK. Their music and subject matter reflected what I was seeing. dope fiends and money. The lyrical content was there too. Made it every bit as enjoyable as the people mentioned prior. By 94 you had Coming out Hard by Ball and G and OutKast coming up, lyrical content and subject matter on point. You weren’t seeing southern acts on tv, but their music was jumping out the trunk. Then Master P came in with bout it and that opened the Southern doors nationally. It was a different time though, in the Midwest we were riding and smoking at an early age. Heavy base had the hoes watching so we was on that. And you could dance to it. Damn lyrical content. P ushered in heavy base, dope beats and a hustler spirit. For better or worse that was the precursor to what we have now. But you can’t categorize Southern music as slow because we all have options and there have always been lyricist in the south even over heavy base.
What did you people from outside of the south think of southern Rap in the 2000s.
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-We fukked with most artists because we didn't hate on any particular region.
Not trolling and even y'all goats got some of the most boring nonsense uttering lyrics and horrible beat selection. This is not disputable breh. It's kool you can like what you like but it don't matter if hip hop started there if the music was lackluster for the most part and then they tried to shyt on the group who was making better music and thennnn submitted and fell in line with the same group they were shytting on