What did you people from outside of the south think of southern Rap in the 2000s.

[ba'al]

What was your opinion of the aesthetics, beats, lyricism, subject matter, dances, cars and popularity? What is your opinion overall of the south during that time?

 

[Luke Cage]

My friends thought they sounded slow. (not in a chopped and screw type way but in a retard type way)

 

[ba'al]

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

You know what they thought. They all switched their shyt up and started sounded like us

 

[R.B.J1]

In my hometown (Detroit) we liked most of it. However, my mother is from Birmingham Alabama and my father was from Forest City Arkansas a lot of my friends had origins in the South so we didnt view most of them as bamas or country bumpkins. The Ghetto Boys, Outkast and a group called Succes N Effect were some of my favorites.

 

[7th Letter Specialist]

It was coo. The vibe wasn’t too different from what we be up on out here, especially Atlanta. Aside from our own shiit, this is probably what we was slapping the most.

 

[skokiaan]

they say Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne are GOAT status

 

[lowkey0z]

lil jon and the eastside boyz was my first intro to the south via the radio..i fukked with it tho, it always came off like some 'fukk the club up, knock a nikka out' music lol





then i got my hands on limewire..the rest was history - - this was the time the beef 1/2/3 documentaries were dropping too, midnight club put me on to some of the shyt as well









i even had the sittin' sidewayz hook as one of my ringtones

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

I thought outkast was cool. But over all I had to stop listening because I couldn't understand a lot of it FR.

it sounded like some were exaggerating accents to sound more "authentic"

 

[Plankton]

You know what they thought. They all switched their shyt up and started sounded like us

Stop it. NYC created Hip Hop. If the south was doing Hip Hop that means they sounded like us first. Y'all were doing what we did first.

 

[UpNext]

I remember brehs in Chicago damn near worshipped the ground Gucci walked on

 

[8WON6]

fun club music. when songs like Stanky Legg or Walk It Out hit and the dance floor was packed

 

[West Coast Avenger]

Out West we always fukked with the South.....

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Compared to this era, its not as bad as I originally thought it was..

But back then, most of us saw the South as a joke...destroyed hip hop, c00nery music etc.

 

[Phitz]

In my hometown (Detroit) we liked most of it. However, my mother is from Birmingham Alabama and my father was from Forest City Arkansas a lot of my friends had origins in the South so we didnt view most of them as bamas or country bumpkins. The Ghetto Boys, Outkast and a group called Succes N Effect were some of my favorites.

they didn't sound like they dropped out of the 3rd grade at 12 years old like alot of southern artists did. Plus 3 Stacks is highly educated with high IQ.

Dead Prez is/was southern. TI and Ludacris didn't sound slow either.

I think the industry would often purposely promote "dropouts" on purpose most times.