Southern hip hop
music genre or scene
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Southern hip hop (also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip hop, or dirty south) is a type of hip hop music that comes from the Southern United States.
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| Cultural origins | Late 1980’s, Southern United States especially Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis, and Miami |
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Many early Southern rap artists released their music independently or on mixtapes after finding it difficult to obtain record-label contracts in the 1990s.[1] By the early 2000s, many Southern artists had achieved national success. Over the decade, Southern hip-hop varieties, both mainstream and underground, have become among the most popular and influential of the entire genre.
In 2003 a documentary movie called Dirty States of America: The Untold Story of Southern Hip-Hop was released.
