Down South
Down South , Southern Rap or Dirty South is a subgenre of hip hop . The name is an analogy to West Coast Rap or East Coast Rap , as Down South, like the music of the two coasts, has its own stylistic features. The term "Dirty South" goes back to a song of the same name by the group Goodie Mob from their debut album Soul Food .
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Synthesizer- heavy productions, but also soul and funk influences are typical of hip-hop from the south . In general, it differs greatly from the sampling- influenced sound of the east coast, but has parallels to the G-Funk of the west coast, to which it is also closer in terms of content.
The Down South is always characterized by innovations that transcend the boundaries of the hip-hop genre and produce independent musical styles: for example, the rap formation 2 Live Crew created the Miami Bass in the late 1980s ; Crunk was developed in the early 1990s, but only became popular in the early 2000s with the US rapper Lil Jon and in the mid-1990s, DJ Screw introduced the technique of chopping & screwing .
The excessive display of one's own wealth by wearing oversized jewelry - the bling-bling - also has its origins in the rapeseed scene of the Down South. The former Memphis based soul musician Isaac Hayes is considered the original progenitor of this outfit .
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The largest metropolitan areas of southern rapeseed are New Orleans , Atlanta , Memphis , Houston, and Miami .