Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (884 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1569766061 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Dirty South" according to Ben Dugan. I really enjoyed Ben Westhoff's "Original Gangstas" so I thought that I would do a little backtracking and check out his previous book "Dirty South".I should have enjoyed this more than I did "Original Gangstas". I am drawn more to Southern hip-hop than I am to any other strand, almost certainly because I grew up in Atlanta.This book is well researched and well written. But honestly there is almost no information here that you can't get from Googling . North, South, East and West stop the negativity. To tell you the truth I loved and liked all the chapters No Limit/Cash Money, UGK. My favorite chapter was Soulja Boy you know whether your southern, northern, east coast or west coast. When your fame time is done and gone thats it. Move along stop being hateful and disrespectful. Me myself am northern and I've never thought any of these artist mentioned music was bad. I know my kids had good times doing the Laffy Taffy and the Superman. Love when Lil. "Great crash course in Southern rap" according to Mitchell King. Each chapter covers a different artist (or group of artists), so all together it is a fairly comprehensive history of Southern hip hop through the decades.
. From Publishers Weekly Journalist and hip-hop enthusiast Westhoff delivers a fascinating exploration of the musical and personal terrain of what has come to be known as the Southern sound of rap by such artists as Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, and Ludacris. Westhoff convincingly details how Southern rap music—"party music, full of hypnotic hooks and sing-along choruses"—took over from dominant East Coast and West Coast rap styles by replacing "normal rap structures and metaphor-heavy rhymes in favor of chants, grunts and shouts." In fact, the beauty of West
Westhoff has written a journalistic tour de force, the definitive account of the most vital musical culture of our time. Westhoff visits the gritty neighborhoods where T.I. still move millions of copies, and OutKast has the bestselling rap album of all time. Rap music from New York and Los Angeles once ruled the charts, but nowadays the southern sound thoroughly dominates the radio, Billboard, and MTV. Peachez, dance-craze originators accused of setting back the black race fifty years. In Dirty South, author Ben Westhoff investigates the southern rap phenomenon, watching rappers "make it rain" in a Houston strip club and partying with the 2 Live Cre