Southern hip hop

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.

Southern hip hop
Stylistic origins	Hip hop East Coast hip hop West Coast hip hop
Cultural origins	Late 1980’s, Southern United States especially Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis, and Miami
Subgenres
Bounce chopped and screwed crunk Miami bass phonk plugg trap
Regional scenes
Memphis Houston Atlanta Miami New Orleans

Many early Southern rap artists released their music independently or on mixtapes after finding it difficult to obtain record-label contracts in the 1990s. 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.

Notable Southern hip hop artists

• Outkast
• Ludacris
• Master P
• Silkk the Shocker
• Scarface
• T.I.
• Gunna
• Birdman
• B.G.
• Lil Wayne
• C Murder
• 2 Chainz
• Gucci Mane
• Mystikal
• Uncle Luke
• Juvenile
• Vanilla Ice
• Young Buck
• Migos
• Mac
• Three 6 Mafia
• Trina
• Trick Daddy
• Killer Mike
• YoungBoy Never Broke Again
• GloRilla
• Megan Thee Stallion
• Latto
• UGK
• Flo Rida
• Chamillionaire
• Jeezy
• Rick Ross

Southern Hip Hop Media

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  Miami's Luther Campbell (pictured in 2017), the frontman of 2 Live Crew in the late 1980s, was a formative influence on much of Southern hip-hop.

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  Atlanta-based duo Outkast (pictured in 2001) became one of the most prominent Southern hip-hop acts of the 1990s.

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  Atlanta's Lil Jon (pictured in 2007) brought national attention to crunk, the first of several Southern hip-hop subgenres to achieve mainstream success in the 2000s.

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  Atlanta rapper Future (pictured in 2014) played an important role in the evolution of trap and mumble rap in the 2010s.

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  T.I. (pictured in 2012) was one of the primary artists who defined and solidified trap music in the 2000s.

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  Scarface of the Geto Boys, pictured in 2013. The Geto Boys were Houston's first hip-hop act to attain nationwide attention.

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  Houston's Paul Wall (pictured in 2005) sporting grills. Wall played a major role in spreading the accessory throughout Southern hip-hop in the 2000s.