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Southern hip hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip hop, or dirty south, is a blanket term for a regional genre of American hip hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Florida—often titled “The Big 5,” five states which constitute the "Southern Network" in rap music.
The song popularised the titular phrase, which has since been used to refer to Southern hip hop. [1] The single peaked at number 92 on the Billboard 200, number 53 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and number 8 on the Hot Rap Songs charts in the United States. It was later included in the group's 2003 greatest hits album Dirty South Classics.
"Mind Playing Tricks on Me" has received critical praise since it was first released. In 2012, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked it the fifth greatest hip-hop song of all time and at No. 192 on their "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time". [6] [7] The song was ranked number 18 out of 100 Best Rap Songs Of All Time by LiveAbout. [8]
Part of The Bridge Wars, one of the earliest hip-hop rivalries. [28] Aug 8, 1987 "Kill That Noise" MC Shan: Boogie Down Productions "South Bronx" Part of The Bridge Wars [30] Nov 3, 1987 "How Ya Like Me Now" Kool Moe Dee: LL Cool J: The claim that LL Cool J stole his rap style [31] 1988 "Mother" Danzig: Tipper Gore
James Bernard of Entertainment Weekly preferred the album's Southern hip hop over "Arrested Development's suspiciously peppy, idealized version of down-home" and stated, "it's about time someone told today's weed-obsessed youth to 'get up, get out and get something/Don't spend all your time trying to get high.'" [30] Dennis Hunt of the Los ...
Outkast (sometimes written as OutKast) was an American hip hop duo formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1992, consisting of rappers Big Boi (Antwan Patton) and André 3000 (André Benjamin, formerly known as Dré). [ 1] Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential hip hop acts of all time, [ 4][ 5] the duo achieved both critical and ...
Produced by Fresh, it was released on June 11, 1999, as the second single from Juvenile's 1998 album 400 Degreez. The song was Juvenile's biggest hit single at the time until the chart-topping "Slow Motion" in 2004, surpassing "Back That Azz Up" which peaked at number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 . Both the song and its music video were ...
4, 3, 2, 1 (LL Cool J song) " 4, 3, 2, 1 " is a song by Queens rapper LL Cool J featuring Method Man & Redman, Canibus and DMX from LL Cool J's seventh album Phenomenon as the second single. It was released on December 9, 1997, for Def Jam Recordings and was produced by Erick Sermon. The single featured an extended version not featured on the ...