Southern female rappers are taking over hip-hop in 2024 with chart-toppers, sold-out tours, and a powerful shift in representation.

The birth of trap music and the rise of southern hip-hop In 2003, T.I. and other Atlanta rappers created new subgenre of rap: trap music. Twenty years later, its influence is everywhere.

How Doechii, Latto and GloRilla are shaping the sound of hip-hop's future In 2024, GloRilla, Latto and Doechii all delivered landmark rap albums. Not just because they had the best bars, but ...

David Banner’s Run Girl I’m Trying to Get Your Body Wet lyrics combine smooth rhythms with a playful, confident vibe in this ...

Southern hip-hop’s influence continues shaping modern music through strategic sampling, with artists like Future, GloRilla and Sexyy Red drawing from classic Southern tracks. Recently, Juicy J ...

Rather, hip-hop producers from the South have been exhibited a hyper-productivity when it comes to constant innovation. In just over a quarter-century, Southern hip-hop producers have stretched ...

This is, of course, not the first time that women have found commercial success in hip-hop. In the ’90s, Queen Latifah, Lil’ Kim, Foxy Brown, and Lauryn Hill released genre-pushing music that ...

Before the Southern sound took over hip-hop — and then, by default, pop music — the American music industry required rappers be from one of two coasts. And the Gulf Coast wasn’t one of them.

'The God MC' Rakim reflects on Southern hip-hop and the road ahead By Shelby Stewart , Digital reporter Updated April 15, 2021 10:51 a.m. Rakim makes a stop in Houston for a weekend concert.

Southern hip-hop was marginalized in the music industry for such a long time. “The East Coast-West Coast beef was going on, and there was this sense that like these outsiders were here and ...

Hip-hop's inception and ascendance into a global industry is a phenomenon that, unlike most American music genres, happened with little to no participation from the Southern US.