Tag Archives: Southern Rap

Southern gangsta rappers Pimp C and Bun B shaped UGK (aka Underground Kingz) in the past due ’80s and authorized to Jive Information for his or her major-label debut recording, 1992’s TOO MUCH to Swallow. After second recording Super Tight…, UGK strike the R&B graphs with 1996’s Ridin’ Dirty, which …

Lil’ Blunt began his profession alongside fellow Memphis rapper Indo G and went single in the past due ’90s, releasing albums for several independent brands. Indo G & Lil’ Blunt agreed upon with Luke Information in the middle-’90s, producing them among the initial Memphis acts to create a direct effect …

New Orleans-based rapper Turk was initially found out in 1996 once the owners of Money Money Information (brothers Ronald “Thin” Williams and Brian “Baby” Williams) found out him rapping and rhyming within the close by Magnolia projects. Later on that same 12 months, Turk produced his documenting debut having a …

Greg Road, a brutal hip-hop DJ for radio train station V-103 (WVEE) in Atlanta, was also tapped to sponsor a Slide N Slip compilation of Southern rap. Aptly entitled aftere the hour his display starts, Six O’Clock, Vol. 1 was preceded with an individual, Trina and Deuce Poppi’s “Thug Like …

Dorasel is really a convict turned rapper, signed to Rap-A-Lot Information in 2001 directly from prison. His first recording, Unleash the Beast, is usually his attempt at remaining clean, focusing his attempts on something even more effective. He joins fellow Rap-A-Lot performers such as for example Scarface, Yuk Mouth area, …

An aggressive hip-hop group hailing from Killeen, TX, Green Town caught the eye from the legendary Scarface because of a fitness center in Houston. It had been there that this previous Geto Boy contacted some boxers who have been working out to some Green Town mixtape. He was amazed he …

Amid the flourishing underground rap scene of Houston, Lil’ Flip increased to quick and prosperous fame after his independently released 2000 album, The Leprechaun, broke to a national audience, prompting the young rapper’s signing to Universal Information immediately after. Nicknamed the Freestyle Ruler, a teen-aged Turn won the eye from …

MC Timid D (given birth to Peter Jones) may be the Bronx-born cousin of Afrika Bambaataa. He started on Luther Campbell’s label in 1987 with Surely got to Become Hard and Comin’ Right in ’88. After yet another record (1989’s Don’t Perspiration Me), he experienced a low fat period but …

Miami-based rappers Initial Platoon issued their debut LP, Linked, in the Lightyear label in early 1999.

After the Zero Limit army had increased to enormous heights and just like instantly found itself looking for reorganization by the end from the ’90s, Get good at P proceeded to dismiss the rates of his prolific production team, Beats with the Pound, with the only real exception of Carlos …