Last.fm Discover Tag of the Week: Dirty South

Dirty South often refers to Southern Hip Hop, and emerged in the late-1990s in cities such as Dallas, Atlanta, Memphis and Houston. With the rise and spread of Hip Hop from the East and West costs of America, the southern states began to develop and nurture their own respective hip hop scenes. The mix tape scene factored largely in the success of many of today’s southern rap artists due to major record labels largely ignoring the south, prompting many burgeoning rap artists  to release their music independently.

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First up on the Dirty South radio station is Huntsville’s Dennis The Menace with ‘Pop N Mo’. The stand out track on his 2010 mix tape titled ‘En Route, find out more about this upcoming rapper here.

A few skips later we come across FMH, a self described ‘poetic speaker with prose’. Hailing from Humble, Texas FMH has uploaded plenty of track on his Reverbnation page here.

Last but not least we have LATRUTH from Forest City, North Carolina. Spitting his own take om Lil’ Wayne‘s ‘Bitch Im The Bomb’, find out more about him here.

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