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src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/FI7JC7OVZXN272SAZKMBOPAAPQ.jpg?auth=95073556183d6a854037ad012b88f0f6859ffed6d0d564c8c432b37d524e1f2d&width=1000&height=560&smart=true" alt="On screen, the AJC’s Ryon Horne (left) and Tyson Horne deliver a prerecorded message to viewers following a screening of their film, the AJC's hip-hop documentary "The South Got Something to Say,” at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. The panel onstage is the Maroon Tiger's Auzzy Byrdsell (from left) and AJC staffers Ernie Suggs, DeAsia Paige and Mike Jordan. Bita Honarvar for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" width="1000" height="560" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.7857142857142858;max-width:62.5rem;max-height:35rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2044" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Bita Honarvar</p></div></div></div></a><div class="homeList-text"><div class="label-row"></div><div class="c-label-wrapper"></div><div class=" headline }"><a href="/life/ajc-documentary-at-intersection-of-hip-hop-and-academia/DBQPVCEQZZGTJAA47V6I5IN44A/" class=" trending-tease-story">AJC documentary at intersection of hip-hop and academia</a></div></div></div><div class="c-homeList false "><a href="/life/falcons-hip-hop-50-celebration-scores-with-fans/H3DPWL23OBAEJON7DJGVIXYLNU/" class="homeList-image"><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/TROCV6SO4KLLOFKSRMPVEUAKJM.JPG?auth=0fb077786793e86b3e3fd14978fba13410e602677196bba0c6bfc72cad8fdd22&width=1000&height=560&smart=true" alt="Ludacris descends from the top of the stadium while performing during the game. The Atlanta Falcons celebrate Hip-Hop 50 with performances and appearances during their NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and the New Orleans Saints in Atlanta on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. (Bob Andres for the Atlanta Journal Constitution)" width="1000" height="560" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.7857142857142858;max-width:62.5rem;max-height:35rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2044" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Bob Andres</p></div></div></div></a><div class="homeList-text"><div class="label-row"></div><div class="c-label-wrapper"></div><div class=" headline }"><a href="/life/falcons-hip-hop-50-celebration-scores-with-fans/H3DPWL23OBAEJON7DJGVIXYLNU/" class=" trending-tease-story">Falcons Hip-Hop 50 celebration scores with fans</a></div></div></div><div class="c-homeList false "><a href="/things-to-do/review-andre-3000s-new-blue-sun-is-less-about-soul-and-all-about-peace/SYFVWFSVS5APBHFPYAXW7IGY3Y/" class="homeList-image"><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/S6L3P3VPJZAWO67NZX2WPU4SOE.jpg?auth=c4f60cbe690dd68076590fb6e60f4c91c50049fad87ce5642f3d2cdb3bc42d43&width=1000&height=560&smart=true" alt="Andre 3000's "New Blue Sun" is his first album in 17 years. Photo: Courtesy of Tretorn" width="1000" height="560" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.7857142857142858;max-width:62.5rem;max-height:35rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2044" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Melissa Ruggieri</p></div></div></div></a><div class="homeList-text"><div class="label-row"></div><div class="c-label-wrapper"></div><div class=" headline }"><a href="/things-to-do/review-andre-3000s-new-blue-sun-is-less-about-soul-and-all-about-peace/SYFVWFSVS5APBHFPYAXW7IGY3Y/" class=" trending-tease-story">Review: Andre 3000′s ‘New Blue Sun’ is less about soul and all about peace </a></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="c-titleWrapper isSectionHeading "><h2 class="title b-flexRow c-sectionTitle ">Timeline: Atlanta 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style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Natrice Miller</p></div></div></div></a><div class="homeList-text"><div class="label-row"></div><div class="c-label-wrapper"></div><div class=" headline }"><a href="/life/arts-culture/hip-hop-50/ajc-film-about-atlanta-hip-hop-will-screen-thursday-at-center-stage/PY3UVRUZFZGR7HPXCTO27UKAKI/" class=" trending-tease-story">‘The South Got Something To Say’ doc explores Atlanta’s role in hip-hop</a></div></div></div><div class="c-homeList false "><a href="/life/arts-culture/hip-hop-50/where-to-watch-and-livestream-the-south-got-something-to-say/JGJYIWEU6JCHHKUH3EOVVITHYA/" class="homeList-image"><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/X4WJ777NUJH47JKWISVQVS7SYA.jpg?auth=79cc9bab5a3042c5cace63ab314efc7e547de309e9c0f329ae49fc0f54c23b17&width=1000&height=560&smart=true" alt="AJC hip-hop documentary filmmakers, (back row, left to right) writer/producer Ernie Suggs, co-director Ryon Horne, Byron Horne, co-director Tyson A. Horne and (front row) supervising producer Sandra Brown and writer/producer DeAsia Paige pose Nov. 2, 2023 outside Center Stage in Atlanta before the premiere of “The South Got Something to Say”." width="1000" height="560" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.7857142857142858;max-width:62.5rem;max-height:35rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2044" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Lauren Hubbard</p></div></div></div></a><div class="homeList-text"><div class="label-row"></div><div class="c-label-wrapper"></div><div class=" headline }"><a href="/life/arts-culture/hip-hop-50/where-to-watch-and-livestream-the-south-got-something-to-say/JGJYIWEU6JCHHKUH3EOVVITHYA/" class=" trending-tease-story">How to watch ‘The South Got Something To Say’</a></div></div></div><div class="c-homeList false "><a href="/black-atlanta-culture/love-letters-to-hip-hop/RN4Z6PXDRNAWRKBU7D7MJRPBMM/" class="homeList-image"><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/IN634FUDEFBPZDHJTXH2V6GAXI.jpg?auth=d740c48b1bf032b664b0d6cae359c60d86b70ce773c97991040df21b7b3f9ae2&width=1000&height=560&smart=true" alt="Filmmakers, Tyson Horne, Ernie Suggs, DeAsia Paige and Ryon Horne. Courtesy of Ernie Suggs" width="1000" height="560" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.7857142857142858;max-width:62.5rem;max-height:35rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2044" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Ernie Suggs</p></div></div></div></a><div class="homeList-text"><div class="label-row"></div><div class="c-label-wrapper"></div><div class=" headline }"><a href="/black-atlanta-culture/love-letters-to-hip-hop/RN4Z6PXDRNAWRKBU7D7MJRPBMM/" class=" trending-tease-story">Love letters to hip-hop</a></div></div></div><div class="c-homeList false "><a href="/life/opinion-hip-hop-is-like-an-old-friend-our-relationship-keeps-evolving/FVWYDFE3W5FJJFYRMYWGMBLTYQ/" class="homeList-image"><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/SGYNNNMHDOTOZVDNL3AHHQ5YEY.jpg?auth=46ace8b8b28e8c8e2ae1d458e25a2bb9c53f3394777c91102fc79a0f8d42edf8&width=1000&height=560&smart=true" alt="This is the label art for the 12-inch single "Rapper's Delight," released in 1979 by the Sugarhill Gang. The label credits music taken from "Good Times," the song by Chic that was sampled. (Discogs)" width="1000" height="560" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.7857142857142858;max-width:62.5rem;max-height:35rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2044" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Discogs</p></div></div></div></a><div class="homeList-text"><div class="label-row"></div><div class="c-label-wrapper"></div><div class=" headline }"><a href="/life/opinion-hip-hop-is-like-an-old-friend-our-relationship-keeps-evolving/FVWYDFE3W5FJJFYRMYWGMBLTYQ/" class=" trending-tease-story">OPINION: Hip-hop is like an old friend. 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I’ve not personally seen him perform breakdancing maneuvers like the “windmill,” heard him making “human beatbox” sounds or creating drum beats on a desk with his fist, recite lyrics in a rap freestyle “cypher,” play and mix music for others to dance at a party, or use spray paint to write his name on the walls of our offices (yet)."},{"_id":"5TM4VQTFLBF6RIBWONEHJ3R4RY","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1699031811773},"content":"But one way to tell that hip-hop is an inspiration to Leroy is in an often underappreciated but highly important sector of hip-hop culture: fashion. You’ll always find him impeccably dressed, quite often while rocking a pair of inconceivably clean sneakers as a finishing touch."},{"_id":"UJAKMDVHPNG35KO3Z65W33QASM","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1699031811774},"content":"As an executive producer of “The South Got Something To Say,” AJC Films’ first full-length feature documentary, Leroy’s history with hip-hop helped him guide the direction of the movie, which you now can watch right <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/hiphop/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>."},{"_id":"5KYD4R3MYFEUROHW7DPHIBHT24","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1699031811775},"content":"Now that the film has been released, our team of journalists covering Black culture wanted to know more about what hip-hop means to our newsroom’s leader. 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I was hooked at “Player’s Ball.” I was in college when it dropped. Seeing guys who were authentically Southern and who looked and talked like the guys I grew up with was game-changing. Hip-hop was dominated by New York and the West Coast. I was in California during my Navy days and saw Los Angeles take off and claim their version of hip-hop. It wasn’t until OutKast dropped five years later that I experienced what I saw the West Coast experience when NWA, M.C. 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What Arrested Development did was revolutionary. And that kind of creative brilliance has sustained."},{"_id":"BMO4WTD4RRDVBKHULLH74QPCPQ","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1699030205864},"content":"<b>How has your affinity for hip-hop influenced your personal life?</b>"},{"_id":"DDHRMGCGIVAOHML76JUKSSAQJM","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1699030205865},"content":"In many ways. Before the internet, music and television were the biggest influences on youth. And I discovered Public Enemy in high school. My desire to keep up with Chuck D. had me reading books I might not have otherwise read. Same for KRS One. Also, the hip-hop ethos demands self-confidence. Hip-hop is aspirational. It’s competitive. It unlocked for many of us what’s possible and tapped a belief that we could make it. Now that I’m older, hip-hop is something I share with my children. My son loves OutKast. And we can talk about the golden era of hip-hop. 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I think there are some authentic storytellers in hip-hop and I think journalism has to be authentic or it isn’t journalism. For the most part, hip-hop artists are playing characters, exaggerated versions of themselves. But when you hear Kendrick Lamar talk about his struggles with mental health, addiction in his family and overcoming poverty, it is personal and powerful. Same for Killer Mike on his latest album, laying bare some of his struggles, contradictions and triumphs. Those expressions are as raw and unfiltered as the best journalism. There was a time when Chuck D called rap “Black America’s CNN” because it was one of the few forums where there were deep discussions about the devastating impact the war on drugs was having on Black communities and police brutality. The music no longer has that burden now that we have the internet."},{"_id":"IL4UVYTU5VFT7JSBPWHRFIOGWU","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1699030205869},"content":"<b>Why is it important for the AJC to cover hip-hop, and what is the AJC’s role in hip-hop coverage?</b>"},{"_id":"VVPI2O4IZBAPLHUOYYL4BT2EDQ","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1699030205870},"content":"Atlanta’s identity – here in this city and to the outside world – is heavily defined by hip-hop. I would argue that there is not a more hip-hop city in America. New York, where hip-hop was born, is a hip-hop city. But if you were listing the things that define New York City, there are probably a dozen other things that would rank higher than hip-hop. Same for L.A. Here, the list is much shorter. Also, Atlanta is the world’s chief exporter of Black culture. That is heavily defined by hip-hop. And as the genre has matured, it has become more institutional and influential in politics and business. We saw the founders of Quality Control Records hosting fundraisers for a mayoral candidate. Hip-hop is in politics. Ludacris, Lil Yachty, Lil Nas X and Lil Baby are all doing Super Bowl commercials. Brands want to align with Atlanta hip-hop. The AJC cannot tell authentic Atlanta stories without understanding hip-hop. Our role is to have authentic conversations with and about this community."},{"_id":"UDDO3X67G5ANVOLEUORN4MPWFE","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1699030205871},"content":"<b>Is there a particularly memorable Atlanta hip-hop story or moment the AJC has covered that really resonates with you?</b>"},{"_id":"WUJZ5RV5DFE3ZA4HXEOX25S4DQ","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1699030205872},"content":"There are several. <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/blog/music/concert-review-outkast-triumphs-atlanta-return/0sR7onxcSLj1ymG2bVjSvI/\" target=\"_blank\">OutKast packing Centennial Park</a> for three straight days back in 2014 is something we may never see again. There were about 20,000 people each night. I remember the shows sold out in minutes. We had great access and we turned some great stories about OutKast, hip-hop and this city. Then there is the <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/local/people-have-lot-feelings-about-maroon-performing-atlanta-super-bowl/ol8R37SQduNpd4kIVOewvI/\" target=\"_blank\">Super Bowl snub</a> and the NFL, after realizing the blunder, adding Big Boi to the halftime show here in Mercedes Benz Stadium. Seeing the Dr. Dre show in LA only reminds us of how wrong the NFL got it when it hosted the Super Bowl here. <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/blog/music/atlanta-rapper-lil-nas-comes-out-world-pride-day/PBZs4erK2as3VFBNYGZtjI/\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Nas X coming out</a> on World Pride Day was a big story at the time. I will also never forget the story about <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/blog/news-to-me/uga-apologizes-for-providing-ludacris-with-alcohol-and-condoms/Y6PXMSM0Q5cYyQ35IMO2YO/\" target=\"_blank\">Ludacris’ rider when he played the UGA spring game</a>. That was a cultural flashpoint. The most emotional moment was Takeoff’s funeral. I wrote a <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/politics/opinion-what-now-takeoffs-death-deserves-action-beyond-the-grief/HN4YD7XTNNA3HIDSIY7UOTDBN4/\" target=\"_blank\">column</a>. I went to the funeral hoping to hear a call to action to end the senseless violence that claims some of our best."},{"_id":"VOVPHOC7VZFDNJV52NYBGPP7CE","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1699030205873},"content":"<b>Are there Atlanta hip-hop stories that you feel are untold and would like to see the AJC to cover in the future?</b>"},{"_id":"REHSKVPHVRDONHCRWPMUW3NTPE","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1699030205874},"content":"Yes. 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It’s not the Andre 3000 whose futuristic style and southern-inspired bars about life in Atlanta made him one of rap’s most premier trendsetters as one half of OutKast—the<a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/life/arts-culture/hip-hop-50/hey-ya-atlantas-outkast-now-has-the-best-selling-rap-album-of-all-time/YYNL5KKNWNAPPOPVQCHLXJB34Q/\" target=\"_blank\"> best-selling rap duo of all-time</a>. It’s not the post-OutKast Andre 3000 whose sporadic guest verses throughout the years would remind listeners of why he’s a goat lyricist without having one solo rap album under his belt. 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And they’re as long as the songs themselves. “<a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/track/1lbjDy6IIerHFGZWKG0hno?si=79960bd2ea954d70\" target=\"_blank\">I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time</a>,” the album’s opener, is over 12 minutes long and has haunting synths that anchor the beginning and chimes that sound like you’re entering an enchanting garden. Throughout the track, the digital wind instruments build an alluring melody that grows more intense as the song progresses, inviting listeners into Andre 3000′s foliage of wind-inspired musicality.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MIVOYAZMQJD7DPDQS2GW4TSKXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1700320705459},"content":"“<a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/track/1D7g7ZejXNy4GdbDAPSg2i?si=9ee83bd718374eec\" target=\"_blank\">BuyPoloDisorder’s Daughter Wears a 3000® Button Down Embroidered</a>” features short and patchy Mayan flute sounds that are often so dizzying that you feel like you’re embarking on a long trip with no destination in mind. “<a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/track/5lvdCRZG3XyQ7Ea0oKclCP?si=d11dcbdcfeae41c1\" target=\"_blank\">Dreams Once Buried Beneath the Dungeon Floor Slowly Sprout Into Undying Gardens</a>,” is the longest song on the album at roughly 17 minutes. It’s a nod to the Dungeon Family, the pioneering Atlanta-based hip-hop collective that made a star out of Andre 3000 and so many others. It’s awash in loopy guitar synths, blaring cymbals and meditative chords that sound like the type of track you listen to when you want to become grounded. And the longer you listen, the more immersed you become in the scattering cacophony of sounds. Because patience is indeed a virtue.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YNPJZQB4Z5BGPHVDI2EZ7DY6I4","additional_properties":{"_id":1700320705460},"content":"A shining moment on the album arrives on its third track, “<a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/track/7763zdQtsUXNRKMDbahyK5?si=1118b3c8ec29419e\" target=\"_blank\">That Night in Hawaii When I Turned Into a Panther and Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldn’t Control ... [Expletive] Was Wild.</a>” Inspired by an ayahuasca trip that the 48-year-old will never forget, the track sounds exactly like something that’s even more alluring if heard under the influence of drugs. The song leans on panther toning and drums that are menacing enough to make you feel as if you’re experiencing your own mental battle.","type":"text"},{"_id":"US6BYVHF3JGN5M6646UHP4OXP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1700320705461},"content":"“New Blue Sun” becomes less interesting in its most minimalist moments. “<a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/track/0LVCuBsPmGaYvGV3IOMXFy?si=4ae486548f9c45ec\" target=\"_blank\">Ninety Three ‘Til Infinity And Beyoncé</a>” is a potent and poetic title, but the song itself is prosaic and doesn’t continue the album’s propensity for introspection. The album’s second track “<a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/track/53JuszD36WgJTr4Rdq7kjO?si=9d1ff619ab924ed0\" target=\"_blank\">The Slang Word [Expletive] Rolls Off the Tongue With Far Better Ease Than the Proper Word Vagina. Do You Agree?</a>” is riddled in monotony. But even as the album’s intensity builds, its lack of soul and rhythm is often so biting that the appeal to listen to it again and again wanes. It contains the rich lineage and daring creativity of Black artists drifting away from sounds that they’re far too often pigeonholed in (from Stevie Wonder’s “Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants,” and D’Angelo’s “Voodoo” to Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” and Lil Yachty’s “Let’s Start Here”), but “New Blue Sun” doesn’t firmly nail the landing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I6Q3SMHB4VCFPJSVRY3GIBJSME","additional_properties":{"_id":1700320705462},"content":"When translated in film, this becomes even more true. The visual accompaniment, directed by Terence Nash (”Random Acts of Flyness,” ”An Oversimplification of Her Beauty”), attempts to be avant-garde minimalism but instead just becomes utterly confounding. It was like watching peaceful chaos unfold.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HXBGGFU3CVDHVG7PQ3NXU2SQIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1700320705463},"content":"“What you hear is how we heard it as it was happening, so I hope you enjoy these formations or whatever you want to call them,” the rapper said at the beginning of the film. “I hope y’all are in a good place and happy somewhere.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RIRRV56VEJETXJLQRD5WN6ASZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1700320705464},"content":"Outside of the introduction, the rapper never spoke throughout the film. He just performed a series of movements as the album played. There were times where I didn’t know what Andre 3000 was doing in the film or why he was doing it. It primarily featured the rapper, who donned blue-striped overalls, Jordans and a red beanie, against a blue backdrop adorned by candle. Sometimes he walked around on his heels while holding his flute. Sometimes he looked disgruntled while seemingly struggling to tie his shoe for five minutes. Sometimes he placed his shoes underneath a cone and rested on it. Sometimes he waved his flute like it was a sword or a cane or a toy or a basketball. Sometimes he revealed items like a white figurine and a rubber duck and positioned them extremely close to the camera as if it were show-and-tell.","type":"text"},{"_id":"22R6Y5QT7BGFJK35L3LNLKQ6IQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1700320705465},"content":"And sometimes there were no movements at all―just him lying on the floor with his arms stretched wide like he wanted to completely surrender himself to the music. 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As the west coast was just starting to have its way with the charts, with its often-profane gangster rap, this southern ensemble in bare feet and overalls talked to God (\"Tennessee\"), and about respecting women (\"People Everyday\"). It was won the best new artist Grammy, and another for best rap performance by a duo or group.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SR4GX476VBB4LFTQIWDP2EUVPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1696974789552},"content":"<b>July 1993. </b>Duo Tag Team's \"Whoomp! There It Is\" album hits stores and the title track/soon-to-be sports anthem becomes the biggest-selling single in rap music (at the time).","type":"text"},{"_id":"UJNKHQTQVVAY7BTY2NNMNK647U","additional_properties":{"_id":1696974789553},"content":"<b>• 1994. </b>Dupri strikes again with a heavy-lidded, female version of gangster rap sensation Snoop Doggy Dogg. Her name is Da Brat. 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It was part of a series to celebrate hip-hop and the 25th anniversary of Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” the first rap single to crack the Top 40.</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRVQ4BTQPJBMRD4E3QTWMVLKVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1697558456877},"content":"Bent over touching her toes — so that the crowd at Strokers can get a better view of what her thong is already doing a poor job of concealing — the last thing on White Chocolate’s mind is whether she’s taking the image of women down a notch with each suggestive drop to the floor.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CHV6EYNYYJCJPLPBTSWLD4HKKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1697130034891},"content":"More likely the Fayetteville resident is thinking about the dry cleaning she forgot to pick up. Or whether she’s going to hit the Waffle House after work. 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No one is making me do anything I don’t want to do. . . . I’ve been in about 27 music videos doing my thing. I’ve got a five-bedroom house on a half-acre of land. Drive a Jag. If anything, hip-hop has been very, very good to this woman right here.” Now that’s a testimonial you don’t hear often.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7F26DHHCJEJLCRG5GA5LWVGTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1697130034897},"content":"If there has been one ongoing criticism of hip-hop in its quarter-century of existence, it is of the way it treats its women. Women in hip-hop songs and videos often aren’t “women,” they’re whores — or worse — who exist only to provide sexual pleasure. Such vulgar portrayals have offended everyone from famed rap opponent C. 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There are very few female rappers who have females around them, and when you’ve got to play in this boy’s world, constantly, it’s hard not to pick up traits.” Latifah also can’t help but be disappointed that all these years after her debut, “All Hail the Queen,” female rappers still are few and far between.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WDSNFW2QU5ATNDJ3QR6MUEFKUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1697130034925},"content":"This week, for example, Shawnna is the only female rapper with a Top 25 single on the Billboard Rap Tracks chart. 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It was part of a series to celebrate hip-hop and the 25th anniversary of Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” the first rap single to crack the Top 40.</i>"},{"_id":"N7WHIJGLDBAV5NPTQCBS3XA4VQ","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697560272068},"content":"Rap music, once a forum for life in the ghetto, has become a soundtrack for the good life."},{"_id":"EXULKOXBZVHGTM4LWAKQ6HPJLA","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429073},"content":"Hummers. Hot tubs. Hummers with hot tubs. Hip-hop is all about livin’ large, as rapper Mannie Fresh notes in his new single."},{"_id":"6COKJCMZLNA6DA3ABML6DREDHI","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429074},"content":"“House real big, cars real big, belly real big, everything real big. . . . Lemme tell you how I live.”"},{"_id":"DE2OUDPOSJGVPDVHHZIFNDH5QI","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429075},"content":"What’s really big, though, is hip-hop’s influence on pop and consumer culture. 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Diddy” Combs, despite lukewarm reviews from theater critics, packed the house when he appeared in “Raisin in the Sun,” one of the few shows that made money in the 2003-04 season."},{"_id":"6NBFVVG4PJBE3PGQKIGL6RRKLQ","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429081},"content":"Hip-hop style has become so pervasive that it would be impossible to calculate its total impact on fashion, movies, advertising and consumer behavior. However, marketing experts estimate that as much as one-quarter of discretionary spending is influenced by hip-hop."},{"_id":"YUI3YXXSDNHZVITH3FWF36W6WQ","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429082},"content":"“I [always] knew hip-hop was bigger than music,” said mogul Russell Simmons, who has been crowned as hip-hop’s pioneering chairman of the board. In the past two decades, Simmons has helped turn hip-hop into an industry, first with music label Def Jam, then with clothing label Phat Farm, followed by a film company, marketing agency and other spinoffs."},{"_id":"E2YC7VOFWVA5XJFUTMDVXNIVDA","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429083},"content":"“It’s no surprise to me that [hip-hop] has become the Goliath it is,” Simmons said. “Hip-hop is all about the American dream.”"},{"_id":"N73FUI3WRBBC3OYU7A6GN2RQ2U","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429084},"content":"<b>Hip-hop empires</b>"},{"_id":"CFQP7KUGQJHI7BI5UP2DK3ZVVY","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429085},"content":"Hip-hop CDs rang up $1 billion in sales last year, according to market research firm NPD Group of Port Washington, N.Y."},{"_id":"64JAOMCNYBGEZJNMSBHZA46E5A","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429086},"content":"Yet if a rapper really wants to make it, albums are only a jumping-off point. The big money is in creating a brand out of a superstar performer."},{"_id":"E2AQD2RC5FDGBCXPEULUXI32UM","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429087},"content":"Rapper-turned-executive Combs oversees a clothing line that brings in $450 million in retail sales a year, a Manhattan boutique and two restaurants --- including one in Atlanta --- in addition to his Bad Boy record and film production company."},{"_id":"IXWI5P4MVBF2DB2IE3MNG3V2RA","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429088},"content":"Similarly, Damon Dash and partner Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter run the music-fashion-film empire known as Roc-A-Fella Enterprises, where there’s certainly no shortage of cross-merchandising."},{"_id":"2VHAZJC5TFH4NO6XUPNR7SXI5A","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429089},"content":"Now that Dash owns the top-shelf vodka brand Armadale, Roc-A-Fella’s rappers are more inclined to name-drop Armadale in lyrics instead of, say, Belvedere or Grey Goose. 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Tricked out with 2-carat diamonds, the watches will sell for $1,800 to $3,500 and are being manufactured by bling-bling king Jacob Arabo, known better as Jacob the Jeweler."},{"_id":"VWBWIDZBSVHMXMYP6VEON6RACY","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429101},"content":"> Missy Elliott hooked up with Adidas to launch the “Respect M.E.” clothing line."},{"_id":"AKDUSJSKTNFW7DVBS4QGYZ6OTQ","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429102},"content":"> With a hand from Reebok, Pharrell Williams launched the Ice Cream sneaker line. 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Songs that get heavy airplay can win the artist a corporate check for six figures, according to a recent article in Billboard magazine."},{"_id":"SGDYL7MJFBENBPXJ5I3XTSPVWI","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429119},"content":"The line between entertainment and advertising has blurred during a time of declining CD sales and crunched music industry budgets."},{"_id":"EYMK35DGABBGVKF7RVQK7PGT7A","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429120},"content":"“Corporate America and hip-hop have become co-dependent on each other,” said brand strategist Caralene Robinson of Atlanta-based Star Marketing. “The music industry depends heavily on corporate America to underwrite the costs of marketing artists, and in turn, companies depend on hip-hop artists to make them look cool.”"},{"_id":"LVQKOMZQ4NC3JC6NP4SXXO2K7I","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429121},"content":"It’s getting harder for companies to find the right fit, though, now that rappers have turned into megamarketers, said Robinson, who formerly ran Coca-Cola’s urban branding division."},{"_id":"3LXFMGJIAJD5VGR2BGH2TIVUZQ","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429122},"content":"Robinson said she recently fielded a pitch from a multiplatinum hip-hop star who wanted $1 million from a cellphone provider in exchange for pre-releasing CDs at cellphone stores."},{"_id":"DFHLSGFOJBBJHIMDFKUIZPR3H4","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429123},"content":"“We turned it down. That’s just too much money,” Robinson said."},{"_id":"PR6B3K2QMFC25EX46BB2AZRENA","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429124},"content":"Overall, the relationship between hip-hop and business is chummy, so much so that Lucian James of San Francisco-based market research firm Agenda Inc. created the American Brandstand list to track how many times rappers mention brand names."},{"_id":"EUILRVFRTJEMDCE6B5J6EYCG4U","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1697132429125},"content":"From Cool Whip to Cartier, there have been 910 brand mentions in the Billboard Top 20 singles chart this year. 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Over the late spring and summer, Suggs said he and Paige talked to more than 70 people including hip-hop historians and journalists, producers, rap stars and politicians."},{"_id":"VD6FO6VPS5A6HAYVABJ7GAORUE","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698861400849},"content":"The AJC has experience with short-form documentaries and had plans for a video series centered on Atlanta hip-hop. But Morse, who worked on broadcast documentaries during his time at CNN, pushed for a theatrical-length film, something the AJC has never produced."},{"_id":"W5NXTXDORFDAHPPHJJ5N2BHKNE","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698861400850},"content":"Over the late spring and summer, Suggs said he and Paige talked to more than 70 people including hip-hop historians and journalists, producers, rap stars and politicians."},{"_id":"U4YO5D3OGRFIFL23PMMNXK5NQE","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698708913039},"content":"The Horne brothers and Suggs have been in Atlanta since the mid-1990s. Paige only arrived in town a year ago but she said everyone had their own connections and was able to nab plenty of key interviews in a tight time frame."},{"_id":"ZJEXLMAF2BDX7FFAKMD6Z2H7FI","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698708913040},"content":"“It was very intense initially,” Paige said. “I didn’t think things would happen.”"},{"_id":"WQ2VN5UUQRD5POWGBXNQC5OY6Y","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698719260637},"content":"Suggs, a Brooklyn, New York, native who joined the AJC two years after André 3000′s “shot heard around the world,” said he wanted to explore the scope of Atlanta history “with a hip-hop soundtrack.” The film touches on everything from the election of Maynard Jackson as the first Black mayor of Atlanta five decades ago to the Atlanta Child Murders of 1979 to 1981 to the 2020 George Floyd protests."},{"_id":"EUXE3USTW5EQJCBDHNKMMT7WIU","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698719260638},"content":"“The movie made me better appreciate how Atlanta was able to flip hip-hop and make it a cultural and global phenomenon,” Suggs said."},{"_id":"CTPDSN6Z7VAIRFVZIKDVA2GWKE","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/nq0zlKntaInWa5RGBv1NQnNFCzI=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/CTPDSN6Z7VAIRFVZIKDVA2GWKE.jpg","galleries":[],"ingestionMethod":"manual","keywords":[],"mime_type":"image/jpeg","originalName":"img_3134.jpg","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/CTPDSN6Z7VAIRFVZIKDVA2GWKE.jpg","proxyUrl":"/resizer/nq0zlKntaInWa5RGBv1NQnNFCzI=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/CTPDSN6Z7VAIRFVZIKDVA2GWKE.jpg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/nq0zlKntaInWa5RGBv1NQnNFCzI=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/CTPDSN6Z7VAIRFVZIKDVA2GWKE.jpg","restricted":false,"thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/jduJj_nJh4S0b-4MTgq_5aIbklw=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/CTPDSN6Z7VAIRFVZIKDVA2GWKE.jpg","version":0,"template_id":594,"_id":"ERON7SNM2BHL5EAVMXSBC6D34A"},"address":{},"auth":{"1":"b8e6b0fb334b956f9598cde8e485e12d9f24ef921e0640214e598666506f1523"},"caption":"DeAsia Paige interviewing Philip McCollum, Shannon McCollum and Lil Yachty","created_date":"2023-10-23T13:02:34Z","credits":{"affiliation":[],"by":[{"_id":"deasiapaige","type":"author","version":"0.5.8","name":"DeAsia Paige","image":{"url":"https://author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub/ajc/c14c1d7e-9f42-4c80-be63-f3064464a517.jpg","version":"0.5.8"},"description":"DeAsia is a music and culture reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 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They also connect the dots between Georgia native and R&B funk legend James Brown and hip-hop."},{"_id":"Q4M4K3C7SJF25DORYMDTBLBBEI","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698772072388},"content":"The doc delves into how skating rinks and talent shows became the “incubators of the talent that became the creative class,” said <a href=\"https://iac.gatech.edu/people/person/joycelyn-wilson\" target=\"_blank\">Jocelyn Wilson, a Georgia Tech professor and historian</a>, in the film. 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If you were to search the internet for a characteristic description of music in the 1970s, the decade of hip-hop’s birth, the search results would undoubtedly tell tales of dance floors around the world being illuminated by disco balls, while well-heeled feet moved and grooved to not only disco, but also variations of rock, funk and other genres that were unfamiliar, but steadily making their presence known.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ZH3B5ZRWRC3LM5PB7NE4N4CNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1698237162690},"content":"Among those was a South Bronx born form of music that would eventually surpass being just sound and grow into the <a href=\"https://www.nielsen.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/2017-year-end-music-report-us.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">most popular musical genre</a> in the United States. In its introduction, the genre led with defining elements of disco like funky beats and electric feels — evident in cuts like “Step into A World (Rapture’s Delight)” by KRS-One. 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The West Coast-based duo, celebrated for being the first group to produce and perform an anti-gay bashing rap, dared to lead with messaging that included a gay punk performance perspective. After their debut performance of “Fight Back,” a Los Angeles Times writer summed it up as a “beautifully executed blend of self-deprecatory humor, gay pride and militancy that fully displayed rapping’s potential.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EG5YZBWCTBBJNPJGWXGLFWPBHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1698237162693},"content":"Now, with Atlanta being the gay epicenter of the South and arguably the new incubator of hip-hop culture, queer culture has a seat at the table that can’t be denied — by consumers or new purveyors of the art. In 2016, Atlanta native<b> </b>and fashion forward rapper, Young Thug, who is <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/young-thug-case-after-9-months-jury-seating-begins-this-week-judge-decides/OW7HGOYB55ASBDTGVTYFC3R7WQ/\" target=\"_blank\">currently on trial </a>facing gang and racketeering charges,<b> </b>set social media and the industry ablaze when the artwork for his <b>“</b>Jeffrey” project (originally titled “No, My Name is Jeffery”) showcased him flaunting a gender-neutral, dress-like garment. More recently, the summer of 2023 belonged to Beyoncé, “Renaissance” and the world tour that would bring it to life. 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Those power players might even be in the club and witness it for themselves, and be able to spot an uncut diamond ready to be polished into a hip-hop hit."},{"_id":"YVGY4JGIP5HU7NXIERWCUQCMZU","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460680},"content":"One such story is that of <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/life/arts-culture/hip-hop-50/atlanta-hip-hop-songs-50th-anniversary/\">“Whoomp! (There It Is),”</a> the cult classic song from Atlanta rap duo Tag Team."},{"_id":"XGTOVIT7JRBLPAHDYHP6CUFR7A","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698422726516},"content":"DC The Brain Supreme, a member of Tag Team, was the deejay at Magic City when he recorded the song in 1993, and was thus able to test it at the fabled strip club. The crowd liked it. Soon enough, the party cut would go on top top nationwide singles charts and land them a performance on Arsenio Hall’s popular 1990s late-night TV talk show."},{"_id":"N7ILQKSJJZEJRMYFHW3RNC2KZE","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460681},"content":"But as times have changed, the influence of these traditional incubation spaces for new rap records has changed as well."},{"_id":"NSTO4HYN5ZDEHACGRXM7LLA2JE","type":"header","level":3,"additional_properties":{"_id":1698417887881},"content":"‘The cheat code’"},{"_id":"AZF4RIUUYREIZH3M57QQNPPHJY","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460682},"content":"“The strip clubs in Atlanta are still very important but they aren’t the be-all, end-all that they used to be,” said Nick Love, an Atlanta-based project manager at ONErpm, a company that offers a suite of modern-era music industry services such as marketing and digital distribution, both of which he manages in the genres of hip-hop and R&B."},{"_id":"CQI3XUSRWJGD7L64VDNMUKL4VY","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460683},"content":"Love’s career journey includes working directly for Jeezy’s Corporate Thugz Entertainment record label, and for Magic City, where he helped popularize the Atlanta strip club’s famous Monday night experiences. He’s also a cofounder of the Coalition DJs deejaying collective, whose members were <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95RAl25wTyw&t=5s\">instrumental in breaking superstar rappers like Jeezy and Future</a> by playing their music in Atlanta strip clubs."},{"_id":"UHXJ35ZPBFCXLHUKLN4AFCETBM","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698417887887},"content":"Hip-hop, more so than other forms of music, is in constant change. Love said we’ve moved past the era where a single element like having a song played at the right strip club on the right night can change a rapper’s career."},{"_id":"OZCIKT5ZNBEMVDKKS7WBARGYQY","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460687},"content":"“At one point, radio was everything! Especially Atlanta radio. If you got your song spinning on one of our stations, you were almost guaranteed a deal. It’s not like that anymore. At another point, if you were getting constant coverage on one of the big blogs… you were surely the next to blow. That’s gone. Then, the Atlanta strip clubs became the cheat code. If you were booming in Magic City, you had the golden ticket. It’s not that anymore.”"},{"_id":"YQKXBC7AIJBNVK37C2NZNHAUIQ","type":"header","level":3,"additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460689},"content":"Separating the real from the fake"},{"_id":"RIVFVCTUHVG7TDQD5RREL4HYUU","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698417887891},"content":"At the eastside strip club Pin Ups, a dancer who calls herself “Hershey” works the door on a Sunday evening just before sundown. Here she prefers collecting a cover charge from customers to performing nude, but she has signed up to be a dancer at Candyland, a downtown strip club which was once known as Goosebumps but has changed under its new ownership, the rapper 2 Chainz."},{"_id":"AKEZNYYIZJAJ3MQOE7QUKTWGAM","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460690},"content":"Hershey said in some ways it’s just easier for aspiring rappers to promote themselves through strip clubs, as it allows them an in-person opportunity to sway the audience’s introduction to their music by experiencing it where people are already having a good time. “It’s more hands-on. 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The results, from Hershey’s perspective, are not always convincing."},{"_id":"PPMSA2V5DZAD5JI2T2DNC36S6M","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460693},"content":"“You have a lot of artists that come in and have their entourages, and the club is going up because they have friends in here that know their songs. But you can also tell when an artist has a real fanbase,” she said."},{"_id":"O74AATGWL5BOLK5JV7ERK226N4","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460694},"content":"Pin Ups general manager Dwight Williams treats working with rap star hopefuls as a business opportunity. Having worked at Atlanta strip clubs like Diamond Club, Babes and V-Live, for more than 20 years, he remembers when rappers who tried to perform on strip club stages would be booed for distracting customers from what they actually came to see."},{"_id":"FS66PR3XOBE2LHUO7JVHXIPJLE","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460695},"content":"“Now it’s like a platform. I could charge this guy and his crew. If you bring 20 people we’ll charge you $10 a head, then I’ll give you a bottle discount, and you give me $100 bucks to perform, and putting [our club] live on your [social media] page, and you’ve got 30,000 [followers], I’m like, hmm… why not?”"},{"_id":"RJ65OT2GLJDEPEYLP3D66RBRDU","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460696},"content":"Still, he has rules to filter out the fakes. “This is business. You’ve gotta pay to perform, and you’ve got to get 200 ones up-front, before you touch the stage.”"},{"_id":"VT5SDNP4GVH7ZD2JMA2ZZHGSIM","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460697},"content":"Williams also says in some cases if the artist is well-known and visiting town for other reasons such as touring, he’ll reach out to them to have them make appearances at his club, which brings those artists’ fans and more customers through the doors. In those cases, Williams said he’s had major rap stars agree to show up in exchange for $5,000 — in single bills — and three bottles of alcohol."},{"_id":"3D7UHEFS2NEYPFD3U4Y7IOQO2E","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460698},"content":"Rapper Omeretta The Great, who released the viral Atlanta-themed hip-hop song “Sorry Not Sorry” in 2022, said she visits Diamond Club and other local strip clubs just to have a good time with friends, but hasn’t had to include strip clubs in her go-to-market strategy. With a million Instagram followers, it’s less important."},{"_id":"PEGTIPD2XREQ3AV3FMWDJ35PRY","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460699},"content":"“You can have a song blow up on a social media site and they’ll play it in the club, just because it’s hot on the internet. So I wouldn’t say it’s like when you had to go to the club and get approval from the deejay. 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DJ Petty Pee Wee, a house deejay at Pin Ups, thinks the sound of Atlanta rap has become somewhat templatized due to the popularity of subgenres like trap."},{"_id":"5VX4TOSMCBHOTCYPXR6T7YMRLE","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460702},"content":"“With hip-hop in Atlanta, it’s more coming to the same thing,” he said while watching a dancer on stage from the deejay booth. “That’s why I play more old-school than new-school.” He says artists from outside Atlanta like Juvenile, Lil’ Wayne and Juicy J of Three-6 Mafia provide the kind of feeling that goes with the music he prefers to play. “When you come into the strip club, it’s that lifestyle that gives you that energy.”"},{"_id":"A3DV2XX3YVH4JAN5UFULUUGTRY","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460703},"content":"From DJ Will’s perspective, the tempo change also played a part in less Atlanta hip-hop being played organically today. “It used to be all up-tempo music, where the girls had to dance real hard, all night long.”"},{"_id":"FJNUGSFU4RDQHD2DRYFLZWJXGU","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460704},"content":"Love agreed that the sound of the city has slowed down a bit in terms of the tempo, but said it’s not all gloom and doom. “The biggest records in the clubs are still made by Atlanta artists,” he asserted, name-dropping Latto’s “Put It On The Floor,” Young Nudy’s “Peaches & Eggplants,” and new music from Gunna. “And as long as Future exists, we’ll always have that energy.”"},{"_id":"VADNUP4ACVEDFHBKBZGGKP6NWQ","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460705},"content":"Tequila Strong has a more mournful take on the music she hears at strip clubs now. A retired dancer, she entertained strip club customers for more than 15 years, with Pin Ups being the last place she performed. Now, having been the “house mom” at Pin Ups for five years, she works mainly in the dressing room, making sure dancers pay nightly fees to work the floor and keeping records such as their adult entertainment permits from the City of Atlanta."},{"_id":"CXUDDOFU2BDM3NUGG2JOGBL45Y","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460706},"content":"Strong misses the hip-hop from her dancing heyday, and began naming the artists whose songs she preferred to play in the clubs, such as Atlanta hip-hop pioneers Goodie Mob and OutKast. “I remember them coming in the club before they made it big,” she said, with a smile."},{"_id":"KMZIRI6LYFFENL7JE5KUT7HXRE","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460707},"content":"It wasn’t so much about killing somebody and the themes in the music they have now,” Strong recalled. “The music from my era was about partying and having a good time. If you play the wrong song now, and there are some guys in here that have beef with each other, they [might] get to rapping and throwing up gang signs, and there’s an all-out war.”"},{"_id":"6ZU4QMK7DBCCXCV6SUIGE4VZGU","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460708},"content":"She also lamented that the cultural conversation around substance abuse has changed into one of consumption. “They’re on the Percs that they rap about. They’re on lean. Back in my era they were talking about smoking weed, drinking Alize and gin and juice. Now they’re on Adderall.”"},{"_id":"PHMFJGJVGVAOHHJGG3YK4GLJS4","type":"header","level":3,"additional_properties":{"_id":1698417887912},"content":"Cookie’s taste"},{"_id":"BJMS35444VHITL3B6T7D24JLGM","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460709},"content":"The vibes are still positive for Kiyana Neal, a 26-year old who dances under the nickname “Cookie,” but is simultaneously pursuing a career as an R&B singer. 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I feel like working as a dancer has actually elevated my perspective and mind frame on music,” she added. “I appreciate it on a whole different level.”"},{"_id":"FZO3WKDE5NBNPP2D7OFU55KXV4","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460712},"content":"And Neal holds deep appreciation for a certain iconic Atlanta rap duo, particularly the slow, jazzy spoken word song “SpottieOttieDopaliscious.”"},{"_id":"S2WOFCVIFREKFCM4KGPRNRDYSM","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460713},"content":"“OutKast and Blue Flame go hand-in-hand like chicken wings and fries in my mind.”"},{"_id":"W57Z63ICWZERVHXW2NK6Z7XTMQ","type":"header","level":3,"additional_properties":{"_id":1698417887918},"content":"A special relationship"},{"_id":"CG2G2Z7A35GYXHNBO7BEBCCADY","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460714},"content":"Love believes there will always be a special relationship between strip clubs and the music business because Atlanta is still a vital city for Black recording artists to work, create and celebrate. “This is where the fans are, and if you want to see your record react, outside of YouTube and DSPs [digital streaming providers], this is still the best city to come and find out if your music means something in real life.”"},{"_id":"HWEEDCT5BVHJXIVHK6OJI7M3SM","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1698351460715},"content":"It also helps that the clubs enjoy frequent shout-outs on many rap songs, creating a symbiotic relationship. 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In recent years, many distinct leading voices of Atlanta’s newer hip-hop generation are having their careers cut short by death from gun violence or incarceration. This includes deceased rappers Bankroll Fresh, Trouble and Takeoff, and jailed rap stars YFN Lucci and Young Thug.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6CDL7XACPRH7HGZE6YQ4XW5IJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1697835108489},"content":"“The future of Atlanta hip-hop is gonna look older than younger,” Hightower said from his office in downtown Atlanta. “That whole little gap between 25 and 35 – those folks are dead [or] in jail.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2G4MJERELFHVHJNAZKNYHQLSSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1697835108490},"content":"Hightower believes much of Atlanta’s new rap presents less opportunities for different generations of fans to come together and enjoy the music as they once did. 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Some Atlanta rappers whose careers launched in more recent years have said established artists never or rarely made efforts to connect with them as they were up-and-coming local acts.<b> </b>Even College Park native 2Chainz rapped on the song “Feds Watching” about the “OGs” failing to support the younger generation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2L3SJPXPFZERHKOAMLAFE2YCIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1698168250259},"content":"Conversely, when successful Atlanta artists do make such efforts, they sometimes create progeny who find their own success but don’t really advance an original sound. The consequence, Prather thinks, is new artists might find themselves pigeonholed in a creative space that’s difficult to escape, resulting in “new Atlanta” rappers’ unique, potentially needle-moving creative approaches to rap being dampened or drowned out in favor of what is already known to work.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RFSFVUHNQNHNFHCLTNSNCBFWAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1697835108500},"content":"“Ultimately it’s gonna come down to helping the dope [new] people find the dope OGs, so somebody can protect them in this space and allow them to be vulnerable... so that the kids don’t feel like they have to change.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2AUPKZS7VRGD7NLDM2TURJBPLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1697835108501},"content":"‘The Whole World’: How lack of community impacts the culture","level":3,"type":"header"},{"_id":"GHLMZPMCNJC6FISG3BWWVBC53I","additional_properties":{"_id":1697835108502},"content":"In the late-1990s, when Atlanta started earning nicknames like “Motown of the South” and “hip-hop’s center of gravity,” much of that was because of the money, hit records and mainstream success being generated at LaFace and other locally based record companies like Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def, the Ludacris-led Disturbing Tha Peace label, and T.I.’s Grand Hustle Records.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DQLPPUJSKJBNJE6VYSYN6XT6LQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1697835108503},"content":"Those labels offered access to greater visibility, and in cases where they might have overlooked the range of Atlanta’s unique rap styles, there was always an underground or independent community of creative contributors — artists, DJs, producers, promoters, writers, venues and more — working together to support Atlanta talent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CF76HPOYK7O2YT2USOPW6ADXSU","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/A2u-U5iWWpVzZddg05xMXHW5nxE=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/CF76HPOYK7O2YT2USOPW6ADXSU.jpg","galleries":[{"headlines":{"basic":"The 2010 A3C Festival celebrating hip-hop"},"_id":"5PFZOUBT3EEUOWFQASADT6DXW4"}],"mime_type":"image/jpeg","originalName":"https://www.ajc.com//rw/Pub/p1/AccessAtlanta/2010/10/11/Images/photos.medleyphoto.2206986.jpg","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/CF76HPOYK7O2YT2USOPW6ADXSU.jpg","proxyUrl":"/resizer/A2u-U5iWWpVzZddg05xMXHW5nxE=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/CF76HPOYK7O2YT2USOPW6ADXSU.jpg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/A2u-U5iWWpVzZddg05xMXHW5nxE=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/CF76HPOYK7O2YT2USOPW6ADXSU.jpg","restricted":false,"takenOn":"2010-10-11T23:00:00Z","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/m4-l7E_SeGiS0mSeeKuRFGSvFtc=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/CF76HPOYK7O2YT2USOPW6ADXSU.jpg","version":0,"_id":"FTJN7M4T7REJ5PURUOSVNAJSNQ"},"auth":{"1":"97191fc2069c00c6dfc48599a848df3e709865805c09e04de4a78c58f491ec9f"},"caption":"Bboy Orkin Man performed during the b-boy competion at Masquerade. 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That could be a benefit, as it’s ironically reminiscent of producer Rico Wade’s red-clay-floored basement studio, famously shouted out as “The Dungeon,” where Organized Noize Productions and members of the Dungeon Family rap consortium recorded early songs that made Goodie Mob and OutKast Atlanta rap legends.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MMY6GZRYXZFJDKHVHMCGINCNR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1697835108511},"content":"“If someone has a studio set up at their house, everybody might end up going over there and next thing you know there’s seven or eight of the ‘who’s next’ people hanging out there.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MGKN6J2Q6NATBPAIJNTTGJ6SM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1697835108512},"content":"It could be that music, like children, benefits when raised in a loving home environment. It could also be true that hip-hop must find its way outside the house and mingle with new friends in order to flourish. 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Now an artist can skip the building process, collect followers online and with luck, drive them to buy tickets to their first show by the thousands.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DSCOWBS63VERNHPDCBMURV5DNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1697835108519},"content":"Depending on who is asked, the outcome can be magic or tragic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XYTJAEDSJNDGXCKI6WHDOXJICY","additional_properties":{"_id":1697835108520},"content":"“When it comes time to... sell tickets, they don’t know how to do shows because they haven’t done them,” says Brannon Boyle, founder of Speakeasy Promotions, which earned a local reputation for booking formerly under-the-radar rap artists like Run The Jewels and Odd Future to perform early in their careers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWQ5CFAOU5AN5NXCUVJEREQZ3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1698446138850},"content":"Boyle said he’s seen artists attract large audiences for their first shows, only to deliver lackluster performances.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3VMTY3YWDNCQHNDGUCUSOJNS5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1697835108522},"content":"“That’s such a shame,” he said, “because if they had been out in these smaller places, where there’s not much risk, you learn basic things like how to use a microphone and that you shouldn’t rap over your vocals. 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I look at my own studio and I got six or seven keyboards plugged up, two drum machines, all hooked up to my computer just to make a beat. Now these young guys just do it all on the cell phone. That’s the scary part about the future of music in Atlanta. 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DJ Kool Herc is credited as hip-hop’s founding father for playing at a back-to-school party in the Bronx on Aug. 11, 1973, but it’s rarely remembered that it was <a href=\"https://www.grammy.com/news/dj-kool-herc-cindy-campbell-50th-anniversary-of-hip-hop-interview-jamaican-roots\" target=\"_blank\">his sister, Cindy Campbell</a>, who conceived the idea for the event. It became the first official hip-hop party and birthed the movement as we know it today. Similarly, the bold and braggadocious bars of Roxanne Shanté aren’t credited enough for<a href=\"https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/roxanne-shante-and-the-first-rap-beef\" target=\"_blank\"> sparking the first rap beef</a>."},{"_id":"WNHMGC5N3FFEFICB3W3J36MHFI","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696937605415},"content":"As hip-hop grew up, prolific female rappers in the 1980s and 1990s garnered mainstream attention and demanded respect for their rhymes but were still overlooked for shaping hip-hop’s sound across the country: New York (MC Lyte, Foxy Brown, Lil Kim, etc.); New Jersey (Queen Latifah, Lauryn Hill, Rah Digga, Lady Luck); Los Angeles (Yo-Yo, MC Trouble, The Lady of Rage); Memphis (Gangsta Boo, La Chat); Chicago (Shawnna, Da Brat), Philadelphia (Eve, Bahamadia); New Orleans (Mia X); Virginia (Missy Elliott); Miami (Trina)."},{"_id":"XEKVTDKGPZEHZGHDOJT4GXAEBE","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696937605416},"content":"But in Atlanta, a city revered as a Black mecca for music and culture, that same rich history for female rappers doesn’t exist."},{"_id":"7PHLXAW4BBF7NGJXNKX37CAFWE","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696937605417},"content":"“(We were) an endangered species,” said Princess, a member of the Atlanta rap group Crime Mob."},{"_id":"H7GD4LC5NRE2NMRAW3RNCH3FBU","type":"raw_html","additional_properties":{"_id":"4FEFRWTP6VHVFE6RMI5JQGVHKE"},"content":"<CustomInfoBox id=\" QUC5ZYESC5EELBVEOMO4XLYCLQ \" />"},{"_id":"6YWUYGX44VAM5FA26EQF57RYMA","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696937605418},"content":"The universal plight of female rappers trying to gain visibility within the genre has always been a notoriously difficult climb that has been even more true for Atlanta’s female rappers. 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Their first and only album, “<a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/0jHnfdqJgitEm1MoUOMNC2?si=SlF7B3-MR_yMG10FVxjzcg\" target=\"_blank\">It Ain’t Where Ya From ... It’s Where Ya At</a>,” dropped in 1990 via Geffen Records. Silk Tymes Leather, composed of Jordan Victoria, Jocelyn Rabon and Dyonna Lewis, was the first group developed by legendary producer and songwriter Jermaine Dupri. Yet the group’s debut didn’t achieve mainstream success nor is it remembered for its significance to Atlanta rap."},{"_id":"JLCEZIKJAZGKXJ6VXHUHEHPED4","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696937605421},"content":"But Victoria, the group’s founding member, will never forget the history they made. The College Park native said the world just wasn’t ready for a Southern female rap group at that time. The group faced a double burden: being a rap group from Atlanta at a time when Atlanta wasn’t dominant in the rap scene, and being female rappers at a time when that also wasn’t popular."},{"_id":"3JODMKAZHZDZJMVKDND5ROPZSY","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696937605422},"content":"“But we had a good team behind us and the record label believed in us, and we believed in ourselves,” she said. “Unfortunately for us on that side, we were a little ahead. 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They released their <a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/4VLe77bljnmIJMugY9FlgO\" target=\"_blank\">self-titled debut album in 1998</a>. But they disbanded shortly after that because “things just went in different directions.” Frost swiftly launched her solo career with the release of her debut single “<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYwMrbeEx_k\" target=\"_blank\">Do It</a>” in 2000."},{"_id":"Q7RUF6ZHZ5EHTIKBY5J5K27BSI","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696937605424},"content":"Featuring Re Re, Que Bo Gold and Pastor Troy, “Do It” <a href=\"https://www.billboard.com/artist/rasheeda/chart-history/bsi/\" target=\"_blank\">peaked at no. 7 </a>on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs, and it is considered an essential crunk anthem. Still, she didn’t feel like she received the respect she deserved from record labels. So she decided to go the independent route."},{"_id":"HFPMJW24IJG57MWT4FPJCL6RF4","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696961154645},"content":"“They definitely didn’t know how to break a female rapper out of the South, which was extremely rare at that time ... it’s hard for females to break out in an industry, period,” she said. “Well, now I will say kudos to all the females that we have out here. This is a difficult business for women. 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Born Venetia Lewis, Princess is one of two women in the six-member group. Crime Mob formed in the early aughts while its artists were still in middle school and high school. With the release of their smash record “<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9saEpqhBP5M\" target=\"_blank\">Knuck If You Buck</a>” in 2004, Crime Mob became a necessary addition to Atlanta’s crunk music legacy."},{"_id":"567KNKHM6RGZHIIBRMMLG2KFHE","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696961154649},"content":"Although she felt the void of female rappers in the city, it didn’t consume her. She was just focused on making the best music with her childhood friends."},{"_id":"S547LIYFERC7LMJVA6HDIXWR34","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696961154650},"content":"“I don’t think we really focused on that,” she said. “Atlanta is really known for our camaraderie, so it wasn’t really about one person trying to stand out or anything.”"},{"_id":"PHTB5DYJHNDFVOF3SQSO5OBL4Y","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696937605427},"content":"Since Silk Tymes Leather, there hasn’t been another female all-rap group from Atlanta to make the same strides, but she’s proud the group opened the door for the new class of female rappers."},{"_id":"WZ5HHBZZRNBQHNABLNPBPSXEWQ","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696937605428},"content":"“I’m happy to see the outcome now of female rappers that are there (and) that we actually paved the way for them to be platinum artists, to be proud, to say where you’re from and not have to suppress saying that you’re from Atlanta, you’re from the South or any other place that you may be from. You’re holding it up on your shoulders.”"},{"_id":"S5LABEVLIVHKRFCFN6CDOO6GIM","type":"header","level":2,"additional_properties":{"_id":1696937605429},"content":"Demanding respect"},{"_id":"W2RTZ3YES5BKRPVD733RQLVKCA","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696961154654},"content":"The current female rap renaissance, which exploded after the rise of Cardi B’s<a href=\"https://uproxx.com/music/cardi-b-bodak-yellow-number-1/\" target=\"_blank\"> monstrous 2017 hit “Bodak Yellow,”</a> gave space for female rappers to not only be seen and heard but to dominate an entire genre. While some of their male counterparts often appear to be bored and can’t seem to evade their monogamous relationship with misogyny (see: “For All the Dogs,” the latest installment of Drake’s sharp<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/11/drake-megan-thee-stallion-her-loss-album/672023/\" target=\"_blank\"> decline into toxic masculinity</a>), women are making rap music more interesting."},{"_id":"2ZDQ3PQCNNAG5PKER2ZDHCSR5E","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696961154655},"content":"Artists like Megan Thee Stallion and the City Girls have turned misogyny on its head with their raps about sexual autonomy. Doja Cat has skyrocketed to genre-bending superstardom and can still outrap your favorite rapper on their best day. Rico Nasty has proven that hip-hop has room for a punk-rap world. This versatility is something that Kaliii admires. The Roswell rapper became <a href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/kali-hot-100-debut-area-codes-1235330358/#:~:text=Kali%20scores%20her%20first%20appearance,the%20week's%20highest%20new%20entry.\" target=\"_blank\">a viral sensation</a> this year with the release of her hit single “Area Codes.” Along with Latto (who made history last year as the <a href=\"https://www.rcarecords.com/news/latto-makes-history-as-the-first-female-rapper-to-have-a-1-record-at-pop-rhythm-and-urban-radio-with-her-hit-single-big-energy/\" target=\"_blank\">first female rapper</a> to have a No. 1 song on pop, rhythm and urban radio with “Big Energy”) and Baby Tate, Kaliii is the newest addition of female rappers from the city capturing mainstream attention."},{"_id":"3QWG4RWK6REGVGEOTWUTLN6UQA","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696961154656},"content":"“Honestly, it feels so good to be a part of it and to be representing for females who look like me,” she said, “and the fact that it can be so many of us right now that’s taking over and winning. And even when you think about it, when you think out a song that’s going up crazy right now, it’s a female.”"},{"_id":"MTKIQYGZGFDCRG4F747NF5LBDY","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696961154657},"content":"For Baby Tate, “the boys are not running at the same pace that the girls are right now.” Tate, born Tate Farris, is the daughter of R&B singer Dionne Farris. Tate’s debut album “Girls” dropped in 2019. Earlier this year, “<a href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/baby-tate-hey-mickey-interview-tiktok-march-2023-chartbreaker-1235280942/\" target=\"_blank\">Hey Mickey</a>” — a bubbly rap song she created in 2016, went viral on TikTok — and became a hit. Since then, she’s carved her own lane that blends pop, rap, R&B and dance music as if they’re one genre. Her next act? “Baby Tate Presents—Sexploration: The Musical,” a five-track EP that drops on Oct. 27. 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But I think that it is harder for us to gain respect from our peers, from the critics, from the world, and we literally have to go like a thousand times harder, which is why I feel like we are honestly ... just better at things. I think that’s why we are going so hard right now and why there are so many women. Like, we are not playing with these songs.”"},{"_id":"3YOZQVMEONATVGOX6B6ZDGUEJ4","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696961154659},"content":"Tate recalls a moment when she performed at the music festival Afropunk Atlanta in 2021. What was supposed to be a monumental moment for her career turned sour after <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/style/baby-tate.html\" target=\"_blank\">she was severely body-shamed</a> online."},{"_id":"7FQ5GPGPIBFYROVGZLNNGL6KSQ","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696961154660},"content":"“Literally, when I walked out on stage, the crowd went crazy. (They) were like, ‘Oh my God. This (expletive) looks so good.’ And then I get online after and I post pictures of myself, and people were in my comments and they’re like, ‘You could stand to lose 10 pounds.’ And I’m like, ‘You could not stand to lose $10 or you’ll go bankrupt, baby. So I think you should mind your business.’”"},{"_id":"2O7TS3YLFJHR3OGNVMJVMZ63KA","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696961154661},"content":"It was an appropriate clapback for an unfair critique of her weight. But the self-assured rapper said the moment did impact her confidence. She even stopped working out for a moment, since people thought she didn’t care about her body. But now she cares less about that hate."},{"_id":"7IFAPJK6H5GGDOBXJXEHHZ352Q","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696961154662},"content":"“You don’t have to see me and say, ‘Yeah, I love it.’ You don’t have to say anything, actually. But what we do have to do is accept it. This is my body. This is what I look like. Accept it. 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Joycelyn Wilson, a hip-hop scholar and professor at Georgia Tech, describes this phenomenon, especially for female rappers in the South, as “<a href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/city-girls-ratchet-womanism-hip-hop-8547905/\" target=\"_blank\">ratchet womanism</a>.” It gives women the space to be themselves, regardless of respectability politics."},{"_id":"Q4LKNHUGXZAJHGKQO5OPCQJBNI","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696961154669},"content":"“Oftentimes, women in the South — because of the weight, because of the way that our bodies are shaped, the way that we talk, the way that we wear our hair, the flamboyance of how we move — are often considered to be ratchet, right?” Wilson said. “And what ratchet womanism (does is) allow women who might not have the degree or might not have the big job or have the status quo look to have a seat at the table and to be acknowledged as a voice in the culture.”"},{"_id":"2LIK5INVXNG7HIJ57JA4JNPVUM","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/mDU7y6tI2p677XLXoX-QPNQoC9A=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/2LIK5INVXNG7HIJ57JA4JNPVUM.jpeg","galleries":[],"ingestionMethod":"manual","keywords":[],"mime_type":"image/jpeg","originalName":"Anycia-Jordon Wells (grills).jpeg","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/2LIK5INVXNG7HIJ57JA4JNPVUM.jpeg","proxyUrl":"/resizer/mDU7y6tI2p677XLXoX-QPNQoC9A=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/2LIK5INVXNG7HIJ57JA4JNPVUM.jpeg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/mDU7y6tI2p677XLXoX-QPNQoC9A=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/2LIK5INVXNG7HIJ57JA4JNPVUM.jpeg","restricted":false,"thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/MhSb0URfqrooL3GnWjWbdRkISQI=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/2LIK5INVXNG7HIJ57JA4JNPVUM.jpeg","version":2,"template_id":594,"_id":"7ZE25NXJFBBZHNDOPYUASM3VAI"},"address":{},"auth":{"1":"301383a7b80bf5ac3623c7bbeb12bfe3347a4de9ae4990771d18275dcd438214"},"caption":"Anycia, born Anycia Symone Edwards, is one of several new female rappers from Atlanta who are challenging the city's overwhelmingly male-dominated rap history. 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I want you to put it on at any time and get the same vibe. It’s not like songs you can turn on when you wanna get turned up or just a song you play when you’re sad. I want you to be able to play it at any time of the day.”"},{"_id":"67U63XUXV5BIHM5O75H3MYCUQ4","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696961154672},"content":"<a href=\"https://hypebeast.com/2023/7/bktherula-love-nirvana-acoustic-music-feature\" target=\"_blank\">Bktherula</a> thinks similarly of her sound. She’s become known for launching a unique wave of rap that sounds like it’s just as influenced by the Internet and R&B melodies as it is influenced by trap music. Although she’s only 21, she recently experienced a rarity for female rappers today: a mainstream male rapper collaborating with a lesser-known female rapper. 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Rappers like Detroit’s Kash Doll, St. Louis’ Big Boss Vette and Milwaukee’s Lakeyah are following the steps of Philadelphia’s Left Eye and Chicago’s Da Brat before them. Lakeyah moved to Atlanta after a visiting the Trap Music Museum for her 18th birthday. She saw a plaque from Quality Control, the Atlanta-based label that has signed artists like the City Girls, Lil Yachty, Lil Baby and the Migos, and knew she needed<b> </b>to be a part of that."},{"_id":"SDF4O4RBRFCIPEG3QYEKR2HF2A","type":"text","additional_properties":{"_id":1696937605432},"content":"“I had to go to Atlanta. I was like, I really, really want to be signed to Quality Control. 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Carter envisions a team of developers, city officials, creatives, producers, studio owners and cultural ambassadors all sitting down together to decide what needs to be done, and how to execute it in Atlanta.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQMPYNP3P5AHBDYU6AXAV7HO7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1696300153498},"content":"“If there were breaks and benefits, I would reach back out to my old partner from Sugar Hill and say, ‘Let’s get this thing back rolling,’” said Carter who co-owned Sugar Hill, a nightclub and music venue (along with the aforementioned Richard Dunn and other partners) at Underground Atlanta that became a popular stopping point for Black musicians passing through the city.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JD3N3ELAJNESLG6VCNGNF72JV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1696300153499},"content":"And that brings us full-circle back to Underground Atlanta, where the 50th anniversary hip-hop experience pop up curated by Dupri and Austin reminds us of all Atlanta has accomplished and offered to the world of hip-hop and why it’s time industry executives should take heed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HKHMMQVBABA4XOJ5HRWWVX6MWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1696865427896},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"5ZBBZW3MK5FYTAXGK55ITDIH64","additional_properties":{"_id":"VH6YTC2BQRF2HJZDEMPCSVMJIA"},"content":"<CustomInfoBox id=\"PS2LXHGC45C4DE557L3LOA3S44\" />","type":"raw_html"}],"first_publish_date":"2023-10-11T17:00:27.629Z","related_content":{"basic":[],"redirect":[]},"teaseImageObject":{"_id":"573D5PZTDH53FWPM4S65RAC2CU","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/UGozsdJgPrVYtiysMwmycN_tzgA=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/573D5PZTDH53FWPM4S65RAC2CU.JPG","galleries":[],"iptc_job_identifier":"64f115cb008a2164c13383ca","iptc_title":"Visual Journalist","keywords":["hip hop","rap","rappers","AJC Freelancer","pom"],"mime_type":"image/jpeg","originalName":"s3://ajc-arc-photo-integration/Freelancer/AAJC 090723 50th Hip Hop pop up filed at 0009.JPG","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/573D5PZTDH53FWPM4S65RAC2CU.JPG","proxyUrl":"/resizer/UGozsdJgPrVYtiysMwmycN_tzgA=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/573D5PZTDH53FWPM4S65RAC2CU.JPG","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/UGozsdJgPrVYtiysMwmycN_tzgA=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/573D5PZTDH53FWPM4S65RAC2CU.JPG","restricted":false,"takenOn":"2023-09-01T18:34:02Z","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/05sZYXqk2Z8Ygu_HjqVJNAmq6-c=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/573D5PZTDH53FWPM4S65RAC2CU.JPG","version":3},"address":{"region":"Georgia"},"auth":{"1":"8fa5c3c5e0a2a805e493cdc5d0fad1db28dd51b7e99925b962df0414e2156f2d"},"caption":"Music producer Dallas Austin gives a tour during a soft launch of a hip-hop pop-up experience at Underground Atlanta on Friday, September 1, 2023. 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When DJ Kool Herc used two turntables and a mixer to switch back and forth between the breakbeats of popular funk and dance records, he became the first to implement a technique he dubbed the Merry-Go-Round. He also used the sound system to give announcements and shoutouts to friends. The event not only introduced the sonic style of rap, but it also became a launching pad for other elements of the culture, including graffiti and breakdancing. 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