In scores of interviews with key players — some requiring classic shoe-leather man-hunting — Westhoff pins the genre’s roots to 2 Live Crew, profiles the renegade boom-bust fortunes of No Limit ...

Hip-hop might have been born in New York, but Southern artists have been dominating rap and pop charts for at least a decade. Roni Sari is author of the new book "Third Coast: Outkast, Timbaland, and ...

Rapper Big K.R.I.T., known for such Dirty South anthems as “Country Shit” and “Money on the Floor,” will kick off his “From the South With Love” tour in Tampa this fall, with a show in the City ...

It's a famous scene by now: André 3000 in a purple dashiki, Big Boi in an Atlanta Braves jersey, the pair ascending the steps of the stage at the 1995 Source Awards to accept the trophy for New Artist ...

We spoke with Trap Music Museum co-founder William “Bem” Sparks and general manager Krystal Garner about honoring dirty south hip-hop. Hip-hop has been alive and well since the late '70s. Its ...

"Twin Peaks with rappers." That's how Donald Glover has described his new FX series Atlanta, premiering at 10 p.m. Tuesday. The description tells you nothing of substance about the show — it features ...

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If there is any truth in the belief that the South will rise again, it’ll probably be in the arena of rap. After all, there are all these deep-down-South MCs coming out of the woodshed these days ...

A weekend celebrating Southern Black Culture and hip-hop starts July 15 in Bentonville. In addition to offering free admission to "The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic ...

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - August 13, 2009) - E1 Music is thrilled to bring you the long awaited new studio album from Texas mainstay E.S.G. "Everyday Street Gangsta" will be released on September ...