Over 7K music fans have voted on the 70+ Best Southern Rappers of All Time. Current Top 3: Outkast, André 3000, Lil Wayne
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Wayne’s daring approach to his music, his trendsetting style, and his mentorship of a new generation of rappers have secured his place as one of the greatest and most influential rappers of his time. — And there you have it, y’all. From Baton Rouge to New Orleans, these are the ki...
We’ll start with the top 10 best rappers of all time, then we’ll move on to the runners-up who are close to breaking into the list. Finally, at the end, there are still more rappers who have what it takes but need a bit more time for refinement and maturity. If you don’t f...
least in a sub-genre (like the East Coast or New York rap). You’ll notice how they’ve been sought out by the best andrichest rappers in the world, because the elite need the best there is to offer. Let’s get started, counting down thelist of the best producers of all time… ...
This definitive Southern-rock guitar epic had a humble birth, with late Skynyrd frontman Ronnie Van Zant scribbling lyrics about keeping love alive on tour, while Allen Collins jammed on guitar — although initially, the singer complained Collins used too many chords. “But after a few months,”...
They found it with the old American folk ballad “The House of the Rising Sun.” In 1962, Bob Dylan had sung this grim tale of a Southern girl trapped in a New Orleans whorehouse. The Animals, from the English coal town of Newcastle, changed the gender in the lyrics, and keyboardist...
Southern hip-hop could be at once conscious and crunk. “Cell Therapy” was both menacing and menaced, fucked up by conspiracy theories but also the conspiratorial realities of systemic racism. Its gutturally drawled, often-surreal vision of life near the trap would be familiar toAtlanta...
in Houston, Texas. Plus, N-I-P’s visceral, violent, unflinching lyrics would help usher in the horrorcore era of hip hop made famous by other Southern acts like Three 6 Mafia. “Psycho” was too rough for some ears, but it inspired a generation of rappers pissed off at the status ...
These rappers can rock, showing some serious hardcore skills when they picked up their instruments and pushed everyone’s pulses to race with the 1994 single “Sabotage” from theirIll Communicationalbum. The ‘70s cop show parody video was a huge smash on MTV, while the song shot onto alt-...