Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop

And Westhoff's personal trips to the home bases of each artist he presents show how the personalities of the artists reinforce their music, which leads to scenes such as Lil Wayne's equally impassioned and hilarious defense of his fast-paced, workaholic lifestyle: "What am I supposed to do, take a vacation? This is the vacation right here." (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Journalist and hip-hop enthusiast Westhoff delivers a fascinating exploration of the musical and personal terrain of what has come to be known as the Southern sound of rap by such artists as Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, and Ludacris. Westhoff convincingly details how Southern rap music—"part

Dirty South Ben Dugan I really enjoyed Ben Westhoff's "Original Gangstas" so I thought that I would do a little backtracking and check out his previous book "Dirty South".I should have enjoyed this more than I did "Original Gangstas". I am drawn more to Southern hip-hop than I am to any other strand, almost certainly because I grew up in Atlanta.This book is well researched and well written. But honestly there is almost no information here that you can't get from Googling these artists and reading a short bio of them. There's not a huge attempt to connect all the different threads together to form a . North, South, East and West stop the negativity. Erica Contee To tell you the truth I loved and liked all the chapters No Limit/Cash Money, UGK. My favorite chapter was Soulja Boy you know whether your southern, northern, east coast or west coast. When your fame time is done and gone thats it. Move along stop being hateful and disrespectful. Me myself am northern and I've never thought any of these artist mentioned music was bad. I know my kids had good times doing the Laffy Taffy and the Superman. Love when Lil Jons WHO U WIT came out. And of course Three Six Mafia love they music.. "Great crash course in Southern rap" according to Mitchell King. Each chapter covers a different artist (or group of artists), so all together it is a fairly comprehensive history of Southern hip hop through the decades.

Westhoff has written a journalistic tour de force, the definitive account of the most vital musical culture of our time. Rap music from New York and Los Angeles once ruled the charts, but nowadays the southern sound thoroughly dominates the radio, Billboard, and MTV. and Lil Wayne grew up, kicks it with Big Boi in Atlanta, and speaks with artists like DJ Smurf and Ms. Westhoff visits the gritty neighborhoods where T.I. Coastal artists like Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, and Ice-T call southern rap "garbage" but they're probably just jealous, as artists like Lil Wayne and T.I. Peachez, dance-craze originators accused of setting back the black race fifty years. Dirty South fea