The 1990s saw the emergence of two major Memphis acts: 8Ball & MJG and Three 6 Mafia. While the city was a musical hotbed for the middle 20 th century, it wasn’t until the end of the century that a wave of successful and acclaimed music came out of the city again. One of rock’s early pioneers and most recognizable faces, Elvis Presley, grew up roughly an hour from Memphis and started his career in the city.
Many early musical pioneers in genres ranging from soul, blues, rock n’ roll and even country music got their start in Memphis. Memphis is another city in the southern US that has an abundance of prestigious musical history. Lyrically, many of the rappers can’t hold a candle to most east coast rappers, but a few show promise lyrically, such as Lil’ Wayne in his prime, and more recently, Jay Electronica. Listening to how different and interesting some of the beats were on early New Orleans Hip Hop records make me think something was in the water down there. New Orleans Hip Hop has a specific bounce and roll to its beats, with a very distinct sound that somehow sets it apart from other southern Hip Hop scenes. While Cash Money had the most commercial success, No Limit was the crew that first put New Orleans on the Hip Hop map. and a very young Lil’ Wayne began cranking out hits in 1997, and parlayed their early success into an absolute stranglehold onto the mainstream around the turn of the century.Īt the same time, Master P’s No Limit label was turning out hit after hit as well, with rappers like C-Murder, Silkk the Shocker, and others. Juvenile, Turk, Mannie Fresh, Birdman, B.G. That success would further carry into the end of the decade as the Cash Money Millionaires/Hot Boyz crew exploded onto the scene. While the city also housed an incredibly strong scene for metal throughout the 1990s and 2000s, around the same time, it emerged as a major player in Hip Hop – and was one of the earlier cities to make noise out of the southern US.Īfter a number of underground sensations that came out of New Orleans in the 1980s and 1990s, the city’s Hip Hop scene started to break into the mainstream in the middle 1990s with the emergence of Master P and Mystikal. New Orleans has been an epicenter of many different types of music, most notably jazz, in the 20 th century. Recently, it was the location of the biggest natural disaster to take place on American soil, 2005’s Hurricane Katrina.
Home to a ton of music and arts, the city has long been plagued by crime and urban decay. New Orleans is one of America’s most mysteriously cultured cities.
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