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...anymore. The South is finally where hip-hop's at. These days, the biggest acts on Billboard's urban charts and on MTV are Southerners like the Ying Yang Twins, Ludacris, Mike Jones and, of course, Atlanta duo Outkast, which last year became the first hip-hop act to win a Grammy for Album of the Year. The cutting edge of Southern music: a danceable, rapid-fire, bass-heavy rap (frequently blended with R&B) called crunk, fine-tuned and marketed by loud, gold-toothed former DJ Lil Jon and popularized partly through his massive and spectacularly vulgar...
...have a voice. They "created something that doesn't sound like [it was made by] a guy from New York or somebody from L.A. It's specific to the South," says U.S.C. professor Todd Boyd, author of The New H.N.I.C: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop. "A big part of hip-hop is about representing, and they want to rep their culture." The Sundance hit Hustle & Flow, about a Memphis, Tenn., pimp who wants to be a rapper, will introduce the sound to an even wider audience and ought to boost collaborators like Memphians...
...South is still rising. MTV has ordered a reality show called Crunkville. Meanwhile, competition for Lil Jon and company is emerging out of Houston, via a hip-hop twist called screw, a smoother, less frenetic rap that slow-danced its way out of Texas last year when Lil' Flip's Sunshine became...
DJay (Terrence Howard) is the sort-of hero of Hustle & Flow, a hip-hop Star Is Born, a rappin' Rocky--and, in its own right, a parable of belief against all odds. At this year's Sundance festival, the movie, made for $3.5 million, copped critics' raves, the Audience Award and, from Paramount Classics/MTV Films, an astounding purchase price of $16 million, which included a $7 million deal for other films with co-producer John Singleton...
...sight is not new to me. I’m living in Bondi, a Sydney suburb that borders one of the world’s most famous beaches. It’s an interesting place, full of hip models, Orthodox Jews, and droves of tourists. True to the city’s melting pot reputation, the groups are constantly mingling, and my bus seat provides a unique window into...