Dirty South Rap
Dirty South rap is another name for Southern hip hop, the bass-heavy rap of American cities such as Atlanta, Houston, Memphis and New Orleans.
The phrase spread after Goodie Mob's 1995 song Dirty South and was common in the late 1990s and 2000s, when Southern rap moved into the mainstream. It usually points to that era's sound: booming 808 drums, drawled or chanted vocals, club-ready crunk and regional slang. Today most people simply say Southern hip hop.
Artists it is known for: Goodie Mob, OutKast, UGK, Ludacris.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Southern United States, 1990s
- Also called
- southern hip hop, dirty south
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 5%
About 4,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have dirty south rap among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Dirty South Rap artists
Outkast
Gucci Mane
Rick Ross
Clipse
Jeezy
T.I.
Three 6 Mafia
Soulja Boy
Project Pat
Boosie BadazzThe dirty south rap artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
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