Memphis Hip Hop
Memphis hip hop is a dark, lo-fi, bass-heavy style of Southern rap from Memphis, Tennessee, that began in the late 1980s.
Early artists sold home-recorded cassette tapes with eerie melodies, Roland TR-808 drums, fast double-time flows and repeated chanted hooks. Three 6 Mafia and 8Ball & MJG took the sound national. Its drum patterns and menacing mood fed directly into crunk, trap and, through sampling, phonk. Yo Gotti, Young Dolph and GloRilla are among its later stars.
Artists it is known for: Three 6 Mafia, 8Ball & MJG, Young Dolph, GloRilla.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Memphis, late 1980s
- Also called
- memphis rap
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 5%
About 4,500 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have memphis hip hop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Memphis Hip Hop artists
NLE Choppa
Xavier Wulf
Key Glock
Chris Travis
Pooh Shiesty
Moneybagg Yo
Young Dolph
Three 6 Mafia
Big Scarr
Project Pat
The memphis hip hop artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.