Southern Hip Hop
Southern hip hop is rap from the American South, centered on cities such as Atlanta, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans and Miami.
It tends to favor heavy bass, drum machine beats, slow drawled or chanted delivery and regional slang over the dense wordplay of New York rap. Local styles include Miami bass, Houston's chopped and screwed sound, New Orleans bounce, Memphis rap, crunk and trap. The region was overlooked by the industry until the mid-1990s and has shaped mainstream rap since the 2000s.
Artists it is known for: OutKast, UGK, Three 6 Mafia, Lil Wayne.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Southern United States, 1980s
- Also called
- dirty south, southern rap
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 21%
About 18,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have southern hip hop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Southern Hip Hop artists
Future
Young Thug
Chief Keef
Outkast
Freddie Gibbs
Offset
BigXthaPlug
DJ Khaled
Gucci Mane
Rae SremmurdThe southern 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.