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Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, And The Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop (2011)

by Ben Westhoff(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1569766061 (ISBN13: 9781569766064)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Chicago Review Press

review 1: I was hoping for a little more from this. There was an opportunity to really take a look at cultural issues through the lens of Southern Hip-Hop, but rather than dive too deeply into anything of substance, the book kind of just skims around the edges of the major issues, and focuses more on profiling individual people than on developing a consistent narrative. The book starts by taking a look at why Southern hip-hop has developed such a bad reputation (and how East/West coast rappers look down on the South), but then changes gear into quick hit profiles of the most important Southern rappers of the last 10-15 years. Each chapter kind of reads like a short magazine profile (think a mix of The Source, Rolling Stone and The New Yorker), yet unfortunately, they don't really go... more in-depth enough to say anything about the personality and lifestyle of the rappers that I found particularly surprising. With all this said though, it's a quick read, and if anyone is interested in finding out a little more about rappers like Gucci Mane and Scarface, there isn't a whole lot of other material out there where info on all these rappers is packaged together in one place like this.
review 2: A great book covering different eras of hip-hop in South that brought a great sense of nostalgia for me. It was very informative and entertaining. I recommend this book for the new generation who is oblivious to the foundation of rap and hip-hop, even though it only covers the South, it's better than the nothing that they know now. I would like to add this my collection one day and perhaps find other books similar to it that cover other areas of the genre. less

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