Along with fellow Cash Money Click labelmate Juvenile, Lil Wayne is one of the most important MCs in the unfairly overlooked early 21st-century New Orleans rap scene. As one might guess, blunt ghetto narratives about the hustler's life fill Wayne's …

Prior to gaining mainstream exposure during late 2004 and early 2005 with his single Still Tippin Houston-based MC Mike Jones had long become a stalwart of the Swishahouse label with a handful of releases under his belt His breakout album Who Is Mike…

Atlanta-based Young Jeezy originally planned on having a background role in the music industry -- as a businessman not as a rapper Years before making his first Def Jam album -- Lets Get It Thug Motivation 101 released in July 2005 -- he set up Corpo…

After sending their homeboy Lil Scrappy up the charts the Atlanta-based labelmanagement team Crunk Incorporated turned to Cedar Grove TN and the six-member Crime Mob for their next big hit The rowdy party crunk of the group rappers Diamond Killa C Cy…

Atlanta rap foursome Dem Franchize Boyz are purveyors of their own self-described style of "laid back crunk"--or "snap music" as it's often known--a woozier, less hyperactive version of the popular southern rap genre. Just how laid back the club get…

The boisterous and brash Trillville began their bid for the title Gods of Crunk in 1997 while attending ninth grade in Atlantas public school system Dirty Mouth was leader of the schools snare drum line along with writing his own rhymes Don P was rap…

Flying under the mainstream radar for many years, Chamillionaire (aka the Mixtape Messiah) has been a fixture of the Houston hip-hop scene since he was a teenager, working with the now-legendary Swisha House clique and releasing dozens of mixtapes th…

Crunk practitioner Lil Scrappy was born Darryl Richards in the ATL Discovered by BME Recordings and Lil Jon Scrap built his rep throughout the Southeast before breaking nationally in 2003 with the hit Head Bussa A split EP with fellow BME artists Tri…

Rapper Jayceon Taylor, better known in the hip-hop world as the Game, turned to music for redemption after his wild youth led to his near-fatal shooting. By the time he recovered from his wounds, he had developed a formidable style rooted in old-scho…