No Limit Records (together with Cash Money Records) opted for a quantity-over-quality business model that had them spamming the world with an endless stream of the same generic albums over and over again, but that doesn’t mean there were some defining albums among them – this album is one of those. The subject matter is kind of generic, but Master P and guests make it sound good, also thanks to energetic production provided by the Beats By the Pound crew, who did most No Limit production. This is an 80-minute masterpiece and a landmark album for Southern Hip Hop. Guests appear on every song, and mostly they are the New Orleans No Limit Soldiers, such as his brothers C-Murder and Silkk the Shocker, Mia X, Mystikal, Fiend, Mr. Ghetto D is the sixth studio album by New Orleans’ mogul Master P – his best album and one of the flagship albums of his No Limit Records empire.

What do YOU think? Are your favorite Southern rap albums here? Do you think any essential records are missing? Share your thoughts in the comments! Also, check the honorable mentions section at the end – it was hard to limit this list to ‘just’ 100 albums. Let’s get into it – in this piece, you will find 100 rap albums – no mixtapes, no EPs – we consider to be essential works to come out of the South, not ranked but presented in release year order. Music from artists from cities like Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, and Memphis will make up most of this list, but since it’s also considered part of the Southern United States a number of albums of artists hailing from states such as Kentucky, North Carolina, and even Virginia will have a place on this list.

By the early 2000s, many Southern artists had attained national success, and as the decade went on, both mainstream and underground varieties of Southern Hip Hop became among the most popular and influential of the entire genre.] The music was a reaction to the 1980s flow of Hip Hop culture from New York City and the Los Angeles area and can be considered the third major American Hip Hop scene, alongside East Coast Hip Hop and West Coast Hip Hop.

100 Essential Southern Rap Albums: [ Southern Hip Hop is a blanket term for a regional genre of American Hip Hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Memphis, and Miami-five cities that constitute the “Southern Network” in rap music.

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