Brehs, Why Was The Rap Coming Out Of Memphis So...DARK???

[SirBiatch]

That beat has been sampled on another song that I really liked, but I can't remember the name.

 

[AFRAM GLORY]

Was working out and and koopsta kniccas, "inside of" came on my ipod...The hook to it is enchanting and demonic af...I swear that whole song got a satanic feel to it..

 

[Mason83]

That's it! Thanks

 

[Pit Bull]

I'm pretty sure a good deal of it has to do with how popular Horror films were in the 80s and early 90s in America/the south.

They sampled so many Horror films

 

[Deucage]

 

[TheAnalyst504]

 

[Prince Mongo]

If you're not from here, you'll never truly understand.

 

[Palm Tree's & Blunts]

That beat has been sampled on another song that I really liked, but I can't remember the name.

I know asap Rocky did and schoolboy q. It's a dope best though

 

[Palm Tree's & Blunts]

That whole tape was demonic. shyt use to put me in a trance and I didn't even know it. You've been warned

Yeah shyt is trip to listen to after getting high .

 

[IllmaticDelta]

THIS

Also heavy influence from the early Houston rap scene which birthed all this "demonic" shyt in hip-hop

screamin jay hawkins, another bluesman was doing something along the lines of shock-blues that was the precursor to alot of this

 

[blizzard man]

It's kinda an answer tho. I lived in Memphis for bout 4 yrs. shyts depressing in a lot of parts. Might as well embrace the negativity and make it ya own

still not really an answer, mad cities in america BEEN economically depressed and run down and didnt have this kinda sound comin out their scenes

 

[bogey_j]

It's kinda an answer tho. I lived in Memphis for bout 4 yrs. shyts depressing in a lot of parts. Might as well embrace the negativity and make it ya own

no it isn't. its as lazy & uninsightful as a response can get. there are lots of depressing run-down ghettos in america but you don't hear the dudes in them cities on some satanic shyt. why memphis?

I don't think a happy rap song has ever come outta memphis. its always on sum bleak/hopeless violent shyt.

 

[Recca Gatsby]

I always kinda wondered that myself, it's like Memphis style was all about being this super demonic and grimey sound. Horrorcore but with mad SOuthern principles.

It worked though

 

[Keengcong]

That sound track to the crime and overall mayhem of Memphis in the 90s

It's bad now but shyt was the Wild West back then. Sounding like Fourth of July fireworks year round.



I made it out of that shyt with survival skills now I'm outside city limits and the most ratchet one in my neighborhood