1) You're misquoting a statement I made in another thread. I never said the 1996 Olympics spawned the Atlanta music scene. I said that the 1996 Olympics did more to make Atlanta an entertainment mecca more so than La Face records in response to reply that you made.
2) You're trying to use Silk to disprove a claim that I made. This goes to show that once again, you don't know what you're talking about. When Silk came out, Atlanta wasn't an entertainment mecca. The city wasn't hosting awards shows, the city wasn't raking in billions of dollars from the film industry, the only major events that were being hosted here at the time was the World Series because the Braves going nearly every year until finally winning one in '95. My point was after the '96 Olympics, people were coming to the A from all over the world because the world got to see that Hollywood wasn't the only place where dreams could be fulfilled in America. The '96 Olympics was the beginning of Atlanta becoming the Black Hollywood that it is now.
3) Everybody knows that Atlanta has always had talent, but it was much harder for talent to be heard on a national or even international level. We had talent Jermaine Dupri, Dallas Austin, Organized Noize, Silk, Jagged Edge, 112, Usher, TLC, Monica, OutKast, and Goodie Mob, but it was nowhere near the explosion of Atlanta artists who started to flood the market by the '00's.