My overarching point was, a lot of people just in general really don't like Southern hip-hop at all, and largely are responsible for the southern = bad hip hop mentality. But will trot out an act like Outkast to prove that isn't the case, when it isn't genuine at all because back then they weren't fukking with them either.
I just don't take the opinions of non-southern people on southern rap seriously. These people weren't fukking with Ball/G, UGK, Goodie Mob, Face, Kast, 3-6, Trick, etc until some of them got "legitimized" by some northern co-sign, so the widespread notion that the new ATL makes "bad" music gets a giant
from me, because that tune is going to change the second someone from NY or LA puts out a great album appropriating their shyt and talks about how much of an influence they were on them.