It's just entertainment!!
And the "dirty south" rap craze is just what's hot right now.
It's a fad. Just like hairstyles and styles of dress...it comes and it goes. It's just an image that they are trying to portray to sell records. But who knows, maybe they DID grow up like that. Ghetto Hillbilly image? I've noticed it and mainstream artists like Ludacris make the "South" look very "country." I have no problem with the south....I was born there but people who have never set foot in the south may have the wrong image of how it really is.
I agree with you wholehearedly that these "southern" artists are not keeping it real. Ludacris is not from Atlanta but he fronts and represents the ATL like he was born and raised.
I have a problem with that because he makes the south look very countrified. Not all people from down south eat chicken everyday and drive big Cadillacs and Chevys and talk like they have had no formal education.
I don't mean to digress but people in the North do have a stigma about Southern people. When I was applying to college. I chose mostly southern historically black colleges, and my guidance counselor tried to discourage me from applying to southern colleges because he said "southerners" were SLOW (his exact words!!) He said the education is inadequate to Northern colleges and that I was making a mistake and not living up to my intelligence level by not going to NYU or Columbia.
But back to the music issue...it's just music, enjoy it.
