OBSCURE DIRTY SOUTH RAP.

[Kiss My Machine]

https://youtu.be/xrIbsaM41lY - Psycho by Ganksta NIP. Dark, early '90s "horror" rap.

https://youtu.be/7aELH0U2gkk - Tops Drop by Fat Pat. Not really obscure, but he's my personal favorite rapper from home and I've always felt he would have blown up nationally if he wasn't murdered at 27. He could freestyle like crazy too.

https://youtu.be/oR20W0MohzU - You Already Know by HAWK. Fat Pat's brother. Also murdered.

https://youtu.be/-9h89vTQ550 - Knocking Pictures Of Da Wall by Yungstar. He was featured on some Screw tapes and was sick at freestyling too. He had two verses on the iconic "June 27th" freestyle and two verses on "Wanna Be A Baller".

https://youtu.be/InGtiEXQyF0 - Wanna Be A Baller by Lil Troy. Not sure if this is considered obscure, but it rules. Features Yungstar, HAWK, and Fat Pat. Memorable. Should be the TX national anthem.

There's tons of cool shit from Houston if you dig Screw type stuff. I can definitely appreciate good freestyling so some of it is worth checking out.

[existentialasshole]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DThKSgTHryM UNLV - Drag 'em n tha river(MYSTIKAL diss) hot fire, gangsta shit.

[cranefortune]

There's a lot. Users: cranefortune and Jared oughta have a bunch to say on this.

Off top: Blackout, Dreamworld - http://www.themagicswisher.net/2014/12/blackout-dreamworld-1995.html?m=1

CLASSIC ALBUM....Blackout's production is so killer and varied. really tailors whatever he did to the artist he was working with. But Dreamworld is a wonderful nightmare trip.

As far as Memphis obviously start your way off thru all the Three 6 related tapes. Familiarize yourself with all the Tommy Wright III/10 Wanted Men/Niggas of Destruction stuff.

DJ Sound Volume 10 is one of my favorite Memphis records ever....pure evil.

Tom Skeemask solo tape is killer

I love all the female rappers in Memphis... Princess Loko, La Chat, Lady Bee....shit goes so hard

Kingpin Skinny Pimp all that early shit is so hot.

Lil Noid and Red Dog tapes that got the vinyl treatment courtesy of LA Club Resource are killer (Lil Noid got that sick Blackout production)

Playa Fly is killer and often slept on IMO

Children of the Corn, Nigga Creep get the thumbs up

been jamming 2nd Family lately....i mean even the subpar shit is still killer.

Lil Gin CLASSIC

MC Money and Gangsta Gold "Da Hard Ov Frayser" pretty sure same folks from DJ Sounds Vol. 10


I could go on forever....

But the south got it all over...Houston is killer, NOLA is killer, Atlanta obviously is killer


NOLA:
Lil Goldie "Act a Donkie On A"
Soul's of Sorrow "Buck to the Band"
MOBO records in general is pretty sick....
obis early cash money and no limit shit is sick
Young Bleed is the unrecognized star of NO Limit for me.
I will still rock Master P "Mama's Bad Boy"
BAton Rouge: If you don't fuck with Lil Boosie, I don;t fuck with you. His tapes before he went to jail move me. real trap shit


HOuston
UGK for life...Pimp C is one of my favorite rappers of all time. I love Z-Ro...one of the best voices in rap. Fuck how obscure are you trying to get....cos i feel like the stuff I'm naming isn't particularly obscure, especially if you have any interest in this shit at all


Atlanta i could go on for days about...I dunno if you are down with Trap era stuff or if you are looking for 90s kinda shit.

will write back with more suggestions soon

[cranefortune]

posted without looking at other posts, but yeah folks posted a lot of great shit. here is a seriously great resource for memphis shit.....download all these albums and you can DJ your own Memphis night TONIGHT:

http://memphisraptapes.blogspot.com

[cranefortune]

I;ve beeb align back and forth with TW3 for the last few months....trying to get him to let me reissue his catalog on vinyl....he'll hit me up at like 3am thru instagram and then i won't hear from him again for like a month hahah

[cranefortune]

Carmike "Comin at Yo Ass"
Buckshot "Strapped with them thingz"

more killer memphis

after the tape era...btu La Chat "Murda She Spoke" is hard as fuck

[2 Cold Scorpio]

At this point everyone knows all the Memphis shit

I've been diggin into the pre No Limit/Cash Money NOLA stuff

Ricky B - NOLA bounce rap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcFy_nF5qrg

MC Thick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpIylsW0wMI

you already know UNLV

Fila Phil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkgAlTrUDs4

Partners N Crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lsc4ITcEhY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmYeueYWkKI

[cranefortune]

At this point everyone knows all the Memphis shit

I've been diggin into the pre No Limit/Cash Money NOLA stuff

Ricky B - NOLA bounce rap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcFy_nF5qrg

MC Thick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpIylsW0wMI

you already know UNLV

Fila Phil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkgAlTrUDs4

Partners N Crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lsc4ITcEhY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmYeueYWkKI

That Ricky B is ill

[cranefortune]

Delroy Edwards had stock of a bunch of the Mobo Records stuff...maybe even that Ricky B can't remember...i ordered a bunch but never got my order and its all sold out now

[cranefortune]

https://www.discogs.com/Ricky-B-B-Is-For-Bounce-New-Orleans-Rap-Classics-1994-95/master/550226


looks like a bunch of his tracks got comped a few years ago.

[2 Cold Scorpio]

He did a set with a brass band a few years ago at a record store in Chicago, it was so good

[Jared]

Another Houston fave:

K-Rino "Step Into the Mind"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBNTqNbdIa0

[cranefortune]

not obscure....but Z-Ro and Lil O's "I can't leave drank alone" is an all time fave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Nu8RVhpwY

[rutabowa]

I much appreciate all the not obscure stuff ha

[Der Eismann]

No love for 187 Family?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1S7iBjbaAg