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What's up everybody? This is Donny Kwok, the East Coast Bureau Chief at the Ringer.

I'm on the East Coast in New York, but we're talking South today.

It's a very special South Week edition of Channel 33, part of the Ringer Podcast Network.

This week on theRinger.com is South Week. We have a ton of great features,

all originating in the American South. One of those is our ranking of the top 20 best Southern

Rap albums of all time. Today we're going to discuss that list with special projects editor

Hanna George's and staff writer, Micah Peters. We're also going to talk about mixed tapes

since we didn't include mixed tapes in the ranking. Victor Lukerson and Justin Charity are going

to talk about their favorite Southern Rap mixed tapes as well as Micah. And at the very end,

we'll have a little round table discussing the trajectory of Southern Rap and what we can foresee

in the future. First, joining me right now is the Ringer's Special Projects editor, Hanna George's,

who helmed South Week. Hello, hello. And from LA, staff writer, Micah Peters. So the first

thing on the agenda is that listing of the best Southern Rap albums of all time and like any

list, it was bound to be controversial and there were bound to be omissions. But first of all,

maybe Hanna, you could talk about the methodology that went into compiling the list. Yeah, absolutely.

So we knew from the jump that we were going to leave things off of this because that is how

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