The future of hip-hop: Atlanta

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Cakes Da Killa is in Atlanta, the epicentre of hip-hop and home of trap music. The success of southern queer artists like Lil Nas X and Saucy Santana has brought more diversity into the genre, but boundaries and prejudice are still strong. Despite differences in their backgrounds, lives and music, the performers Cakes speaks to are driven by a common goal – to be creative on their own terms without bowing down to pressure from labels and the industry to conform. Will they succeed to build a more inclusive hip-hop for the future? Featuring artists Latto, Omeretta, Ripparachie and Jamee Cornelia.

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0:00.0	This is the sound of crowd signs.
0:02.4	We shoot a laser beam at this atom.
0:05.0	Is that a big canister of oxygen in the background?
0:07.8	Oh, there's a wasp in there.
0:09.3	Yeah. Perhaps possibly the most disgusting thing I heard this morning.
0:13.5	But it's one of the nicest fun facts you're going to hear today.
0:16.4	So here, Matthew, holding a doughnut.
0:18.3	What are you going to do with that?
0:19.2	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:25.7	I started this series in New York,
0:27.2	discovering hip-hop's history in its birthplace.
0:30.0	For this episode, I'm in Atlanta to find out where hip-hop will be going in the future.
0:38.2	Atlanta has a rich culture history and a huge LGBT community.
0:42.4	One of the biggest shifts in hip-hop, particularly down in the South,
0:45.4	is that artists that are openly gay, like Little Nas X and saucy Santana,
0:49.4	are now shaping the culture.
0:51.3	This was unheard of when I started making music ten years ago.
0:58.9	And after years of men dominating in Atlanta, with the rise of trap music,
1:02.7	women are finally at the forefront thanks to Lado and Amorana.
1:06.1	I could tell you that B.B. Energy.
1:08.1	It ain't too many of them that can handle me, but I'm highly glad you tried out this.
1:20.1	Oh, that's dope.
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