'Strip Jointz: Sub Culture & Disc Review' - Sense Magazine December 2000

Over the past few years, there’s been new movement in the hip-hop industry.
Instead of everything originating only from NY or LA, the South’s uniquely original sound has been sweeping across America and producing one hit after another.

New Orleans has Master P and Cash Money Millionaires.
In Atlanta, OUTKAST and GOODIE MOBB, in St. Louis NELLY, and many others are gaining momentum. Their popularity is no joke! These artists are putting out multi-million-selling hits one after another.

As Southern sound has become accepted nationwide in this way, and even changed the New York market, it’s not that the Southern sound suddenly “fit” New York—it’s that New York began wanting Southern music with its own distinct sense of place.

Within that trend, something that had already been playing an important role in the American South as a spot that helped establish the rap market was the strip club.