The city became an adopted home for some of the genre’s most considerable figures 10 years ago but its new generation can’t seem to catch a breakBack in the late aughts,Miami threatened to occupy over hip-hop. They had an unlikely leader, a New Orleans-born transplant – of Palestinian origin – named DJ Khaled, or a radio DJ who seemed to achieve itsy-bitsy more than shout as loud as he could. But Khaled united a disparate group of southern Florida artists,including Rick Ross, Ace Hood, and Plies,and Trick Daddy, not to mention Tallahassee singer T-Pain, and Fat Joe (who bought a house in the Miami area) and Lil Wayne,who’d arrived from New Orleans. Bombastic radio hits like We Takin Over and I’m So Hood fuelled many emerging careers and coalesced a flashy movement that went well beyond Florida or even the south. The biggest names from all over the country from Kanye to Kendrick – wanted in.
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Source: theguardian.com