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Wade’s larger vision for the Dungeon Family is also why “Dirty South” ended up being a posse cut and the lead single of Goodie Mob’s Soul Food. I know things will get done because Rico says that he’s doing it.’” But I took a leap and left the streets and said, ‘I’m going over here to make music because they’re real serious. “I could have already been putting out records with street n. “Dungeon Family was not no street n- to me,” he says. But Big Boi rapped about the trap from a safe distance – how one piss test gone wrong could have you “just that, trapped.” Cool Breeze sounded like he never abandoned his triple beams. OutKast wasn’t too young to be pimps and players, per se. “One to the two, the three, the fo’ / Them dirty Red Dogs done hit the do’,” he raps in a hushed voice, “and they got everybody on they hands and knees / and they ain’t gonna leave until they find them keys.” Such violence hints at an even larger threat: “See, life’s a bitch, then you figure out / why you really got dropped in the Dirty South.” Here, Cool Breeze implies that the CIA brought dope to the ghetto to further enslave black people, in the same conspiratorial tone as Bill Cooper’s 1991 manifesto Behold a Pale Horse. You do know who you’re talking to, right?”īut in “Dirty South,” Cool Breeze paints the Red Dogs as a formidable threat, with its notorious use of excessive force. I had my little goons doing that type of stuff. “Did I ever get locked up or fucked up by them? Nope. “I know partners who done been beat up by them,” he says of the Red Dogs. “She wanted her only son to be tough.”Ĭool Breeze still bears that same tough-guy attitude today. “I could be bad around my mama because I didn’t have to come straight home,” he says. From there, when he wasn’t learning to sing or play guitar with his father, a singer in local R&B group the Descendants, Cool Breeze was falling into drug dealing.

“Dirty South” began at Martel Homes, the housing projects in southwest Atlanta suburb East Point where Bell stayed with his grandmother until he was ten years old. “I’m about to let you know that we’re up on our game about the politics and drug units, “ Cool Breeze says. So in the days thereafter, Cool Breeze wrote a response track with a taunting hook: “What you really know about the Dirty South?” But people also tend to think that folks from the South are either dumb or backwards, and that early criticism sounded similarly condescending.

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Before he shifted his focus to music at age 17, the man born Frederick Bell sold drugs during the ’80s crack epidemic, when Georgia’s Red Dog strike force was still active. “This record done went platinum, and these motherfuckers wrote articles about how these dudes are too young to be pimps and players,” Cool Breeze remembers Wade saying.Ĭool Breeze knew that logic was flawed.

Rico Wade, Organized Noize’s ideas man, was devastated. Yet critics refused to give OutKast their due respect. After rap’s center of gravity had volleyed from New York to Los Angeles and back for more than a decade, OutKast’s 1994 debut Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik became a sales breakthrough for Southern hip-hop. In 1995, before rapper Cool Breeze signed to Atlanta production trio Organized Noize’s Interscope imprint, he saw what was at stake.