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6 artists who are keeping Milwaukee rap essential

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So often, when regional rap scenes blow up nationally, they’re treated too much as a passing novelty: a city has its moment in the sun, and then it’s on to the next one.

Just as frequently, the popularity of regionally-specific sounds doesn’t actually benefit artists from those areas very much.

The influence of the old school Memphis underground has been inescapable in the last decade of rap, but so many of the artists who made their name on that haunted sound — from $uicideboy$ to Russian phonk producers — aren’t Memphians.

Jersey and Baltimore style club beats are all over modern pop, but most superstars aren’t giving back to the places that actually created that music.

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