Artist
Geto Boys
Houston group featuring Scarface, Willie D, and Bushwick Bill who became the South's first nationally recognized rap act with confrontational street narratives and dark, menacing production on 1989's Grip It! On That Other Level and 1991's We Can't Be Stopped, establishing the region as viable when the industry still treated it as an afterthought and proving that Southern artists could command national attention on their own terms with music that was slower, heavier, and more confrontational than the East Coast boom-bap that dominated every chart and controlled every narrative about what hip-hop could be.