A Southern hip-hop voice who made club hits and kept one foot in activism.
For a quick sense of his range, put 'Dance The Night Away' next to something like 'Fire Falling.' They're different sides of the same artist.
He's one of those rappers who could make you dance and make you think, sometimes in the same track. 'Dance The Night Away' with Denim was a genuine radio hit that got people moving. But you can hear something else in songs like 'Bloody War' or 'Castles In Brooklyn', a sharper edge, a sense of place and politics that never quite left Mississippi behind.
He started putting out music in the late 1990s, with his debut 'Mississippi: The Album' arriving in 2003. Early collaborations with Ludacris and OutKast showed he could move in bigger circles, but the albums kept coming, 'Certified' in 2005, 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' in 2008, alongside the activism work.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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