Every couple of years or so dirty south beats have a resurgence. And when this happens every one hustles to get on the bandwagon and put out a song with a dirty south beat. Sometimes these songs are not even worth listening to. Other times the song is hot. Sometimes northern rappers use the dirty south style and blow up with it. Other times its rappers from the south that make the dirty south sound hot again. But either way, this is a sound and a musical tradition that's not going anywhere anytime soon, and if your going to rap and have an audience at all then you're going to have to learn to put down a flow to a dirty south beat.

The cadence may be different from what you are used to either up north or out west, but that's exactly the contrast that will distinguish your flow. Everyone claims they can flow, but not everyone really goes out and puts their words to beats because it's when you lay down your track that you find out whether or not you actually sound any good or not. And here's where the difficulty rapping to a dirty south beat comes in, because you can get so used to rapping to a particular style of beat that when you finally switch it up and try something new you find you have difficulty.

If you can put together some lyrics that sound sick to your dirty south beat then you'll be in business. At first it might be difficult, but if you take your time you will pull it off. The difficult part about rapping to a dirty south beat particularly if you are from the north is in retaining your original style while you rap. What I mean is that when northern rappers put down their verse to a dirty south beat their tendency is to just mimic a dirty south rap style. While this may sound good sometimes, it generally comes off sounding funny and dated.

The trick if you're from the north to rapping to a dirty south beat is to bring your own unique style to the beat and letting it shine through rather than adopting an entirely new style just for one track. If you can retain your own style and still sound nice to a dirty south beat then you are way ahead of the game. What will show through is that you are a sick and versatile rapper who can lay track over any beat regardless of style and still both sound nice and sound like you. There are not many rappers out who can claim that title, and if it's a skill you can pick up then all the better for you. Rapping over a dirty south beat while still keeping your style is not going to make or break your career, but if you can do it successfully then you are showing yourself already to be on another level.