8Ball and MJG

When Southern rap was far from fashionable, 8Ball & MJG -- from the unlikely locale of Orange Mound, TN -- gave the burgeoning subgenre brash bravado and a strong identity that would influence the stars who would make the genre enormously popular a decade later. Comin' Out Hard, their debut, was a minimal affair: electro-influenced, the beats were stark,and the lyrics -- street bravado with a wry...