http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5qKNlcUwKs

I'm not sure this is going to be a popular choice however, I remember the time when this song debuted, and I was working at an amusement park in Westchester, NY and all day every day that was the song that would play over the speakers at the rides. I had never listened to anything southern at the time. I lived in the Bronx and I don't believe many people there at the time thought about the South having rappers. At the time for us rap consisted West, Chicago, and NY with the occassional odd song from the south(back that ass up, bling bling) however Country Grammar and the hits that came after it; EI, Ride wit Me really put an identity on southern rap.

I think this song really lead to a crush of rappers from the south becoming popular in NY. After the sucess of Country Grammar the album, there were a whole slew of pop-southern rappers started bubbling up, Ludacris, Petey Pablo, T.I. and Mystikal to name a few (I know Mystikal was around before but he didn't get popular in NY until Shake ya Ass)