Even Mos Def was a fan, and would emulate the style when rapping ( for fun).

Ludacris
Bone Crusher
Trick Daddy
Petey Pablo
David Banner
Chamillionaire
Juvenile
Nelly ( he is in that category to me)

Etc...

They brought a lot of comedy back to hip hop with their videos and content,
and they didn’t claim to be king MCs. They were just making fun club music.

Makes for great workout sounds. It’s my go to music when I hit the gym.....There are tons of commercials with dirty south music in it.

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>They brought a lot of comedy back to hip hop
>with their videos and content,
>and they didn’t claim to be king MCs.
>They were just making fun club music.

When it comes to east coast or should I say north-east hip-hop in the late 90's, most of the rappers took rap seriously and was kind of getting tired of how "not so seriously" others who was getting rich off of it was handling it (aka the shiny suit era, the let's smoke and have fun era, the let's hang out at the strip club all day era).

Some always put some comedy into their music like Biz Markie, Redman, Kool Keith, Nice 'N Smooth, Cypress Hill, Beatnuts, Snoop Dogg, House Of Pain, Lords Of The Underground, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, Alkaholiks, etc. so I won't say that the southern rappers brought comedy back to rap but I will say they weren't serious about being rappers as they were about making club music.

Also some of the rappers you listed were claiming to be "kings of the south", such as Ludacris, Trick Daddy, Chamillionaire, & Lil Jon, but who actually took any of them serious other than T.I. who wasn't a comedic rapper.

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