“Throw Ya Hands Up” with 8 Ball & MJG
“Y’all just might see skunked out, with a girl who chunked out,
below the Mason-Dixon line, real n—s know what I’m talkin about,
from Texas, Atlanta, oh man, Alabama, Savannah,
The deeper the darker the dirty south is what I’m after,
no laughter, the content of the rhyme may be contagious
The Space Age is pimpin this, players coming major.”
On this underrated track, Big Boi gives a salute to the Dirty South years before the region became a main breeding ground in hip-hop. It was a rhyme that proved he was proud to be Southern during a time when it wasn’t so cool.
