What is Third Coast?
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dirty south; hip-hop slang for the southeast
After a decades of east coast/west coast rap domination, third coast artists are becoming the hottest thing in hip-hop
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The Gulf coast. Originally used to refer to the Texas coast and sometimes Texas in general, it now has expanded to generally mean the entire American region bordering the Gulf of Mexico.
While the term has been used for several decades in business names and catch phrases, the recent attention that Southern Hip Hop music has garnered has brought it into the limelight.
"The South is hip-hop's Third Coast, the final element making up the genre's worldwide holy trinity."
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Apellation describing the state and cultural region centered on Houston, Texas including Central and East Texas and Southern Louisiana used in several different contexts (film, hip hop and other music, left activism, etc).
This term is claimed by several other regions as well (Chicago, Western Michigan, the Southeast), but it properly refers to Texas.
Richard Linklater and Wes Anderson put the third coast on the
indy film map.
Chopped andscrewed , third coast style.
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The gulf coast Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Florida
Montgomery, New Orleans, Houston, and Miami are all on the third coast.
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The southern states that border the Gulf of Mexico (Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.)
Can also mean the entire south, not only the gulf coast states.
Third Coast Born & Raised.
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Gulf coast, began in the days of rap with the whole east coast (first), west coast (second) rivalry.
I'm third coast born!
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Gulf coast of Texas and Louisiana. Refers to a genre of music including Austin-based alt-country, folk, and zydego.
The third coast radio program plays artists like Robert Earl Keene, and Buckwheat Zydego.
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