Atlanta Strip Clubs: Strip Clubs: Launch Pads for Hits In Atlanta

Posted on December 23rd, 2010 in Atlanta strip clubs

… How do you feel about strip clubs?” That was their opening line. My colleagues Sara Sarasohn and Zoe Chace wanted to know if I’d be willing to go to Atlanta to report on how hip-hop records are broken, or launched, in strip clubs. Truth is, I’d never been to a strip club. But I figured, it’s always good to stretch. So I said, “Yes.” You can hear the full story I reported by listening above.

Hip-hop producers have been breaking records in Atlanta strip clubs for a long time now — at least as far back as 2003, when Lil Jon was doing it with songs like, “Get Low.” He’s been quoted as saying “the butts don’t lie,” meaning if the strippers can dance to it, the song has potential. In Tamara Palmer’s book, Country Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip Hop, Lil Jon says “Get Low” had a slow start: the dancers “didn’t feel it at first.” But eventually it grew on them and several dancers at different strip clubs asked the DJs to play it during their stage sets. “Get Low” took off — in mainstream clubs and on radio and TV across the country.

See the full article from “NPR (blog)”



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