There’s no denying that Atlanta is — and has been for the last decade — hip-hop’s most influential region. Kicking off her new series, My City, Billboard’s Erika Ramirez flies down to the ATL to explore the thriving new scene that’s set to takeover the game.

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Featuring iLoveMakonnen, Father, Key!, OG Maco, Raury and more, Erika hangs out with some of the city’s most unique talents to learn more about the diversity and unity that exists in the A (“like, this n*gga 6’4″ and he got dreads, this n*gga’s weird as hell, it’s a gay guy over there… y’all take people for what they are and I appreciate that,” remembers Rich Po Slim of when Makonnen first met the Awful Records crew).

Stay tuned for more regions and movements to be spotlighted in My City. We see you, Erika!

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