The result of the debate was - kept
This article should be merged into Dirty South. Southern rap is definately the more mature article, in fact it can probably take the place of whats currently in dirty south. But I don't think the article should be about the history of rap produced out of the region of the American south, as the title would suggest. In fact the article as it stands is almost exclusively about Dirty south, a distinct subgenre of rap. People I'm sure would always be searching for it by the name Dirty South, that is how the sub genre is almost universally known. There shouldn't be an article about the history of rap in the south in general, because either they are doing rap in the dirty south style, or they are doing rap in a style similar if not identicle to whats played on the radio (in other words there is no reason to organize an article based on that type of geographical region besides the article on dirty south). In addition, we don't have articles on regions which can aruably have a local rap scene with its own distinct rap style, such as possibly the northern california scene).