Straight Outta Ten-A- Key

Young Buck and more spitters who put Tennessee on the map.

Tennessee Titans - August 24 marks the 11th anniversary of Young Buck releasing his stellar debut, Straight Outta Cashville. The G-Unit MC definitely has made his mark, but he's just one of many Tennessee hip hop titans to leave his stamp on the game. Read on now as we take a look at Ten-A-Key's track record in the hip hop arena. —Michael Harris (IceBlueVA)(Photo: G Unit, Interscope Records)

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Tennessee Titans - August 24 marks the 11th anniversary of Young Buck releasing his stellar debut, Straight Outta Cashville. The G-Unit MC definitely has made his mark, but he's just one of many Tennessee hip hop titans to leave his stamp on the game. Read on now as we take a look at Ten-A-Key's track record in the hip hop arena. —Michael Harris (IceBlueVA)(Photo: G Unit, Interscope Records)

Three Six Mafia - Three-Six Mafia has been repping Memphis for over 20 years now and has a history of making the club get crunk with hits like "Sippin' on Some Syrup," "Ridin' Spinners" and "Tear Da Club Up." The Kings of Memphis also put themselves in the hip hop history books when they won an Oscar for their song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from the movie Hustle & Flow.(Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage)

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Three Six Mafia - Three-Six Mafia has been repping Memphis for over 20 years now and has a history of making the club get crunk with hits like "Sippin' on Some Syrup," "Ridin' Spinners" and "Tear Da Club Up." The Kings of Memphis also put themselves in the hip hop history books when they won an Oscar for their song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from the movie Hustle & Flow.(Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage)

Juicy J - Juicy J tore the club up with his 3-6 crew and then took his solo game to new heights these past few years with strip-club anthems turned platinum Billboard hits "Bandz a Make Her Dance" and "Bounce It."(Photo: Chris McKay/Getty Images for BET)

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Juicy J - Juicy J tore the club up with his 3-6 crew and then took his solo game to new heights these past few years with strip-club anthems turned platinum Billboard hits "Bandz a Make Her Dance" and "Bounce It."(Photo: Chris McKay/Getty Images for BET)

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Isaiah Rashad - Chattanooga, Tennessee, finally got a listen when Top Dawg Entertainment signed up introspective lyricist Isaiah Rashad in 2013 and released his Cilvia Demo project last year. (Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images)

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Isaiah Rashad - Chattanooga, Tennessee, finally got a listen when Top Dawg Entertainment signed up introspective lyricist Isaiah Rashad in 2013 and released his Cilvia Demo project last year. (Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images)

Tela - Tela gave us a look at how the playas move in the streets of Memphis with hustler anthems like "Tired of Ballin'" and the strip-club classic "Sho Nuff" with 8 Ball and MJG, while helping make Rap-A-Lot and Suave House gain the respect of the masses. (Photo: Rap-A-Lot Records)

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Tela - Tela gave us a look at how the playas move in the streets of Memphis with hustler anthems like "Tired of Ballin'" and the strip-club classic "Sho Nuff" with 8 Ball and MJG, while helping make Rap-A-Lot and Suave House gain the respect of the masses. (Photo: Rap-A-Lot Records)

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Hatstak - Nashville may be known for country music but Haystak proved that hip hop was breathing in Ten-A-Key too and had no problem showing you the "Portrait of a White Boy" with his regional success.(Photo: Select-O-Hits Records)

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Hatstak - Nashville may be known for country music but Haystak proved that hip hop was breathing in Ten-A-Key too and had no problem showing you the "Portrait of a White Boy" with his regional success.(Photo: Select-O-Hits Records)

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Drumma Boy - Drumma Boy's Memphis sounds first saw the light throughout Tela's 2002 album, Double Dose, and he then went on to lace Jeezy, Scarface, T.I., Rick Ross and many more. He also scored hits with Plies's "Shawty" and Waka Flocka's "No Hands."(Photo: Chris McKay/Getty Images)

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Drumma Boy - Drumma Boy's Memphis sounds first saw the light throughout Tela's 2002 album, Double Dose, and he then went on to lace Jeezy, Scarface, T.I., Rick Ross and many more. He also scored hits with Plies's "Shawty" and Waka Flocka's "No Hands."(Photo: Chris McKay/Getty Images)

Jazze Pha - Jazze Pha first made noise helping put his Memphis partners Tela and 8 Ball and MJG on the national map with the takeoff hit "Sho Nuff" in 1997. The multi-platinum producer then went on to rack up a gang of hits that include production and writing credits on Ludacris's "Area Codes," Ciara's "1,2, Step," Aaliyah's "I Don't Wanna" and T.I.'s "Let's Get Away." (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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Jazze Pha - Jazze Pha first made noise helping put his Memphis partners Tela and 8 Ball and MJG on the national map with the takeoff hit "Sho Nuff" in 1997. The multi-platinum producer then went on to rack up a gang of hits that include production and writing credits on Ludacris's "Area Codes," Ciara's "1,2, Step," Aaliyah's "I Don't Wanna" and T.I.'s "Let's Get Away." (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Lil Wyte - Lil Wyte sprung up from the Hypnotize Minds family tree to show the world that white guys can turn up too on cuts like 3-6's "Mosh Pit" and "Dangerous Posse."

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Lil Wyte - Lil Wyte sprung up from the Hypnotize Minds family tree to show the world that white guys can turn up too on cuts like 3-6's "Mosh Pit" and "Dangerous Posse."

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Yo Gotti - Yo Gotti crossed the Mason-Dixon Line a while back and hustler's from all over have been re-upping on his Cocaine Muzik ever since. (Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

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Yo Gotti - Yo Gotti crossed the Mason-Dixon Line a while back and hustler's from all over have been re-upping on his Cocaine Muzik ever since. (Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

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8 Ball and MJG - 8 Ball and MJG put Tennessee on the hip hop map when they burst on the scene with 1993's Comin' Out Hard. The Memphis duo is considered Southern rap royalty and have worked with and gained the respects from everyone from Diddy to T.I.  (Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

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8 Ball and MJG - 8 Ball and MJG put Tennessee on the hip hop map when they burst on the scene with 1993's Comin' Out Hard. The Memphis duo is considered Southern rap royalty and have worked with and gained the respects from everyone from Diddy to T.I.  (Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

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Al Kapone - Al Kapone's name might not ring out to most, but the Memphis MC built a huge underground following with an undeniable pen game. Kapone shares writing credits on hits like Lil Jon's "Snap Yo Fingers" and E-40's "U And Dat." In addition he penned Terrence Howard's rhymes for the film Hustle & Flow, most notably"Whoop That Trick."  (Photo: Jeff Fusco/Getty Images) 

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Al Kapone - Al Kapone's name might not ring out to most, but the Memphis MC built a huge underground following with an undeniable pen game. Kapone shares writing credits on hits like Lil Jon's "Snap Yo Fingers" and E-40's "U And Dat." In addition he penned Terrence Howard's rhymes for the film Hustle & Flow, most notably"Whoop That Trick."  (Photo: Jeff Fusco/Getty Images) 

Gangsta Boo - Gangsta Boo stood toe to toe with the likes of Foxy Brown and Lil Kim as Three 6 Mafia's fem fatale. Besides tearing up the clubs with 3-6 and unleashing hits like "Where Dem Dollas At?!," she also flexed with Andre 3000 and Big on Stankonia's "Ill Call Before I Come" and "Throw It Up" with Yelawolf and Eminem. (Photo: Karl Walter/Getty Images for Coachella)

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Gangsta Boo - Gangsta Boo stood toe to toe with the likes of Foxy Brown and Lil Kim as Three 6 Mafia's fem fatale. Besides tearing up the clubs with 3-6 and unleashing hits like "Where Dem Dollas At?!," she also flexed with Andre 3000 and Big on Stankonia's "Ill Call Before I Come" and "Throw It Up" with Yelawolf and Eminem. (Photo: Karl Walter/Getty Images for Coachella)

Kia Shine - Kinfolk Kia Shine made his presence felt through the South's underground scene and scored a few national hits with "Krispy" and "Checkin' My Fresh." (Photo: Ray Tamarra/Getty Images)

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Kia Shine - Kinfolk Kia Shine made his presence felt through the South's underground scene and scored a few national hits with "Krispy" and "Checkin' My Fresh." (Photo: Ray Tamarra/Getty Images)

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La Chat - La Chat repped Memphis to the fullest and proved that women gangsta threats too, with albums like Murder She Spoke. She usually showed out with her Hypnotize Minds crew on tracks like Project Pat's gold-selling "Chicken Head" and Three-Six's "Baby Mama" and "2-Way Freak." (Photo: La Chat via Instagram)

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La Chat - La Chat repped Memphis to the fullest and proved that women gangsta threats too, with albums like Murder She Spoke. She usually showed out with her Hypnotize Minds crew on tracks like Project Pat's gold-selling "Chicken Head" and Three-Six's "Baby Mama" and "2-Way Freak." (Photo: La Chat via Instagram)

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Project Pat - Juicy J's big brother, Project Pat, laid the smackdown throughout the South with projects like Mista Don't Play: Everythangs Workin'  and Crook by Da Book: The Fed Story. Pat's career was interrupted a few times by jail stints, but he managed to have the East Coast rapping his two-syllable delivery on hits like 2001's "Chicken Head."  (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)