Regina N. Bradley: This is a milestone year for us in the Souf. I want to start off with an underappreciated question. What is your definition of southern hip-hop?

Fredara Mareva Hadley: I like to think of it as this kind of Afrofuturist technology of people still trying to engage in the kind of cultural citizenship that still we have not achieved in terms of full citizenship. I see southern hip-hop in that kind of I’m saying where I’m from, bass-heavy, rooted culture. It still connects to the body—not only in terms of the rhythm but also in terms of the movement. For me, that helps to define southern hip-hop, because we can have some people from the South but they may not carry that same tradition.