Music History

Celebrate Atlanta’s rich musicality with this tour of places with ties to hip-hop history.

The Cocktail Girls perform on stage at 688 Club on Spring Street in Midtown in 1987.

In 2009, an article in the New York Times referred to Atlanta as “hip-hop’s center of gravity.” Although Atlanta’s music scene is diverse, it is perhaps the city’s hip-hop scene that has garnered the most national attention and commercial success.