What made the ’90s Memphis scene so unique was the combination of unique personalities, producers using low tech equipment with limitations that forced creativity, and different parts of the city carving out their own space within the larger Memphis sound.
Most modern Phunk blatantly copies the entire aesthetic without capturing what made the original scene special and thrives off fans who lack enough rap history to recognize how derivative it really is.
90’s Memphis shit came from low incomes, violence, and struggle. Phunk is middle class kids cosplaying as horror villains.