2016 Schedule

Interactive: March 11–15  •  Film: March 11–19  •  Music: March 15–20

Presented by: Southern Hospitality

Playa Fly

Thursday, March 17
11:55PM - 12:15AM

ScratcHouse
617 E 7th St

Artist-7178

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As the South continues to enjoy unparalleled success in Hip Hop, it would be a major crime to not acknowledge the majority responsible for the Dirty-Dirty’s unearthly stronghold over rap music. So with that being said, it would be impossible, or better yet down right disrespectful, to talk about Southern Hip Hop without recognizing the shear genius of Memphis Rap legend…Playa Fly. Underground King personified…internationally street certified…immovable position on Memphis Mount Rushmore of iconic MCs…and living legend. Can’t be no one else other than a truly larger than life personality who towers as the perfect example of a real Playa and one that puts the F in Fly…Playa Fly.

Born Ibn Young A.K.A Playa Fly in Memphis, Tennessee, he would be raised in, arguably, the city’s most notorious block, South Parkway Street. Growing up in an environment where drug dealing, gang banging, prostitution, carjacking, and murder was...

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