Abstract This essay will interrogate how hip-hop—a form whose sound is not only connected to but defined by ideas of place—uses food and place as discursive objects to construct notions Southern urban particularity. Reading soul food as both a national cuisine symbolizing Black resilience in the face of institutional racial violence and a local cuisine that can symbolize the particularity of place, I argue that Southern hip-hop melds sound, taste, and place to construct Southern urban identity. I argue that this tension is maintained on a discursive plane in which each representational object—music, place, or food—articulates locally specific identity while resonating within a broader diasporic identifications. Looking specifically at Goodie Mob’s Soul Food (Atlanta), Bun B’s Instagram series “#TrillMealz” (Houston), and Lil’ Wayne’s Tha Carter II (New Orleans) this essay explores how place, food, and hip-hop function as representational objects of identity that are dependent on one another to articulate the place-specific urban identities of Southern cities.

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Sounding soul（食物）：南方嘻哈中声音、食物和地方的话语联系

摘要 本文将探讨嘻哈——一种声音不仅与地点相关而且由地点观念定义的形式——如何使用食物和地点作为话语对象来构建南方城市特殊性的概念。将灵魂美食视为一种象征黑人面对制度性种族暴力的复原力的民族美食，以及可以象征地方特殊性的地方美食，我认为南方嘻哈融合了声音、味道和地方，以构建南方城市身份。我认为，这种张力是在一个话语平面上维持的，在这个平面上，每个具有代表性的对象——音乐、地方或食物——都表达了当地特定的身份，同时在更广泛的侨民身份中产生共鸣。特别关注 Goodie Mob 的 Soul Food（亚特兰大），Bun B 的 Instagram 系列“#Tr​​illMealz”（休斯顿），