I haven't paid attention to rap since Hotline Bling. What's the best to bring me up to speed?

A death at the time kind of rocked my life and took me out of appreciating music. So I didn't venture out of like... Aesop Rock, Busdriver and the like. I'm wanting to dive back in. But I also don't know how to separate the wheat from the chaff. So I figured I'd ask y'all.

Bonus points if it's from the South.