Atlanta's a car city like LA
very new-built, huge skyscrapers, freeways, exits, sprawling suburbia, really hot
like LA, in many ways, but they say the vibe is completely Southern - less cosmopolitan
(i went there in the 80s for very brief visit - didn't get much of a sense of the Southernness - but did feel the size of the place, and encountered heat like i'd never experienced before)
but i think the car thing is a big part of the sound - if i was living in NYC or London i don't think i'd be able to hear it fully
this easy rolling flow of the beats and the voices - and the sound kinda oozes out of the speakers and fills up the sound-space of the car
driving at night especially it sounds amazing, like you're in this little cocoon of futurity - especially if you have a dashboard that's got the glittering multi-colored ever-shifting display of fuel consumption, diagrams of the engine, etc