Atlanta's Hip-Hop Culture Comes Home
Based in Powder Springs, Ben "Dstructive" Price grew up in Cobb County and has no plans to leave.
Editor's note: Ben Price has been friends with reporter Clay Duda for five years. Ben "Dstructive" Price is an unlikely character: a hip-hop artist and rapper living in the quiet town of Powder Springs. At 23, Price doesn't fit the metro Atlanta rapper stereotype, lyrically or otherwise. Raised in Cobb County, he spent his early years between Powder Springs and Marietta. He graduated from Kell High School in Northeast Cobb in 2005 before settling near Sun Valley Beach in Powder Springs. He wrote his first rap at age 8, but he confesses he never recorded or took himself seriously as an artist until two years after his high school graduation. He has listened to hip-hop since he was a little kid, but the song that sparked his love for …
