I feel stupid asking as an American, but the blend between East and South gets very tough. Like in my brain I immediately jumped to Virginia = South. But then at the same time I'd feel weird classifying J. Cole as South if he was picked and North Carolina is actually further south than Virginia (thigh Cole has a lot of NY connection so that probably also helps confuse that).From what I found on the internets.
So I'd assume yes, but not sure they take hip hop into consideration.