tell me about Houston hip-hop

Swisha House has a real good thing going on. Chamillionaire is in my opinion one of the most creative lyricists out there right now. I like Michael Watts' screw tapes alot more than DJ Screws, he is the god of chopping. Mike Jones and Magno "First Round Draft Picks" is a damn fine album, and it comes with the screwed and chopped version. You can't go wrong with that.

Lil Flip is pretty reliable. His track on the new Luda "Screwed Up" is the best on the album. (maybe "We Got Them Guns" produced by DJ paul and juicy j is better)

But most of Houston I feel is pretty hit and miss. Lil Keke, ESG and Slim Thug, and most of the more underground people I can't get into.

I love how the beginning of the "Cadillac on 22's" video starts off with a little girl being run over by a Cadillac on 22's.

You've never seen album cover art this cool.

Big T ft. Lil Flip - 'Candy On Chrome' (My favourite Flip verse ever. It's so cool.)
Yungstar - 'We Got Plex'
ESG and Slim Thug - 'Down Here'
Big Pokey ft. Big Moe - 'My Boo'
Lil Flex - 'Lights, Camera, Action'

Highlights - Slim Thug/Mike Jones "Still Tippin'" and Mike Jones "Got It Sowed Up"

the new z-ro is out, too, life of joseph mcvey. he's truly the most underrated rapper in the south, i think. and not really a regular, post-screw houston guy, even though he was a marginal SUC member. he's sort of serious and scarface-y and stuff. i think he's still in jail, too, for a probation violation thing! he was about to set up a 2004 geto boys with bun b and scarface and, i think, slim thug.

new color changing click, back to the future, just the newest ccc mixtape, the second one without paul wall, regular ccc solidness. chamilion's mixtape messiah is coming soon, just a plain old mixtape but has everyone excited because of the slow jamz freestyle. and his greatest hits is still pretty recent and good.

yung-ro - undergrind, liveola - programmed to wreck, og ron c - paid in full mixtape, paul wall and lil flip - u gotta feel us (all the leaked lil flip stuff and some of the stuff from paul wall's major label thing that's coming out), the extended version of lil flip's clover gs mixtape, there's the boss hawg outlaws allstars mixtape from the end of last year, lots of stuff.

what are the other landmark houston burners besides 25 lighters? i'm a herb, is there another thread with houston recc's/youtubes?

Big T ft. Lil Flip - 'Candy On Chrome' (My favourite Flip verse ever. It's so cool.)
Yungstar - 'We Got Plex'
ESG and Slim Thug - 'Down Here'
Big Pokey ft. Big Moe - 'My Boo'
Lil Flex - 'Lights, Camera, Action

Listening to these right now

Fat pat!

swang and swang and swang to the left

1. street military - dead in a year ***
2. .380 - elbows swang ***
3. 5th ward boyz - down ass zaggin ***
4. point blank - my mind went blank ***
5. blac monks - buddha nature ***
6. ganksta nip - smokin amp ***
7. lil keke - southside ***
8. fat pat - body rock ***
9. guerilla maab - turning lane ***
10. h.a.w.k. - roll up a blunt ft big moe, big pokey ***
12. big moe - choppaz ft d-gotti, d-wreck ***
13. big pokey - range rover ft big steve ***
14. big t - candy on chrome ft lil flip ***
15. woss ness - threes and fours ***
16. big jut - only live once ft ronnie spencer ***
17. botany boyz - cloverland ***
18. yungstar - knockin pictures off the wall ***
19. lil keke - worlwide playaz ft south park mexican, mr. 3-2 ***
20. dat boy grace - crumbs to bricks ft lil t ***
21. e.s.g. ft lil flip - realest rhymin ***
22. big mello - back do' akshun ***
23. z-ro - look what you did to me ***

narrow slice of a narrow time period 90something to 2000? only album tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ8DXCLIeBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLWJIU3f0tY

after the concert i got hoes to screw

Ohhhh loving those album cuts. Ive heard five or six like NIP, 5th Ward, Keke, Fat Pat and Maab. Point Blank track is really fresh to me atm.

flip flips the 'ask beavis i get nothing but head' big l line on 'candy on chrome'!!!! is there an earlier precedent?

ws just listening to point blank

damn thank you dylannn. i am going to listen to all this tomorrow. only know cloverland (from screw chapter 130), love it.

yeah i just remembered that's actually on 3 n the morning and so is the point blank track.

1. terrorists - blow dem hoes up ***
2. pharaoh - about being woke ***
3. convicts - 1-900-dial-a-crook ft scarface, lil j ***
4. aggravated - fuck em all ft k-rino ***
5. spm / al-d - dirty third ***
6. d of trinity garden cartel - straight texas hoodlum ***
7. wreckless klan ***
8. psk-13 - 13 wayz ft k-rino ***
9. mr 3-2 - comin down ***
10. z-ro - dedicated 2 u ***
11. c-note - hold it down ***
12. d-gotti - day to ball ft big moe, yungstar ***
13. herschelwood hardheadz - homies ***
14. e.s.g. - grippin grain ft slim thug ***

-- "grippin grain" must have been the first time i heard slim thug. i probably wrote about it a long time ago. alltime summer cruise track.

-- when i heard suga free, the first comparison that came to mind was mr. 3-2.

-- "1-900-dial-a-crook," i forgot that even existed. predates master p's instructions on baking soda/pyrex by 6 years, predates "1-900-hustler" by 9 years.

3-2 has been on so many albums and i know next to nothing about him. he was in convicts with big mike doing rock hard houston gangster rap, then he was in blac monks doing weird mystical tomb raider rap over funky early 90s mike dean beats, then maybe he was in southside playaz with some screwed up click members, then he went solo and the last time he came out he was on some hardcore gang-affiliated imagery....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOTjxpQZ5h8

fat pat, big pokey, e.s.g., moe over "friends," pat shouting out weasel, who put a price on his head over some bullshit around the show, "hottest in the game / put blades on a diesel / got real live with my nigga fuckin weasel."

the full show isn't on youtube but it's something to hear, if you can find it.

http://governmentnames.blogspot.ca/2005/08/dj-screw-austin-concert-if-you-heard.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pETWFyO_ATs

STREET MILITARY

love it man

Yeah, pretty much what Ben said. Most Houston rap really isn't that good to bother with.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, October 15, 2003 2:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

almost worth inviting back so we can FP em to smithereens

man, "Range rover" is funky as hell. everyone nails each verse too.

i'm really digging most of this shit, thx again dylannn.

if you want to get deep:

http://www.youtube.com/user/WGFproductionz/search?query=houston

some really obscure records mixed up with regional hits

like... it just changed from a tiger to a black guy! from the really obscure category.

tears came from making this in the regional hits category... i've heard that song on screw tapes, sampled for hooks, lyrics interpolated couple dozen times...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKz33Lr3dEw

there it is
SEE MY HOMIES IN THE STREET
SEE THEY KNOW WHAT I MEAN

I'm a happy owner of the "don't give a damn" CD. Flawless EP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4SEZ9skGrA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6noYdxx0wU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HSaAneLZUY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoZpo_sV-Pw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6noYdxx0wU

fxck

swishahouse LET YA NUTS HANG

not really in the spirit of this thread but all the fuck action mixes are on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD7A6Ob7zho

"i was drunk and it was my birthday anyway"

i forgot that slowed down r&b is the greatest invention of the last 50 years. the jagged edge/aaliyah/alicia keys run on that.

http://nattymari-unfortunate-events.blogspot.ie/2009/04/victoria-secret-drawls.html

^this is good, esp. if ur new to this stuff, what dylannn calls the "blue-collar" side of houston rap. mp3 is still live. for best results follow it with the 12 min dj screw "swangin & bangin" from codiene fiend.

nah man i think the blue collar strain is the next generation back from screwed up click: street military and affiliates, point blank, kb, southpark coalition and affiliates, terrorists, k-rino, .380, wreckless klan. all the screwed up click guys are promethazineswilling layabouts.

ah ok. i knew street military were keystones to it for u but thx for the list & distinction :D

first generation -> working legit jobs, hanging out at barbecues or in jail
second generation -> putting out sequels to sequels of late-90s/early-2000s hits, trying to ingratiate themselves with paul wall or dead

https://youtu.be/Q5gCH8Nc4EA

still loving this, makes me want to become a worse person

Lol right

still bump the two cd-rs i made out of dylannn's recs on the reg.

the big moe album on which "choppaz" appears (city of syrup) is pretty solid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgGGRAhYR_M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44nKCHLynVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_XnJ3yhF9s

livin our life wrong cause wwasn't supposed to live long

Idk I like some Beltway 8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjA5EMi7EOE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-mc_T8nP2c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiJZiklL1dQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPn9opMs47I

nice, really like southside gliding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgYA_0rbFhE

meant to post this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoZpo_sV-Pw

Langston Collin Wilkins talks about his book "Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town" Thurs Oct 17 @ 10:30 am @ George Mason U., Fenwick Library, Fenwick Reading Room, 2nd Floor, 4348 Chesapeake River Lane, Fairfax, Virginia near DC