Mtv Spotlights Houston, "the next rap capitol of the South":

http://top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=14940

Finally! I've been waiting for the title to leave Atlanta since the mid 90s. :lol:

what a joke these artists are.

houston had its chance at this. if anything, at least houston seems to have avoided selling out. and it should continue to do so.

and that link looks dubious...just like some random advertisement.

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uggh...southern rap.

Finally! I've been waiting for the title to leave Atlanta since the mid 90s. :lol:

Atlanta hasnt had it since the mid 90s either. New Orleans had it in the late 90s. Atlanta had it from 2000-2003. Houston is prime for this time. However it will be short lived with the garbage that the mainstream wants to hear. Mike Jones is horrible as well as Paul Wall and Slim Thugg isnt special.

Now Chamillionaire, K-Rino, Godwon, the entire SPC among others are where the real talent is at. Thats the best Houston has to offer and its a good offer at that. Problem is the mainstream doesnt want to hear that.

Southern Rap isnt bad. You just have to look and stop listening to the radio and watching the tv to see the real talent.

Why is this exciting? Why would you want your city to be represented by a bunch of losers?:?

Great. you Houstans can HAVE the rap music

"uggh...southern rap."


uggh...ANY rap!!! Except for a few notable exceptions all dating about pre-1993, rap is atrociously horrible. In the 80s and early 90s you at least had Run DMC, LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys, and N.W.A. Outside of that, rap stinks. I don't care how much MTV and today's "music industry" tries to convince everyone otherwise.

Why is this exciting? Why would you want your city to be represented by a bunch of losers?:?

Which is a reason why I do not understand how Mike Jones and such are blowing up like they are. It's good that the hip hop fans here do not really like him because he's nothing but a gimmick. But he will actually make people not pay attention to Houston more because they wont take anybody from that city serious. Sucks because with a icon like Scarface from there you woudl think there would be more talented artists from there but you people like Mike Jones reppin them. I really would like to say more about this but you would have to see me on rapmusic.com lol. thats a forum i post on.

anyways, any city where the people think they need the media to represent it and brags off of it has a very small town mentality.


*cough* citykid *cough*

:jk:

Why is this exciting? Why would you want your city to be represented by a bunch of losers?:?

oh please. by some of your post and avatars, you seem like the biggest mtv generation kid here. :)

oh please. by some of your post and avatars, you seem like the biggest mtv generation kid here. :)

Since when do liking the Inferno II and The Real World have anything to do with a genre of music?

The part I hate most about rap is the way most of the people act that listen to it and make it. For example, like 50 Cent, I don't know why anyone would listen to that crap. I know he's mainstream but it's repulsive. The worst part is that he has like 6 singles out. :puke:

anyways, any city where the people think they need the media to represent it and brags off of it has a very small town mentality.


*cough* citykid *cough*

:jk:


:laugh: BCS, eh?

Yeah..this is..not good...

houston had its chance at this. if anything, at least houston seems to have avoided selling out. and it should continue to do so.

and that link looks dubious...just like some random advertisement.

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Well if you don't think its real check out Mtv.com or http://www.manhunt.com/news/stories/1115132762.html

Well if you don't think its real check out Mtv.com or http://www.manhunt.com/news/stories/1115132762.html


i love that you try to represent houston but calm down. it's not that crucial. ;)

Well if you don't think its real check out Mtv.com or http://www.manhunt.com/news/stories/1115132762.html

Words: Press Release

some "news" there. guess what, the band i'm gonna start next week, it's gonna be the next big thing man. the new music capitol of the south.

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http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/houston/news_feature_050205/images/main5.jpg
http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/houston/news_feature_050205/images/main6.jpg

Click on the link to see more about Houston and MTV!
http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/houston/news_feature_050205/

— by Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Joseph Patel and Sway Calloway

Houston. It's the place where Beyoncé and Kelly grew up, Hakeem "The Dream" Olajuwon and Clyde "The Glide" Drexler won two NBA championships, where Mike Scott and Nolan Ryan used to strike out opposing batters, and where Warren Moon threw shotgun passes with firm accuracy.

Out-of-towners love H-Town for a lot of the same reasons they love Miami. Except for the summers — which are so searing that even Lucifer could be caught wearing shorts and sandals to beat the heat — the weather is like paradise. The women are so beautifully endowed that they make model Melissa Ford look like Olive Oyl, and the real estate? You can live like P. Diddy and only have to spend Flavor Flav money. But if you love hip-hop, even all of that doesn't measure up to the thing that's driving eyes to H-Town these days: the music. The city that Rap-A-Lot Records and the Geto Boys put on the map 15 years ago has taken a collective second breath and is experiencing a musical renaissance that is bursting onto the national stage. Welcome back to the "Filthy South."

The most popular spot in Houston, surprisingly, is not one of the city's famous strip clubs like Harlem Knights. It's not one of the dance clubs (that is, the ones where people dance with clothes on), or even one of the homes of the city's sports teams like the Astros or the Rockets. Of all places, the jump-off tonight is happening at a Chinese restaurant called the Original Timmy Chan's on the north side of town.

MC/DJ/gold grill maker/rising star Paul Wall has assembled his crew and is getting ready for a night of "Tippin' " — or, as we say outside of the Longhorn State, cruising.

There's barely room for any of the patrons of Chan's to park, because Wall and his people have the perimeter on lock. The Game's "Hate It or Love It" is blasting, but it's playing at such a slow pace it reminds you of when you'd be listening to your cassette Walkman and the batteries would start to die. Among the gaggle of vehicles, there's a sparkly white GMC truck that's pimped out with flat-screen TVs and satellite reception, a blue drop-top — with its trunk popped open so you can read the neon sign that says "Can you see me now?" on the inside — and Wall's jet-black convertible.
Wall — along with his Swisha House labelmate Mike Jones and Swisha House alum-turned-Star Trak draft pick Slim Thug — are leading the charge for newest edition of the New South's musical reign.

"Atlanta had their era and they still holding it down," Jones says. "But we got something that's new, that the world been afraid to jump on. But now, we hittin' them to where they can't ignore it."

"I'm glad everybody is acknowledging and accepting it now," says Lil' Flip , who has set the precedent for success with his two platinum albums on major label Sony Music, Underground Legend and U Gotta Feel Me. "A lot of people didn't really understand. People are getting deals now 'cause we sell so many records on our own without major labels helping us. It's time we get some recognition." "I think it's just our time, man," Wall says. "It's so different from the rest of the country. We comin' up with a sound that's different, but if you really think about it, we've been doin' this the same sound for years. We ain't changed up our blueprint. We just keep on doin' the same thing, but the music is getting a little bit more better. The world is just tired of the same old, same old. They're ready for something new — and here we are, baby!"

Wall's not lying: Just look at the charts. Mike Jones' entered Who Is Mike Jones?, will enter the Billboard albums chart at #3 this week, having sold more than 180,000 records. Up until the beginning of this year, you'd have a better chance of seeing Tom Jones on MTV than Mike Jones — a virtual unknown to the majority of the country until "Still Tippin,' " the song that Houston and the rest of the South had been rocking for a year, broke out.
Jones, Paul Wall and Slim Thug all got started under the same family tree: the Swisha House. The label was founded a decade ago by DJ Michael Watts. At the same time, on the south side of Houston, the late, legendary DJ Screw — who basically is to Houston and the Southern mixtape game what DJ Clue is to the North — was breaking ground by introducing the world to a genre of mixtapes so unique, it would be branded with his name — "screwed up," known later as "chopped and screwed" or "screwed and chopped" (the "chop" comes from the DJ cutting the records up). The songs — beats, vocals, everything — are slowed down to a molasses pace, a sound that is reportedly enhanced by the effects of cough syrup, a local intoxicant of choice at the time (and which played a role in DJ Screw's death in 2000).

Watts started to make a name for himself on the north side with his crew, also called the Swisha House, and their freestyle-filled mixtapes. In 1999, the Swisha House formed a record label and among their early diamonds in the rough was a young MC named Slim Thug. As Slim grew in popularity, he was courted by major labels and eventually left Swisha House on amicable terms and started selling records and mixtapes with his own crew, the Boss Hog Outlawz. Some of the younger MCs in the clique stepped into the void left by Slim's departure, including Jones and the duo of Paul Wall and Chamillionaire.


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Aww, that's cute. :lol:
http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/houston/news_feature_050205/images/main5.jpg

I dont see Houston taking the crown from Atlanta as capital of southern rap right now,maybe one day but not yet.

Isn't rap over? If not, it should be.

It's definitely Houston's time to shine. Mike Jones is definitely a joke, this fool says his name 50,000 times. The best Houston artists to listen to are Slim Thug, Lil Flip, Scarface, Screwed Up Click, etc.

It's definitely Houston's time to shine. Mike Jones is definitely a joke, this fool says his name 50,000 times. The best Houston artists to listen to are Slim Thug, Lil Flip, Scarface, Screwed Up Click, etc.

Slim Thug...decent
Flip hell nah
Face yeah all the time
SUC back in the day yeah but nowadays nope.

I dont see Houston taking the crown from Atlanta as capital of southern rap right now,maybe one day but not yet.

there is no such thing as a capital of southern rap anyway though.

Atlanta is the capital and it will continue to be the capital of the south. Houston? okkkkkkkkkkkk. The only thing I cant stand bout southern rap is how many damn times they gotta say their cities name. Especially those from Atlanta with the /\-town sign with the fingers be pissin me off, maybe they would sell more records if they tried to connect to all of america not just atlanta itself.

when i saw this topic on the houston forum, i knew it would make it over here by a certain forumer and it was destined to have such comments.

Atlanta is the capital and it will continue to be the capital of the south. Houston? okkkkkkkkkkkk. .

Atlanta is the capital of Georgia..Nothing more nothing less......although Atlanta does have the mainstream Houston is known for there underground scene around the world.

when i saw this topic on the houston forum, i knew it would make it over here by a certain forumer and it was destined to have such comments.

OMG, YOU THINK THERE'LL EVEN BE AN ATLANTA-HOUSTON RAP WAR!!!? COMPLETE WITH CASUALTIES LIKE PAC AND BIGGIE!!!?

:cheers:

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I would not be surprised.

You guys are late it has already happpened and is over now. I think Lil' Flip and T.I. are cool now.
http://www.damagecontrolradio.org/graphics/tiflip.jpg

Thank God, now we can all sleep at night, jeesh.

man its over......already.............and no one got shot...............man i hate when they don't shoot at each other.............i think 50 cent needs to come teach t.i and lil flipizzo how to cap each other!!!

man its over......already.............and no one got shot...............man i hate when they don't shoot at each other.............i think 50 cent needs to come teach t.i and lil flipizzo how to cap each other!!!

it ain't over until the caps have been popped in someone's ass. :cheers:

:gunz: :poke: :guns1:

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Hmm, Cap locks?

so what is this called the southwest coast vs southeast coast?