Whatever happened to Houston rap on the national scene? 2006 was all about Chamillionaire, Paul Wall, UGK, etc. If you were chopped and screwed you're getting airplay. Did Houston fall off, and will it ever come back?
None are really making music. Zro still coming out with stuff but they haven really been putting out music like they used to. Good thing in 2013 slim thug and z ro and chamollinare all are coming out with albums right now.
Houston is too cool now. If any of y'all are in college town you know how cool Houston s. it's so HTOWN!
Houston rap fell off when all the local guys started blowing up (flip, Cham, swisha house) and when Drake started referencing Houston in his songs. Since then, it's never been the same. Those same guys that blew up and the only ones making any noise. Not really any new cats besides Kirko Bangs have made any impact on a mainstream level.
Houston Rap in the 90s was so fabuloso! It made me proud to be young and from H-town.. Thank god it died before I got old enough to care for that sort of music now... Time for the new kats to step up... I be bumpin this back in the day! <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/g0Ul8YoZsXU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> I went to a CD/Tape store on Bissonnett to pick this cassette tape: <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3oTt_28K3x0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Obviously.. This. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DZeu29nOwjw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Rap is gotten so bad now days that the only reason I listen is because of the beats. If you can tune out what they're actually saying it's not too bad.
They're living fat off what they did earlier in the decade. That's what I'm guessing. When the money gets low, they'll push new music out. Not sure how that works, but I'm assuming it's how.
There really isn't a big Houston rap scene for unique/different styles like there is in Atlanta/Chicago/NY/California/etc, if you're not talking about the screw, syrup, or slabs people don't wanna here. But, they can here all that from all the other major artist that bit the southern style now anyway. And, the local radio stations don't play Houston rap anymore. Even in the mid 2000's they were only spinning the same stuff that the national radio stations and video music channels were playing. Cham is good but even he would bow to Face mob and Bun.
Bun-B rubs his lyrical nutsack all over chamillionaires rhymes when he's not busy teaching classes at Rice or telling you Buns Beef.
Man, I was so surprised to learn he teaches at rice. I met pinp c's uncle a few weeks back and he told me.. I was like damn! But Cham is a clever rapper in his own rights. Only rapper I know that can rap without cursing and also puts out great messages.
Nah, it "fell off" because a lot of the artists refused to sell out or refused to let the majors make the Houston sound cookie cutter like they had done to Atlanta. Some like Chamillionaire and Slim Thug were able to slip through the cracks, but their major label deals were something of a revolution for successful independent artists. A bunch of Houston rappers weren't fortunate to be able to pull weight to get contracts like that so they chunked the duece and wouldn't fix what hadn't broken (at the moment). This and there really wasn't much unity amongst the Houston rap scene by the time the majors came rolling in. For the most part, employees became disgruntled and friends became bitter enemies which bottlenecked everyone's grind. I think if the nation somehow set their focus just 2 years earlier, Houston's reign would had been more significant. Then - Color Changin Click, Boss Hogg Outlaws, SUC, Swisha House, they all were on the same page and with that unity, the pride behind the Houston scene was more contagious. It just all fell apart. Now - almost adversely to that, contemporary Houston rap has almost boxed itself in. The Houston INFLUENCE, however, still lives strong today. You see that in Drake, A$ap and many others.
