Texas Rapps Flashback: Big Pokey, Big Shasta & Lil Flip freestyle

Filmed at the Kappa Beach Party in Galveston circa 2001, Big Pokey, Big Shasta, and Lil Flip freestyle to DJ Screw's famous "June27th" remix of "Da Streets Ain't Right" by Kriss Kross...

Gerald G - Hellrazor video

Austin's Gerald G keeps it as raw as it gets...

Z-Ro - Whoop a N*gga Ass freestyle

Z-Ro previews a verse (I'd love to believe that he's actually freestyling here, but I really don't think he is in the literal sense) from an upcoming project with Slim Thug...

Trae - Keep on Rollin' video

This song is at least a couple of years old and it used to feature a verse from Gorilla Zoe, but it's still one of the best instances of Trae doing the sing-song rap thing, formerly mastered by fellow Houstonians Big Moe (RIP) and Z-Ro... 

RIP Octavis Berry aka Esbe the 6th Street Bully

Tragic news hit Texas rap this weekend in the form of the untimely passing of Octavis Berry, also know as rapper Esbe the 6th Street Bully. As a member of Austin's Dred Skott along with his partner Reggie Colby, as well as the League of Extraordinary G'z, Esbe routinely scorched his verses with a ferociousness and flare that only the 6th Street Bully could properly manage. Dred Skott's 2009 song "You Can't Bury Me" instantly becomes that much more meaningful...

  

Kydd - L'z Lounge Room video

Austin's Kydd, citing influence from J Dilla along the way, stradles the border between shifty backpacker rap and dubstep melancholia...  

Texas Rapps Flashback: Z-Ro's I Can't Win

Way back in 1995, Z-Ro was going by The Crooked Mind and doing his best 2Pac impersonation on this gem of a cassette single... 

Texas Rapps Flashback: Z-Ro & Papa Reu's Looking Good video

With Z-Ro gaining so many fans worldwide the past few years, it's interesting to see folks shout him out as a legend without necessarily ever hearing his early classic material. "Looking Good" is taken from 2000's Z-Ro vs. The World album and it might surprise some to know that his since-recycled chorus is that old...

Bleeda - Bandanas video

Houston's Bleeda drops some hardcore street ish. And do notice Z-Ro as the only dude in the video decked out in blue...

Killa Kyleon - Letter to Pimp C video

Houston's Killa Kyleon, proving himself hungrier than any rapper in 2011, revisits the Pimp C by way of a letter to the deceased...

EDF - Screw History video

Twenty, Thirty years down the line, dudes are still going to be making tribute songs to the one DJ Screw. This one here by Houston's EDF is quite nice...  

Boss Hogg Outlawz - Murder video

Yet another offering from the Boss Hogg Outlawz' Serve & Collect III album, this time featuring Dre Day, LES, and Slim Thug...