Texas Rapps Flashback: DJ Screw's June 27th

This is it right here, the most famous of all the freestyles from hundreds upon hundreds of DJ Screw tapes. The reworked Kris Kross instrumental sets it off for the likes of Big Moe and Big Pokey to take lyrical flight... 

DJ Rapd Ric, Gerald G, Dorrough, Lil Boosie & Chalie Boy - Parking Lot Pimpin' video

Lil Boosie was truly on fire down here a couple years ago or so. Of course, now he's locked up and this video suffers just a tab bit because of it. But still, DJ Rapid Ric really knows how to do things up right on the professionalism...

Texas Rapps Flashback: Odd Squad's Fa Sho video

Wow, I didn't know until two days ago that this video even existed. I remember seeing the "I Can't See It" video back when it first dropped, but somehow this video for "Fa Sho" somehow passed me by...

Riff Raff - Larry Bird video

Here's Riff Raff representing the Northside of Houston, albeit rocking a Southside flow borrowed directly from the likes of Big Pokey and Lil Keke. Still though, Riff Raff delivers a few crafty lines and anyone who references Ernest Givens gets props from me. Plus, the DJ Lil Sprite "slowed-N-Chopped" version goes off...

Z-Ro - These Days video

Under the radar of many outside of the Gulf Coast region, Z-Ro drops classic songs that resonate deep within the heart of Texas. Kids memorize the lyrics to these songs like psalms and make videos for them as well... 

Propain - Say I Won't video

When he's not promoting his new steakhouse in Austin, Houston's still-reigning quarterback hero Vince Young is shining a light on his Hiram Clarke compadre Propain... 

Lil T, Killa Cal Wayne & Gutta - Show Y'all video

As I remember it, J. Prince of the Rap-A-Lot Records empire was the very one to coin the phrase "reality rap". On one hand, the term is a cop-out designed to excuse the promotion of rampant drug dealing, imprisonment, and death. On another hand, and this was Lil J's exact point, these are the things that are actually at work in the hood. So why blame anyone for merely wanting to document "reality"?

At any rate in 2011, Killa Cal Wayne has forcibly snatched the baton previously carried by the likes of Scarface and Z-Ro and continues to run cutthroat circles around the track of reality rap. From his base of 3rd Ward Houston, where few apologies exist, Killa Cal Wayne reminds us that yes, we still have a problem and no, the art of expressing the ground-level carnage has yet to run its course...