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Aug 1, 2023 · When you know Texas rap, it's clear why small communities are so connected to Houston: The state's most revered acts, UGK and DJ Screw, were founded in the nearby country towns of Port Arthur...
- Kiana Fitzgerald
The Geto Boys, as developed and produced by James Prince, would become Houston’s first nationally recognized hip-hop group, on the strength of the group’s signature song, 1991’s “Mind Playing Tricks on Me.”
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1980. “The Bounce Rap” Disco AL. In early 1980, the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” became the first rap song to reach the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart—a defining moment for the...
The 1990s saw Houston rap came into existence. In 1986, James ‘Lil’ J’ Smith founded Rap-A-Lot Records. Lil’ J used his recording studio to push rap onto the Houston music scene in the form of the gangsta rap genre. While Lil’ J was a record producer, he was also a musician, and the group The Ghetto Boys was Lil’ J’s brainchild.
Aug 9, 2023 · Houston's first rap song is believed to be legendary Johnny Guitar Watson's 1981 attempt at rap, "Telephone Bill,” but it wasn't until the late ’80s that Houston became the state’s rap epicenter thanks largely to the legendary Rap-A-Lot label.
Musically, music-making turned away from the East Coast and the West coast and found a new home in the South. Several epicenters develop influential styles: Miami (Miami bass), New Orleans (bounce), Houston (screwed), and Atlanta (crunk and trap).
Dec 30, 2021 · Clay James releases Houston’s first rap song on Jus-Fresh Records called “Thumpin” by Bronx born hip-hop duo Brother’s Disco.
