Ok, it's time to do another city specific post like I've done once before. This time the aim is set on Houston, deep down in the dirty south. While Atlanta might have been the capital of southern rap for the general public since the early 00's, Houston have been lurking right behind for some time with a wide range of great rappers that been around for a while. I really like the H-town rap, it's somehow laidback and hardcore at the same time, and a bonus is that you always can find every track from Houston in a chopped and screwed version...
Chamillionaire may have gove broke and made some bad music the last years, but in the beginning/middle of the 00's, he and partner in crime Paul Wall made a couple of really nice albums, e.g. Get ya mind correct and Controversy sells. Here's a track from the former.
You can't find a more relaxed rapper than Devin the Dude. All his albums evolves around two subjects; smoking weed and fucking. In the long run it may not be that interesting, but on the other hand that doesn't matter when he's done masterpieces like this:
A personal favourite of mine is Slim Thug. As I mentioned in an earlier post, he's not the best rapper or anything, but he's got a good feel to it when spitting those bars. Neptunes produced Already Platinum from 2005 is gold, and last years The Boss of all bosses is also good. The headline of this post is taken from the posse cut below from that very album.
I've saved the best to last: UGK. Formed by Pimp C and Bun B, UGK started dropping bombs in the late 80's and they didn't stop until Pimp C drank too much of that purple and was found dead in december 2007 (not even that seems to have stopped him though since both an UGK album and a solo album has been released after that). UGK has a ton of respect in the game but never really got that big public breakthrough, even though they featured Jay-Z's banger Big Pimpin. To me, UGK are among the absolute best, and therefore they'll get two tracks in this post.
Another monster post done.
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