Email Author Rolando Rodriguez

2010 Stories by Rolando Rodriguez

• Homecoming

  published November 11, 2010

  Hip-hop, like life, is like an onion. Peel back the layers and you might weep. So it goes with legendary hip-hop duo Gang Starr. On the... More >>

• Concrete Dreams

  published June 17, 2010

  Sometimes an artist — Dutch-born painter Vincent van Gogh, for example — has to die before his work is recognized by the... More >>

• Deporting All WetWacks

  published May 27, 2010

  "They Wrestlemania this rap shit / Dry-mouth rappers can't spit / They rap bricks / But identical to bum's outfits...Robert Earl with the brick... More >>

• Lively-Hood

  published March 25, 2010

  In far northside Houston, we sit in a cave. At least that's what 28-year-old Ruben Reyes calls his apartment/music studio. The streets call him... More >>

• Forever Roc La Familia

  published February 25, 2010

  Perhaps one of the greatest mysteries in Houston hip-hop is "What happened to Aztek Escobar and Roc La Familia?" The Latin-minded record label... More >>

• Up on His Hustle

  published January 7, 2010

  "Follow my lead / Do as I say, not as I do / Follow my lead / Mayday, mayday" — South Park Mexican, "Follow My Lead," The Purity... More >>