Subject: Big Pokey

• For Your Listening Pleasure

  February 2, 2007

• Big Moe

  City of Syrup (Wreckshop)

  October 12, 2000

• Five Spot: Big Pokey

  Welcome back to The Five Spot, a Rocks Off recurring feature. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and list five reasons why it's either brilliant or dumb-assed. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Wednesday, RapRadar.com threw up an interview with former Roc-A-Fella rapper Freeway in which he discussed jumping ship to the Cash Money camp. Now, by most accounts, Philly's favorite bearded son has had a very solid career - there was a good two-year stretch when Free was a

  June 5, 2009

• Bayou City Buzz

  March 12, 2009

• Big Moe

  Purple World (Wreckshop/Priority)

  June 20, 2002

• Mouth of the South

  The South Park Coalition Turns 20

  September 13, 2007

• SoundExchange Wants to Kill Internet Radio

  On "lost" artists, found money and the murder of free enterprise

  May 17, 2007

• Houston Hip-Hop

  Mike Watts and his stable of northside rappers take a southside legend's style to the masses

  March 22, 2007

• Christmas in July

  Six dozen of Houston's finest bands for a mere $7

  July 21, 2005

• Back to School

  Big Daddy Kane and friends revisit the era of the flattop

  March 25, 2004

• Turntable Roundtable

  Hip-hop notables get together to rap about responsibility

  January 29, 2004

• Project Row Houses Arts and Music Festival

  Saturday and Sunday, October 12 and 13

  October 10, 2002

• Lil' O

  Saturday, December 22

  December 20, 2001

• Screw Heads

  Forever and a Day (Avarice/JCOR Entertainment)

  November 15, 2001

• Life in the Slow Lane

  DJ Screw lived mostly for his work, as if he would have time later to celebrate his success. That time would never come.

  January 18, 2001

• Flashing Back to the Heyday of DJ Screw

  Ed. Note: To go along with this week's feature on Mike Jones, Mike Giglio takes a look at the origins of Houston rap's once and future calling card, "screw music." Photos by Mike GiglioScrew: The Next Generation (l-r): Randy, Big Bubb, Bird Wearing corn rows, a wife beater and green courdoroys, and holding a bottle of windex, Bird washes the glass doors at the Missouri City's massive Kingdom Builders church. "Your hair looks nice today," he says to a woman in a dress and high heels, as he h

  July 23, 2009

• The H-Town Countdown: Setting the Table

  Roughly 84,000 rap albums have been released in Houston since 1989. For the next six months, we'll be counting down the 25 best of all time every Thursday. Got a problem with the list? Shove it. Just kidding. Friendship. Email it to sheaserrano@gmail.com.​For the last few weeks we have pored over countless Houston rap albums, attempting to narrow down the mass into the 25 best. And if that weren't enough, we then ranked them, top to bottom. It was some stressful shit. Imagine going to the beac

  July 30, 2009

• The H-Town Countdown, No. 22: Big Hawk's H.A.W.K.

  Roughly 84,000 rap albums have been released in Houston since 1989. We're counting down the 25 best of all time every Thursday. Got a problem with the list? Shove it. Just kidding. Friendship. Email it to sheaserrano@gmail.com.​For all of the talent and charm and natural charisma that Hawk brought to Houston's rap scene - his fingerprints are all across it, most notably for co-founding the legendary Screwed Up Click - the most impressive aspect of his legacy is uncommonly simple yet profoundly

  August 27, 2009

• Turning the Screw: Lil Keke, Trae, Dre vs. Rush Limbaugh, Weezer, Weezy, Chamillionaire, 50 vs. Jay-Z, The Kanye, Nas, DMX, Big Pokey, etc.

  Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: "Still Here," Lil' Keke Wire To Wire Again, congratulations to Trae and the newest tiny Trae. Hey, Rush: Fuck off. Sincerely, Dr. Dre.

  October 26, 2009