Subject: Bun B

• Another Bush Slips in the Polls

  February 14, 2007

• An Evening with Bun B

  February 13, 2007

• All Up in the Ozone

  July 19, 2007

• Geography with Pimp C

  July 31, 2007

• Everybody’s Talkin’: U.G.K.'s Underground Kingz

  August 28, 2007

• Two Nights Ago: Bun B and Other Members of the UGK Family

  February 10, 2008

• Weekend Music: Help Save the Houston Music Scene

  March 7, 2008

• Slideshow: Listening Party for Bun B's II Trill

  May 20, 2008

• Bun B’s II Trill: An Underground King, alone on the throne

  May 21, 2008

• Next Week: Bun B for Free at Warehouse Live

  August 13, 2008

• Aftermath: Bun B and Orgone at Warehouse Live

  August 22, 2008

• Turning the Screw: K-Otix, T-Pain, Bun B & Face?, Jay-Z & Coldplay, Master P, The Game, The Kanye, MF Doom and More

  October 6, 2008

• Turning the Screw: Bun B and Q-Tip Team Up, Jennifer Hudson, Ludacris, T-Pain, G-Unit, MF Doom, Cypress Hill and More

  October 27, 2008

• Los Magnificos: Like a Live H-Town Mixtape

  Los Magnificos 2008 bounces into Reliant Center Sunday. Bun B Whip, ride, slab, some bit of street slang Rocks Off won't even hear for another eight months - cars are as essential to hip-hop as crossfaders and lyrics that rhyme. But no city's rappers place their wheels on a higher pedestal than Houston, so it's no surprise that Sunday's Los Magnificos auto show, sponsored by 97.9 the Boxx, features as many local rap luminaries as gleaming Cadillacs hopping all over the place. Get a load of

  November 21, 2008

• Tonight: Pimp C Tribute on KPFT's "Damage Control"

  Has it really been a year already? Indeed it has: On December 4, 2007, Port Arthur-born MC and producer Pimp C was found dead in his Hollywood hotel room; the Los Angeles County Coroner listed the cause as a combination of sleep apnea and accidental overdose of codeine-containing cough syrup. To say things haven't been the same without him would be a massive understatement. Tonight on KPFT's "Damage Control" (90.1 FM, 12-3 a.m.), Pimp's former UGK partner Bun B and HoustonSoReal/AustinSurreal

  December 3, 2008

• Five Spot: Pimp C Was Pretty Good

  Welcome back to Five Spot. 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. So we were reading this Bun B interview the other day, and among discussions of how the final UGK album is progressing (very well, thanks) Bun spoke briefly on how Pimp C's lyrical work on "My Angel" was his favorite. The song, if you've never heard it, is an ode to the greatness of Pimp's mother. It's del

  March 13, 2009

• UGK: UGK 4 Life

  April 16, 2009

• Cory Mo: Still Payin' Due'z Vol. III

  October 9, 2008

• The 2008 Houston Press Music Awards Ceremony

  UGK for Life

  August 7, 2008

• Boheme Cafe and Wine Bar Has an Open-Mike Night That Doesn't Suck?

  July 31, 2008

• Bun B's II Trill

  May 29, 2008

• UGK for Life

  A conversation with the incomparable Bun B

  February 7, 2008

• Sayonara , Matt Sonzala

  Talking SXSW and rap's current malaise with a soon-to-be ex-Houstonian

  December 6, 2007

• Fucking Transmissions, Begin Transmission

  CD Review

  November 8, 2007

• Get Screwed

  July 20, 2006

• Devin the Dude

  Devin the Dude performs Sunday, April 29, at Bar Rio, 6400 Richmond, 832-251-9600.

  April 26, 2007

• KTRK, License Plate Frames, City Council, Bun B and Google

  KTRK has a "Meet the Rapist!" contest

  March 8, 2007

• Party Boy

  Matt Sonzala puts on Houston rap parties all over the world

  September 28, 2006

• Cold Cuts: Bun B vs. Byron Crawford

  Our new recurring feature raids the deli tray of H-town-related rap beefs

  April 20, 2006

• On Da Lingo, Part II

  Confused by what all our hometown rappers are talking about? We’re here to help.

  November 17, 2005

• Bun B

  Trill

  November 10, 2005

• Turning the Screw: Slim Thug, Bun B, H.I.S.D., The Kanye, C-Murder, Jim Jones, Hot Boyz, Jaime Foxx/Miley Cyrus, Trae and More

  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: "I'm Back," Slim Thug feat. Devin The Dude Wire To Wire Bun B spoke with The Source TV recently. And some guy rumored to have broken a bear's neck with his bare hands wrote a spot-on review of UGK's new album. Word up H.I.S.D., who made the front page of www.hiphopdx.com last week. Hide your camer

  April 20, 2009

• Turning the Screw: Dead End Alliance, Bun B, DMX, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Eminem, The Kanye, Beyonce and More

  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: "Heart of a Hustler," Dead End Alliance feat. Lil Keke and Mike D Wire To WireHow bad-ass is Bun B that he can endorse a book called The Year of Magical Thinking and not get killed by snarky music blogs? Jesus must really, really love us: DMX to appear on VH-1's Celebrity Rehab. Then again, maybe n

  April 27, 2009

• Turning the Screw: Bun B, Trae & Lil Keke, Rihanna, Snoop, Eminem vs. Nick Cannon, Jay-Z, T.I., E-40, South Park Mexican and More

  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: "Grey Cassette," Trae feat Bun B and Lil Keke Wire To Wire Ummm, we're not going to link to them, but should you be curious to see some pictures of Rihanna sans clothes, you presumably know how Google works. (And, wow.) All is not well in the house that Run built: Jo-Jo arrested. Snoop Dogg does not ha

  May 11, 2009

• The Distillery: The Cool Kids' "Going Fishin'" mixtape

  Photo by Hryck. Chuck "Chuck Inglish" Ingersoll (Michigan) and Antoine "Mikey Rocks" Reed (Illinois) - the Cool Kids, to you - may qualify as the 00s' biggest teases. Since 2007, they've unleashed a cavalcade of individual tracks and mixtapes, massaging Internet buzz into a sort of droning hum: 80s babies building a name with hot sixteens full of 80s signifiers and 80s-aping flows over 80s boom-bap beats. (See "Black Mags," which was featured in a late 2007/early 2008 Rhapsody commercial in tand

  May 14, 2009

• The 2009 Houston Press Music Award Nominees

  Here they are, folks. You nominated 'em, we mulled 'em over and sorted out the stuffers, and now the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards ballot is set. Normally Rocks Off would say something cute like read 'em and weep, but since we've been listening to almost nothing but '80s hard rock and new bands that totally sound like '80s hard rock (Low Man's Joe, The Answer, Charm City Devils) for the past couple of days, we'll just say this: Eat 'em and smile. Just kidding. We know this is serious stuff, an

  May 21, 2009

• Houston Press Music Awards: And The Nominees Are...

  Here they are, folks. You nominated 'em, we mulled 'em over and sorted out the stuffers, and now the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards ballot is set. Normally Rocks Off would say something cute like read 'em and weep, but since we've been listening to almost nothing but '80s hard rock and new bands that totally sound like '80s hard rock (Low Man's Joe, The Answer, Charm City Devils) for the past couple of days, we'll just say this: Eat 'em and smile. Just kidding. We know this is serious stuff, a

  May 21, 2009

• Running the Numbers

  May 28, 2009

• Five Spot: Flying the Mddl Fngz

  Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and, sometimes awkwardly, tie it to a bit of Houston rap. It's five videos and occasional cussing. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com.Mddl Fngz is a hard hitting (and totally texter-friendly) rap group that formed in 2002, in part as an offshoot of UGK when Pimp C was incarcerated. They're lyrically talented, gruff in their presentation, and utterly convincing in the Look How Mean I Am In My Black Shirt And H

  May 29, 2009

• Five Spot: The Illustrious Dustin Prestige

  Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and, sometimes awkwardly, tie it to a bit of Houston rap. It's five videos and occasional cussing. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com.We suspect the goal of every music writer is to be able to answer "Who are you listening to?" with a response that makes people go "Who?", thus making you smarter than them. It's why we were so amped when we heard newcomer Dustin Prestige's first full-length mixtape, Houston Pr

  June 19, 2009

• Five Spot: Houston R&B Collaboration King Billy Cook

  Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and, sometimes awkwardly, tie it to a bit of Houston rap. It's five videos and occasional cussing. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com.This weekend, Bun B and Mya are shooting the video for "Show Me Something," the electro-wispy "Upgrade You"-ish single from her forthcoming album. We used to be a fan of Mya back in the late '90s. We listened to "Movin' On" for a good three hours straight when it first came out

  July 17, 2009

• Slide Show: Trae Day at TSU Stadium

  Shea Serrano  Once upon a time, before it was a shooting gallery, national news and the talk of Twitter, the first annual Trae Day celebration was just a rap concert and family festival. Bun B, Rick Ross, a newly shorn Slim Thug and Houston mayoral candidate Peter Brown all came out to salute the man of the hour before things got all crazy. See our slideshow here.

  July 23, 2009

• HPMA: We Ain't Done Yet: Winners Roky Moon & BOLT, Sean Reefer & the Resin Valley Boys, Kam, Bun B and Spain Colored Orange

  Chris Gray​Ben Wesley is killing with a song that, according to his good buddy Cornbreadd, he wrote two days ago. It just keeps building and building on itself, spreading its wings rather than collapsing under its own weight. Wesley started out with a guitar and a bass strapped to him, hunched over a keyboard. He ended with nothing, screaming into the mic like a madman. Brilliant."IBest New Act: Roky Moon & BOLT. A moonage daydream come true for the best glam-rock band Houston has ever see

  July 30, 2009

• The 2009 Houston Press Music Award Winners

  Chris GrayScarface (right) and 2009 Best Punk winners Flamin' Hellcats​ Best Local CD/LP: Bun B, UGK for Life Best Local EP/7-inch: Wild Moccasins, Microscopic Metronomes Best Local Song: Mechanical Boy, "She Does" Best New Act: Roky Moon & BOLT Songwriter: B L A C K I E Local Musician of the Year: Little Joe Washington Best Guitarist: Little Joe Washington

  July 31, 2009

• Houston Music Fight Club, Round 2: Bryan Jackson vs. Jacob Calle, Bun B vs. B L A C K I E, Beau Beasley vs. Justin Nava

  In last week's Houston Music Fight Club, we pitted six of Houston's brightest-shining musical diamonds against one another in a sort of cruel Internet death match. The only blood drawn was the dark crimson blood of laughter that...yeah, we need to work on our metaphors. Anyhow, we came up with three more semi-local celebrity cage matches. We hope that this actually catches on in real life, so that one day it can be sold to pay-per-view for the rest of the world to gawk at. Finally we will have a

  August 19, 2009

• Turning the Screw: Clinton Sparks, Bun B & Slim Thug, More Bun B, Jazzy Jeff, Erykah Badu, Pitbull, Big Mello, 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. (Super, Super Cool) Single of the Week: "Pack The Gat," Clinton Sparks feat. Bun B and Slim Thug Wire To Wire If there's a rap concert anywhere in Houston, do not be surprised to see Bun B called out on stage. We're not completely sure, but we suspect there's some sort of message that Rock City is trying to relay with th

  August 24, 2009

• Five Spot: A Crap N.O.R.E. Track Reminds Us of Bun B's Better Days

  Welcome back to Five Spot. 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.Marco Torres​ Yesterday, N.O.R.E. released "Set Trip," a wispy, "Look How Tough I Am," available-via-Internet track that nobody's going to care about in four or five days. We mention it though, because it features a swift contribution from one of Houston's hip-hop archetypes: Bun B. We actually saw Bun B not to

  September 11, 2009

• Turning the Screw: Chalie Boy, Royce da 5'9", Saigon, Soulja Boy, Jay-Z, Adam Yauch, 50 vs. Fabolous, Young Gunz, Method Man, Big Moe, 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: "I Look Good" remix, featuring Bun B, Slim Thug and Juvenile Note: We initally hated Chalie Boy's "I Look Good" song until we realized that he's from rural Texas. We still don't like it very much, but we've actively stopped wishing for him to get polio. Wire To Wire Here's the album version of that Roy

  October 12, 2009

• Turning the Screw: Bun B, Slim Thug & Killa Kyleon, Bun B & Wale, Chingo Bling, Z-Ro vs. Lil Flip, Jay-Z, 50, The Kanye, Run-DMC, DMX, More Chingo, 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: "She Love It" remix, feat. Bun B, Slim Thug and Killa Kyleon After watching the actual video for this song about 15 times, were able to deduce that some might consider it to be fairly derogatory towards women, so we decided to use this version instead. You're free to find it on your own though. And if

  November 2, 2009

• Turning the Screw: K-Rino, Bun B, Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, C-Murder, Lil' Kim, Flavor Flav, Guccie Mane, Mike Jones, 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: "Phony," K-Rino Wire To Wire Always good to read something from Bun B. K-Rino had an album release party. Buy the man's album. He just might be a genius. Oh, hey, a rapper wants to pitch a reality TV show. That's original.

  November 16, 2009