Subject: Bushwick Bill

• Googlism with Houston Musicians, or Why Beyonce Is Stealing My Mojo

  January 31, 2008

• Over the Weekend: Geto Boys, Willie Nelson, Hot Dogs and Vintage

  July 7, 2008

• Aftermath: Geto Boys at Warehouse Live

  July 8, 2008

• Turning The Screw: Jay'Ton, Bushwick, Nas, Akon, Dre, Diddy, DJ Hero, Grandmaster Flash, The Kanye, T.I., Three 6 Mafia, Bubba Sparxxx, 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: "We Here," Jay'Ton feat. Trae and Yung Quis Wire To Wire: Nas is not a fan of Canada. Akon, who has been quite the spokesman as of late, speaks out about Anti-Gun Violence. I wonder why he never spoke out about throwing kids off stages. Oh, yeah, that's right, probably because of this.

  June 1, 2009

• World Views

  Jimmie Dale Gilmore loses fans over his political views

  March 21, 2002

• Big Mike Attack

  August 4, 1994

• Rotation

  January 12, 1995

• Static

  February 22, 1996

• Static

  April 25, 1996

• Houston Press 1996 Music Awards

  July 25, 1996

• Can't Touch This

  July 24, 1997

• Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

  January 1, 1998

• Rotation

  April 16, 1998

• Rotation

  July 23, 1998

• Static

  October 1, 1998

• And Then There Were Two

  November 26, 1998

• SPC Weekend Plumbs the Roots of Houston Rap

  September 11, 2008

• Follow Your Nose

  Jasmine, weed, liberty and failure -- the smells of a Sunday night on the town

  July 22, 2004

• Wesley Willis

  Wednesday, April 23

  April 17, 2003

• The Geto Boys Reunite

  July 3, 2008

• Juneteenth Revisited

  Two arts organizations attempt a new spin on an old event

  June 12, 2008

• Willie D's Birthday Party

  November 1, 2007

• Houston's Very Best Songs Ever

  September 27, 2007

• Hip-hop as She Is Rapped

  Translating the German Wikipedia entries of Houston's top MCs

  June 22, 2006

• Billy Joel and Goldfish Sandwiches

  Four artists share their guilty, and not-so-guilty, pleasures

  May 11, 2006

• Scarface

  My Homies Part 2

  April 6, 2006

• Bayou City Music Mindbender, Part II

  Another chance to test your knowledge of local lore

  January 12, 2006

• Best Beats from the Bayou

  H-town's top ten rap jams

  October 20, 2005

• Answering the Musical Question

  Wesley Willis's ghost in the machine pays rock 'n' roll tribute to notorious Houstonians

  September 15, 2005

• Mouth of the Dirty South

  May 5, 2005

• Local Rotation

  February 24, 2005

• En Fuego

  The Arcade Fire burns Mary Jane's Fat Cat down to the ground; also: Scarface/Geto Boys news and the fate of Mary Jane's

  February 3, 2005

• Mama's Got a Brand-New Bag

  Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings carry old-school funk into the new millennium

  February 3, 2005

• Souchin' into Bethlehem

  Greg Wood's latest health scare costs him a few pounds of flesh and almost takes his arm

  January 20, 2005

• Willie D

  Unbreakable (Relentless)

  April 10, 2003

• World Class?

  Houston can't join the ranks of other cities until it has an anthem of its own

  June 14, 2001

• Static

  January 4, 1996

• Five Spot: Hangin' With the Geto Boys (Almost)

  If we had to rank the three most disappointing things not to happen in our lives, it would be these. We have never: 1. Dunked a basketball on a regulation goal. We play basketball, in some form or fashion, at least five times a week. Frankly, we love it. Yet apparently we did something so horribly awful in a previous life that God thought it necessary to smite us with this great irony. We would gladly trade ten years of our life to drive down the lane and tomahawk dunk one good time. Please, Jes

  May 8, 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

• They All Look Alike To The Chronicle

  Perusing the "Hot Ticket" spread in this week's Chronicle's Preview section, we came across this little doozy of a mislabeled photo:The caption reads, in part, "Trombone Shorty (pictured here in Guitar Shorty mode) and Orleans Avenue will headline A Gulf Coast Juneteenth...7 p.m. Friday at Miller Outdoor Theatre"No mode about it, that is in fact a picture of Guitar Shorty, a pint-sized blues guitar shredder who had a long residency on the Richmond Strip back in that now-woebegone party zone's `9

  June 18, 2009

• Ask a Rapper: Soulbrotha

  The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place - lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good - so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Have something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email it to introducingliston@gmail.com. ​ This Week's Rapper: Soulbrotha Listen to "Life Is Crazy" This Week's Subjects: The "Christian rapper" oxymoron; Bushwick Bill's conversion to the gospel; how much it would cost to sel

  July 28, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs Guaranteed to Offend the Opposite Sex, Part 2

  It's been 25 years since Tipper Gore and the ladies of the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center) self-righteously rode the the rescue of delicate ears across America, claiming that rock music was "infecting the youth of the world with messages they cannot handle." It was the 1950s all over again. The list of the infamous "Filthy 15" songs that they claimed were highly objectionable seems almost laughable today, given the inclusion of such artists as Sheena Easton and Cyndi Lauper (who really lis

  August 20, 2009

• The H-Town Countdown, No. 16: Bushwick Bill's Little Big Man

  Roughly 84,000 rap albums that 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. Bushwick Bill Little Big Man (Priority, 1992)​"Get to the house, all I'm thinking 'bout is shootin' her/ 'Cause shootin' her would be sweet/ But you know what'd be sweeter/ if I made her shoot me." Scarface will always be the best rapper from the Geto Boys, but the

  October 8, 2009

• The H-Town Countdown, No. 15: Chamillionaire's Original Mixtape Messiah, or 20-Plus Ways to Dis Mike Jones

  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. "You drop one track, he's still alive." - Chamillionaire, on why he aimed an entire dis album at Mike Jones rather than just one track Chamillionaire Mixtape Messiah (self-released - it's a mixtape, duh - 2005) For the most part, we've tried to avoid including mixtapes

  October 15, 2009

• The H-Town Countdown, No. 14: Trae's Restless

  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. Trae Restless (Asylum, 2006) ​Disclaimer: We dissected this album without referencing "Swang," the album's best song and possibly the finest representation of what it is that makes Trae Trae. We did this in part because we wanted to see if we could do it, but mostly be

  October 22, 2009

• The H-Town Countdown, No. 13: DJ Screw's 3 N' Tha Mornin' Pt. 2 (Blue)

  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. DJ Screw 3 N' Da Mornin, Part 2 (Big Tyme Records, 1995)​While researching the Countdown, we came across two very distinct opinions regarding this album; naturally, they were almost diametrically opposed to one another. People either argued that it should be placed some

  October 29, 2009

• The H-Town Countdown, No. 12: Street Military's Don't Give a Damn

  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. Street Military Don't Give a Damn (Wild Pitch, 1999)​Surprise. Kids, meet Street Military. If you know who they are, then you no doubt sing their praises at parties, business meetings, funerals, whatever. If you don't know who they are, don't feel too badly. They've som

  November 5, 2009

• The H-Town Countdown, No. 11: Z-Ro's Let the Truth Be Told

  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 sheaserrano@gmail.com. Z-Ro Let the Truth Be Told (Asylum, 2005)​This is our second entry from Joseph McVey. He landed at the No. 20 spot with The Life of Joseph McVey, which, as we described in our write-up, "was important for one big, big reason: it represented the budding of the artist that Z-R

  November 12, 2009

• Five Spot: New Videos from Bushwick, Chamillionaire, Trae; A Classic from Big Mello

  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. Several key artists in Houston released new videos this week. However, before we get down to them, a couple of things from our handy-dandy notebook: ​At the Kroger by our house, there's this electronic helicopter outside near one of the doors. It's one of those rides where y

  November 13, 2009

• The H-Town Countdown, No. 10: OG Style's I Know How to Play 'Em!

  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. OG Style I Know How to Play 'Em! (Rap-A-Lot/Priority, 1987) There are any number of reasons that you could point to as to why this album should've made the list. Here are a few: 1. It's one of the earliest Rap-A-Lot albums to be released, back before the label really got

  November 19, 2009