Subject: Fat Pat

• Big Moe, RIP

  October 15, 2007

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

  February 10, 2008

• Rappies

  The age of rapping movies in Houston is now

  December 2, 1999

• Turn The Beat Around

  Long before DJ Screw, Darryl Scott was Houston's mixmaster, spinning records that eventually spun him into the ground. A reformed Scott has a new rap these days - the word of God.

  January 18, 2001

• Turning the Screw: H.I.S.D., Trae, Lupe Fiasco, Prodigy, Soulja Boy, Roy Jones Jr., Ice Cube and More

  November 3, 2008

• 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

• Turning the Screw: Dustin Prestige, Kid Cudi, King Tut, Rick Ross/50 Cent, Ludacris, Lil' Kim, T.I./Chris Brown, Fat Pat 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: "Dope," Dustin Prestige Wire To Wire Kid Cudi was tasered at an NBA All-Star Game party in Phoenix for wearing Jordans. One day after being released from jail on bail, Dipset BFF King Tut was charged with stabbing a woman. (No word on whether or not she was wearing Jordans.) He was origina

  February 16, 2009

• Five Spot: 25 Lighters for Fat Pat

  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. February 3 marked the 11th anniversary of the legendary Screwed Up Click MC Fat Pat's passing. (Soooo not brilliant.) As such, we've been on a big Mr. P-A-T kick. We're not sure if it's just the euphoria of reminiscing or not, but we're currently remembering him as being phenomenal. His voice

  February 20, 2009

• Real-Life Product

  March 26, 1998

• That's the Breaks

  February 11, 1999

• What Makes Cornbreadd Run

  February 5, 2009

• Hawk

  Saturday, December 7

  December 5, 2002

• Grand Theft Auto X: The Screwston Chronicles

  May 15, 2008

• Big Moe

  Purple World (Wreckshop/Priority)

  June 20, 2002

• Fucking Transmissions, Begin Transmission

  CD Review

  November 8, 2007

• The Scene Is Dead. Long Live the Scene!

  Ideas toward a Houston-style musical Day of the Dead

  October 25, 2007

• Mouth of the South

  The South Park Coalition Turns 20

  September 13, 2007

• Houston Hip-Hop

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

  March 22, 2007

• Hope Springs Eternal

  A northern suburb tops our third installment of rating greater Houston's taste in music

  August 10, 2006

• Trae Cool

  An underground legend teams up with Rap-A-Lot in a bid to break nationwide

  June 22, 2006

• Billy Joel and Goldfish Sandwiches

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

  May 11, 2006

• Fat Beats

  The real reason Houston stays near the top of the chunkiest-city charts

  March 9, 2006

• Bayou City Music Mindbender, Part II

  Another chance to test your knowledge of local lore

  January 12, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  November 17, 2005

• Best Beats from the Bayou

  H-town's top ten rap jams

  October 20, 2005

• Hot Tunes, Summer in the City

  Houston Press Music Awards Showcase 2002

  July 18, 2002

• 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

• One Last Spin

  Friends, fans and associates cope with the silence following DJ Screw's untimely death

  November 30, 2000

• Local Rotation

  Local Music Reviewed

  November 4, 1999

• Discman

  DJ DMD goes national with his continental, Houston-based rap style

  June 10, 1999

• Five Spot: Big M.O.E. of the S.U.C.

  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.We were flipping through the Trae playlist in our iPod yesterday, and "Swang" came on. "Swang," if you'll remember, was the Big Hawk and Fat Pat-assisted second-best song from Trae's irreplaceable Restless album. It was swirling, ethereal wonder of a track, but the thing that made it a staple of any best-of Trae

  May 15, 2009

• Five Spot: Remembering "Five Star General" Big Hawk

  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.MTV's Cribs has to be one of this generation's finest cultural achievements. For anyone who's never seen it - and thus, indirectly shown far more independence of character than we possess - the show consists of a camera crew showing up at some famous person's home and following

  June 12, 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

• 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

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: Houston and "Brazoria"

  The final installment of our Five States of Texas project brings it all back home, to the new state of Brazoria, encompassing all of Southeast Texas from the Brazos Valley to Sabine Pass. ​Patron Saint: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. A master of rock and roll, country, Cajun/Creole, blues and jazz, no one area musician sounded more like Southeast Texas. That he spent his life moving all over the area, on both sides of the Sabine, only serves as evidence in favor of one of our geographical hypothe

  August 18, 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