Subject: Lil' Flip

• Where Will They Be?

  A look at the rock scene in 2020

  December 30, 1999

• Houston Rap: Kicked to the Curb?

  August 16, 2007

• This Just In: Rap Summit at U of H Tonight

  November 14, 2007

• Lil’ Flip Mourns Comrade Pimp C

  December 5, 2007

• Rap-A-Lot's J Prince Wins SEA Image Award

  September 9, 2008

• Five Spot: Axl Rose is Not Impressed by Dr Pepper's Fun and Games

  Welcome back to Five Spot. Every week, 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.   Back in March, Dr Pepper (easily one of our favorite doctors, right behind J., Scholls and Dre) set forth a proposition to aged rockers Guns 'N' Roses: release Chinese Democracy this year and everyone in America would get a free soda. Seemed a clear enough challenge, if not a blatant publicity stunt.

  November 28, 2008

• Five Spot: Flipperace Is Magically Delicious

  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. Last year (around September or October, we think), The Game and Lil' Bow Wow held a video-game football battle with $100,000 on the line. (Recession? Don't be absurd.) It was cool for a second, until you realized that you were just watching two guys play video games. At

  March 27, 2009

• Turning the Screw: K-Rino, Nosaprise, Method Man, T.I., Devin the Dude, Trick Daddy, Flo Rida, The Kanye, Jim Jones, Botany Boyz 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: K-Rino, "Past, Present, Future" Wire To Wire In case you forgot about him, here's the link to Houston rapper Nosaprise. We caught his performance at the Westheimer Block Party and felt obligated to mention that, after some early sound trouble, he ripped it the last half of his set. Bad week for T-

  March 30, 2009

• A New Class of Rappers Finally Bucked Houston's Syrupy Stereotype This Year

  It Is What It Is

  December 25, 2008

• Texas Albums

  2007's best Texas albums, from Houston, Austin and beyond

  January 3, 2008

• Sayonara , Matt Sonzala

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

  December 6, 2007

• Potty Mouths

  Tamales overhead, beer cans underfoot, drug references and cussing from the stage — it's the return of the Westheimer Street Festival to its old home

  July 10, 2003

• They Fought the Law

  In Rap, You're Nothing Without a Sheet

  August 2, 2007

• That Was the Year That Was

  Looking back on the local scene in '06

  December 14, 2006

• Sovereign Ruler

  Is the U.S. Ready for the S-O-V?

  November 23, 2006

• Hip-hop as She Is Rapped

  Translating the German Wikipedia entries of Houston's top MCs

  June 22, 2006

• Fat Beats

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

  March 9, 2006

• Low Ride, Take It Easy

  A trip to the Los Magnificos Car Show sets us to pondering why there can’t be a local rock equivalent

  November 10, 2005

• Where's the Beef? Right here in H-town

  T.I. and Lil' Flip rumble in Cloverland, bringing one of the great rap feuds of recent years to a head

  April 7, 2005

• Dotted Lines

  The Didaktiks rock some homegrown hip-hop at Helios

  February 3, 2005

• Rogue Bosoms, Bouncing Booties and Pac-Man Raps

  Looking back on the '04

  December 23, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  December 23, 2004

• Anarchy in da USA

  Looking for the true spirit of the Ramones? Try going to an underground hip-hop show.

  December 16, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  October 21, 2004

• Pop-Up Pop Stars

  With the help of city government, Matthew Knowles hopes to find the next Destiny's Child. You got a problem with that?

  August 19, 2004

• On Da Lingo

  Tracing Houston roots in three omnipresent hip-hop terms

  July 15, 2004

• Pop Quiz

  Think you know local music? Take the Bayou City Music Mindbender and find out.

  June 10, 2004

• Local Rotation

  Lil' Flip, U Gotta Feel Me (Sony Urban/Suckafree/Columbia)

  Paul Wall, Chick Magnet (Paid in Full)

  June 3, 2004

• Family Feud

  Hip-hop turns 25, and the battle lines are drawn

  April 1, 2004

• Ludacris

  Chicken & Beer (Def Jam South)

  October 23, 2003

• A Lil' Car Show

  See tricked-out cars and hip-hop stars courtesy of Sucka Free

  July 31, 2003

• David Banner

  Mississippi: The Album (Street Records Corporation/Universal)

  June 26, 2003

• Rules of the Game

  Learn the music biz from the pros

  April 3, 2003

• Rodeo's Gonna Git You, Sucka

  When the Fat Show calls, you better answer

  December 19, 2002

• Project Row Houses Arts and Music Festival

  Saturday and Sunday, October 12 and 13

  October 10, 2002

• Hot Tunes, Summer in the City

  Houston Press Music Awards Showcase 2002

  July 18, 2002

• Back To Basics

  Steven Van Zandt is dedicated to garage rock

  April 11, 2002

• Rocker Robbery

  The theft of his trailer capped a bad week for John Evans

  February 28, 2002

• Hip-hop Harvest

  December 20, 2001

• Screw Heads

  Forever and a Day (Avarice/JCOR Entertainment)

  November 15, 2001

• Lil' Flip

  The Leprechaun (Sucka Free)

  February 8, 2001

• One Last Spin

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

  November 30, 2000

• Willie D Out on Bond, Still Can't Travel

  About a month ago, pioneering Houston rap star Willie D. (nee Willie Dennis) was arrested by the Feds at Intercontinental Airport and charged with wire fraud for his alleged involvement in an international iPhone scam. When last we updated the story, on May 20, the rapper was still behind bars, but apparently he bonded out at about the same time our posting hit the 'net. Hair Balls obtained a copy of the terms of that bond late last week. In standard bond conditions, Dennis was also ordered t

  June 8, 2009

• Slide Show: Bun B and Friends at Warehouse Live

  Marco Torres A who's who of rap talent from both Houston (Devin the Dude, Lil' Flip, Paul Wall, Chamillionaire) and out of town (Lupe Fiasco, the Cool Kids) turned up at Warehouse Live Saturday, June 20, to help the one and only Bun B "Swang on 'Em" for a couple of hours. Photographer Marco Torres was in the thick of the action. UGK for life! Click here for the slideshow.

  June 22, 2009

• China Girls (and Boys)

  July 2, 2009

• Turning the Screw: All-Houston Edition with GT Garza, Trae Day, Trouble Sum, Jay'Ton, Paul Wall, Z-Ro, Letoya vs. Slim Thug, Coast, Z-Ro, Juan Gotti 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: GT Garza, "52 Pick Up" (We've listened to a bunch of GT's stuff, but this remains to be the rawest thing we have ever heard from him. He is in full beast mode.) Wire To Wire Likely because Trae Day is this week, we're feeling especially Houston-y. Thus, all of the items in this edition of Turning the S

  July 20, 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

• 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

• 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: ESG and Friends, Chamillionaire, Dustin Prestige, 50, Eminem, Jay-Z, Chris Brown, Jeezy, Rihanna, Lil' Flip, 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: "Break Dem Boys Off," ESG feat. Slim Thug and Big Hawk Wire To Wire Chamillionaire continues to market himself as one of the smarter rappers in Houston, speaks on independent promotion within the music industry at Stanford. The Single of the Week reminded us of the same-named song from Dallas' B. Hardy

  November 9, 2009