Subject: Mike Jones

• Rotation: Dueling DJs

  May 4, 2007

• Dropping Today

  May 8, 2007

• Houston Rap: Kicked to the Curb?

  August 16, 2007

• Last Night: The Straight to DVD Movie Premiere of Mike Jones’s The American Dream

  November 9, 2007

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

  February 10, 2008

• Over the Weekend: Bun B, Poison Girl, Katie Pell and Hockey

  February 11, 2008

• This Just In: Drama at the Ozone Awards

  August 12, 2008

• Five Spot: Five Reasons Not to Mess With Trae

  August 15, 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

• Trae's Cartoon Is a Big Hit on the Web

    Go ahead and add "Cartoon rappers smacking the shit out of each other" to the ever-growing list of popular Internet entertainments, then file that under "Things that come as absolutely no surprise at all." Since premiering on worldstarhiphop.com a few days ago, the first installment of Houston MC Trae tha Truth and animator Jay Sugarman's The Adventures of Trae tha Truth series has already been viewed more than 2.2 million times. The episode is a perhaps slightly exaggerat

  November 25, 2008

• Sold!

  February 23, 1995

• Ten Things You Can Find In the Pleasantville Garbage Pile

  There's a pile of rotting garbage (some optimistically call it "mulch", but if it's been there since Ike, it's garbage) festering in Pleasantville, near the Port of Houston. It's been there since Hurricane Ike converted large chunks of the city to debris back in September, and now it looks like the Copeland Construction Group might finally move it on out of here.Indeed, CCG were issued a citation earlier this month by the city health department, providing extra motivation to get moving. Soon the

  January 16, 2009

• Mike Jones Wants to Get "Next to You"

  Asylum RecordsWho is Mike Jones? Well, not long ago, he was Trae's punching bag at the Ozone Awards, which at least reminded people he was still alive. Well, Jones has a new single, "Next to You," from his forthcoming album The Voice (due April 14), and it's probably not going to enhance his 'hood reputation a whole lot either. Or the line "I love to cuddle up" won't, anyway. Obviously geared toward the ladies, "Next to You" finds Mr. Jones extolling the virtues of a 

  February 17, 2009

• Brick House Tavern & Tap

  March 5, 2009

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

  It Is What It Is

  December 25, 2008

• Sayonara , Matt Sonzala

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

  December 6, 2007

• 2007 Turkeys of the Year

  Priscilla Slade is the biggest gobbler of them all

  November 22, 2007

• Houston's Ten Worst Songs

  …and we're still not as bad as Dallas

  September 27, 2007

• Tonk Blokes And the Mean Streets Of Da R.O.

  Ten things I read about Houston on Urbandictionary.com, the Wikipedia of the hood

  September 20, 2007

• Mouth of the South

  The South Park Coalition Turns 20

  September 13, 2007

• Sean Kingston, Lil Scrappy, Slim Thug, Paul Wall

  August 23, 2007

• Baller's Ball

  Where to party this All-Star Weekend

  February 16, 2006

• Get Screwed

  July 20, 2006

• Houston Hip-Hop

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

  March 22, 2007

• Chillin' with tha Eskimoz

  We have a Whatachat with the guys behind the fast-food rap video

  June 29, 2006

• Hip-hop as She Is Rapped

  Translating the German Wikipedia entries of Houston's top MCs

  June 22, 2006

• Spank Rock

  Yoyoyoyoyo

  April 13, 2006

• Fat Beats

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

  March 9, 2006

• Farewell to the Twenty Nickel

  Looking back on the '05 and dreaming in the '06

  December 29, 2005

• Hip-hop, Year Two AJ

  Still no Jigga, but Kanye, some lovable limeys and a great Beyoncé substitute held it down

  December 8, 2005

• Best Beats from the Bayou

  H-town's top ten rap jams

  October 20, 2005

• Zilla's a Thrilla

  A Houston hopeful throws down at the Thunda'ground Showcase

  September 22, 2005

• Houston's Gone Gaaga for Haaga

  August 4, 2005

• Thug Life

  Slim Thug has paid the cost to be the Dirty South boss

  July 14, 2005

• Who Is Mike Jones?

  The smash single "Still Tippin'" and his major-label debut have answered that question for the nation

  May 5, 2005

• Making the Videos

  Rub elbows with the pros at the HBCU Film Festival

  April 28, 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

• ¡Viva H-town!

  Latinos come to the fore in this year's music awards

  August 5, 2004

• Chingo Bling

  The Tamale Kingpin (Big Chile Enterprises)

  May 13, 2004

• Defending the Dirty Thirty

  And coping with Yankee slander

  May 6, 2004

• Local Album of the Week: Mike Jones' The Voice

  Mike Jones The Voice www.whomikejones.comHere's the thing about The Voice, Mike Jones' follow-up to double-platinum debut Who Is Mike Jones?: People automatically want to hate it. Perhaps even more interesting, though, is that Jones knows this. The Voice's most meaningful song is a cathartic track aptly titled "Hate On Me," which even goes so far as to glance at the Ozone Awards debacle, where Jones more or less got his clock cleaned by Trae. But you know what? Objectively, The Voice is not all

  May 5, 2009

• Local Self-Described Rap Supergroup Admires... Nickelback?

  Photo by Paul Knight Young Problemz, a self-described "supergroup" of local rap talent, joined Mike Jones Monday evening at the Arena Theatre, and the group's "Boi" was one of the high points, if not the high point of the night. The five Houston-bred performers - Chyco, Just-O, JM, J Yung and Star Struck - have talent. A lot. After a recent signing with Warner Bros/Asylum Records, the group seems to be at the breakthrough point. "We went from no shows to opening up for Mike Jones," Star Struck s

  May 13, 2009

• Mike Jones: The Voice

  May 14, 2009

• Mike Jones! Who?

  July 23, 2009

• Catfish Reef: The Rise of Swishahouse

  [Note: this is the second in a series on the origins of Houston rap, to go along with this week's feature on wayward star Mike Jones.]Mike Giglio​As a local hip-hop writer and radio host, Matt Sonzala (also a former Houston Press Music Listings Editor) did what he could to promote Houston rap to a larger audience. Within the city, though, that part was always easy. Thanks to the success of acts such as the Geto Boys and Lil' Troy, who also had their turns in the national spotlight, and the DJ

  July 29, 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

• Mr. Boomtown, On Directing Slim Thug And Mike Jones

  ​Most people in the world of music videos may not recognize the name Nahala Johnson, but lately, they've recognized his nom de film: Mr. Boomtown. The Port Arthur native (he now splits his time between Houston and Dallas) is a nominee for the BET Hip Hop Awards' Director of the Year. The show will be held October 10th in Atlanta.He's nominated for his work on two videos that really couldn't be any more different from each other -- Slim Thug's "I Run," with its breathtaking night-time

  October 7, 2009

• Chatting With "Mr. Boomtown" About Directing Mike Jones, Slim Thug and More

  ​Most people in the world of music videos may not recognize the name Nahala Johnson, but lately, they've recognized his nom de film: Mr. Boomtown. The Port Arthur native (he now splits his time between Houston and Dallas) is a nominee for the BET Hip Hop Awards' Director of the Year. The show will be held October 10th in Atlanta.He's nominated for his work on two videos that really couldn't be any more different from each other -- Slim Thug's "I Run," with its breathtaking night-time

  October 7, 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

• Ask a Rapper: Karina Nistal Loves Common, Mike Jones Not So Much

  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: Bilingual Latina femmestress Karina Nistal This Week's Subject(s): Rappers switching genres; Rappers getting that money. Sadia Zubair​Ask A Rapper: Okay, we might be

  October 20, 2009