Subject: Screwed Up Click

• The Houston 100: From Guy Clark to Don Williams

  September 26, 2007

• The Houston 100: The Master List

  October 4, 2007

• Big Moe, RIP

  October 15, 2007

• Swangin' and Bangin' ... and getting to that other level with the disciples of screw

  February 27, 1997

• Letters

  April 3, 1997

• 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

• SPC Weekend Plumbs the Roots of Houston Rap

  September 11, 2008

• Mount Coy

  South Park Mexican carves out his place in history with the 2001 Music Awards

  July 26, 2001

• GRiT Boys, Ghetto Reality in Texas

  An evening with Houston's GRiT Boys

  November 22, 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

• 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

• That Was the Year That Was

  Looking back on the local scene in '06

  December 14, 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

• Best Beats from the Bayou

  H-town's top ten rap jams

  October 20, 2005

• Codeine Country

  Houston was the city of syrup long before DJ Screw came on the scene

  May 5, 2005

• Lil' O

  Saturday, December 22

  December 20, 2001

• Screw Heads

  Forever and a Day (Avarice/JCOR Entertainment)

  November 15, 2001

• Lean & Mean

  Those who drink codeine syrup call it lean because of its most obvious effect: a loss of coordination. Those who study the drug call it liquid crack. Those who abuse it can wind up dead.

  April 26, 2001

• 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

• 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

• The H-Town Countdown, No. 22: Big Hawk's H.A.W.K.

  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.​For all of the talent and charm and natural charisma that Hawk brought to Houston's rap scene - his fingerprints are all across it, most notably for co-founding the legendary Screwed Up Click - the most impressive aspect of his legacy is uncommonly simple yet profoundly

  August 27, 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