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Action Incorporated

Make way for Master P's low-end version of Hollywood

Why Are Mexicans Obsessed with Scarface?

Make way for Master P's low-end version of Hollywood

What Happens When Chronically Ill Kids Grow Up

Physically disabled young adults who weren't supposed to live this long find themselves hemmed in by an unprepared heath care system

Empire Strikes Back in Mongol

The film paints a historically hazy but kickass picture of everyone's fave emperor, Genghis Khan

Empire Strikes Back in Mongol

This film paints a historically hazy but kickass picture of everyone's fave emperor, Genghis Khan

Daddy Yankee

This Puerto Rican makes hits on the charts instead of on the diamond

Interview

In Steve Buscemi's latest, the journalist-star sit-down is an interview between vampires

This is Their Brain on Drugs

Cassavetes Jr. and Justin "in a box" Timberlake team up for real-life tale of killer potheads

Coke Dreams

In Scarface, slinging yayo is the name of the game.

Houston's Due

Save your cash and stick around for H-town's own showcase

Hip-hop, Tejas

Latinos take on rap music and make it their own

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. F ... More >>

Ask a Rapper: Devin The Dude

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. Something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email introducingliston@gmail.com ... More >>

He Said She Said: The Sweet, Sweet Sounds of Revenge, Part 2

​For someone who wears motorcycle boots and carries a knife, the bald(ing) He Said rightfully looks like he should be one of the most vindictive cats in the world. But in reality, the only revenge we have ever taken has been of the emotional variety, and that's probably much worse than any windows ... More >>

False Prophet

No visionary he, the "French Scorsese" arrives stateside with his '70s-style gangster epic.

The Shameless Chef: Cookies In a Skillet

Can you tell I had my camera on the wrong setting? Hahahahahaha, professionalism.​While hunting through some old family recipes looking for inspiration, I came across a yellowed, stained note card with the recipe for something called "Baptist Cookies," and I was intrigued. Obvious jokes aside ... More >>

Casting Scarface With Houston Rappers

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 introducinglisto ... More >>

Bath Salts As Fake Coke: How Five Movies Would Have Been Different

Bath salts: The first taste is free​With all this talk about synthetic marijuana (K2), Hair Balls was already feeling despair for kids these days. But when we checked out the Beaumont Enterprise recently, we completely lost all faith: people in southeast Texas are now apparently snorting bath salt ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Twilight vs. Harry Potter And 9 Other Geek Throwdowns

Still the only crossover I'd pay to see.​Anyone watch the MTV Movie Awards? Anyone? I didn't think so, mostly because I suspect the majority of Hair Balls/Art Attack readers are over the age of 12. And while I have no intention of revisiting the whole "'Music?"Television line of jokes, I did ... More >>

The Six Best Movie Samples In Rap Songs

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 sheaserrano@gmail.com. ... More >>

Top Five Movies That Influenced Hip-Hop Culture

​Rappers love to imagine their lives as movies. They see bits of their lives on the big screen and turn to those cinematic treasures to help them make sense of their immediate environment: "If Tony Montana can rise to meteoric heights, so can I; if Frank Lucas can make it out of the game alive ... More >>

Last Night: The NiceGuys, Propain, John Dew and Youngest N Charge at Warehouse Live

Photos by RizohPropain and the crowd at Warehouse Live.​Warehouse Live's studio was filled with Houston hip-hop heads on a brisk November night. Women were clad in skin-tight leggings with boots and the men bundled up in leather jackets and hoodies. The host for the evening was MC Kane, who no ... More >>