Posts Tagged ‘hop’
Kyeyote, Doug Funnie, Meathead Wop
HearsayIn an old-school rap song battle, I’m pretty sure there’s one tune that trumps them all. But I’m not going to tell you here. Just know that if you ever challenge me, my song’s eventually going to land on your head with ...
Beats, Rhymes & Life: Rap Promoters
This hip-hop documentary is like butter.KRISTIAN LIN
A Tribe Called Quest came along in the early 1990s, when hip-hop music was dominated by murderously petty feuds and aggressive braggadocio. In this environment, Tribe’s socially conscious brand of rap stood ...
Fort Worth Hip-Hop: On the Verge
With the help of some veterans, a crop of new hip-hoppers is building a viable scene.CAROLINE COLLIER photos by anna routh
Though he was still a teenager, Six2 had already experienced how high life could take him and how quickly it could try to erase him. As he stood on a Hemphill Street corner looking to peddle a pocketful of crack one day in 1996...
Slightly Stoopid
Listen UpAbout 13 years ago, there was this little band from Ocean Beach, Calif., that Bradley Nowell sort of handpicked to follow the trail blazed by the underground success of his own band, Sublime.
Hustling THCK
ERIC GRIFFEYThe shores of Lake Arlington aren’t all that picturesque, especially on the Fort Worth side, where the rocky shoreline borders a massive parking lot and the summer sun reflects off both, making people feel like they’...
Top Registers
With Crowns, Jubilee traces the history of African-American headwear wonderfully, if a little hastily.Stage
For Jubilee Theatre’s current gospel musical, Crowns, set designer Judd Vermillion has turned the back wall of the stage into what looks like a lady’s hat store in the 1930s Deep South.
Connected
Local upstarts Fusion Records bring know-how and a murderer’s row of talent to the forefront of Fort Worth music.JOSHUA LOEWEN
To get where they are now, as the heads of a recently founded full-service indie label, twentysomethings Zaq Bell and Jarrett Vamvakidis have been through a lot of twists and turns, from local music to semi-pro baseball and a f...
Triversityle
Listen UpTriversityle promotes its good intentions by giving its 17-minutes-long debut, The Nu Facez of Hip-Hop, a G-rating.
Fo’ Shizzle, Pardner
Jeff PrinceLonghorn cattle amble up and down red brick streets under the watchful eyes of drovers. The world’s largest honkytonk is here. Fake gunslinger shootouts. Rodeos. A vintage train. Get the picture, pilgrim? It’s cowboyville, ...