For me it's the NYC beats from like '91-'95 or '96. The jazzier, the better. I think 3rd bass music is underrated. The beats were just sublime. Like some of the best produced beats imo.
I loved this song so much my grand pop bought the single cd with 3 versions the dirty, the clean and the chopped and screwed plus the instrumental I didn’t even know they still made those by 06 sadly that was the last thing he ever bought me because he died later that year but this song always make me think about him this shit legendary til this day I still don’t know who got the best verse 😂
And the fact that he grinded his ass off to get recognition, at least that's the story I've heard. Constantly in Houston strip clubs doing everything he possibly could to promote and get himself in the scene.
My absolute favorite era of rap. Imagine listening to these guys for years, waiting for them to blow up, then seeing this come on BET. I still get goosebumps sometimes.
We had the best if both worlds at that time!!! We had major hits on the radio and then we had all our underground artists remixing freestyling on those beats. The mixtapes were amazing!
I really didn't appreciate this as much as I should have back then. I miss that Era. It was so much fun. Back then there were many distinct regional sounds in rap. I feel like things have become much more homogenized these days .
Agreed. Used to be a very distinct sound difference from east coast, west coast, southern, Florida rappers, Atlanta rappers you could damn near pick out which city a dude from by how he rapped
This is crazy to read…..I great up very close to the Swisha House guys. I had no idea back then that people outside of Houston knew them let alone all the way in Canada. Mike Jones / Paul Wall / DJ Skcrew were paer of the culture in the late 19990s and early 2000s.
The south invented having swag. The flavor down here is forever unmatched. Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana- all got their own individual swag.
Why you leave Florida out? We invented booty shaking southern songs. Uncle Luke, trick daddy, jt money, Rick ross, plies, Trina, poison clang, tom g, list goes on. Florida hold it down for the south nigga
I remember when this came out when I was in High School. This was one of coldest songs I ever heard and pretty much ever since then my favorite genre of music switched to 100% Houston rap.
Bro seeing you get so worked up over southern people and so excited about it and saying we cool and shit literally made my month bro the south really be lacking that respect especially Texas so I appreciate it my man
Bro I'm 34 and you still a young buck. 22, don't waste you time because it flies... I still remember 1999 end of elementary. Ying yang twins, Whistle While You Twurk, Swisha House and the Freestyle Kings XD My advice to you, look at investing. I regret buying all the dumb shit and expensive shit that in the end don't matter.
Cool Breeze feat Outkast and Goodie Mob - Watch for the Hook Hot Boys - Respect My Mind Hot Boys - Bout Whatever BG - Clean Up Man C Murder feat BG - Y’all Heard Of Me Lil Troy - Wanna Be A Baller Lil Keke - 25 Lighters
I was in high school when this came out. I had a homie who used to work for Swishahouse. I got some free swag occasionally, album t-shirts, early CD releases, and got to meet Slim Thug and Paul Wall. Never had the chance to meet Mike Jones yet. Was a fun time being 14 year old and learning more about hip-hop culture from those dudes.
So weird I listened to this song for the first time in over a decade today and now you upload it. Crazy. This was such a fun time for the rap game in the dirty south.
Every verse is a banger! Super rare where everyone nails it. I think of this one and Fat Joe’s lean back as great multiple rappers killing their verses.
No bullshit. I went to Houston in March. I had to stop at a auto parts store and I just happened to stop at one where there was a car show in the next parking lot they were playing this song and people were vibing like it just dropped. I wanted to move right then 😂
Cruisin' down the street in my '64 Jockin' the freaks, clockin' the dough Went to the park to get the scoop Knuckleheads out there cold-shootin' some hoops
Chamillionaires underground stuff with Paul wall N Luv Wit My Money My money gets jealous Or any one of their freestyles. Chamillionaire is The Godfather of the baller rap style
Swishahouse - Big Ballin' Shot Callin' off of 'The Day Hell Broke Loose' album is what really brought Swishahouse from the real underground scene to more widespread. One of the most well known freestyles is Lil Flip's - We Blow Endo Dj Screw/Screwed Up Click, UGK, Geto Boyz, South Park Coalition, Swisha House, Freestyle Kingz, Color Changing Click, K-Rino, Devin The Dude and so on and so on. 90's, 2000's was a great era
Man I swear to god if anyone asks the question, "Who?", to this fucking day I say Mike Jones without pausing. Crazy how much the music scene hit and stuck with us from that period. I'll be 35 this November. I miss the days where this song and many others comprised the soundtrack to our lives. Shit seemed so much simpler back then.
Much love from NY.....I absolutely LOVE this track....Mike Jones, Paul Wall and Slim Thug so dope. FYI Fun fact...... the word swag goes WAYYYYYYY back....To like the 50s or 60s, probably even earlier..... so the question to "who uses swag now-a-days", just know that that word has survived for that long
Glad to see you doing some classic southern joints fam.... I like when you do the video versions as well. This right here is a straight classic. Would love to see you react to "25 lighters on my dresser" especially the video version.
2002 first time I moved to America, I used to live in Houston and was 16, I would hear this song all the time in front of our apartment and brings back memories! 😂
In 2003ish, this was mainstream on MTV. Didn't even have to be in/from the South. And if you paid attention at all to "indy hip hop" you knew these guys before they blew up, at least Paul Wall and Chamillionaire. You could be on a mid-Atlantic beach or a farm in the midwest. "Mike Jones. Who?" was everywhere. I miss this era because it seemed every region had something and you didn't have to dig much for it, plus the underground/indy scene was very diverse. This was when Kanye first blew up being "different" but he wasn't really that different, just more mainstreaming of a niche that had been around (though he did add his own spins on it).
Classic. I'm 46, this in my riding playlist all of em lol. This Htown swisher house Era don't get enough credit in hip hop in my opinion. Rip Dj screw and pimpc. All these dudes made me mad I wasn't from Houston. The flow the beats and delivery was a perfect storm. Loved the reaction
Man it trips me out. One minute I’m in middle school listening to this on my boombox, the next I’m a few weeks from my 30th birthday 🤣😮💨💨time’s flying by fast
That dirty south rap has always been a little underrated in my opinion but H-town has put out some rappers in 90's whos beats still go harder than most of the stuff being put out today.
My friends and I thought we were so cool because we knew all the lyrics to this in high school lol Suggestions if you haven't already reacted to these: "Feel me flow"- Naughty by Nature "Party Ain't a party"- Queen Pen "Tennessee"- Arrested Development "T.R.O.Y They reminisce over you" -Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth "Dolly My Baby" - Supercat, Biggie nem
Makes me feel old seeing folks react to stuff that was bumping back when i was 18. Had one xt crossfire 15" in an 03 civic. It flys by my dudes. Bro you got to check out lil whyte oxy cotten
This is the jam back in college we had to run flexes just to get a little bit of money to go out. Then we had a boy with 2 12s in his ride that just slammed this song all day. Those where the best days
Crazy seeing Pac's picture up on the left, hearing this banger, and seeing Cole's picture hanging up to the right. The transition from 90's hip-hop, to the 2000's, the to the 2010's. Crazy how the game evolved so much in such a short time. Here for the ride.
PLEASE DO DEAD IN A YEAR BY STREET MILITARY 🙏 THESE DUDES WERE ABOUT 13 OR 14 WHEN THEY MADE THE EP ANOTHER HIT . VERY HARD TO BELEIVE KIDS WERE RAPPIN LIKE THAT 👍
All these boys brought in on this song. I remember when this came out. I was in college then. Man, I feel so old with this kid saying that he was 3 when it came out.
