Paul wall is the man. I noticed something after his hot 97 interview. he was never placed in the "white rapper" category when people talked about him. he was just another fellow artist. that alone is mad respect. he's good to his wife too. which is dope af.
+Terrance Williams Should be Slow Low And Bangin. Why you need two words describing the decibel level. I always thought it was stupid even back in the gap.
It's just slab. Cause you were low to the ground or the concrete aka the slab. Like a slab of concrete. Slow loud and bangin wasn't a thing until Guerrilla Maab made the cd s.l.a.b.
Raymundo Castillo in dallas our definition is an old school car with big rims, a nice paint job and a banging sound system...ive also hear old school artists refer to the slow loud and banging acronym.
Yeah I feel you I'm from dallas too. Techinically thats more on the donk side but yeah most people will call any car with nice rims and some bang to it a slab. I remember a few years ago at the sonic on westmoreland and illinois when a bunch of different fixed up cars would go and cruise around the parking lot. A lot of clean ass lowriders and donks and big ass dually trucks all of em candy, bang, nice rims but the only one I would've really considered a slab was this 96 lac on blades with the belts, pop trunk and, bang and lights. But yeah a lot of people call any fixed up ride a slab. Like paul said though everybody got there own definition of what it means to them.
He’s spot on when he said “it’s like a high” for people to try to find parts for their slab / rig. Sure weed is great, but there’s nothing like finally finding those rims you wanted for your lifted truck / slab or a LS1 350 Chevy block to swap out of your old school. I’m only 24 years old, but these kids have no idea what they were missing when I was growing up.
If your not from Texas, you can't really wrap your head around the Texas car culture, or Texas culture as a whole. Let a hater go ahead and hate. Famous words from Pimp-C "Stay up there where your at with your funny ass cars and funny ass houses. We down here havin' thangs, cost of living good down in here in Texas bitch, get yo mind on yo shit".
"im leaning on the switch sitting crooked in my slab, but I could still catch boppers if I drove a cab" hell yeah he did I remember I was mad when Kanye took his verse off for that whack ass t.i. verse
Everybody thats NOT from Texas are like "WTF is he talking about????" LOL...........its our culture, no need to understand if you aint from the Great State of Texas!
I'm from Huntsville Alabama and I support SLAB culture. Always have for 20 years and always will. There are 3 exactly rolling around my city and I love it everytime I see them.
@@dontaetrowell5011 I'm from South Dakota and know all about the slab culture...I started getting more & more into slabz after "Still Tippin'" came out, that song made me fall in love with Cadillacs...In the "605" bangin' that chopped & screwed in my DeVille 😎
In the "605" (South Dakota) bangin' chopped & screwed on Fo's & Vogues in a Cadillac DeVille which is originally from Huntsville, TX...I visit Austin, TX every year to check out the Slabz
I'm from Dayton, Ohio and in my biased opinion Dayton's and Vogues still look the best (as far a wires) we call what Texas calls swingers "30's." And we ride Chevys, Buicks, and Oldsmobiles. I respect Texas car culture, though and they get down.
Deshaun P Yeah, it was funny, because my home boy had a 87 SS on some gold ones and everybody in Dallas felt it, but when we went to Houston they were looking at us kind of side wayz (like wtf).
+TopShelf we ride chevy's (boxes bubbles MC's camaros) regals, cutlasses malibus deltas, all that too. but in Houston you'll see most of those on Swangers with the mustard mayo. they put em on everything, Benz's, lexus, hell even ice cream trucks and vans haha
30s are actually other type of wire wheels. They actually seem to be dipped and the end sticks out just a bit out the lip of the rim. I seen them on the "Bumpin my Music" video
Gotta be from texas to understand every word this man just said. ✌🏽 It feel good to ride slab. I even chunk duce to my worst enemy on a sunny day riding slab. TEXAS 💙
For everyone that appreciates Houston music he's basically deeply explaining why the content of their music is so much about cars. That's their thing man.
Being born and raised in H-town, this video gives me so much LIFE! Drop that Houston Knowledge on em 🙌🏽. Vlad needs to learn this! “84’s pokin out, at the club I’m showin out.”
They called the cars "slab" cause they sat low to the slab(pavement). "Slow loud and bangin" wasn't around yet till' later on. And for the record there were different places (bsides Texas ) that were already on 30s(Starwires) and vogues since late 70s and through the 80s(and 90s). And Weld Wheels was the original maker of the wheels. On a side note, there's a Federal lawsuit from wheel maker Cragar/Truespoke (the company that bought that Patents from Weld Wheels) of the wheels.
Every other State such as California, Illinois, New York, Florida etc was already ridin' on the 30 spoke wheels(which was originally made by Weld Wheels, Cragars, and then later in mid 2000s Texan Wire Wheels) LONG before the name "Swangaz " was heard and thought of.
@@lee_drifting Wrong. He is correct! Other States like Cali, Illinois, Georgia been rockin' on 30s spokes wheels. "Swangaz" is just a Nickname of what the wheels are called in Houston. And that's it! And have you ever heard of the custom car company call "America Custom Coachworks" in Beverly Hills, California? They took/take cars such as the Eldorados and "stretched " them out to make them long and as options, fitted then with the "pokin'" 30s Starwire wheels ! And there's a guy in Texas that has one of those built cars from American Costum Coachworks. Go figure!
And I think swangas don't belong on foreign cars cuz the 2 styles don't really mesh well to me but to each its own I guess I personally feel u gotta chop if u gonna ride foreign
mane you can tell slabs is this nigga passion. vlad asked like one question and Paul wall just went in wit no breaths! Lol! Paul wall know his shit mane!
when the import face off car show/ drag race / stereo contests were still coming to Kansas City, there was a guy with a candy Brandywine Honda accord that 3rd coast customs painted....the painter, Eddie that Paul talks about was who painted it and I've gotta say, that was one of the most perfect metallic candy paint jobs I've ever seen to this day. no Tiger stripes, not blotchy, no variations in the metallic flake in the paint. it was as close to flawless as I've seen on a car that was 15 years old when it was painted. Eddie must have a killer body guy to make those panels perfect. it was beautiful.
Paul Wall is GREAT!!! One of the best white rappers ever!!!! People don't even remember he is white and that is great!!! This is what a white rapper should be!!!!
Reppin Houston all day and I'm reppin New Orleans. Im livin in Dallas now, but I will never rep it tho, jus New Orleans and Houston. Know what I'm talkin bout, Ya heard meh.
The OG slab is a 1974-1980s Cadillac on 1984 Cadillac wire wheels. That’s where the original slab came from. Now they’re anything with wire wheels and elbows but it’s cool now it’s evolved and I love seeing the culture live on Htine hol it dine 🔥
I love his explanation for Slabs because people who aint of the culture be wanting dictionary definitions for stuff. Man, people of the culture don't be out here defining their shit... they just do what they do. He's def been going to the cookouts...regularly lol
I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS IN SOUTH HOUSTON MY OWN DAM COUSIN POPPED TRUNK ON ME AT THE LIGHT AND IM FROM DA SIP. I RESPECT TEXAS FOR THIS CULTURE I WISH DA SIPP WAS LKKE DIS THO. EVERY TIME I VISIT MY FAMNIN TEXAS IM ALWAYS EXPECTING THIS TO HAPPEN AND SHIT BE NICE THO. TEXAS STAND UP MUCH LUV FROM THA SIPP.
I'm from San Jose (south bay area) and our choice of wheels were not really Daytons but Zeneith wire wheel since they are a local product and had a slightly different look. This was back in the 80's-90s
As someone from London, UK the culture that really captivated my imagination as a teenager in the mid 00s was H-tine. Slabs, swangas, double cups of alpharma and yellow tuss, chopped and screwed, screwed up click, rockets… iconic!
