Beer And Rap In Texas

Got into Austin around three thirty, scooped up some shiners and ate some mediocre as fuck Vietnamese food before heading out to the Backroom for some rap music. Got there and Steve Austin from Dallas was on stage with his hypeman and projector. It was karoake and shoutouts combined. The shit would flash lyrics and then random rap phrases to get the kids pumped. Most of stef's or possibly my pictures of steve austin sucked too much to post so fuck it here is bavu blakes on stage. Dude killed that shit with with Rhino and Charlie Boy backing him.


rhino, charlie boy in the back and mr blakes up front with rapid ric hiding behind his elbow




blakes handing steve austin the mic


Bavu and Walker. Walker sucks at everything.


Mattsoreal taking pictures of rap.


charlie boy


Balance came on after Bavu. I didn't catch the first part of his set but stef said he came out droppin heat over the tell me when to go beat. Texas didn't know shit about hyphy but they seemed to catch on to what he was doing. A couple dudes in the front were trying to shake them dreads by the end of the set. Oh man during the show I was handing out a bunch of my Pimp C stickers and I gave them to these two dudes who weren't exactly the wisest. You see the sticker says "sixty-four dollar cologne bitch!" and I guess these dudes didn't get it so they stared at it for a minute. After they kind of digested it they decided to fucking smell the stickers like some fucking geniuses. Anyways after Balance's set was the Gritboys set. You'll have to excuse the black and white photos, that's just what happens when I get drunk and think I'm artistic.


yung redd


Scooby


Gritboys


yeah I got aim and shit


I guess after the gritboys set I was starting to get a kind of drunk because I don't remember K-Rino's set at all. I suck but shit at least stef got a picture, at least I think she took this.


At some point I spotted Tum Tum and Big Tuck walking into the club. Tum Tum was rocking a fucking mullet. You can't really see in the picture but dude was on that business in the front and one hell of a party in the back. They had one of my favorite sets of the week. They broke the crowd off with Whoop Your Ass, Tussle and the greatest dope dealing wizard song ever, Southside Da Realest.




Then was chamillionaires set which seemed pretty tame considering DSR had just destroyed the place. I got this shitty picture, if you look really hard you might see his face.


The next day we woke up, grab some taco's with walker and his girl then rolled over the fader party to start filling up on redstripe, and hear some rap in between sets of a bunch of bands that I will never give a fuck about. It was at the fader party that I discovered that some dudes look like so much of a bitch that they have to be from new york. This was a theme that would carry on through out the sxsw weekend.


beer


cosmo baker and major taylor


Catchdubs and Ross Hogg discussing their love for repetive pattern clothing


I look sweet in this picture

after that fader shit it was back to the hotel to get stef's records for her and I guess my showcase at Club One 15. I was suppose to host but considering not to many people were their early on I decided to drink as that was sure to help my big upping of short white dj's from new york who play with computers. And you know what? it sure did. As a host I was pretty awesome but apparently the people running the club did not appreciate me swearing all the time and they actually asked me to stop. Well we hung around for about half of Ross Hogg's set before we decided to just get the fuck out of there and go to the Devin the Dude showcase were swearing would be embraced.


stef


me "hosting" and roxy on the tables


roxy


everyone laughing at catchdub's computer dj skills or maybe it was the atari figures on his shirt. Actually I think I talked some shit about that during my hosting. Dude kind of got the most of my shit talking but that's cause he dj'ed when I was at my prime beer induced shit talking time so it's his own damn fault.


ross hogg on the 0's and 1's

After Club One 15 we rolled over the Backroom and caught the end of Chingo Blings set.


After Chingo was Blowfly but just before his set Despot of Defjux came out and did two songs. I don't think the crowd knew what the fuck was going on.


despot

If Despot wasn't weird enough for the Texas rap fans they had Blowfly come out just before Devin. I think an old black man rapping about his twelve ft long dick is really what the crowd needed to hear. It was fucking great.






I don't have any pictures of Devin because this is the point where my idiot ass decided that I wanted to eat fucking tacos so I left to go find a taco truck. This is also the point at which I lost my fucking cell phone and all the numbers that I needed. Goddamn I'm smart. The next day I woke up feeling like a true winner, especially after having to go to the Nextel store and get a new phone like a dumbass. After I got that bullshit squared away we headed over to Vice's day party for cheap lone stars and caught Cadence Weapon's set which hilarious and dope. Dude was on some spazzy ass punk rock rap shit. It may have been on the sparks he was drinking but his set was great.



After that shit we hit up this Party Ceeplus put together at Factory People, this expensive ass streetwear store on south congress. I was a pumped to find all kinds of crap. The rub dj's were there and they had free sapporo so I was fucking with it. On the way there I came across Christ's Workshop so that just about made my day. After the party I agreed to go to the Rhymesayers showcase which had some moments but at that point I was too tired to deal with all the kids so we ended up cutting out around 11 to get sleep.


Saturday we mobbed back out to the Fader party to see some of the rap. Rapid Ric was djing when we got there. Some shitty folky group that I kept calling Lavender Dion was performing at first so we decided to go around the corner and see if big daddy kane was going to perform. We found no big daddy kane. Instead we found cheap henikens, jello shots and heniken lights? I didn't know they made that shit, but I guess they are just trying to break it because amstel light isn't as popular as they wish it was. Hung out for a minute and then went back to the Fader shit to catch Devin and Micheal Watts djing.


rapid ric


midget ass female rapper with an accent


micheal watts


The Dude




Rhino


kottonmouth of the rallyboys


PSC with plastic levis' bags on his shoes


walker and chris


me and chris yelling because we're drunk


cadence weapon, walker and me being drunk


cadence weapon and dj weazel at carribean lights


that dude Mattsoreal

On sunday we left austin for Houston where we kicked it with matt's family. Monday morning we met up with these UK dudes, Dj Greenpeace, Sway and Turk, at Spanish Flowers where I had some kick ass carnitas. After that Matt took us up to the Gritboys' studio so Sway could see about doing a track with them. While Sway was working out his shit Matt took Stef, Greenpeace and me over to the Rap-A-Lot offices. Turns out that it was cleaning day and they were getting rid of a bunch of shit. They let us go through a couple piles of promos and take whatever records we wanted. I took as much shit as I could fit in my bag, came up on some dope cuts than never really made it west of el paso.




got that pork on my fork


Sway, Pretty Todd, and Turk at the Gridiron