Subject: Dirty South

• Take Another Hit

  April 17, 2007

• Tuck It Like You Mean It

  November 1, 2006

• Big Tuck Heading To Waco Sunday To Dip In Da Lac

  May 12, 2008

• Play-N-Skillz Are Gonna Be On BET's "Rap City" Momentarily...

  July 9, 2008

• Last Night: Lil Wayne at American Airlines Center

  Lil Wayne, T-Pain, Keyshia ColeAmerican Airlines CenterDecember 19, 2008 Better Than: Listening to a whole bunch of records in which T-Pain and Lil Wayne are just the featured acts. Check out our photos from the show here.As if, at any point over the course of this past year, there was still doubt: Lil Wayne proved last night at the American Airlines Center that he is, indeed, a rock star--and maybe the biggest rockstar on the planet. After the elaborate LED screens behind the stage fired up,

  December 20, 2008

• Is New Amerykah Pt. 1 The 'Token Urban Album' Of '08?

  Speaking of Erykah Badu: Much like we're doing in this upcoming week's paper, Stereogum today asked some of its favorite artists of '08 to name some of their favorite artists, albums, songs, etc. of 2008, and right at the top of the list, Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes names New Amerykah Pt. 1 as one of his tops in the year that was. Yep, that's yet another namedrop for Badu, who's having herself a fine end-of-year when it comes to being on lists and whatnot. But down in the comments of that

  December 29, 2008

• Last Night: Play-N-Skillz Grammy Party At Plush

  Play-N-Skillz, Big Tuck, Slim Thug, Pitbull, Paul Wall, Too $hort, morePlushWednesday, February 4, 2009Better than: Parking a filthy, body-damaged Scion Xb in a metered spot and walking two blocks to avoid using the valet service, all the while contemplating how out of place you are anywhere near a red carpet. Download: This slideshow with pictures by Travis Ferguson and myself.Travis FergusonAs we noted yesterday, Play-N-Skillz celebrated their Grammy nomination last night into this morning wi

  February 4, 2009

• Free throwing up

  December 10, 1998

• It's "Dallas Week" Over At MTV.com...

  Looks like the fruits of MTV's labor from a few weeks back, when the network followed D-Town production wunderkinds Play-N-Skillz around town for a party at plush and a dance instruction deal at Big T Bazaar are gonna be unraveling over on MTV.com all week--if the above promo, which features non-Dallasites Bun B, Too $hort, Pitbull, Paul Wall, Slim Thug and actual Dallasties Big Tuck and Cowboys safety Ken Hamlin, is to be believed. As you already knew, each of the previously dropped names was

  February 24, 2009

• Last Night: T.I. at Nokia Theatre

  T.I.Nokia TheatreMarch 11, 2009 Better than: Watching T.I.'s Road To Redemption on MTV, which is no Rock of Love, that's for sure. During one of his (too) many monologues to a crowded--but not nearly sold out--Nokia Theatre last night, T.I. thanked God for allowing him to reach the heights he has as a rapper. But, really, at this performance, the soon-to-be-incarcerated (on weapons charges) superstar should've thanked Big Chief. Because, were it not for the budding Dalla

  March 12, 2009

• What It Was Like: Big Boi, P.O.S., Psychedelic Horseshit, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band

  Jesse HugheyBig Boi rocks Austin Music Hall Thursday night.Act: Big BoiPlace: Austin Music HallWhat it was like: Awesome. The set of the night. And yet the most frustrating. Big Boi did a couple of solo jams from his upcoming Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. Otherwise the set was nearly all Oukast gems going all the way back to Southernplayalisticadillacmuzic. "Rosa Parks," leading into a remixed "So Fresh, So Clean." By the time he got to "Mrs. Jackson," the absence of Andre 3000

  March 20, 2009

• Chingy

  August 14, 2003

• OutKast

  October 2, 2003

• Baton Rouge Rapper Young Bleed Makes a Home in Dallas

  March 19, 2009

• Lil Wil and Play (of Play-N-Skillz) Share Their Favorites of 2008

  January 1, 2009

• Dallas Hip-Hop: Swagger Like Us

  November 27, 2008

• T.I.

  Paper Trail (Atlantic)

  October 16, 2008

• Dem Southernfolkz

  The Message (Self-released)

  September 25, 2008

• Symbolyc One

  Strange Fruit Project Presents: S1 Music Box (Spilt Milk)

  August 28, 2008

• Young Jeezy

  Tuesday, August 12, at House of Blues

  August 7, 2008

• Money Talks

  With Lil Wayne's latest single, Play-N-Skillz cements its reputation as a production team—and maybe Dallas' reputation as a source of hip-hop?

  July 17, 2008

• Fox News Akin To Southern Rap

  Anti-intellectual appeal and red-state focus are just the tip of what these two have in common.

  May 22, 2008

• Free From TVT Records, Pitbull is Biting Back

  The Cuban-American hip-hop star is eyeing a big future

  March 27, 2008

• Get Small

  February 28, 2008

• Pimp C, Free at Last

  Remembering a Down South legend

  December 13, 2007

• To The Wall

  H-Town's favorite Dirty rapper lives the diamond life

  April 19, 2007

• Chamillionaire

  October 4, 2007

• T.I. vs. T.I.P

  T.I. vs. T.I.P. (Atlantic Records)

  August 23, 2007

• T.I.

  Saturday, January 13, at the Majestic Theater

  January 11, 2007

• K104 Summer Jam

  Saturday, June 30, at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

  June 28, 2007

• Young Jeezy

  Friday, April 20, at Smirnoff Music Centre

  April 19, 2007

• About a Boi

  OutKast's Depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the old South

  August 24, 2006

• OutKast

  Idlewild (LaFace)

  August 24, 2006

• Gee Whiz

  Enough of the sheltered columnists writing about the recent El Angel shooting. Hear what a real Dallas DJ thinks.

  July 27, 2006

• Ne-Yo | K104 Summer Jam

  Friday, July 21, at Purgatory | Saturday, July 22, at Smirnoff Music Centre

  July 20, 2006

• Dallas Decides

  Local musicians put the mikes down and pick up the pens to choose their favorite albums

  December 22, 2005

• Jingle Jam 2005

  Saturday, December 17, at the Dallas Convention Center

  December 15, 2005

• Paul Wall

  The People's Champ (Swishahouse)

  November 3, 2005

• Slim Thug

  Already Platinum (Geffen)

  July 21, 2005

• Who Is Mike Jones?

  The smash single "Still Tippin'" and his major-label debut have answered that question for the nation

  May 19, 2005

• Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz

  Crunk Juice (TVT)

  December 9, 2004

• Odds & Ends

  Nas no-shows; Lil' Flip is going to trial; and RIP, ODB

  November 18, 2004

• Rock Star Olympics

  Snoop Dogg vs. Bob Marley? Ike vs. Courtney? Let the games begin.

  August 19, 2004

• The Rap Sheet

  What's crunk, what's bootleg and what do those words mean anyway?

  June 17, 2004

• The Yin and the Yang

  Is there a method to the madness of Atlanta's most bizarre rap duo?

  October 23, 2003

• Nap Time

  Straight outta Kentucky, the "Country Boyz" of Nappy Roots are on the rise

  August 29, 2002

• K104 Summer Jam

  June 14

  June 13, 2002

• Psy2ko & Mic L. Moodswing

  Blood is Thicker Than Water (AMC/Major Money Entertainment)

  April 4, 2002

• No Limit Tour

  Starplex Amphitheatre, August 6

  August 5, 1999

• The Five Most Interesting Things You Didn't Know About Soulja Boy

  August 20, 2009