Subject: Lil Wil

• Was Lil Wil's "My Dougie" Video Played On National TV Earlier This Week?

  March 28, 2008

• Fat Pimp Gets Signed To Warner Bros.

  May 23, 2008

• DOMA XX: And The Nominees Are...

  June 25, 2008

• DOMA: The Winners! Announced! (Yay!)

  July 23, 2008

• The Best Albums In Dallas Music, 2008: Dem Southernfolkz's The Message Checks In At No. 10

  Editor's Note: Over the next 10 days, I'll be presenting my favorite local records of the year, counting down from No. 10 to No. 1, one album a day. Keep checking back to see how the list pans out, and, in the meantime, click after the jump to see albums No. 20-11 in the Top 20 list that will update as the it grows... No. 10: Dem Southernfolkz -- The Message With a sound that blends a strong gospel influence with the stylings of Nappy Roots, Outkast and the production of Kanye West's early, sou

  December 22, 2008

• D-Town Boogie: The Do It Ourself Video

  Here at DC9 this week, we took Pete's cover story to heart, especially this dig DJ Drop takes at folks in night clubs who try out the D-Town Boogie dances: "You can tell the people that are doing it right off YouTube. They're doing it right off the instructions."To those of us who'd never seen the Rack Daddy or the Ricky Bobby in a club, that sounded like a challenge. Below, see a few of the dances for yourself, as performed by our in-house dance crew. And after the jump, check the Youtube versi

  December 1, 2008

• The Fader Boogies On Back To Dallas, Offers Up A Free Fat Bastard Track

  "Get in my belly!" Fat Bastard exclaimed. "...then do da stanky legg?"Gotta give credit where it's due: The Fader (which, interestingly enough, has just combined advertising and sponsorship forces with Pitchfork media) was early to the Dallas hip-hop game, letting Play-N-Skillz, Tum Tum and Lil Wil showcase their side of Dallas for a feature about the local hip-hop scene.And, today, The Fader checks in on the Dallas hip-hop game again, offering up a free mp3 from Dallas' own Fat Bastard. The son

  December 4, 2008

• The Best Albums In Dallas Music, 2008: Sarah Jaffe's Even Born Again EP Hits No. 6

  Editor's Note: Over the next 10 days, I'll be presenting my favorite local records of the year, counting down from No. 10 to No. 1, one album a day. Keep checking back to see how the list pans out, and, in the meantime, click after the jump to see albums No. 20-11 in the Top 20 list that will update as the it grows...No. 6: Sarah Jaffe -- Even Born Again EP A powerhouse of a talent, Sarah Jaffe's music is compelling because it so craftily stradles the line between the delicate and the confident.

  December 26, 2008

• The Best Albums In Dallas Music, 2008: Mount Righteous Happily Makes No. 5

  Editor's Note: Over the next 10 days, I'll be presenting my favorite local records of the year, counting down from No. 10 to No. 1, one album a day. Keep checking back to see how the list pans out, and, in the meantime, click after the jump to see albums No. 20-11 in the Top 20 list that will update as the it grows...No. 5: Mount Righteous -- When The Music StartsSeriously: How much can you really enjoy listening to an album of marching band singalongs about childhood and perseverance and being

  December 27, 2008

• The Best Albums In Dallas Music, 2008: So Who Comes In At No. 1?

  Assuming you've been keeping up with this blog, then, yep, you've seen me counting down my favorite local record releases of 2008, one record a day, for the past week and a half or so. Well, it all comes to an end right here, right now. Below, a recount of records No. 20 through No. 2. Then, after the jump, the victor shall be revealed. (Don't worry: It's a real album; not something corny like, "We're all winners" or something like that. I'm not that much of a jerk.) The Top 20 Local Releases Of

  December 31, 2008

• Picture Show: Lil Wil and Soulja Boy at 97.9 The Beat's Custom Car Show and Concert

  Gloria Levario If you're into Lil Wil, Soulja Boy and cars with dollar signs for seats, well, you were probably also out at the Dallas Convention Center Sunday night, where the annual custom car show and concert hosted by 97.9 The Beat drew a crowd of around 20,000. If you missed it, or you just want to take some notes for your own custom job, we've got you covered.Shots of the custom paint jobs, plush dashboards and yeah, the music too, are up in this slideshow by Gloria Levario.

  April 8, 2009

• Can't-Miss Dallas-Area Bands to Catch at SXSW

  March 12, 2009

• The Biggest Stories in North Texas Music, Circa 2008

  In a year that saw Ozzy, the Jonases and The New York Times storm through North Texas, which area music stories will go down as the most important of 2008?

  January 1, 2009

• The Top 20 Dallas Releases of 2008

  Ranking the best albums Dallas, Denton and Fort Worth had to offer this past year

  January 1, 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

• Our 20th Music Awards

  1988-2008: Two Decades of DOMA

  July 24, 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

• Lil Wil Takes Dallas Hip-Hop National

  May 29, 2008

• B-Hamp's B Dash Album Drops Today... And He'll Sign Your Copy, If Ya Want

  Life will be imitating art pretty much all night tonight as B-Hamp celebrates the release of his full-length debut, B Dash, by stopping and posing for the frame (thanks, I'll be here all week) at a slew of events scheduled to take place around town tonight.First up, at the Eargazum store at the Southwest Center Mall, B-Hamp will be signing autographs for fans looking to increase the value on their just-bought and no doubt still-wrapped copies of the disc. Oh, and later in the night, B-Hamp will

  May 19, 2009

• Dallas' Own Dorrough Is Walking The Chart Walk.

  Dorrough reps the Central Expressway too, it seems...Looks like Dallas rapper Dorrough is making a name for himself on the national level. This week, Dorrough's "Ice Cream Paint Job" reached the No. 32 spot on Billboard's Rhythmic Radio chart, as well as No. 54 on the iTunes hip-hop sales chart (the mega-retailer is vending upwards of 5,000 copies of the track per week). Meanwhile, his other single, "Walk The Walk", is also moving its way up the music charts: The tune is currently No. 37 on Bill

  April 20, 2009

• Get Yer Independence Day Dance Jam On With A Few Choice Local Mixtape Downloads

  There's gonna be a whole lot of barbecuing and pool-hopping this weekend, if common sense is any indicator for what we should expect to go down on this Fourth of July weekend. Course, there needs to be a soundtrack to it all...So, on that note, here are a couple DC9-approved mixtapes from area DJs floating around the Internet, all ripe for your downloading and listening pleasure (and, while we're at it, don't forget about that VEGA mixtape we mentioned on Wednesday):DJ Select's got two mixtapes

  July 3, 2009

• It's Now Official: Per The New York Times, National Hip-Hop Has 'Landed In Dallas.'

  ​Yet one more thing to add to the list of things that Dorrough has now done that his fellow rappers in the DFW scene haven't: Right there in the Sunday edition of the paper, Dorrough's debut album, Dorrough Music, received the review treatment from the New York Times. And while it's not the best review ever--actually, it's kind of a slam (although, to be fair, as is the case with most modern, mainstream hip-hop, Dorrough Music's strength lies in its singles, not its complete album package)--it

  August 3, 2009

• Rob Viktum Serves Up A New, Tasty Drink

  August 27, 2009