Stanky Legg

Here Are the Songs They Play at a Middle School Dance

Last Friday, Voice Media Group announced the winners of their first music writing awards. This winning piece by Shea Serrano first appeared on L.A. Weekly's West Coast Sound music blog. By Shea Serrano 1:04 pm: In about 25 minutes, I'm going to be chaperoning a middle school dance. The dance is fo ... More >>

Bonus MP3: Mel The Mack featuring Dorrough, Lil Wil, Trai'D, Fat Pimp, Big DoughskiG and Young Black -- "What's Up Bro (D-Town Dallas)"

​Last year, local hip-hop purveyors talked at length about the importance of having a big presence around town during the weekend of the Cowboys Stadium-hosted 2010 NBA All-Star Game. And, lest there was any doubt, these same artists are at it again this year.But, this time around, they appear to ... More >>

The Biggest Local Music Stories of 2010

Sore Losers Helps Dallas Move Past The Boogie

Tum Tum's Latest Mixtape Is Smoking.

More Local Hip-Hop News: Lil Twist Tops The 106 & Park Countdown, GS Boyz Ain't Done Yet and Treal Lee & Prince Rick Hate Everyone.

Turns out Tum Tum's hardly the only local hip-hop artist making waves this week...

NBA Rookies John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins Teach The Other Rooks How To Dougie

The NBA's love affair with hip-hop is nothing new. And, really, neither is seeing NBA stars do hip-hop dances--or, even more specifically, Dallas-born dances. At the 2009 NBA All-Star Game in Phoenix, NBA stars LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, Shaquille O'Neal and Nate Robinson all flashed either the Do ... More >>

Is The D-Town Boogie Dead Yet? Dunno. But the GS Boyz Sure Are. Officially, Even.

Bad news, everyone. Can't believe we missed this when it went down last month, really. Turns out the GS Boyz have broken up. No doubt, you remember them. The purveyors of the much-lauded "Stanky Legg"? Yes, them. And maybe you remember their minor follow-up hit, "The Boody Dew," too? No? You're not ... More >>

Ballers and Shotcallers: Play-N-Skillz and Def Jam's All-Star Weekend Finale at PM Lounge

Steven VisneauPlay-N-Skillz​Play-N-Skillz and Def Jam's All-Star Weekend Finale PartyPM LoungeFebruary 14, 2009For Grammy-winning hip-hop producers Play-N-Skillz, Sunday night--the last night of a jam-packed, celebrity- and part-filled weekend--saw the brothers Salinas hosting not one, but two par ... More >>

The D-Town Boogie Positions Itself For A Big Score This All-Star Weekend

Extended Q&A: Collipark On Dallas Hip-Hop--And Why Treal Lee & Prince Rick Will Officially Put The City On The Map...

Steven VisneauPrince Rick, Mr. Hit Dat Hoe and Treal Lee​In this week's Observer cover story, we take a look at the upcoming NBA All-Star Weekend coming through town and what it could mean for Dallas' hip-hop future. In short: If nothing else, it should add some eyes to the burgeoning D-Town Boogi ... More >>

Check The Trailer For Dallas Don't Dance, We Boogie, The Upcoming Documentary About The D-Town Boogie.

​Pop on over to DallasBoogie.net, or visit this YouTube link, and you'll see the trailer for an upcoming documentary called Dallas Don't Dance, We Boogie, which focuses on the local hip-hop movement, the D-Town Boogie, and the love and hate it inspires amongst rap fans both local and otherwise. It ... More >>

Moving Off-Screen

Did Dorrough Walk From The BET Hip-Hop Awards Winless? Maybe. Dunno Yet. But He Did Perform With Snoop, Soulja Boy, Jim Jones and Nipsey Hustle...

Dorrough, DJ A Bay Bay, Dr. Teeth and DJ Merk on the red carpet at the BET Hip-Hop Awards.​Though the footage from the event won't air until October 27, the 2009 BET Hip-Hop Awards were filmed Saturday. And though he was up for three nominations at the awards show, it doesn't appear as if Dallas-b ... More >>

Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights Made the Best of a Rainy Saturday at ACL.

Best of Dallas: Defining the Dallas Club Sound with DJ Drop

If YouTube is more your flavor, check out the video here.DJ Drop, the nightlife luminary who helped popularize the D-Town Boogie way back, oh, a year ago, is the subject of Pete's sidebar in this year's Best of Dallas Scenes section, and in the video above, you'll hear him talk about how he worked ... More >>

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 r ... More >>

Download: DJ A Bay Bay -- "I Stay (feat. Dorrough, Fat Pimp, Trai'D and Tum Tum)"

​ KKDA 104.5-FM afternoon drive-time jock DJ A Bay Bay is a pretty big deal--and not just locally, but, y'know, nationally. The former Shreveport DJ is, after all, the namesake behind the Shreveport rapper Hurricane Chris' 2007 massive 2007 single "A Bay Bay". So, there's that.Since moving to the ... More >>

Jimmy Fallon Does The Stanky Legg On National TV. No, Really.

The GS Boyz and their still-huge "Stanky Legg" song got some major love on last night's episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, as Fallon not only talked about the song before delving into a segment called the "Late Night Dance Challenge," but also ended the segment by doing the Stanky Legg on sta ... More >>

Damaged Good$ Arrives Just in Time to Right the Ship of Dallas Hip-Hop

"Dallas Week" Continues On MTV.com With Too $hort and Bun B

...and as the above video in MTV's series of "Dallas Week" clips shows, they're both recording with Play-N-Skillz, who're currently working with Bun B on the final UGK album. But, aside from that, the video's kinda short (pun definitely intended) on Dallas ties. The accompanying story, however, expl ... More >>

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-Da ... More >>

So Much For Waiting Till Next Year, Right?

Surely, I wasn't the only one who watched the NBA All-Star game festivities this past weekend. But did anyone else notice how often the Dougie and the Stanky Legg dances popped up over the course of the coverage? So much for waiting till next year's game for legitimacy, I guess...Check it out. Skip ... More >>

Video: Them GS Boyz' New Video For "Do The Stanky Legg"

Seems like someone may have explained female anatomy to Dallas' own Stanky Legg inventors, Them Gspot Boyz, as the group now appears to be going by the far less outrageous name, Them GS Boyz. Alas, that's not the news here. The news here is that the Boyz still believe there to be some fire left in ... More >>

Even The Portland Trailblazers Are Doing The Stanky Legg. No, Seriously. Look.

I stumbled across this the other day on Youtube, and, yep, that's right; it's the Portland Trailblazers' rookies, earlier this year, being hazed somewhat by the veteran players on the team and being forced to dance to Them GSpot Boyz's "Stanky Legg" at a preseason scrimmage. I kid you not.Perhaps t ... More >>

Bitch, They're Wired Up: Young Joc Signs Them GSpot Boyz To Jive Records

Laugh all you want at the sheer audacity of the D-Town Boogie movement, Alibaster K. Abthernabther. But the train's already rolling--and picking up steam, too. Today comes even more proof of that fact: Them GSpot Boyz, the fellas responsible for the monster local smash dance-hit "Stanky Legg" (as s ... More >>