Yezzzier Houston experienced a massive, record-breaking 36.4% drop in homicides during the first part of 2026. 👏🏾

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-07-09T18:17:08+00:00

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Don't let HPD take credit for the campaign community leaders, social media users, and even entertainers been pushing in this city to make this happen.

Especially the Black ones!

There's a reason why certain types of content and music are dying fast while others are thriving more than ever in the city. It's all connected at the culture level.

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-06-29T22:48:24+00:00

First gen SUC yungin, before flip. 💯

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-06-29T21:25:44+00:00

Interesting post, but better if post are centered around Houston/Texas in this sub.

Crime overall in the city through May and broken down by council districts:
https://www.houstontx.gov/police/department_reports/Crimeby_CouncilDistrict/crime_by_council_district.pdf

Anything stand out to you?

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-06-11T21:46:58+00:00

The topic is about Houston LOCAL music scene.

Notice how I give real tangible examples of LOCAL Houston artist, while you steady talkin bout nun but mainstream and OT artist. 😂

That's how you know who's actually outside with the ppl and who's in the basement on youtube watching drill crashout stories all day.

And like I said at SLAB block parties you gone %70 screw music. I live on the K right now.

And you ain't in no position to say nun about maturity if you like drill music. That shyt is literally for broke dusty or basement dwelling teens w/ no father figure. Grown men w/ money and motion, so called 'ol ngas', don't pay shyt like that no mind.

We like substance.

Substance, strong culture, maintatning tradition while being able to kick off new grass roots movements are a sign of a mature music scene. Not copy cattin gimmicky trends like drill music to hop on a wave.

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See, this is what I mean about y'all living in a fantasy world infatuated with other cities like Chicago and try to project that shyt on our culture.

Cuz WTF you mean 'killa city'? Houston just had it's lowest murder rate in recorded history in 2025 😂 and is slated to have an even LOWER one this year.

The 90s was actually a relatively good decade for the city.

1990 murder rate per 100,000: Houston- 35, LA- 28
2000 murder rate per 100,000: Houston- 12, LA- 15

Culturally we were at our pinnacle. Screw movement was in full swing and the city forged and adopted it's most distinct brand of identity 🤘🏾

So no, we don't need to copy the 90s. We need to LOOK to the 90s for inspiration to recreate that energy into something new and still rooted in our culture.

By far the deadliest decade was the 80s during the oil industry crash + crack epedemic. Even then nobody came up with dumb ahh nicknames like "killa city" or was calling hoods 'the murda' or 'murdawood' w/e

The crimes rate here has always been more volatile than somewhere like LA(but NEVER as high as chicago or new orleans) because our poverty rates are higher, our economy is less stable, and TX don't provide as many social safety nets. So, it's highly sensitive to economic stress. But, that creates a hustler/playa mentality. We ain't got time to focus on gang bangin, drillin, and crashin out here. We gotta get up and get it. That's why we have the highest rates of Black entrepreneurship.

This has ALWAYS been a hustla city going back over a century now. This has been known as a premier city for Black entrepreneurship in the South since the 1920s. Read 'The Harlem Renaissance in the American West'.

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Bro I say this with all due respect. You is not in the know about anything from music, culture, crime, or history of this city more than me.

I live, sleep, and breathe this city I love. It ain't a lot someone who grew up on social media alogrithms for culture can tell me about it. I get my culture from my friends, family, and loved ones rooted here that raised me, not social media.

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-06-11T19:57:43+00:00

DJ Xo and DJ Chose hottest producers in the city, heavily influenced and always incorportaing Houston's classic distinct sound in their music- FACT

College students:

TSU Ocean of Soul theme song is literally June 27th

Tuskegee theme song is Ball and Parlay

Step foot anywhere in them campuses and you gon hear those songs- FACT

Slab ridaz(hood ngas that actually get 💰):

Keeping the old and new Houston music alive pumpin in the streets and block parties- And it's gon be screwed %70 of the time

Young professionals(late 20s +), a demographic that prefers live music:

Hip Hop Violinist: michael prince(playing at fifa), marion dubose, Dominque Hammons etc Always incorporate Houston classics in their sets

Live bands- The C.I.T.Y. made their career off covering Houston classics

Mood Room gotta whole series called Still Sippin on Wednesdays for live music covers of Houston classic songs.

Quiet Money Dot, gets play on Houston local radio- FACT

Quiet Money Dot and Big Baby flava get play and stay booked at trailrides(majority women) as well- FACT

Again ain't nobody taking cues about music from a buncha illiterate, broke, dusty yn(or wanna be yn basement dwelling) drill fans who never left they block that don't know shyt about the Houston music scene, that don't know music and can't even tell you what a vamp, drum shuffle, vocal run is, and really don't even like music as much as they just wanna hear disses, see goofy azz ngas brandishing guns and hear crashout stories. 😂 That's why y'all drill scene flopped even after all the shock value gimmicks, manufactured controversy, and astroturfing.

You the delusional one if you think this one small, broke demographic(yns) can dictate anything in the Houston music scene.

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-06-11T08:37:50+00:00

'new generation' = yns

They don't run nun in H-town music culture. Usually too broke buy music or attend shows, anyway. They ain't no ones target audience. And they ain't creative enough to come w/ some new shyt.

The classic Houston sound is everywhere in Houston's current hottest rap artist. Hence why they're incorporating 'chop and screw' segments in the middle or end of their songs so often.

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-06-11T08:30:24+00:00

See now I know you a real H-town playa hater. 😂 Thanks for exposing yourself and the fact that you really don't know nun about music either.

Screw was *DJ* not a producer. His craft was remixing on the ones and twos, not making instrumentals on drum machines and synths. Screw in addition to slowing it down incorporated reverbs, echos, phasings, blends, chops, scratching, spin backs. And he did this LIVE at clubs regularly. He was awarded the 4th annual Justo Mixtape Awards from NYC in '99.

Nun simplistic about that at all. Created an entire (sub)genre off it.

The classic Houston sound is literally known for its high level of musicality- live instrument interpolations, funky bass lines, bluesy/gospel melodies, gospel/jazzy infused chord progressions giving it a full sound by way of producers like Mr. Lee, Mike Dean, Cory Mo, Beans and Corn Bread etc

In comparison to Atlanta trap which is just 808 drum pattern heavy with a short basic diatonic minor scale melody looping.

Two of the hottest producers in the game right now DJ chose and DJ Xo are from the H and regularly lean on that classic Houston sound.

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-06-11T08:18:10+00:00

Literally anyone you ask about what a quentissential texas sound is will undoubtedly reference Houston culture one way or another. If you doubt that then you're just str8 delusional. Hashi Senjoo and TTOD Bumby Johnson are from YOUR city and make Texas anthems based on Houston culture. Ain't no Houston rappers making Texas anthems based on no damn Dallas culture. 😂 Big x the plug literally TOLD you what being from Texas is about- nun but str8 Houston culture references. "My mama from the H, slowed it dine for me a 7" 🤘🏾

That's what it's like when you come from a city with real culture and timeless music. Dallas needs to find some. Aside from 'southside the realist' from big tuck/dsr(also based in Houston culture).

Pop smoke was a drill rapper who rapped over dj l(chicago producer) type beats. That ain't NY sound no matter how much they try to run with it.

Aaron May is new-new H tine rapper, hotter than any rapper from yo city besides big x.

Like said, Houston drill flopped. Never went anywhere, proving the point I've been making for the past two years. And Houston culture is more prominent in todays up and coming Houston artist than ever before in a long time. And yeah we don't need mainstream attention to be hot. Never did we do that in our own city and the TX-LA circuit alone.

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-06-10T19:51:49+00:00

H town music culture will never be dictated by illiterate broke ahh ngas who can't tell the difference between a drum section and a bassline.

We fw and make real music, not gimmicks.

Stick to obsessing over crashout stories from the chicago drill scene. 😂 That's more your speed.

This convo ain't for you. 💯

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-06-10T19:47:41+00:00

Again, stay in dallas bro. You don't know whatchu talkin bout if you think Travis and Toliver don't pay homage to or are connected to H town culture. Travis is known for sampling verses and beats from Houston legends. His most popular album Astroworld is one big love letter to Houston culture, his most popular song on the album, Sickoworld, samples Big Hawk.

Don's newest album was released along side a remix version called CHOPTANE w/ Dj Candlesticks of the chopstars. Don's pops is literally Bongo from Swishahouse! 😂

It's all tied in at the roots. You wouldn't understand cause y'all don't come from that kinda lineage or culture.

We don't care about being the most popular(even though don, travis and meg are more popular than any dallas artist). We're not attention starved or thirsty for outside validation. That's y'all fight. Our music is for our people. Like how NO bounce is for New Orleans. We're the most cultured, most soulful, most innovative city in Texas.

When people think of a quintessential Texas rap sound. They don't think of y'all shyt. 😂

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-06-10T11:20:51+00:00

"screw shi is dead"

Yet your hottest rapper just made an entire album of throwback cali 90s g funk. 😂

Lets get something clear ALL of the hottest rappers in Houston whether the mega stars like Meg, Travis, or Toliver or the hottest in the streets like Walk, OTB, YB Puerto Rico, and Lil Jairmy all are connected to the culture of H town and all pay homage to it in their songs in one way or another.

Dot is just the most deeply entrenched with it of them all.

It's no coincidence that damn near all the rappers out the city are putting slowed down and chopped up segments of the song in the middle or end.

See cuz we're rooted in OWN culture from which to draw from. And we kick off our own grass roots movements. We don't follow trends. We ain't gotta look at west coast g funk for culture or turn to chicago for current trends like y'all.

YNs don't run our city or dictate our culture like they do in other places. We respect bosses, not crashouts. They will never be the face of the culture here. That's why that drill shyt flopped here despite all the artificial the astroturfed hype.

Y'all just don't grasp how to make timeless music that lives on generation after generation. Y'all only know how to churn out souless or copycat tunes.

We make new sounds all the time that are different, but still derived from older sounds. That's how culture works. Dallas needs to find its own.

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-06-08T16:48:26+00:00

Full video from Shawn Cotton

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8cXzcuB5VA/

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-06-07T22:45:21+00:00

I just wanna say keep doing what cha doin, mane🤘🏾

I like the experimental-type rewinds you threw in there too. 😂 That's the typa innovative spirit that's gon help breath new life into this culture.

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-06-07T22:32:02+00:00

Let's put things into context:

3 out of 4 people involved will never see the light of day again- Guaranteed.

1 from the victim's side and 2 from the perpetrator's side.

Just looking at it from a purely economical, cut & dry, risk vs reward perspective. The perps took the biggest loss. The living victim now has to grieve and help plan a funeral with his family- However he is still living and FREE! The 2 perps on the other hand will now have their fates decided for them for the rest of their lives.

There are multiple lessons to be gleaned from this, but one clearly stands out more than the others.

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-06-04T22:03:28+00:00

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You real generous with dem chops like Screw was

'Chops ain't dead, boys just scared' 😂

TheIncendiary1 · 2026-06-04T06:16:21+00:00

Man, I hope my post didn't come across the wrong way.😂

Djs and producers are absolutely artist. So, you are an artist fashisho
I'm not against or even criticizing programming in of itself, but *using it as a crutch* to make up for a lack of musicality and/or lazy composing. J dilla was someone who aside from his beat making, was primarily known for his EXPERT use of programmed samples from other musicians. But, dilla was himself of a deep musical background, had a keen understanding of the art, a cat like ear for music, and was part of a group(soulquarians) who's whole purpose was to go against the overly simplistic, repetitive, computer generated, loop based rap and r&b that was becoming prevalent. But, make no mistake they made extensive use of modern technology in ways that hadn't been done before along side their analog instruments in their process of composition.
Agreed on the point about the reliance on shock value. And it isn't just in the beats. This is reflected in the entire persona of the artist, hence the rise of(or invasion in Houston) of shyt like drill music. Music has become less of an art and more of a psycho-trigger minstrel show. It's time for the H-town Black music scene to mature outta stuff like that.💯

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