Houston rapper Bun B makes an appearance in a recent advertisement for Rembrandt, a teeth whitening company. He acknowledges the absurdity right of the bat: “I am probably not the normal person that you’d see in a toothpaste ad.” He stars in the commercial alongside Marvel comics editor Sana Amanat and Top Chef winn...

There were many, many interesting things about the London rapper Dizzee Rascal when he was an ascendant grime star a little less than a decade ago, but one of the low-key fun things about him was always his association with the Texas cult-rap legends UGK, who he collaborated with on a couple of songs. Since [...]

A couple of weeks ago and absolutely out of nowhere, Beyoncé released the absolutely badass and aggressively weird single “Bow Down/I Been On,” on which she rapped in a screwed-up voice and repped hard for underground Texas rap. And now, for the “I Been On” remix, she’s rounded up an absolutely ...

Yesterday was the first day of Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012, and the opening day’s lineup was absolutely exceptional. The festival’s four stages hosted everyone from Bun B to Converge to Bob Mould to Santigold to Run-DMC to Napalm Death to Against Me! to X to Earth to … oh god, so many more. Photographers [...]

Houston rap’s moment in the national spotlight started sometime around January 2005 and ended sometime around December 2005, but all those guys are still around, still cranking out underground music for their local faithful, sometimes making another aborted shot at a pop comeback. So it’s nice to see a whole bunch of them &am...