There wasn’t a lot of hoopla around the last Verzuz battle. The face-off between UGK and 8Ball & MJG, two of the all-time great Southern rap duos, was only announced a few days before it happened. This showdown didn’t bring the chaotic drama of some past Verzuz battles. As far as I know, there was never any bad blood...

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 [...]

OutKast rapper Big Boi is getting ready to unleash Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors, the follow-up to his great 2010 solo album Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty. His early track “Gossip” features UGK and Big K.R.I.T., but another song from the album, “Mama Told Me,” has a very different colla...

Big morning for rap music! And now here’s another thing to get amped about. Last month, we learned that OutKast’s Big Boi was planning to follow up 2010′s excellent solo album Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty with a new one called Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors. And today, we get to [...]

Houston sonic maven DJ OG Ron C is one of the flagbearers of Houston’s signature chopped-and-screwed sound — he co-founded Swishahouse Records and his work with artists like UGK and Chamillionaire became genre-defining — and recently the prolific auteur came through with a “Chopped Up, Not Slopped Up&#...