not a diss, a genuine and sympathetic question

feels like this state always punches under its weight when it comes to producing popping rappers (in quantity, not necessarily quality)

i kno its always done well for itself on a regional level, and that that was satisfying enough -- is it that in the Internet age, there's still not strong enough desire to pop further than being a local legend in HTX and TX more generally?

and i know we do have some you can point out but those are generally stray outliers and not really popping out of a coherent scene

Everyone cant be big

Kankan

ATM SAINT

Fumbled it somehow

Meg is big ain’t she from Houston

its not where the industry is, that's simply it i think

its like saying "why dont we have more poppin filmmakers out of houston" the scene just isnt there

all the slayworld guys were in Houston

not from Houston, but thats where they were when they came up and thats where most of them stay at

yes, even yeat

They branding him like a LA artist

true ofc so i guess its like "what did, for instance, Chicago and Atlanta have that Houston didn't, to to be blunt have the infrastructure for an industry support a scene arising from their Black community that put rappers on nationally"

bc again there has been a Houston scene it just only produces rappers popping in the immediate geographical vicinity

OP hates Black women

yea cuz thats where Zack Bia stays at...

literally a good chunk of popping rappers rn are based in texas

Meg won a Grammy

There are definitely hot rappers from Houston. Travis was/ is one of the hottest rappers on the planet. But I think OP’s point is that there aren’t many big rappers besides the few huge ones.

Travis and Meg are huge. Don Toliver is big. Everyone else is basically underground.

houston had a huge movement in the 2000s when the chopped sound went mainstream, mike jones, paul wall, slim thug, chamillionaire, the whole swishahouse camp was popping. not sure why they didn't keep up that momentum going into the 2010s and present day.

hope OMB bloodbath can get more attention, her music is 🔥

Lol where these lil carpetbaggers from

idk if u can call em carpetbaggers lmao they from bumfuck nowhere in Louisiana or some s***

If you rep a city you didn't live in when you were a child you're a carpetbagger to me

they don't rep Houston?

idk where u got that from

Same as the bay

KanKan is from Dallas

true but to my second point she doesn't really come out of a local scene, like you can't really point to other less well known but stylistically similar rappers from Houston that Meg is affiliated with

this is not to take away from anything Meg has done, just to say that it's not like when ppl for instance come out of the Atlanta scene and have a bunch of fellow local rappers they always work with