Who knew more than seven rappers lived here!?Īs evidenced by the amount of rap in the Chronicle's "New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week" over the past year, a list of local rappers could easily accommodate 50 or even 75 artists. His uploads chronicling a homegrown "street-rapper" competition, as well as his Top 15 Austin rappers list intrigued me mightily. Last month, I came across local YouTuber Trey6HundoQuentin TV. These are tools that the artists back then didn't have, unfortunately." "It's not hidden in a way, nor is it Austin's best kept secret. "The difference between then and now is that because of the rise of the internet, there's more coverage," continues Jones. So basically, there wasn't that much coverage of it happening." "You hear stories back in those days of local artists performing at South by Southwest in smaller venues, but they were like hotel ballrooms in the outskirts of the city. That was our South by Southwest, which wasn't something we really went to. "When I was coming up, our events for Black people were like Texas Relays," explains the MC-turned-deejay during a phone interview. Pioneers such as Bavu Blakes, the late MC Overlord, and Tee Double deserve infinite acknowledgement. A constantly growing pool of resilient local rappers spanning a multitude of sounds finally appears primed to garner the genre its proper due in a city full of gatekeeping laggards.Ĭonfucius Jones, co-host of KUTX's invaluable hip-hop radio show The Breaks, clarifies hip-hop existed locally long before this current progression. The Austin hip-hop scene's collective march toward widespread recognition is taking longer than Avatar 2 (revisit "Hip-Hop on the Verge," Music, Jan.
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