City

Houston

US

Houston appears in 2 Songsheets issues: Southern Hip-Hop and Northern Soul. 3 artists in the archive came from here, including Geto Boys, DJ Screw and Frank Wilson.

Scenes

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Southern Hip-Hop
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045
Northern Soul
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Artists from Houston

  • Geto Boys

    Scarface, Willie D, and Bushwick Bill made Houston the South's first city with a national rap profile, arriving with confrontational street narratives and production that was darker and heavier than almost anything else on the radio at the time.

  • DJ Screw

    Robert Earl Davis Jr.

  • Frank Wilson

    Frank Wilson (1940-2012) joined Motown's Los Angeles office in 1963 and became one of its main writers and producers after Holland-Dozier-Holland left, with credits including the Supremes' "Love Child" and "Stoned Love" and Eddie Kendricks' "Keep On Truckin'".