A few years ago when Hip-Hop turned its eye towards Houston, the forerunners of this new movement were Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Chamillionaire, & Slim Thug. While all of these rappers achieved success with albums, the only who didn’t gain platinum status was Slim Thug. But for some reason, I always preferred Slim Thug out of the whole bunch. I thought his major label debut Already Platinum was good and if you long time readers cam remember, I even featured Boss Hogg Outlawz’s “Recognize A Playa” as an early Song of the Week (And that was on the old site). It’s funny; I love intricate lyrics. I dissect Nasir’s “I Gave You Power”, love the wordplay of Biggie’s “Kick In The Door”, & think Ras Kass is highly underrated. However when I listen to Slim Thugga or Boss Hogg (consisting of Slim, PJ, Young Black, Chris Ward, J-Dawg, & Killa Kyleon) I take that hat off and just enjoy the gangster shit of it. Slim Thug brings back his crew Boss Hogg Outlawz to follow up their 2007 album Serve & Collect with their new album Back By Blockular Demand: Serve & Collect II.

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