Michael watts 5000 biography

Hip hop collective and record label from Houston, Texas.

Record label

Swishahouse is a Southern hip hop record label owned and founded by Michael "" Watts based in Houston, Texas in

History

Swishahouse was founded in North Houston in by founder and President Michael "" Watts and OG Ron C as a response to the popularity of chopped and screwed music from Houston's south side.

The label began by distributing a mixtape series that featured chopped and slowed versions of R&B songs. Many of the current and former artists come from Acres Homes, Homestead, Rosewood & the Tidwell/Gulf Bank areas.

Michael watts 5000 biography Table of Contents Toggle. Chopped-and-screwed eventually grew to be an international phenomenon, with Watts administering his signature audio molasses to dozens of retail releases for acts as diverse as Japanese rappers Teriyaki Boyz and Cali rockers the Transplants. Despite the lack of information on his family, Watts still makes up for it with his dedication and passion for his craft, which is evident in his prolific career. Like when we first started out, our shit was all mainly street-based.

The series includes:

• All Freestyles
• Final Chapter
• Before da Kappa
• After da Kappa
• Choppin Em Up
• Fuck Action
• Straight To Tha Room FKA Fuck Action
• The Day Hell Broke Loose
• Let Your Nutz Hang
• Rollin' Strap
• Paper Chase
• Blow One
• Juvenile Delinquent (Lil Young)
• Still Smoking
• 2kHate

A song that originally appeared on the compilation album The Day Hell Broke Loose 2, Mike Jones' "Still Tippin'", achieved mainstream success in The single would go on to be certified Platinum by the RIAA.

This led to Swishahouse signing a national distribution deal with Asylum Records. Jones released his major-label debut, Who Is Mike Jones?, on Swishahouse/Warner Bros. in April ; the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA, for selling over a million copies in the United States of America, that June.^[1]

Aftermath A&R Angelo Sanders said that the great advantage to independents like Swishahouse is that, "They're able to get their product out on the streets to specific regions at a greater speed than a major They're able to flood that whole Texas market with a product before the majors are able to notice what is going on out there."^[2]

Swishahouse released Paul Wall's commercial debut studio album, The Peoples Champ‚ in September The album debuted and peaked at number one on the Billboard , and was ultimately certified Platinum in America.^[3] Before embarking on his rap career and while still at school, Wall had worked in the Swishahouse office.^[4]

In , Houston based music label Dope House Records and Swishahouse teamed up to release South Park Mexican's ninth album, When Devils Strike.^[5] A chopped and screwed version was also released.

As a matter of fact, Yung Redd did a little ghostwriting for Flip and some more artists. Nothing has changed. She gets involved with a couple undergrounds and everything. But Keke, man, a lot of the styles that people have been doing out here from Houston, it came from Keke and another group called Street Military.

Swishahouse has archives hosted by Rice University's Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning, a center under the Kinder Institute for Urban Research. The physical materials are hosted in the Woodson Research Center at the university's Fondren Library.^[6]

Notable artists

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