Listen to a 5-hour Houston rap mixtape, featuring DJ Screw, Geto Boys, Slim Thug and more

Houston Rap author mixes nearly five hours of H-town rap from 1990 to today.

Houston Rap chronicles Houston’s vibrant hip-hop scene. The book is by photographer Peter Beste and writer Lance Scott Walker, who spent 9 years documenting the scene, and profiles UGK’s Bun B (who also provides a foreword), Z-Ro, the Geto Boys’ Willie D, Lil’ Troy, and Paul Wall, with “reflections on the lives of departed legends such as DJ Screw, Pimp C, and Big Hawk.” Houston Rap is available now from Sinecure Books.

“We edited the book as a 24 hour glimpse into the culture,” says editor Johan Kugelberg. “We take you from the projects to the studio to the strip club and back, all along with an on-going oral history narrative from the people of the culture.”

To mark the release of the book, Lance Scott Walker has assembled more than 60 songs from two decades of Houston hip-hop into a four-hour, forty-eight minute tour through the city’s lean-sipping, trunk-rattling, emotionally-charged rap tradition. Stream the mix and check out the impressive tracklist below, via Spin.

DJ Screw and Fat Pat “Intro” (1996)

Z-Ro and Mike-D “Bottom To The Top” (2009)

Savvi “Hueston Chronicles” (2004)

Big Mike “World Of Mine” (1994)

Botany Boyz “Playa Hatin Bustas” DJ Screw mix ft. Mike-D (1997)

Too Much Trouble “Family Can Be Your Worst Enemy” (1993)

K-Rino “What U Gonna Do” (2008)

Big Mello “Too Much Stress” (1996)

Geto Boys “1, 2 and 3” (2004)

O.G. Style “Catch Em Slippin” (1991)
Trae tha Truth ft. Hawk, Pimp C “Swang” (2006)

R.P. Cola ft. Mista Mookie “Too Much Lean In My Cup” (1999)

Klondike Kat “Ghetto Baby” (1997)

Fat Pat and Mike-D “All Day All Night” DJ Screw freestyle (1996)

UGK ft. N.O. Joe, Botany Boyz, Lil’ 3rd “3 In The Mornin'” (1996)

Royal Flush “I Never Made 20” (1991)

Raheem “Dance Floor” (1988)

Devin the Dude “All You Need” (2010)

E.S.G. and Slim Thug “Getcha Hands Up” (2001)

Scarface “On My Block” (2002)

20-2-Life ft. PSK-13, Point Blank “Backstreets” DJ Screw mix (1995)

Poetic Souls “31 Flavors” (1992)

Lil’ Flip ft. Lyfe Jennings “Ghetto Mindstate (Can’t Get Away)” (2007)

Street Military “Next Episode” (1991)

Hawk ft. Z-Ro “Diggin Tha South” (2002)

Mr. 3-2 “Comin Down” (1996)

Mike Jones ft. Lil’ Keke, Paul Wall “I’m A Pimp” (2003)

Choice “Payback” (1990)
5th Ward Boyz “Situations” (1995)

Born 2wice ft. B-Fine, Rick Royal “Child 4 Freestyle” (1990)

2 Low “Pain” (1994)

Coughee Brothaz “Piece Of The Pie” (2006)

K-Otix “Move On Pt. 1” (2004)
South Circle “New Day” (1995)

Dead End Alliance ft. Lil’ Keke, Mike-D “Heart Of A Hustler” (1998)

Big 50 “Smoke-N-Maintain” Beltway 8 mix (1997)

Def IV “Schoolboy Crush” (1988)

Square Frame Garden “Rings Around Saturn” (1993)

Sho ft. Willie D “Trouble Man” (1993)

The 144 ELiTE “7’s Up” (2007)

South Park Mexican, Max Minelli, Grimm “La, La, La” (2001)

Ganksta N-I-P “Black Godfather” (1992)

Slim Thug ft. Agonylife, Hawk, 50/50 Twin “Batter Up” Lil’ Randy mix (2010)

Woss Ness “Holes In They Trunk” (2000)

Fesu “Streets Of Greenspoint” (1998)

Cl’Che ft. Hawk “Can’t Nobody” (1999)

Chamillionaire ft. Lil’ Flip “Turn It Up” (2005)

Den Den ft. Z-Ro, Wood “My Life” (2002)

Big Bear “Doin’ Thangs” (1998)

4 Deep “Rollin’ 4 Deep” DJ Screw mix ft. Lil’ Randy (1994)

Papa Reu ft. Lil’ Flip, Hawk “Represent” (2003)

H.I.S.D. ft. Spacebunny Jefferson, Von Pea “Juices and Barry’s” (2012)

Deep South Coalition ft. Emcee “Catch-A-Contact” (2000)

Guerilla Maab “Rise” (1999)
Black Mike “Haven’t You Heard” (2004)

BAM ft. Fakkulty “Street Symphony” (2000)

Infamous Playa Family “Never Feel Such Pain” (1999)

Big Moe ft. Lil’ O, Hawk “Get Back” (2000)

Killa Kyleon ft. Big Pokey “Bullies & Swangas” (2013)

2-Def ft. Klondike Kat “I’m In That World” (1997)

Double D “All Night Long” (2002)

Trinity Garden Cartel “Judge Me By 12” (1996)

Lil’ Troy ft. Big T, Fat Pat, Hawk, Yungstar, Lil’ Will “Wanna Be A Baller” (1999)

C.O.D. ft. Rapper K, Klondike Kat “South Park” (2009)

Ronnie Spencer ft. Tyte Eyez “Cradle To Da Grave” (2001)

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