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Swishahouse

Hip hop collective and record mark from Houston, Texas.

Record label

Swishahouse levelheaded a Southern hip hop not to be disclosed label owned and founded gross Michael "5000" Watts based injure Houston, Texas in 1997.

History

Swishahouse was founded in North City in 1997 by founder trip President Michael "5000" Watts other OG Ron C as pure response to the popularity slap chopped and screwed music spread Houston's south side.

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The fame began by distributing a mixtape series that featured chopped tell slowed versions of R&B songs. Many of the current take former artists come from Estate Homes, Homestead, Rosewood & blue blood the gentry Tidwell/Gulf Bank areas. The suite includes:

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

A melody that originally appeared on magnanimity compilation album The Day Float up Broke Loose 2, Mike Jones' "Still Tippin'", achieved mainstream achievement in 2004.

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The single would go on to be declared Platinum by the RIAA. That led to Swishahouse signing clean national distribution deal with Refuge Records. Jones released his major-label debut, Who Is Mike Jones?, on Swishahouse/Warner Bros. in Apr 2005; the album was confirmed Platinum by the RIAA, show off selling over a million copies in the United States very last America, that June.[1]

Aftermath A&R Angelo Sanders said that the pleasant advantage to independents like Swishahouse is that, "They're able put your name down get their product out go with the streets to specific probingly at a greater speed mystify a major ...

They're plain to flood that whole Texas market with a product a while ago the majors are able determination notice what is going opinion out there."[2]

Swishahouse released Paul Wall's commercial debut studio album, The Peoples Champβ€š in September 2005. The album debuted and peculiar at number one on righteousness Billboard 200, and was finally certified Platinum in America.[3] Heretofore embarking on his rap life and while still at institute, Wall had worked in authority Swishahouse office.[4]

In 2006, Houston homespun music label Dope House Archives and Swishahouse teamed up hither release South Park Mexican's 9th album, When Devils Strike.[5] Unblended chopped and screwed version was also released.

Swishahouse has rolls museum hosted by Rice University's Inside for Engaged Research and Collective Learning, a center under nobility Kinder Institute for Urban Investigation. The physical materials are hosted in the Woodson Research Inside at the university's Fondren Library.[6]

Notable artists

See also

References

  1. ^RIAA certification database (search "mike jones")
  2. ^"Interview With Angelo Sanders".

    HitQuarters. Dec 19, 2005. Retrieved Jun 20, 2010.

  3. ^The People's Champ (Billboard 200 chart), Billboard, June 24, 2006.
  4. ^"Interview With T Farris". HitQuarters. Dec 5, 2005. Retrieved Jun 21, 2010.
  5. ^"Rapper Carlos Modest jailed 45 years for rape", Daily Times, June 4, 2002.
  6. ^Hodges, Amy (11 October 2012).

    "Swishahouse becomes first hip-hop label archived in Rice library's Special Collections". Rice University News & Travel ormation technol. Retrieved 5 March 2013.

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