I grew up on hip hop and I remember when Texas wasn't being heard. I remember when the Geto Boys first came out and I thought "Man, Texas is on the map!" I also remember how cool it was when Biggie dropped Rap A Lot's name in his rhyme and I said "Man, they are paying attention to us!" UGK going from "A Pocket full of Stones" to "Killing it" with Jay Z. Who better to be "Big Pimpin" than UGK with that Texas swag. Or even the second wave when DJ Screw changed the game and the whole Screwed Up Click started being recognized, SPM signed a major deal, and when I first saw lil Flip video being played on BET. Paul Wall and Chamillionaire being nominated at the Source awards and the following of Slim Thug being signed.(that was a long time coming) I was proud to be from Texas. I felt like we blew up, not just these artist. And that is what "Save Texas Rap" means. All these artist that I mentioned are our musical fathers and no State can take the losses either through death or incarceration. Still the guys we lost are legends and we can't take anymore hits. When me and Grip say "Save Texas Rap" we mean save the legacy. A lot of people didn't get the concept. When I talked to Fat Joe who is from New York, he told me "Save Texas Rap? Texas rap is doing fine". I said we just lost another soldier, Pimp C, and there will never be another Pimp C. He said, Oh really there will never be another Pimp C... I don't know if he understood what I meant. So don't think "Save Texas Rap" has anything to do with record sales, it is another way of saying Save our Texas hip hop roots because Texas is a big part of hip hop and I hate for us to not be relevant anymore. ("Anybody or event we left off was not out of disrespect ,but these events really made a mark on us.")

DJ SINCE