Bun B, Lil Keke and Willie D talk to Mia Gradney about the Houston rap scene

The Houston rap scene has a long and storied history and the city has turned out some of the biggest stars.

[@rickflair4029]

If you’re still hearing a song that 20 yrs old it’s a classic. To me all of the old rap is better than what’s out there now. Love me some Country Rap tunes.

[@JagoP352]

Ghetto Boys, UGK, Don KeKe raised me and a im truly grateful for the opportunity to come from an era when RAP had a message of growth and prosperity.

[@AChangeNView]

I see Bun and KeKe all the time. I've seen Will at Pappadeaux's. These men are well rounded and truly grounded. I definitely appreciate their contribution to the culture.

[@darelljohnson5696]

Ive literally seen Bun at HEB, talked to Keke at 24 HR Fitness in Pearland, and seen Willie D at Pep Boys on 59 and Fondren.

[@LupeCoded]

That is awesome!

[@erikybarra1841]

Say what?! Did u get their autographs with their signatires?!

[@BayouCityShack]

Willie "D" he mentioned my boy K~Rino ...leave no family member behind. Salute Willie❗🫡

[@sirtonestv]

Str8 up I was crunk when I heard him say it K-Rino is my favorite artist I'm grateful that I recorded a song with him soild dude

[@codyjemison9558]

​@@sirtonestvwhere can I find that song? I'll check it out

[@sirtonestv]

You also find it on all Streaming Platforms under Sir Tones - Blockin My Shine

[@erikybarra1841]

​@@sirtonestvReal and Lyrical emcc eight there! Probably the most lyrical emcee put tha H aside from Face, Ro & Chamillionaire!

[@kevink2110]

Yall GOATs for getting the GOATS. Dope interaction and legendary stories.

[@kingedwards8059]

Yea yea keke trash tho

[@MikePakaRoostahvelli]

Feels like I just relived my infancy, childhood, all the way through my graduating year of high school all in one 40min interview. True LEGENDS, not just of the South... in General. Damn, what a great interview. Algo's really stepping it up lately. 👏

[@beeoakclifftexascraig5706]

Imagine a trio Album wit these 3 boyz!!🤔💯💪 A Bun B, Willie D & Lil Keke album

[@the_real_exp]

You might be onto something there! It would be a helluva album

[@TheDeemoney171]

Dat shit would be 🔥

[@Tearzofmercury]

can't forget face too

[@GeedyP]

Fire 🔥 interview much love ❤️ from New Orleans 🎤🎤🎤

[@RudolphManor]

Salute To New Orleans All The Way From Cincinnati. 💪🏽😎

[@arrisbaldwin6498]

50 years of hip-hop...the South still has something to say 💯 💯 💯

[@danawooten-pi7dm]

I’m From Chicago And I Have Always Been A Fan Of UGK And The Geto Boyz And Southern Rap Music

[@overcomer5693]

Bun B is right. I worked at Sam’s Club on Fannin and he was at customer service. I still have his picture in my phone!!

[@jamalljones37]

This is Legendary 😊 thanks Mia for giving our Greats a platform

[@BobbieKhan-qc6pv]

I died when she said swingers and KeKe told her to say it again 😂

[@codyjemison9558]

Swingas 💀 He's like nah it's not called 'swingers' it's SWANGAZ lol😂😂😂

[@RudolphManor]

I'm from Cincinnati and I grew up off of Southern Hip Hop. 💯

[@DedrickDavis-tt5xb]

Because that's where your roots are from most people from Cincinnati and Cleveland are from the south (big facts)

[@screweduptx512]

I.just got back to Texas from Toledo

[@erikybarra1841]

What no Bone Thugs N Harmony or other quality Midwest Rap like Twista, Eminem or Criucal Conflict?

[@SoJesusChristMusic]

I’m glad this popped up on my feed! Legend Talk 🥳

[@QueenofHeartsandDiamonds]

love this interview..classic

[@gtmayne7112]

All three are my favorite and all three were hot in the 90's there age range ain't too far apart hell they all are Uncs!!! 3 of the BEST.💪🏾🤘🏾💯

[@QueenNowlin]

❤❤❤❤ we love these older men cause they classy and gangsta❤❤❤❤

[@CHELSEABuckhannon]

Yasssssss ❤❤❤😊 Willie especially can get it ❤❤❤

[@CHELSEABuckhannon]

Yes especially Willie D He can get it ❤❤❤😊

[@CHELSEABuckhannon]

Willie D can get it ❤❤😊

[@dcjoeblack2891]

🔥🔥🔥 interview & can't wait for the new keke album to drop as well

[@r3dical1]

real music heads know real music. Love From Finland

[@user-rx7hn9li5c]

Props for mentioning K-Rino. Salute

[@MrFatboy42]

Interviews with the legends never get old!!

[@Dannytentoes]

h towns catalog is undisputed and unmatched , its like digging for gold.

[@user-qv9ny5tg1l]

Real talk, you guys music is a whole vibe and represent our culture to the T! Ya'll music stay relevant cause youre so plugged in to who we are! Celebrating you is celebrating us!

[@carrollsolomonsr7]

Luv it maan 💯✊🏿

[@malcolmmccrory2200]

Im sooo glad willie mentioned k rino

[@jameswilson1522]

Absolutely Incredible... Houston Is Speachless !

[@joemoore441]

Shot out to this sister's for this interview ❤

[@destineetyson7756]

My favorite rappers of all time ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ceea.8222]

Gotta be a G, till l die is one of the hardest tracks key key smashed it

[@NolimitTEXAS]

great interview! Coming from Dallas Tx My go to rapper coming out of H town is Le$. I tip my hat to all that has paved the way

[@vontesantos5981]

Yea le$ hard bra

[@voski8697]

Glad too be a Houstonian🤘🏾🙌🏾✊🏾🤴🏾👸🏾💙

[@psilentGT]

Don Ke was rapping since the mid 90's

[@teelee468]

I've been looking forward to Key verse since about 11 and I'm 41....God Bless the Dawn!!! 🤘

[@CEELOW3000]

Much love to H-TOWN from BHAM, AL

[@LupeCoded]

I love seeing these brothas get their flowers while they're still here, and I'm glad they went on to be very successful in area outside of rap. As a Dallas, TX native, we grew up listening to all three of these, and they gave us some of the best time of both our childhood and adulthood. Much respect to these brothas and to H-Town from D-Town.

[@kceefreeman7320]

3rd coast born mean im Texas raised.. Salute 💯💪🏿.. Great interview..

[@carnellchasejr.2106]

They can fill that whole stage area wit Houston rapperz um just speakin facts💯💪.The South rap game taught me a lot growin up🫵✊.

[@user-in8nx8fz8p]

Legends in one legend talk Fr

[@creolekuda]

When keke made her repeat “swangas” I lost it

[@BobbieKhan-qc6pv]

Same 💀

[@JacquelynNewmandivine]

Love y’all Houston here

[@user-xe6mz1ze3b]

Great interview @KHOU!!!!!🎉 Wonderful!! Keep up the Good work!!

[@DigitalRaider1]

Yes...Mia Gradney was Fabulous!

[@famTx]

Mia was the right one for this Interview. We need channel 11 KHOU to sponsor more of this material. Like an add on special. Houston will always tune in to the rap legends. Great job guys!!

[@earljohnson7576]

😂😂😂 We tha people. Good to see yall together

[@tinnelledwards6895]

Yea there ghettos are different from a lot of other cities but there voice and sound was unique and the way they put lyrics and there sound/music together was dope!!!

[@pivot7897]

Good one. Thanks 💯

[@RespectMyGangsta76]

H-Town in da house !!!

[@fastlifelou6124]

Legends. Reporting live from cali

[@kadontriousx4639]

Best interview ever

[@obatala4688]

Great interview ✊🏿🙏🏿

[@jermainebyrd1830]

Excellent Interview

[@macflyfilms]

One Thang bout Texas, we gone support our own. Southwest Alief

[@BobbieKhan-qc6pv]

SWAT checking in

[@979djyoungc]

Yes Bun B 😂 tipping on 44s is at least 20 years old. I be shocked sometimes too. Never met Bun and Willie D but I've done shows with damn near every single rapper from Htown more then once over my 20 year career.

[@traydaeducata7195]

Great Interview and insight into the sounds of H-Town. We are definitely in a League of Our Own. “Don’t Mess wit Texas”👊🏿

[@bignick9546]

Awesome interview 🤘🏾🤘🏾🔥🔥🔥 !!!

[@AG_TheReal]

Keke looked over like mane, quit all that coughin mane! Great interview!!!!

[@screwvo83]

Dope interview

[@drnockaable]

Shout out to the Goat K rino.

[@kincamell2]

Gratitude Peace to Houston TX, Memphis TN, and Atlanta GA

[@vontesantos5981]

Can't forget new Orleans & miami

[@empirethang]

Lil Keke Dropped in 1997 and impacted the world

[@tedariuscarter4269]

Great interview!!! I still listen to all 3 of them now.

[@LilBreDaYoungBeast]

Texas legends 🔥🙏🏾‼️‼️‼️ LEGENDS PERIOD THO

[@moesunnyside8319]

Love my city and these three top notch artist that represent Htown so well🤘💯💯

[@rwil81]

Bun with the 85 South gear on 🔥💪🏾

[@cedricashberry3617]

I love my city 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾

[@Marlo_D]

Salute .. 🫡 southwest Houston Tx 🤘🏿🚀

[@prof3ssor178]

50 Years Of Hip-Hop! Salute to Texas/ Houston Texas Hip-Hop 🤘🏾💐

[@ramonparks6573]

Much love from Detroit

[@screweduptx512]

These OGs are raw and humble.

[@thatninja1882]

Great interview.....

[@dustyroze150]

i agree wit Wil on Stevie Wonder🎼 songs in the key🔑of life and next iz Prince💜the artist🎵

[@daveparker5541]

Mia from Liberty,TX. She knows how to say SWANGAS😂😂😂😂😂.

[@matthewszczerba4106]

The new geto boys right here. Yall should drop an album with yall 3 and make one last one, for the south.

[@patfoun9459]

Three of my favorite artists from one of my favorite cities Long Live

[@undisputedtruth6176]

Rap / hip hop is Black America’s gift to the world. Funk and R & B are the DNA of hip hop. Salute to the original pioneers from the 40s to the present.

[@68thalien]

💯🎯

[@QuarterlyNewsCrew]

Houston Rap embodies an entire culture. The swangas, choppas, slabs, and the grind its a way of life.

[@screwvo83]

No it's Screwed And Chopped!! Lol

[@GulfCoastConnection]

Lots of great music & mc's out there, you've just gotta find em, like Big Daddy Kane said in his most recent interview on Drink Champs.

[@IanHendrikx]

Willie ❤❤❤

[@magno_yaheard]

My affinity for da SLAB came from my Grandmama......she always said she like Buicks cuz they "hold the road", which is the "slab" of concrete.....that's why we say "holdin slab"....great interview 💯

[@manuelmolina7351]

H-town 4 LIFE baby, d best, RIP FAT PAT.

[@chrisbrinson2489]

Jam Pony Express DJ’s did it in 1980. We called it slowed down. A Florida thang.

[@DjGlyden2024]

Salute! All three of yals generations have been a major infulence to me and Salute to H Town. Shoutout Stevie Wonder.

[@TyroneEpps]

This interview is hot 😊

[@timschwed8524]

Whoever idea it was to put Bushwick in the group was a genius will and the can't be stopped album cover just saying as a thirteen yr old white kid from Kansas City in the 90's thats what we was talking about although I did hear the controversy from Willie D first it was that song I'm a kinky mf yeah shout out to will as for bun I still remember first time I heard pocketful of stones I had got the menace soundtrack ugk was on a whole other level also and for Keke I saw him when he come to KC with e40 the Charlie hustle tour then I got.ahold of 3 in the morning but that Dead end alliance I found at a used cd store seen esg was on it had to get it but that D.E.A every song on the cd I can't say I have a favorite long live the pimp pockey moe and screw and can't forget who snoop got his style from Mr 3-2 I'm bout i got to get some them swangers the original ones used to see on cadilacs and bonnelviles were the f do I start to look I'm biut to google thst shit

[@hardtofindagood]

her loud mic ruined the interview

[@user-ws6oh5bn9e]

Where face at?

[@screweduptx512]

Lil Keke GIVIN GAME on what HOLDIN SLAB REALLY MEANS. When you was ON THA SLAB YOU WERE SITTIN LOW TO THE GROUND ON THE SLAB OF CONCRETE!!!! 🤘🤘🤘💯💯💯💯💯. TEXAS MAANE

[@Spaceage713]

Keke been on the scene since the 90's tho

[@SoulOfTheSouth]

Keke came around 97.

[@psilentGT]

@@SoulOfTheSouth 1997 With his first album. But I think he was rapping 95 maybe 94. DJ Screw

[@krimm186]

Keke is my top 3 favorite rapper!!

[@BEENIECRIS]

Great Interview 🔥

[@judahmac2249]

Proud to be a 5th Wardian 💪🏾🙌🏾

[@DreDay_BIH]

Correction...."SWANGAS", NOT Swingas‼‼‼🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣✅💯💯

[@DonJuanSeville]

💯💯💯TEXAS♥️♥️♥️......2 BAD IT'S NOT LIKE THIS IN ST.LOUIS MO.......2 MUCH DAM HATE N JEALOUSY

[@carrollsolomonsr7]

My dudes all on one interview priceless. I don't g.a.d.about the others i grown up with these three dudes will big brother looked up to bun i ran wit listening to an ke the lil brother i had with me u digg m-square tx baby.

[@user-xe6mz1ze3b]

And Kudosto ((Mia Gradney)!🎉

[@sirtonestv]

Lil Keke been around since 90's

[@Dannytentoes]

lil keke my favorite h town rapper blowing cake keep it 100 still young living life scholarship to the pen pimp the pen miss my boyz thats barely touching the surface ugk and ghetto boyz my favorite groups this is a great watch and listen.

[@chaenice4371]

🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾Houston 4 Ever 🛸🚀🚀🧑🏾‍🚀