Houston Rap by Lance Scott Walker, Peter Beste, Johan Kugelberg & Bun B

Houston Rap
by Lance Scott Walker With Photography by Peter Beste
Edited by Johan Kugelberg & Bun B

The Houston, Texas, neighborhoods of Fifth Ward, Third Ward and South Park have grown to be hallowed ground for modern rap culture, populated with celebrities, entrepreneurs, support networks and a micro-economy of their own.

Photographer Peter Beste (photographer of True Norwegian Black Metal) and writer Lance Scott Walker spent nine years documenting the most influential style in twenty-first-century hip hop and the vibrant inner-city culture from which it stems.
 

Houston Rap, edited by Johan Kugelberg, profiles noted artists such as Bun B of UGK, Z-Ro, Big Mike, K-Rino, Willie D of the Geto Boys, Lil’ Troy and Paul Wall, alongside reflections on the lives of departed legends such as DJ Screw, Pimp C, Fat Pat, Macc Grace, Mr. 3-2, Big Pokey, Big Steve, Bushwick Bill, Big Mello, Gator, Big Moe and Big Hawk, All The Fallen Soldiers & H-Town Angels.

The book also features community leaders, rappers, producers, businessmen and family members, all providing an astonishing and important insight into a great American cultural narrative.

In addition to featuring Beste’s previously unseen images of the contemporary Houston rap scene, Houston Rap includes a detailed timeline charting the growth of rap music in Houston from its origins to the present.