| “All This Motherfucking Disdain:” The Outfit TX’s Highs & Lows | November 16, 2015 |
If they ain't better than Sauce Twinz, they're the closest ones.
| The Martian Chronicles of The Outfit, TX | June 4, 2014 |
Max Bell is a Ray Bradbury guy. At this point, my writing about The Outfit, TX is unofficially part of my job at PassionWeiss. I continue because someone must. Apart from Rob Gullatte, few in Houston have as much talent and potential. (If I’m missing someone, alert me in the comments section — that’s why it’s […]
| The Candy Paint Stalactights of The Outfit, TX | April 11, 2014 |
Max Bell rolls them Rolls. If you listen to Texas rap, you’d be forgiven for thinking all similes and metaphors devoted to syrup slathered slabs had been exhausted. The abundance of references to dripping jheri curls, ice cream, etc. will inevitably dull the gleam of the proverbial paint job for some. Yet, once again, The Outfit, […]
| The Outfit, TX Sipping on “Purple Diamond Tea” | March 7, 2014 |
Max Bell will be watching UGK videos during SXSW. The Outfit, TX are among the best rap groups the Lone Star state has to offer. You know the difference between shit and shine and yet, because the Gods must be crazy, the rest of the blogosphere doesn’t praise them highly enough. Then again, said blogosphere is […]
| Cognac & Codeine: The Outfit, TX Sit in Their Four-Cornered Room | December 2, 2013 |
Max Bell will take potent potables for $200. The Outfit, TX is one of the best rap groups in Texas. Their 2012 debut, Starships & Rockets: Cooly Fooly Space Age Funk remains one of the most satisfying and fully realized rap albums from last year. It’s nostalgic, contemporary, and futuristic. It’s a regionally reverent re-invention […]
| The Midnight Marauding of The Outfit, TX | June 3, 2013 |
Max Bell has a pocket full of stones. There’s no shortage of posts about The Outfit, TX here on this site (see here, here, and here). Each is essentially for the same reason: the Houston, Texas trio is responsible for one of the best albums of 2012. And so, this post is really no different. It’s rare […]
| The Outfit, TX & Their Street | April 3, 2013 |
I might be running out of superlatives to offer to The Outfit, TX. We write about a lot of new music at this site, but it’s rare when an album stays on my iPod into the next season. Their Starships and Rockets record remains in semi-permanent rotation, a combination of screw music, swanging, and outer […]
| Video: The Outfit, TX – “Private Dancer” | March 7, 2013 |
Hi, Internet. Stop bitching about the MTV list that no one cares about. Stop interpreting Drake lyrics like they were orphic entrails that may or may not be taking shots at Pusha, Chris Brown, and Rihanna’s Battleship. There are plenty of excellent rappers actually from Houston who are getting no love because they don’t have […]
| The Cooly Fooly Space Age Funk of The Outfit, TX | November 1, 2012 |
I blame only myself and maybe Shea Serrano for not putting us up on the The Outfit, TX sooner. The latter is the foremost chronicler of Houston rap and I like to think of myself as the kind of guy who would sense the disturbance in the force created from an album called, The Ballad […]
