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SUMMARY:Friday Night: Paul Wall
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nFRIDAY NIGHT: PAUL WALL\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row gap=”30″][vc_column width=”1/4″ icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””] \nMUSIC PROFILE\nHometown: Houston\, Texas \nGenre: Southern hip-hop / chopped and screwed \nKnown for: Grills\, syrup-slow flows\, and putting H-Town on the music map \nBreakthrough Album: The People’s Champ\, which hit number one on the Billboard 200 \nSignature Song: “Sittin’ Sidewayz\,” the slab riding anthem that defined his sound \nNotable Collaborations: Nelly’s “Grillz” and Kanye West’s “Drive Slow” \nBusiness Ventures: Longtime jewelry partnership with Johnny Dang[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space alter_height=”none” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″ icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=””]There is a version of Texas that lives entirely in the drawl of a chopped and screwed hook\, and Paul Wall has spent two decades as one of its chief architects. The Houston rapper built his name inside Michael “5000” Watts’ Swishahouse operation\, talking his way from promotions work into the booth itself. He studied mass communications at the University of Houston while his mixtapes were already circulating through the city’s underground. Paired with Chamillionaire in the duo Color Changin’ Click\, he found the sound that would define an era of Southern rap: unhurried\, syrupy\, and utterly confident. \nThat confidence paid off in 2005. The People’s Champ hit number one on the Billboard 200\, anchored by the slab riding anthem “Sittin’ Sidewayz.” Wall’s voice soon turned up everywhere\, a guest verse here\, a hook there. He left his mark on Nelly’s “Grillz” and Kanye West’s “Drive Slow\,” records that carried the Houston sound far past city limits. Along the way\, his partnership with jeweler Johnny Dang cemented him as much a fixture of hip hop jewelry culture as of the charts. \nWhat separates Wall from the pack of his era is longevity\, and a live show built for community rather than spectacle. Onstage he turns bass into celebration\, working big hooks and slow grooves until the crowd is shouting every line back at him\, transforming any room into a piece of H Town. This year alone has found him everywhere: a hometown night at Meow Wolf Houston alongside Lil’ Keke\, a guest turn with Lizzo\, Koe Wetzel\, and Forrest Frank at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo\, and a genuinely unexpected pairing with a live orchestra for a YMCA of San Angelo benefit called Chopped and Orchestrated. That run lands him back home October 2\, when he headlines the Come and Take It Celebration in Gonzales. \nIt is a fitting booking. Gonzales built its identity on defiance\, on a small town that refused to hand over what was theirs. Paul Wall built his career on the same stubborn regional pride\, refusing to let Houston’s sound get flattened into anyone else’s version of hip hop. The two belong on the same bill.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://comeandtakeitcelebration.com/event/free-live-music-paul-wall/
LOCATION:Main Come & Take It Celebration Stage\, Independence Square\, Gonzales\, 78629
CATEGORIES:Events,Free Live Music,Friday,Friday Events
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