Swishahouse is a Southern hip hop record label owned and founded by Michael "5000" Watts based in Houston, Texas in 1997.
64-461: Swishahouse was founded in North Houston in 1997 by founder and President Michael "5000" Watts and OG Ron C as a response to the popularity of chopped and screwed music from Houston's south side. The label began by distributing a mixtape series that featured chopped and slowed versions of R&B songs. Many of the current and former artists come from Acres Homes , Homestead , Rosewood &
128-417: A 2001 bond election voters approved an expansion and renovation of the multi-service center. On October 12, 2006 the city of Houston began the first phase of a renovation and expansion project for the center. The first phase, $ 3.4 million, included an addition of 16,000 square feet (1,500 m ) of space to the center; the expansion would include a classroom with computers for information technology purposes,
192-553: A community activist and contributor to the Fifth Ward Enrichment Program, said in a 1987 Houston Chronicle article that "One of the differences between this neighborhood and one like River Oaks is that they have lots of support and all kinds of resources available. Here in the Fifth Ward it's the exact opposite: These people have no resources at all. There's one clinic, one library, no YMCA , very few activities, and
256-402: A community food pantry, a demonstration kitchen used for holding cooking classes, community meeting conference space, a community event multi-purpose room, and community program administration offices. The city scheduled completion for September 2007. The city scheduled the start of the second phase, a $ 2 million renovation project of the original 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m ) structure, after
320-580: A drawbridge at San Jacinto Street that crossed the Buffalo Bayou . It paved parts of Odin Avenue, now known as Lyons Avenue, in brick in the 1890s. The pavement ended two blocks after the residence of Mayor of Houston John T. Browne . On February 21, 1912, with stiff Northern winds blowing in, the largest fire in Houston's history began. This fire became known as the "Great Fifth Ward Fire". The strong winds spread
384-400: A former slave, is the oldest church in the ward. Five other churches are over a hundred years old. Also home to the famous "Island of Hope (Anderson Memorial Temple) COGIC" the oldest Pentecostal church in Fifth Ward. Over the years it had been home to the city's minority and immigrant population. Additional waves of Irish people, as well as Germans and Italians settled the Fifth Ward. In
448-566: A member of the Houston City Council , said "The Fifth Ward is void of jobs. There aren't any commercial grocery stores. There aren't any places where young people can get a job." KBR maintained offices in a 138 acres (56 ha) campus on Clinton Drive, within the boundaries of the East End and the Fifth Ward. This property was along the Buffalo Bayou . As of December 2010 KBR no longer operates this office. The KBR office complex
512-409: A mixtape "for now on don't call me Ron C, call me OG RON C". The next year Ron signed a deal with head KBXX 97.9 DJ Madd Hatta's label Paid-n-Full Records to drop "Southern's Finest" which sold 40,000 copies and featured the hit single "In Love with my money" by Chamillionaire and Paul Wall . In the early part of the century Ron C and Watts decided to part ways as business partners, and OG Ron C left
576-539: A percentage of those with high school diplomas of 52%, and a poverty line percentage of 10%. By 1979 only a few Italian American families remained in the Fifth Ward. By that year, black flight from the Fifth Ward to Kashmere Gardens , South Park , Sunnyside , and Trinity Gardens had occurred. West wrote in 1979 that about 90% of the Fifth Ward was characterized by "physical ugliness" and "poverty" while there are some middle class "pockets of affluence" that do not have physical indications of troubled neighborhoods. At
640-781: A primary road in the Fifth Ward. In 1979 West wrote that Lyons Avenue, named after saloon owner John Lyons, served as the "Soul Street" of Houston, declaring it equivalent to 125th Street in Harlem, 47th Street in Chicago , South Street in Philadelphia , Seventh and T in Washington, D.C. , Tremont Street in Boston, and Springfield Avenue in Newark, New Jersey . In the 1920s the Lyons family owned many businesses along
704-523: A remix of Swedish hiphop duo Lorentz & Sakarias " Molnen (Ni kan inte nå mig) " ft. Duvchi . In a first for OG Ron C, he collaborated with California -based indie rock band The Neighbourhood for the Chopped Not Slopped remix of the group's single " Afraid ". Is an online radio station that specializes in ChopNotSlop music. It is the first 24 hours chopped and screwed radio station. It
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#1732858309327768-402: A year and worked at the school-run radio station KBWC . After being there a year C took a lead at Houston urban station 97.9 The Box in promotions as an intern. In 1994 Ron C was given a paid position at KBXX 97.9 FM. That same year he met Michael "5000" Watts who was also a DJ at the station. On the south side of town a new subgenre of rap that had been created by DJ Screw was so popular that
832-515: Is Ben Taub General Hospital in the Texas Medical Center . The Houston Housing Authority (HHA) operates several public housing properties in the Fifth Ward. The include Kelly Village and Kennedy Place. Kennedy Place first opened as a 60 unit development in 1982. The HHA used $ 7.8 million, including some federal stimulus funds, to redevelop the housing. The demolition of the old Kennedy Place began on December 28, 2009. In January 2011
896-831: Is Sheila Jackson Lee . The city operates the Fifth Ward Multi-Service Center at 4014 Market Street, The city multi-service centers provide several services such as child care, programs for elderly residents, and rental space. in proximity to Interstate 10 . The center, operated by the Houston Department of Health and Human Services, houses ten agencies, including the Fifth Ward Branch Library, American Red Cross , Harris County Juvenile Probation Program, Mayor's Citizens' Assistance Office, Neighborhood Centers Inc., and Fifth Ward Head Start. The center opened in 1977 so that various social services supporting
960-491: Is a member of the group Brook Gang Music that OG Ron C also manages. In 2009 he hooked back up with his old Swishahouse right-hand-man Michael '5000' Watts and released the highly downloaded "The Return Of The Realest". Via Chopnotslop.com he continues to release new mixtapes and albums. He always preached that he wanted to continue to keep DJ Screw 's legacy alive by offering his own brand of audio intoxication, and "keepin boys Chopped Up, Not Slopped Up." In 2013 OG Ron C made
1024-513: Is an American DJ , radio personality, Grammy nominated record producer, and entertainment and management company executive, who is currently signed to OVO Sound and is also an on-air DJ for KQBT 93.7 The Beat. He is the owner of the Houston -based urban music online radio station ChopNotSlop Radio, former DJ of Southern rappers Chamillionaire and Slim Thug . Along with Michael 5000 Watts, he co-founded Swishahouse Records and helped jump-start
1088-546: Is served by the Houston Police Department Northeast Patrol Division, headquartered at 8301 Ley Road. The Fifth Ward Storefront is located in Suite 200 at 4300 Lyons Avenue. The Houston Fire Department operates Station 19 Fifth Ward, a part of Fire District 19, on 1811 Gregg Street. The station first opened in 1925 at the corner of Gregg and New Orleans. The current location opened in 1979 at
1152-544: Is the founder of Chopnotslop Radio a 24-hour "Screwed" Radio station dedicated to DJ Screw . Ronald Rummell Coleman, aka DJ OG Ron C, began his DJ career at parties in his northside neighborhood of 5th Ward in Houston, Texas , while a freshman in high school. In the 12th grade he got a job on the first street team for Houston radio station Majic 102. During his senior year Ron C earned a grant to attend Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, to study communication. He attended Wiley for
1216-634: The Houston Business Journal said that it made more sense for the company to lease existing space instead of constructing new office space in times of economic downturns. In 2010 KBR announced that it will vacate the Clinton Drive campus and move the 1,600 employees who work at the Clinton Drive office to the KBR offices in Downtown Houston. The company will then conduct an environmental cleanup of
1280-527: The Texas Department of State Health Services conducted of a study of an area in the Fifth Ward around Lavender Street, near a creosote facility of a former rail yard, where cancer rates were higher than normal. In 1922, a group of Louisiana Creoles organized the Fifth Ward community of " Frenchtown ," which contained a largely Roman Catholic and Creole culture. The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 forced many Creoles to leave Louisiana, and they settled
1344-609: The Tidwell / Gulf Bank areas. The series includes: A song that originally appeared on the compilation album The Day Hell Broke Loose 2 , Mike Jones ' " Still Tippin' ", achieved mainstream success in 2004. The single would go on to be certified Platinum by the RIAA . This led to Swishahouse signing a national distribution deal with Asylum Records . Jones released his major-label debut, Who Is Mike Jones? , on Swishahouse/ Warner Bros. in April 2005;
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#17328583093271408-402: The Clinton Drive site. Two majority-Hispanic (as of 2001) communities, Denver Harbor and Northside , are on either end of the Fifth Ward. "Big Tree," a tree in an area where Interstate 10 and U.S. Route 59 ( Eastex Freeway ) now intersect, historically has been the center of activity in the Fifth Ward and was in proximity to the terminus of the streetcar line. Lyons Avenue serves as
1472-610: The Dude , Z-Ro , the Ghetto Boys, Lil' Flip , Pitbull , and Chamillionaire 's Sound Of Revenge Chopped and Screwed, Universal , which has sold more than any other screwed and chopped CD on a major label. OG Ron C has also appeared in XXL , The Source , Ozone , Murda Dog, and Down Magazine, as well as in an assortment of other publications. OG Ron C started a website called CHOPNOTSLOP.COM, which he dedicated to keeping DJ Screw music alive. On
1536-422: The Fifth Ward for its headquarters. When Interstate 10 was built, it went through the Fifth Ward, dividing the community. The city government established some pocket parks and added pavement, gutters, and curbing to several streets in the southernmost part of the Fifth Ward in the period 1964-1974, during the term of Mayor of Houston Louie Welch . Desegregation led middle class African-Americans to move to
1600-401: The Fifth Ward would be located in one place. It was built for $ 1 million (equivalent to $ 5.03 million in 2023), and by 1979 it had a day care, a juvenile probation center, a housing counseling center, an employment center, a health clinic, a library, a senior citizen service center, and other services, provided by nine agencies. In 2005 the multi-service center served 65,000 people. In
1664-916: The Fifth Ward's physical character was not like that of Harlem in New York City or Roxbury in Boston . In 1974 Whit Canning of Texas Monthly stated that the Fifth Ward was characterized by a "project-type apartment complex", "narrow streets" and "small stores". West wrote that the Fifth Ward had its environment "out in the open, on the street" and that it had "more barbershops, pawnshops, churches, loose dogs, abandoned buildings, bars, broken windows" while there were "fewer sidewalks, streetlights, fire hydrants, culverts, curbs, parks, jewelers, museums, libraries, garbage trucks." In 1970 metal manufacturer Moncrief-Lenoir Manufacturing Company planned an urban renewal project, spending $ 10 million to buy 20 acres (8.1 ha) of land along Lyons Avenue's western end, but nothing
1728-458: The Fifth Ward, along the Buffalo Bayou, housed farms in its early history before becoming a host of slums and the city dump by the 1920s. Cleanup of this area began when Brown and Root began establishing its headquarters in the late 1940s. The 359-acre (145 ha) Englewood Rail Yard, located in the eastern end of the Fifth Ward, is 4.5 miles (7.2 km) long. In 1979 Englewood Radar Yard
1792-537: The Fifth Ward, include a lack of effort to get investment from White people, the construction of freeways that cut off parts of the Fifth Ward, a lack of investment in the appearance of businesses, white persons leaving the Fifth Ward and taking capital, and the closing of the Lyons Avenue exit off of the Eastex Freeway , the eastern portion of U.S. Route 59 in Houston. West also stated that black flight contributed to
1856-490: The Fifth Ward. In 2020 a survey concluded that 43% of area families had at least one member diagnosed with cancer. In 2015 the Greater Fifth Ward Super Neighborhood had 19,687 residents. 48% were Black, 46% were Hispanic, 4% were White, and 1% each was Asian and others. In 2000 the super neighborhood had 22,211 residents. 63% were non-Hispanic black, 35% were Hispanic, and 1% were non-Hispanic white;
1920-532: The Fifth Ward. Japhet, a section of the Fifth Ward at Emile Street at Clinton Drive (two blocks east of Hirsch Road/Waco Street), was the Houston Press 2004 "Best Hidden Neighborhood." The article stated "Say the words "Fifth Ward" to most Houstonians, and they'll think crime, poverty and desperation." The article added that Japhet is "more like a village than anything else -- fragrant organic gardens are everywhere, bursting with vegetables, fruits and flowers, and
1984-570: The First Ward, which ceded the area to the north and east of White Oak Bayou and Little White Oak Bayou, and the Second Ward, which ceded all land within the Houston city limits to the north of Buffalo Bayou . In its initial history, the Fifth Ward had many ethnic groups. Large numbers of the residents were Irish and Jews ; the latter had fled pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe, and lived mostly in
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2048-473: The Frenchtown area. When new residents no longer moved to Frenchtown, the neighborhood culturally merged with the greater Fifth Ward. Lisa Gray, a journalist for the Houston Press , stated in a 2000 article that the Fifth Ward has an overall sense of history and a "small-scale, deep-rooted personal history, the way that, in the middle of the city, lives are intertwined in a small-town way." Many families from
2112-467: The Nickel , is a community of Houston , Texas , United States, derived from a historical political district ( ward ), about 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Downtown . Its boundaries are Buffalo Bayou on the south, Little White Oak Bayou on the west, Collingsworth Rd on the north, and Lockwood Drive on the east. The Fifth Ward, one of the six wards of Houston , was created partly from two other wards,
2176-511: The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA, for selling over a million copies in the United States of America, that June. Aftermath A&R Angelo Sanders said that the great advantage to independents like Swishahouse is that, "They're able to get their product out on the streets to specific regions at a greater speed than a major ... They're able to flood that whole Texas market with a product before
2240-518: The best screwed and chopped CD. He also released two independent albums entitled "Real Recognize Real" with his Brother Wood which sold over 20,000 and "Diamonds and Tattoos" with local artist Tow Down which sold over 20,000. In 2006, OG Ron C had made appearances on 106 and Park , Rap City as well as other DJ's mixtapes. He had chopped up over 100 major and independent albums, as well as over 200 mixtapes for artists such as Three 6 Mafia , Master P , Chingy , 8Ball & MJG , Prophet Posse , Devin
2304-524: The careers of Slim Thug , Chamillionaire , Paul Wall and Mike Jones . The leader and founder of The Chopstars , he was the first Houston DJ to receive his own day (September 4) when he got a proclamation from Mayor Sylvester Turner . He is most known for his F-Action (Fuck Action) Series Mixtape which features R&B songs Chopped and Screwed and to date has over 4,200 mixtapes and albums, both at regular speed and chopped and screwed speed. He has sold over 22,000,000 mixtapes and albums to date. He also
2368-517: The city for its talent. Chamillionaire , Slim Thug and Paul Wall attended these contests regularly. After impressing Ron C and Watts they were invited to join The Swishahouse . In 1999 Ron C left radio to release the independent Swishahouse album entitled "The Day Hell Broke Loose" with his co-CEO Mike Watts. The album would go on to sell 100,000 copies and become a Houston classic. This same year people began calling him OG Ron C, and he said on
2432-409: The community housed African-Americans of all occupations and income levels. The community was known as the "bloody Fifth" because of some highly publicized violent incidents in the neighborhood; Michael Berryhill of the Houston Press stated that the Fifth Ward was not as blighted in the 1940s as it was during the 1990s. Robb Walsh of the Houston Press described the 1930s era Fifth Ward as "one of
2496-406: The community is very fragmented. It's not the kind of environment that helps a child excel." As of 1979 the median income in the Fifth Ward was $ 5,030 ($ 21116.31 adjusted for inflation), 25% of Fifth Ward residents had high school diplomas, and 34% of Fifth Ward residents lived below the poverty line. The respective citywide averages were a median income of $ 9,876 ($ 41460.18 adjusted for inflation),
2560-506: The decline in Fifth Ward businesses. As of 1979 most businesses in the Fifth Ward were personal service affairs common to other low income neighborhoods in the United States, such as pawnshops, funeral parlors, bars, barbershops, cleaners, cafes, and liquor stores. As of 1979 Mack Hanna, a black man from Houston, owned the Standard Savings Association, the only financial institution in the Fifth Ward. In 2011 Jarvis Johnson,
2624-728: The eastern parts, while the former lived mainly in the north. Richard West of the Texas Monthly characterized the early Fifth Ward as being "prosperous". After the American Civil War , newly freed slaves began settling in the sparsely settled area. In 1866, it became the Fifth Ward and an alderman from the ward was elected to Houston's City Council. By the mid-1880s, it was virtually all black, home to working-class people who made their livings in Houston's eastside ship channel and industrial areas or as domestics for wealthy Houstonians. Mount Vernon United Methodist Church, founded in 1865 by
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2688-535: The end of the first phase. The Department of Health and Human Services also operates the John Wesley Peavy Sr. Senior Citizens Center, adjacent to the Multi-Service Center. It was named after John Wesley Peavy Sr., an East Texas native who served as a precinct judge in the area. West stated that possible reasons why the business climate in the Fifth Ward was poor, according to different people in
2752-709: The fire as embers set wood-shingled roofs on fire. It consumed a church, school, 13 industrial plants, eight stores, and 119 homes, mostly located in the Fifth Ward. There were no deaths, but there was over $ 3 million in property damage. In the post-World War I period the neighborhood makeup changed as a wave of African-Americans settled the Fifth Ward. The housing density increased as families put more people in each building in order to pay their rent. The buildings, occupied by too many people, began to deteriorate. Some Jewish people remained as landlords, but most of them moved away, with many of them going to New York City , including The Bronx ; and Long Island . Before desegregation
2816-504: The industrial facilities would have been relocated to a location that was, in that month, undetermined. Sanford Criner, a principal at real estate brokerage Trione & Gordon, suggested that gentrification would turn what would have been the former Clinton Drive facility into entertainment, residential, or retail use, and that the facility would not have been redeveloped for office space usage. In December 2001 Halliburton canceled its plans to relocate employees to Westchase. Nancy Sarnoff of
2880-630: The label he help create, Swishahouse . After leaving Swishahouse OG Ron C continued to make his critically acclaimed F-ck Action Series composed of screwed & chopped R&B songs. He was also nominated for 4 Justo Awards (the grammy of DJ awards), and went on to win 2 Justo's for "Best Dirty South Mixtape DJ" in 2004 & 2005. Also In 2004 OG Ron C became the official DJ for platinum selling Universal artist Chamillionaire , he doubled as his show DJ and showed off his skills as Chamillionaires exclusive mixtape DJ. for Chamillitary mixtapes. In 2005 he received his first Southern Entertainment award for
2944-429: The late 1800s the Fifth Ward community threatened to secede from the city of Houston twice, in 1875 and 1883. Complaints about inadequate municipal services, including fire and police services, lighting, sanitation, and drainage, occurred during this time period. The 1875 secession complaint asked for the paving of streets and upgrades to the utility system. The city government ameliorated the 1883 complaints by establishing
3008-663: The majors are able to notice what is going on out there." Paul Wall 's major label debut, The Peoples Champ , on Swishahouse/ Atlantic , was released in September 2005, eventually topping the Billboard 200 . Before embarking on his rap career and while still at school, Wall had worked in the Swishahouse office. In 2006, Houston based music label Dope House Records and Swishahouse teamed up to release South Park Mexican 's ninth album, When Devils Strike . A chopped and screwed version
3072-561: The median annual income was $ 8,900. 62% of its residents lived below the poverty line. 9 of 10 school-aged children qualified for free or reduced lunches. The commercial streets had several empty buildings and vacant lots. Lisa Gray, a journalist in the Houston Press , stated in a 2000 article that the existing businesses "run mostly to dingy mom-and-pop operations, grim little grocery stores and cheerless liquor stores. There's no McDonald's , no Fiesta , no Target , no Wal-Mart . It's turf where national chains fear to tread." Gray added that
3136-463: The new Kennedy Place opened, with 108 units (20 one bedroom, 58 two bedroom, 23 three bedroom, and 4 four bedroom). It also once had Kelly Court, which was the second-ever Houston housing project that admitted African-Americans. In 2002, open ditches were the predominant form of drainage of water in the Fifth Ward. The Fifth Ward is in Texas's 18th congressional district . Its representative as of 2021
3200-511: The opposite side of the intersection. In 1979 it had the highest number of fire and ambulance, beating, cutting, dead on arrival, emergency birth and other obstetric, false alarm, sickness and shooting calls of any Houston fire station. The Harris Health System (formerly Harris County Hospital District) designated the Ripley Health Center for the ZIP code 77020. The designated public hospital
3264-578: The percentages of non-Hispanic Asians and others were zero. In 1870 16% of the African Americans in Houston lived in the Fifth Ward, and in 1910 21% of the African Americans in Houston lived in the Fifth Ward. Greater Fifth Ward is currently located in City Council Districts B and H. As of 2024, Tarsha Jackson represents District B and Mario Castillo Jr. represents District H. [1] https://www.houstontx.gov/council/maps.html The community
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#17328583093273328-584: The proudest black neighborhoods" in the US; more than 40 black-owned businesses were along Lyons Avenue in the Fifth Ward at that time. In the post- World War II period a large number of black migrants, many of them from Louisiana and some from East Texas and other areas in the Deep South , settled the Fifth Ward. The community became characterized by poverty since many of these migrants were unable to get non-menial jobs. In 1949 Brown & Root began buying land in
3392-564: The sound was being played on the north side. Ron C teamed with Watts (who released "party tapes" which are called mixtapes today) to release a screwed and chopped tape of their own. In 1995, Swishahouse was founded as a joint venture between the two DJs. DJ Screw let south-side MCs rap on his tapes and the Swishahouse would soon do the same for rappers on the north side. In 1997 Ron C and Watts began hosting parties for high school students at The All Star Sports Center on Houston's northside near Acres Homes. Freestyle contests would be held to harvest
3456-498: The street, originally named Odin Avenue after the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston , John Mary Odin. The street received its current name in 1927. In pre-desegregation Fifth Ward, Lyons and Jensen were primary commercial avenues. As of 1979 the intersection of Lyons Avenue and Jensen Drive was called " Pearl Harbor " due to many violent incidents occurring there. The southern edge of
3520-427: The suburbs. By the 1970s the Fifth Ward lost a significant part of its population, and many houses were boarded-up. Many area businesses were vacant and the area had many vacant lots with overgrown plants. In 1974 Whit described the neighborhood as "one of Houston's poorest ghettos". In the 1970s and 1980s the Fifth Ward became notorious throughout Houston for the violence perpetrated in the community. Ernest McMillan,
3584-429: The time the Fifth Ward was more dense in terms of population than most Houston neighborhoods. The average Fifth Ward housing density was 9.14 and there were 30.5 persons per residential acre, while Houston's citywide average density and persons per residential acre were 4.98 and 14.4, respectively. In addition, 21% of city blocks had no drainage systems, while 39% had open ditches and 40% had storm sewers. West stated that
3648-459: The website he also has the world's first 24 Hour Screwed (music) Up Radio Station Chopnotslop Radio. Being that he is such a major influence to other DJs he started The Chopstars to help up and coming Chopped and Screwed DJs. He started with DJ Lil Steve who has been his protégé since 2005. In 2008 he met and brought on DJ Candlestick. In 2009 he added DJ Hollygrove and DJ Chose a well known College and Texas Club Scene DJ/producer/artist. Dj Chose
3712-409: The whole neighborhood comes together for a big party every full moon." In 2007 the Fifth Ward was one of several Houston neighborhoods with a high concentration of felons. During that year a debate regarding the ownership of the historic Evergreen Negro Cemetery in the Fifth Ward continued. Some Hurricane Katrina evacuees also moved from Southwest Houston and lived in other parts of Houston such as
3776-641: The words "new" and "nice" were not often associated with the Fifth Ward, while "at-risk," "crime," and "poverty," were. Walsh said that the Fifth Ward in 2002 was "in much better shape" than it was in the 1970s; he added that while the Fifth Ward is "hardly a garden spot," the Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation took many steps to improve the community including assisting low income borrowers in finding loans, encouraging architects to develop "innovative designs" for low income housing, and bringing commercial building projects into
3840-536: Was also released. Swishahouse has archives hosted by Rice University 's Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning, a center under the Kinder Institute for Urban Research. The physical materials are hosted in the Woodson Research Center at the university's Fondren Library . OG Ron C Ronald Rummell Coleman (born August 19, 1973), better known for his stage name OG Ron C ,
3904-542: Was built by 1979. It was scheduled to be one of the largest urban renewal projects in the United States. Between 1990 and 2000 the Hispanic population of the Fifth Ward increased from around 19% of the population to around 31% as Hispanics in the Houston area moved into majority black neighborhoods. In the same period, the black population of the Fifth Ward declined by 3,286 as majority African-American neighborhoods in Houston had declines in their black populations. In 2000
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#17328583093273968-467: Was created in 2008 with the intentions of helping keep the subgenre that DJ Screw had created. The station broadcasts in MP3 format that can be played via ChopNotSlop app available on iTunes App Store , Google Play OG Ron C started a management company in 2009 and currently has 3 celebrities signed under Gizzle Mgmt: http://justclickmenow.com Fifth Ward, Houston The Fifth Ward , nicknamed
4032-519: Was the former headquarters of Brown & Root. Brown and Root began buying land in the Fifth Ward in 1949. It initially acquired 79 acres (32 ha), then it acquired an additional 58 acres (23 ha). By 2001 Halliburton owned the Clinton Drive campus. In August of that year Halliburton announced that it would consolidate 8,000 local employees to office space in Westchase . Halliburton planned to relocate around 2,000 employees from Clinton Drive and
4096-517: Was the largest rail yard in the Southern United States. The rail yard is now owned by Union Pacific Railroad , which merged with the previous owner, Southern Pacific , in 1996. The rail yard was the location of a now-defunct wood preservation plant which is a continued source of creosote contamination to the neighborhood . This plant, as of 1979, gives a distinct odor that caused area Mexican Americans to name it el Creosote . In 2019
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