Slabs and Swangas are Houston Hip-Hop Trophies
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Many major cities across the states boast rich & distinct car scenes, which often focus on a certain aesthetic style, or the raw automotive power fueling an array of high octane tricks & stunts. Houston’s car scene dabbles in a bit of both, but down in H-town, the true focus isn’t under the hood, but in the subwoofers of the city’s “slabs.”
Said to be an acronym for “slow, loud, & bangin’” Slabs are the vehicular manifestation of Houston’s hip hop culture - one that’s had a major ripple effect on the rap scene nationwide. Custom-made to bump the city’s “chopped & screwed” tracks, these kandy-painted cars are uniquely ingrained into our pop culture, and are highly coveted among many locals.
In this episode of High Octane, Vice goes down to Texas to explore both the cultural contributions of slabs as well as its clout-driven underworld….
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High Speed Houston Texas Slab Racers
vice 20 years late with this
Yepp ,We on the Map once again
@@mastercarstereoplus5864 tricking these clowns into spraying their shitty cars in colors more suited to a gay pride march...well played!
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@@jaytel3195 thanks bro that video is legit
Try 30
Let me tell y'all. I'm from Ohio, a small country town. I got married and my wife was from Houston so I moved down there. When I was driving and seen those swingers on those rims I went into defensive driving mode...I was thinking these Gangsters down there were on some ancient Rome grind your wheels off chariot racing stuff. Then I found out it was a style.
A. Double 🤣😂😂
Hahahahhaahhaa
Lmao
If Houston traffic wasn't bad enough lol!
*swangas
& Welcome To 🤘🏽-Town.
😊
First three seconds sounds like a demo tape lol
LOL yeah 🔥
My car also is slow, loud, and makes a lot of banging noises.
Made me lol fr
Slabbbbbbb
🤣🤣🤣
You got a Slab
Might wanna get that checked
Surprised no one had "live laugh love" on there boot lid
Pete Zahut ahahahaha😂😂
Fuck is a boot lid
@@Juneseptember103 British version of trunk
Pete Zahut *their
*they're
Damn Slim Thug needs a petter car detailer they left wax on the emblem.
I'm too white to have any idea what the hell these guys are talking about.
Hush nah it’s juss a Houston culture thing . The whitest of white people here would kno what they are talkin bout
@@RocTaylor5 right?! Shiiit, they swaggin' too if they not putting lift kits on they're trucks.
SH3R🐻 what’s wrong with lifted trucks?
Hush bet you understood what the cops said though
Im still trying to understand how Swan Gas has anything to do with a Car
i see why some people could not like the wheels but how could you hate on the rest of the car? those interiors are fly as hell.
Its a Houston thing only real ones know. htine hold it dine 🤘🤘🤘
Ima swang ima swerve. Ima park and Scrape the Curb.
Free Carlos Coy💯
SPM
@@hustletownmobbin1756
Didn't he touch little kids?
Inb4 durr she was a stripper
Child molesters
cisco forreal mane....free the damn Mex!
Early 90s we just threw moms house speakers in the trunk of the big sedans and called it good.
I remember doing that we was bumping on a budget lol
This is a late 80s and 90s trend that lives on in Houston
That was dumb
The car games evolved 😅
Where TF IS MY MAN SAUCE WALKA ATTTT MANEEEE HE GOT THEM SWANGS ON A MAYBACH
on sauce
OOOWEE!!!!
Drip !!
What's up with the cars speeding? This ain't the Screwston I'm used to. Like DJ DMD said, do "40 on the freeway"
Dj dmd is no longer a credible source to represent screwston fool he dissed dj screw a month ago.
@@fishscalegang4056 No way! Really? I don't see anything about this, so I must ask where you got this info
these guys grew up playing GTA there is no hope
"40 on the freeway" shit, back in the day, everybody was holding. Guns, drugs, all types of illegal shit. You never wanted to speed, you never wanted to get pulled over, so you went slow. Young bloods, they aint got nothin' on them but an outdated adderall script. They aint worried about getting pulled over no more.
@@fishscalegang4056 You never responded, and looking at DJ DMD's social media I see he had positive posts about Screw in January. So if you can't furnish proof, it would be good of you to remove your comment instead of ruining the reputation of an man who has seemingly done nothing wrong.
I get chills hearing 5000 talk he is humble a.f. ppl like screw,him,Pat,Moe,hawk,Paul wall, chamillionaire,zro,Trae,slim thugg,spm,they brought htown together...same way ugk helped bring P.A. together....rip PIMP C...u will forever b missed
Mid 90's through early 00's were a great time to be alive! Salute from D-Town. TeXas stays united!
I came here to see if Mike Jones "WHO!?" Mike Jones was still alive.
Right how can you shout out swishahouse without the slab gods!
Omg I literally choked on my pretzel
@@Merrybandoruffians lol
You should call him. 281-330-8004
@@mattychristian 😎😎😎 nailed it
Born and raised in Houston. Never cared about these kinda cars 🙃
It was live in the 90s when we were doing it. These kids came later when you could just go to a store and buy those rims. They were rare and worth alot when we were young
@@TexasPrisonStories shut up bitch
U not frm Houston probably Spring Tx😂
Wendizzy C. In love with you
you a lame and broke😹
Houston is different fr.. Spent some time there for an old job back in 2015 and it’s a pretty dope city I had a good time
Swang, and swang, and swang to the left. Pop-Pop my trunk and dip, dip, dip.
"without candy..you ain't got no slab" Slim pulls up in a black Caddy🤬
RIP Grandma : (
A lot like the Pimp cars of the 70’s except they had exhaust pipes coming out the fenders, fuzzy dice, or rabbit fur interiors. We had them in Houston back then but I believe it came from East Coast, NYC especially.
I’m draped up and dripped out know what I’m talkin bout/
3 in da morning get da gat out da stash spot./
In Houston Dey elbows in cali Dey Dayton’s. Big salute H-TAWN BAYBEY love from day Oakland CA
Lil Keke
Dj screeeeew 🔩🔩🔩
Couldn't those wheels be described as "insanely dangerous?" As in, "they could easily remove someone from their legs?"
If your ass is in da way, then yeah
i would just get close and knock the caps right off with my truck and that would solve the problem
@@johnrapp9794 you wouldnt make it home
@@johnrapp9794 try it and you’ll get shot at down here
Scott holliday, dumb karen
When thugga said you ain’t dreamin about Ridin rolls Royce you dreamin of ridin slab I felt that Ong 😂
Texas ❤️
I'm from Dallas and when I went down to Galveston I saw a couple of slabs driving out their.
I live in Houston and one day a coworker of mine accidentally broke one of those rims on a slab at a gas station by running it over with his Chevy 4x4 pickup . The guy had parked wrong on purpose
Mowlinas Landscaping to bad that’s his fault
they park in multiple spots specifically so people dont hit the car.. thats on him
This is some real dumb $hit I thought Houston was bout it🤣🤣🤣
@ILUV2SK8 504 loser
@Matthew Littlejohn loser
Roman riders had these pointy bits on their wagon wheels to tear people apart and you guys do it for decoration? How can this be legal? You would be pulled of the road immediately here in EU with those..
Same here in Canada. The US just keeps on getting dumber every day.
Rebelle Fleur Thanks for bashing my country neighbor
I absolutely love that people are expressing themselves through their music and cars, that's natural creativity!
What I don't love one little bit is that people are opening fire on these drivers and cars, as this is neither natural nor creative!
The music and cars aren't my cup of tea, but I still love the creativity, and it'd be much better if drivers weren't having to avoid gunmen trying to shoot up their cars because they're jealous at what the drivers created for themselves!
Live and let live!
I think people aren't shooting them because they don't like them I think it's for other reasons. He kind of made it misleading.
Disappointed with the lack of Z-Ro.
Z-ro is a low key OG he doesn’t like attention.
@303StreetMachines lol
@303StreetMachines because he's in prison...? so obviously he's not going to be in the video like Slim Thug was.
What a great group of intellectual young men.
"Shiiiiiid", is the official cuss word of Houston 😁
Please Vice do more of these car culture videos. I'd like to see some in Cali.
Much love from Southern California 🙂
A truly wonderful bunch of people, true pillars of the community.
Lol
Just like the klan huh?
Lmao
@@clon662b3 exactly! Don't forget proud boys too😂😂
Slow
Loud
And
Bangin’
STUPID
LAME
ASININE
BUNK
Seriously
LowRiders
Are
Better
@303StreetMachines aw, look at you and you anger, yall have no community or family mentality. Good luck🤘 I ain't getting shot at for a shitty 2002 Buick regal 😂😂
Terry Skarry obviously it’s not shitty if they shootin you for it
I'm from Indiana, and I've been in love with '84's and vogue's since a 5th grader! '82 baby, you do the math....
Dropped Trucks is Houston culture too
Houston influenced the entire world
The city can never put a boot on those cars lol.
We have free parking everywhere in H town
@@malikzz4395 exactly free after 6 p.m. downtown and free on weekends
I’m just here looking at these haters comments 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Bro they hating fr to smh🤦🏽♂️
Mista masta Archie Lee 🤘🏾
10:52 my dude was spreading the coronavirus, thankfully it was caught on camera
Hahah corona will stop them🤣🤣
☠️
micro-droplets
Vice will show shit from 6 months years ago. It takes long time to edit shit
Just coincidentally Slim Thug tested positive for covid
Houston culture is amazing. Shoutout Paul wall shoutout Travis. RIP SCREW
Its a whole feeling. Syrup in yo cup, screw on the speakers, and lay back n chill ......
how can those wheels be legal , I wonder how many people got mauled by those
That's why they hogging lanes
@@JavierFlores-rg3yo its like ancient rome horse carriages
They aren't legal. They can't go past a certain length
Not a lot of ppl have accidents because they know how to drive their car
@@3bamlik321 you seen the vid?? they dont look like the "carefull" type
I always respected that Houston car culture. I got a Supercharged Buick back in the day due to the influence of how they looked in Houston. But this new generation with all that blocking and cutting off doesn't make sense to me. I still respect the culture, but why give somebody another reason to shoot at you? Stay safe out there and keep that paint wet!
Lol that Chrysler 300 was the funniest shit I've seen all week
sick as hell my dudes
I LOVE HOUSTON
I had to watch this with captions on
Honestly if the wheels weren't long like that I'd absolutely love every car in the video ngl
10:52 Somebody is spreading the corona round.
I love being from houston lol
Nah that's a South Texaz Thang 💪🏽 all the way down to the valley 956 Texaz💥
I live in houston and I have never heard of the term slab city
@OG Babyboo I live in Northwest Houston
@OG Babyboo no sir
I’m watching dis like I don’t live in Texas😭
This one is for DJ screw...pour it up 🥤
Intro go hard with the beat 🔥
Slabs is Houston culture 💯
Slab = Slow Loud and Banging 84 Buick Electric my old high school days
All of these characters seem very intelligent..
He’s his own hype man
8:30 Kendrick Perkins lives a double life lol
Is this guy speaking English... Glad there is subtitles.
Everyone in this is clearly speaking english. Not their fault you’re too stupid to follow
I got to the every Sunday called slab Sunday this shit hella lit to the people on here talk shit about what I grew up on 2 things “quit hating the south” and “hate it or love this the south we gone be here and ain’t going no where take how you like it hate it or love how”
Those cars are the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life
Bosozuko cars are pretty terrible too.
Edit because my phone capitalised terrible.
@Linda Reyes Nah, they're objectively dumb. Those wheels are dangerous, impractical and ugly. Based on that alone, they are dumb.
@Linda Reyes no I'm not hating they are the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Those rims. Absolutely ridiculous and stupid. They don't even look nice. I mean if you're going to go all Gaudi and ignant with it then make them at least look nice. You got that thing looks like a garbage can poking out the side of your Rim it's stupid. It's not being a hater it's dumb.
@@AstronomyWales you're exactly right some of the Bozosuco cars actually look decent though. Some of them are absolutely over-the-top ridiculous also. But they're meant to look like a traveling freak Show. They wanted to stick out because of the government. Those cars have a long history of messing with the police and Society over there where they're made. These cars here though with these garbage can rims are ridiculous they don't even look good and they serve no purpose. That's the difference
I think 99.9 percent of people agree with you, its why you never seen it anywhere but Houston.
"When u get these wheel you really become somebody". Hahaha im not hattin but damn homie
They called the cars "slab" cause they sat low to the slab(pavement). "Slow loud and bangin" wasn't around yet till' later on.
And for the record there were different places (bsides Texas ) that were already on 30s(Starwires) and vogues since late 70s and through the 80s(and 90s). And Weld Wheels was the original maker of the wheels.
On a side note, there's a Federal lawsuit from wheel maker Cragar/Truespoke (the company that bought that Patents from Weld Wheels) of the wheels.
My boi Candy Red Bread 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
3Rd Ward H-Town🤟🏻🤘🤘🏼🤘🏿🤘🏾
Swang and I swang and I swang to the left
Pop my trunk and yep yep yep
Them boyz ridin clean
I'm from Houston. It do be like that.
What part of Houston u from kus its like this Thursday through Monday
home of the slabs and fo's,
land of chevys and lacs
Lil Keke - Southside was the track that put SLAB on the map. That song was straight high cappin
I lived right there behind Carrington's. AND CHACHOS!! Love my home city!!
I’m glad they recognize their place in car culture, by parking in the handicap spot
Yes sir My Brother's 💲💲💲💲🎶🎼🔊😎
I cant take these seriously the way they talk is just funny as fuck 😂
H Tine hol it dine 🤘🏽
Houston nothing like it ✊
Never trust a DJ who uses Beats headphones
Much love H-TOWN FROM D-TOWN TEXAS HOLD EM DINE
Ooooooo that's what they are! I've seen cars like this in and around Austin and I was always like wtfff??? Oh okay...cool!
I HATE those rims. Reminds me of those mexican boots with the toes 3 feet long
Someone let me know what old school slim thug song that was that Michael watts was playing when he was introduced. I can’t remember the name of that song !!
i want a doug demuro review asap
Id rather drive a 4x4 truck.
Andres Patino I rather have anything 🤣🤣
This video is literally every UGK song ever made
All these Haters hate the rims! Of the car but what y’all don’t understand is that that’s what separates Houston from Cali, to Florida. If anything SLAB’S are better than low riders and donks! But like many people say if your Not from Texas you wouldn’t understand. And if you are from Texas and think it’s ugly your prolly just mad when your on 45 and have to stay in your lane cause how big the rims poke out, better yet you might be someone who just thinks it’s a ghetto car and with a bunch of thugs! But buddy it’s deeper than that it’s a culture! If you just came to Texas from outta state stop hating the south and the SLAB culture!
10:54 Amongst all of the arguing the COVID-19 reared it nasty loud hacking cough
TheTerminator1919 gud gas fam off dat pressure ❗️❗️❗️
I love Houston and I respect a short 84s.... But there's a slow with a clown car amongst us.
Dude in the neighborhood across from mines got killed for his swangas in broad daylight. Shot dead in his driveway.
The AR explains the Rugrats hoodie fast.
Houston Texas on tha map baby 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🍇🔩
Do the Takuaches & all of the lowered trucks next from Dallas & Houston 😂😂
We working on that soon
Get ready to hear nothing but 'CUHHHH'
you haven't laughed until you seen a '67 chevy bottom out going through pot holes.
@@joelv.6209 and 'bro'
No shit H-town full of them especially East and South side
I’m watching this like I don’t live in tha H 😂
😂😂😂same bruh
haha same here.
Screwston Texas
Lmao tht was too funny
Same 🤣🤣
Genuinely surprised they didn’t get Paul Wall for this.
I think he was posted up like a mailbox
@Matthew Littlejohn lmao why are you so butthurt dude? Who hurt you?
Guitar-ass he’s infamous for doing that
It's the ice man paw wawl, got my mouth lookin' somethin' like a disco bawl
@Matthew Littlejohn ok Matthew show me on this doll where Houston touched you.
If you live in Houston, you’ll see them everyday lol
Javier From The GGG Network *southpark has entered the chat*
Obviously
Yep
Nah
Glad I don't live in Texas😂😂😂🥴🤣🤣🤔🙊🤫👀🙄🤭
Who else thought slim was dropping a verse at the start
me 🤣
Gamecube Nintendo
Alright smoking on indo...
🎶 Lyrics
SLABs is Houston culture
I thought he was gonna rap at the start too 🤣
My car also is slow, loud, and makes a lot of banging noises. HAHAHAHAH
Woah
Yolanda is in the trunk trying to get out 🤣