'Slabs' And 'Swangas' - The Cars Built On Houston Hip-Hop
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- Опубліковано 25 кві 2019
- Originating in Houston, Texas, "slabs" are a popular type of custom car. Some of their defining characteristics are elbow-rimmed wheels, candy paint, and massive stereo systems. Slabs are perhaps most well-known for being a major part of the city's hip-hop culture.
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Imagine walking and one of them bad boys hits your ankle.
😅♿
And since you hit them, now you throwing hands.
That's most definitely happened to someone. You know damn well someones momma tripped over them in the driveway lol
Happened to me last year I was hoping the owner didnt see my ankle hit his rims
Slab will take out your ankle.
I thought the first song was gonna be "still tippin"
Watch your ankles when the slabs coming thru
Cali got lowriders. Florida got donks. TX got slab. I love how different parts of the US got they unique style and culture.
Carolina don’t have squats no more. The law ruled its illegal
Memphis got steamers
@@jzj2212 Jamming to Project Pat as I ride in my donk! Cheese and dope 🔥
@@soundcheck2k7 all day homie
Squats? Steamers? Gotta google them now…
Edit: I found the squat cars… can’t find nothing on steamers. What those about?
What's so funny that PhD here studied this 2 years what any kid in the ghetto can figure out in 5 min 🤣
joeg Last haha yeah PhD dumb poor people smart! your comment was so funny I had to reread it 3 times to understand it. Speak English.
@@peppapig17453 do you mean poor people are so stupid that they are smart
Pepperoni Pepperoni i understood his comment but u might wanna fix yours
i'm sure he doesn't just study the cars.....
He studies more than just cars and he is in part responsible for why it's so easy that that type of information is easily available and quick to find. Don't bite the hand that feeds dumbass
I’m down for all of it. Over the top stereo, candy colors, fifth wheel, custom interior. But the wheels got to go.
Exactly! If the 'spinners' were easy to remove/put back on; for car show/strictly closed course driving, that's one thing. For any sort of regular street use; hell NO, where safety is concerned.
Slabs make the Donk Master's 1971 LSx/5 spd stick/turbo Chevy Impala vert look almost quaint
No sir slabs wouldn’t be slabs without elbows/swangas
You got to go
I thought the same then I realized they are battle chariots .
then youre not down for all of it
Swangin' and Bangin'
Ever see the movie "Ben Hur" ?
my uncle is a car enthusiast and gear head from the 70's, and that's what he called them. i remember some kid trying to explain to him what "elbows" where at a bar one night, and he just laughed and said "son..... we've been putting these on our tires for decades. they're called ben-hurs."
@@joeyclemenza7339 right. These are just pimpcars.
The rims in the vid, is just Starwire Rims.
Weld Wheels, is the first company that created the rims.
There are and were other types of "poking" rims out there besides and b4 Starwires.
I might make a vid soon on when and where " slabs" had began.
The drug burns the brain.
It's not just ridiculous, it's totally unsafe.
good chance to hit the vehicle in the next lane, or scrape the curb? lol
U gotta Kno how to drive it
That’s where the elbow knowledge come in
@RICO FROM PICO pendejo
u got to know how to swang
Kilovw Dude you can trip up a cyclist riding along side you.
Mad Max: Houston Hip-Hop edition
🤔💨Lmfao!😂
Do they come with a gun in the front? Or some ejector seats?
No but they do definitely come with haters like you lol
@@slabbinonspokezz2375 I'm referencing James Bond, I'm not a Hater
@@platonian2421 my apologies for making an assumption.
DAT, RYETCH DARE, IST WAS eYeUhhhhm TAWLKing BOWT, BEEUHSSHHHH!!!!++++
@@slabbinonspokezz2375 that's what's up. I appreciate your willing to stay real
He forgot to mention before you put all the extras you got to get everything under the hood new. Slab ain't no good broke down. Back in the day a 1,500$ car became a 15,000+ . In the 90's money was quick and easy.
I'll just put 40k in the engine and 4 link.
$500 car with $150K addons , while living in a section 8 house.
Living the ghetto dream
😂😂😂🤣🤣😅🤣 true!!!!
More like a 7-10k car with 20-30k in Add ons while handling your business.
chief tp lmao there are Cadillacs going for 50k and up still to this day.
chief tp you’re stupid lmao there are 80s model caddy’s still goin for that price as well. That goes for any sought after old school... off rip it’s 7 to 10... then comes originality and conditions.
chief tp LMAO 😆
I started listening to Houston rap in 2005 when still tipping came out and I feel in love with it!! Even though i had no idea what swangas or candy paint or purple drank was!!
You must not be from Texas
@@machomaamtrannysavage9642 I'm not!
@@kingofdubs it shows
what is the car at 0:23
You gon wanna look at old chevys or caddys
Not just Houston I know for sure this extended to Beaumont... hell even Lafayette.. it was better in the 90s when those ridiculous Orangutan rims were not around. 30s and vogue baby
How do u park the slab next to another car
Slab doesn’t mean “Slow loud and bangin” that was from a song real slab riders know it’s when the car can drop all the way down to the concrete “slab”
You know it mayne 💪 all these videos on Houston culture and swangas got the game fucked up repeating that mainstream bs
That's what I understood...
No....
@Saint Fifty One I didn’t say a slab does not mean a low rider? I meant it was never considered slab because it was dropped to the concrete. Every Houston rap artist always goes by the term Slow loud and banging.
@Saint Fifty One Your making this complicated my guy. Everyone in Texas knows that SLAB means slow loud and bangin! Your argument is all over the place. You keep mentioning that a slab is a pimpmobile, like I’m disagreeing with you? I agree....so what’s your argument?
That cant be road legal?...i call them leg brakers
They are stupid !
They're legal, although cops obviously pull them over more often, but we all know how that goes.
@@rickeystovall7547 ikr, how the heck do they find a paring?
@Your Daddy Slays Them To Death kml looks like some Mad Max type of shit
Athony Nesbitt we don’t care in houston
Cali here sending much love to H-Town car culture. Swangas are dope. Respect.
Born and raised in Los Angeles..this shit is awful ..stop it
Ill stick to daytons & vogues
thats gay
Square
HTown Baby
Yep rep those 13x 7 s
Jamal Cole you probably from Cali.
Try going in the drive thru at McDonalds ain't happening 🙃
Look best on the old skool cars but not too wide. Them extended ones look like weapons lol
More money than brains!
Got that right!
I always liked Fat Pat, Tops Drop song. Some nice slab in that video. I don't really care for the ones that poke way out, but it not my car lol
can they survive a zombie apocalypse
and do they have booming speakers
Christian Branch when it’s your time to go it’s your time to go. Bless up and stop watching movies.✌🏾
Love it 💪🏾👍🏾💯
Thanks Insider for the love! H-town reppin' 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾
Going to be hard making lane change or even parking.
I live in Houston finally no nobody ever talks about slabs
Me too
LIES!
Kilovw Dude Slabs be rockin’ southside oh yeah 💪🏾
"...with such a distinguished appearance..."
Distinguished is not a word that would have come to my mind!
Why do the wheels on these cars look like the Chariots that the old Romans had with knives.😂
4:01 Slab drivers have to weave in and out of traffic because if anyone passes them it’s bad news for their rims.
Slab duel.
Johnnie Walker thts not why they do it
They're just swinging and swervin
How do you park with those things lol
How bout a chrome bumper that extends 4 feet past the front of the car?
Ironically those are bozuko cars in Japan lol
Thats the Japanese yo
That when you start selling shit on the street thats a shelf to stock your products ! Real dumb !!!!
lol the Japanese BEEN doin that 😂
Bob Vel with ideas like yours you can really go places in this scean
I’m from Houston and I never like this style because it wasn’t me, I was more into loweriders in the early 90s. But just because I don’t like it doesn’t mean other people shouldn’t like it and I think is very unique for my city so kudos to them.
From del Rio and raised in a town called pasadena
Lived in Houston before,so I like these kind of cars
WTF! Just cause you can, doesn't mean you should 😳
Holy shit, i could literally blend something with that by doing a burnout
I learn something new everyday.
Wow informative ❤
Did you guys see the teal caddy or Buick with the cracked quarter panel
I lived in Houston for 5 years, loved the city, loved the music but I’ll pass on the elbow wheels. I like the original Cadillac swanger wheel better!
How u say you'll pass on swangas but like ORIGINAL Cadillac elbows..
Same thing !!
ScrewTapeCity-SouthPark maybe i said it wrong. I like the wheel, I just like it better when the elbow isn’t stretched out.
@@southparkpornking not the same. When TWW started making those ugly ass super pokes made the whole scene a clown show
@@Chilling4Shillings it is the same they just have different size wheels if you don't like super poker get the original 15 in regular poker it don't matter it's all the same just don't get the super poker ...elbows are elbows
@@Chilling4Shillings no one cares
That's what's up, that's my hood and my boy tay tay in that video pimping his slab.
Also stands for
She
Lookin
And
Bopin
quit making shit up SLAB SLOW LOUD AND BANGIN
@@mrcincoundos you know that came from a song right? Both of y'all definitions are wrong. SLAB isn't an acronym.
Thanks you for that one
What's Bopin ? *Bopping
@@RtistiqSkubie Yep. It just meant lowered down vehicle to a street which is a slab, hence "slab".
Besides that, the video that refers to these vehicles as "slabs" , are just Basically Pimpmobiles.
City where the candy paint drip leaving stains in the turning lane, 5th wheel relax, and the trunk wave bye to the haters.
2:39 Sound system actually cracking the sheet metal. 🤦♂️
those are fiberglass 💀
5th wheel,is called a continental kit,3:18 god just kill me now I've see to much
Yep. The Lowriders got those by the way.
And the guy who has a "phd" got everything wrong.
Naw in Tx its called a fifth wheel
@@earnestray7921 Nicknamed "5th Wheel" .
While in General its just a Continental Tire Kit.
Plus Lowriders got them and etc.
What do they actually call those belt buckle straps on the truck. I'm looking for some for my 2011 Cadillac DTS BUT CANT FIGURE OUT WHAT TO CALL THEM. THANKS
AKA Spartacus style.
2019 and I'm still banging Paul Wall in my sound system.!! Remarks from my youth in high school... much from Dallas Texas!
dallas ? 🤔
Always wondered if your driving and side swipe one of these cars wheels cuz they are sticking in your lane?!?
You gotta be kidding me what the with the elbows . Oh I get it it’s a battle chariot from way back in the day . This is on on par with spinners on hub caps . Freaking hilarious .
SLAB stands for sitting on the concrete with some 15 ogs or g8s max on switches
Yeah , the acronym came later which it became "slow low and banging" , another term for Lowriders, then "slow loud and banging" , a term for pimpcars.
@@stuchbrosmnore8627 Slow Loud And Bangin came from a rap group really
These cars are extraaaa asFuck lmao 😂
Them shits clean af just wouldn get them extra long ones
You forgot to mention the number 1 rule to slabs: Candy Paint
Candy paint ain't necessary Actually.
And a "slab" is just a Pimpcar.
Man this really makes me miss TX Relays at old Highland Mall. They all came down from H-Town and was like a free car show.
Jesus, is this video actually trying to embarrass Houston?
How do you drive down a tight road?
Dat golf cart slab was kill n it
I think the elbows look like shit, but love the cars. Go back with the original 84's.
D'zz WhooooWhutttt!!
Yesh those elbows really look horrible
Yall trippin 🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
Flo Sanchez aye mane, its part of the culture, i love my City and its Swangas, including the bows
Flo Sanchez bro this is the weirdest ugliest shit period and I'm from Mississippi!
I still remember riding in my brother's 86 Fleetwood brougham, the back seat was like a sofa. He never put elbows on it , he always had 22. Man those were the days
This is coming from captain planet
Saw a car with some as I was leaving Houston yesterday. First thing I thought was wat if someone else's car get too close?
Ima swang ima swerve ima park n scrape the curb
Why when I'm not high does my life feel like it's missing something? I know that I must be high so that I can function
Like it or not, this is their culture. This is what they do and I love it. No different than the biker gangs, bassheads (car audio)!!!! This is what they do!! Dope!!!
I am BassHead :D
You don't put a fifth wheel on a BMW or a grand Prix lol
Why not
It's like everyone has the same shoes
What is that color matching disk behind the spokes? Just curious? I've seen that on several slabs around the H
Their dust covers
@@jaejohnson4611 Ahhh ok. Appreciate that!
My husband car should've been on this episode. Love his Cadillac Fleetwood brougham. H-town for life
*puts a giant drill on the front of the car*
"CJ time to mine some diamonds underground!"
Good video
Where does slab Sunday take place at went to 45& west road and 12 was there
I’d choose lowriders over those no cap
@Thė Nīnth Hært yea really would tf you can do way more w a lowrider them just long slabs
Slabs and donks should mix it up and create real street Frankenstein monsters.
Donks done moved into the future gettingbuilt motors with turbos even 2jz swaps now. These slabs about driving slow.
8 foot wide from tip to tip of vehicle is in legal limits in Texas. Personally i like a wire wheel no more than 8 inches out just to much to look out for hitting curbs etc. The term slab is basically like a concrete slab being droped on the ground from a height of 10 feet. You will turn your head to figure out what did it. So a slab car will make you turn your head and look and impact you the same way. Showstopper the term stops the show. Swaga swaggering basically means you are the $hit you are it you are the man! The slabs are some of the safest cars on the road simply because they can't go fast the wheels will come apart and you can't miss them and you have to watch out for them.
Curbs, pedestrians, cyclists.......
good to always see the blacks contributing to the community
"i'm a folklorist and a researcher, researching the slab culture for many years now"
ahhh...yes... i'm a meme-connoisseur myself researching memes for years now. Just waiting for it to become as lucrative as the folklorist area....
FireWaia 🤣
well keep on w/memes, then-cos yo comedy aint sh*t,fam
@@robrokswing8110 i think i like you a lil bit
LOL
He got a PHD but doesnt know shit about slabs! .. We gotta stop letting this outsiders with credentials give the incorrect explanation of a culture.
As an outsider, we're not missing anything special.
@@ajflyingatyomouth2831 then PLEASE remain outside
@@robrokswing8110 You actually think I'd get into this car culture? Shit homie, I have two fox bodies that's worth having.
@@ajflyingatyomouth2831 lol...built 90lx n 89gt over here
@@robrokswing8110 Great, so you already know what it's hitting for. Hell, when I was doing my military training in Texas, that was my first time hearing chopped and screw and literally thought my homie's CD was broken. It is a culture down there bc nobody else in other states has picked up on it. You have 2 fox? Come on to South Carolina and be apart of Mustang Week at Myrtle Beach...... that's the only reason I've built my shit.
I rather have mine sitting on bricks.
Couldn't get away wit this in Philly🤣🤣
Those have to be the ugliest wheels on the market!
I'm from Cali and love Houston rap but can't stand the looks of Slabs 🤣🤣🤣 I give y'all props for creating y'all own car culture tho 👍🏾
Live in the Houston area cars are nice but the spokes on the rims can exceed the legal amount to stick out so if your around them watch your car especially if the car is a wider Lux model. The better ones the drivers are be good and don't rattle....allot do rattle and shake there car and yours.
These are used for cutting the grass on the side of the street .
*If you going to show Slabs, you should have on ESG Swanging & Banging or Zro Mo City Don!*
jarvis thomas any thing chopped and screwed really
What you meant to say is if you riding SLAB you have to have Robert Earl Davis bangin da trunk
The new 84s are ugly. They shorter ones looked good and classy. They went overboard between 2010-2020
They be saying originated in Houston but Im from there and I think all this shit stupid.
Slow Low And Bangin'
Awesome Houston. Much Love from San Diego 😎
Faataatia Tupuola,Jr same
Faataatia Tupuola,Jr stop it
@@kalipooh3388 Don't Hate. Congratulate 😎
As a native Houstonian, I can guarantee that you'll see at least 3 or 4 of these in one day while you're on the road. The cars are insane, the people who own them are crazy, but it's part of Houston's culture, and it's great.
Especially down on mlk
@@joseortegaa2349 Oh yeah, definitely.
Og swangaz are cool these gorilla pokes or whatever they call them are just plain silly lookin.
The LONG ones look Real silly. And dangerous. I would choose spinners over long elbow rims any day.
Unless you are a cyclist.
They showed the dukes car from escape from NY, the og!🤘
You have to drive really really slow if you have 4 5 foot pole’s looking 👀 like blenders on your vehicle 😂🤣😆⚔️
Gotta love Houston.... 🔥
H-Town culture is Dope 💪🏾
I will stick with the 392 charger scatpack
Kenneth Green imagine driving a 392
Respectfully explained
I’m trying but I can’t get into...still got my Daytons
These are the most awesome looking clown machines with curb feelers I've ever seen. I can't stop laughing ROFLMAO 🤣
The cars look cool but do the rims have to poke out that far?
Yes that's the point
There's always someone taking shit to far. Only idiot's put exaggerated elbows on their slab.
Yessir. Gotta have da swangaz 💪🏾
If I was a cop and I saw this I would pull you over, give you a hacksaw and tell you to “ chop that crap off before you kill somebody “ then I would sit there until it stuck out no farther then the wheel
that a nice rim job ngl