SOUTH PARK COALITION

September 9, 2015

Reginald Gilliand's drawl speaks to the 25 years he's spent rapping in Houston. His raspy, laid-back delivery sounds distinctively Southern - an assortment of elastic vowels and slurry consonants.

Gilliand, a Chicago native, moved here as a teen and settled in the South Park neighborhood, just outside the Loop in south-central Houston. He quickly found himself part of a coalition of hip-hop artists. The South Park Coalition was organized by Eric Kaiser, a Sterling High School classmate better known as K-Rino, a pioneer of Houston rap.

                                                                                                                                                                                            ~Andrew Dansby (Houston Chronicle)

2 THE HARD WAY

(Album Release & Concert)

September 10, 2015

If it hadn’t been made clear to us yet after three solid decades of hustling and grinding, sometime around 2 a.m. on Thursday it became simply impossible to deny: the South Park Coalition will never stop. The doors to the Warehouse Live Studio room had been open since 8 p.m., and the folks who’d showed up to see Frankie J in the Ballroom next door had already long since headed home. But packed into the venue’s sweaty, concrete bowels, the sound of streetwise hip-hop was still blasting away on a weeknight.

                                                                                                        ~Nathan Smith (Houston Press)

NO MONEY

NO REASON

(Album Release & Concert)

November 22, 2014

When SPC artist Mr. CAP arrived onstage sometime after 1 a.m., anticipation was running high. There could be no doubt that Point Blank would be up next. Sure enough, with a hearty call of "South siiiide," the Blanksta hit the stage hard, towel and cigarillo in hand. Dozens of cameraphones immediately went up to capture the occasion.

                                                                                                        ~Nathan Smith (Houston Press)

NEW DOUBLE ALBUM?

(The SPC's Point Blank Has His Reasons)

November 21, 2014

South Park Coalition rapper Point Blank has done a lot in the past 25 years. He helped found Houston's first and most important hip-hop clique. He recorded landmark tracks with DJ Screw. He's shared a label with UGK, and he's toured overseas. And most impressively of all, he never stopped, never quit and never gave up on the hip-hop vision that has driven him professionally and creatively since his teens.

                                                                                                               ~Nathan Smith (Houston Press)