Houston's Big Pokey Signs Deal With Koch, Readies Two New Albums
Published: Saturday - June 21, 2008
Words by Allen Starbury
Big Pokey (Photo: via MySpace)
Koch Records announced this week that they have added Houston rap legend, Big Pokey, to their huge roster of acts.
Via the deal, the rapper will release a new album, Evacuation Notice, in late July. It will serve as the prequel to Pokey's next Koch release, Hurricane Sensei, due later this year.
The album will feature appearances from Lil Keke, Paul Wall, Slim Thug, Z-Ro, Trae, Big Moe and Bun B.
Its first single is "Boss Hogg on Candy" features Slim Thug and has already been leaked to radio. (Listen to the single here)
Big Pokey hooked up with DJ Screw in the early '90s and started dropping rhymes on the DJ's many mixtapes. His first full-length album, Hardest Pit in the Litter, dropped in late 1999 and ended up being one of the better underground hip-hop albums to come out of the South that year. Big Pokey returned a year later with D-Game 2000, another album of mid-tempo 808-driven beats featuring several of his Houston peers as guests.
Throughout his career, Pokey has recorded with a who's-who of southern rap icons including Slim Thug, Z-Ro, Big Hawk, Lil Flip, and Chamillionaire.
In 2005, he gained a little mainstream shine when he landed on Paul Wall's debut single, "Sittin' Sidewayz," which reached #93 on Billboard Top 100.
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