Outside the Lines With Rap Genius
OTL 59: Lance Scott Walker Excerpt #4 “North Side/South Side”
Lance Scott Walker: Just like you had an East Coast/West Coast thing in the 90's. In Houston, you had a North Side/South Side. Luckily, it never escalated to the levels the East Coast/West Coast did, but it could've if it kept going. What you saw were people like ESG, who reached across, he got out of prison and reached out to Slim Thug, "Let's do a record. Let's just do this." That was definitely a big part of it. Screw was definitely a big part of it, because people couldn't act up around him. He wanted everybody to keep everything cool, and whatever you got, fix it. UGK was a big part of that, because everybody loved him. Everybody loved both of those guys so much, and they were adopted by Houston. You know, and they've lived in Houston - of course, Pimp C's gone now - they've lived in Houston for years and nothing fun has been happening there for 20 years now. They're very much like myself - I'm a Galvestonian but adopted Houston living there too. They're very much the same rep. They rep both cities