Sunnyside, a Houston neighborhood, was originally a white residential area before becoming predominantly Black, with residents purchasing homes from white owners like Mr. Weingarten; the area was historically divided into multiple sections including Cloverland, Hillwood, Yellowstone, and South Lawn, which were later reorganized into different jurisdictions, and the neighborhood is recognized as the birthplace of Houston's 'slab' car culture, which originated in the early 1980s with pioneers like Catfish and Dylon creating the distinctive modified vehicle style that defines Houston's hip-hop culture.
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>> [laughter] >> I'm good now. Hello. Yeah. Yeah.
Welcome to my spot.
>> [music] >> Yeah, welcome to my spot. Yeah. Yeah, this how we get down. Yeah. Yeah, this home here.
What's up? Yeah.
Yes, sir. We the dudes. Yes, sir. We the dudes. Yes, sir. Yeah, we them. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
>> [music] >> Yeah, baby, we out. Yeah. All right.
We outside.
We outside.
We ain't hiding. We ain't hiding. Yeah, we ain't hiding. We outside. Yeah. Turn around.
You got to have some type of permission to come around. Better bring your lunch cold, [ __ ] or something. Good attendance. Something.
Something. Yeah, we them. Somebody Somebody important better know you, bro.
We going to start kicking you [ __ ] whole ass [ __ ] out of here.
Hey, what it do, boy?
I'm great, baby. You back getting to it, huh?
Man, we got it going on, man. We finna put the spotlight on the block. Yeah.
>> [laughter] >> Only way to go hard is Yes, sir.
Keep getting it. I'mma need to hold something in a little bit, [ __ ] Look at all these beautiful people.
Look at all these beautiful people, [ __ ] Welcome home.
Look at all these beautiful people.
>> [laughter] >> Look at all these beautiful people.
Hey, let me get them on camera, man.
Yeah.
Check them out. Yes, sir.
You got it. Put me on the camera, man. I got to be in the video, man.
He just god it got you.
So you originate from over here?
My [ __ ] This your [ __ ] My [ __ ] Yeah.
Yeah, this black owned me. Yeah. God damn from the stop sign to the ditch, that's my building. Oh yeah? Yeah, real talk.
This my building, this black owned. Look at god damn everybody in there paying rent. Yeah. Yeah, >> [snorts] >> real talk.
You went to uh Worthing? Went to Edis, Worthing, went to Grimes.
Yeah, so I did that.
Yeah. Been there, done that.
Go to the corner by the liquor. Man, I'm 57 years old. Oh yeah, you look good, man.
57 years old. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm glad I don't got you. Yeah, yeah. That's my little [ __ ] Yeah. So you've been on diet for a minute? I was born on this street right here we coming to. Yeah.
I'm a real G though.
Oh yeah? I'm a real G though. Everybody else that come up here claim to be real though up under me. Oh yeah? Yeah, real talk.
Everybody they up under me. So I I was born down there.
Yeah.
I was born down there.
Yeah.
That's going to go to the next spot where god damn we see. Yeah. We raised.
Yeah.
So I got followers and stuff from all over the country. Reroad, this South Park? This Sunny Side. Sunny Side, okay. Sunny Side, Sunny Side going. Okay. Yeah, this ain't South Park. So Sunny Side and South Park two different They two different sections. Okay.
>> Going to the park by the You know, they younger than me. Okay.
>> Born there in Sunny Side. Okay. So you probably was over here when it was white people, huh? Yes. Yeah.
>> our house from white people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sunnyside. Yeah.
See, my This all of this, Cloverland, Hillwood, Yellowstone, South Lawn. All that was Sunnyside. They just started breaking it down in the districts. Oh, you said Cloverland, too? Yeah.
Sunnyside. Okay.
Real talk.
My mama uh she went to Jones. She She from um She grew up next to Darrell Green. David Green. Yeah. [ __ ] goddammit Red Fern.
Yeah.
And she told me the same thing. She said it was white people at first.
Like there Red Fern. Yeah.
Red Fern the bill. You know where Doolittle is Yes, I do. Yeah. Yes, sir.
[ __ ] Gilmore's had it goddammit locked down. You know what I'm saying?
Yeah. That was Sunnyside, too. Then they started change They don't even know what section that is. Yeah.
You know what I'm saying? They just called it South Park, but it's not. Man, that's You know people I know they be like Sunnyside and South Park is the same thing. No, it's really Actually, all of this was Sunnyside. At first?
>> They started breaking it down in jurisdiction. You know, you could ride down MLK, you going to see signs you entering Sunnyside. [ __ ] goddammit or you know, different territories.
>> Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
But all of this was Sunnyside. Yeah.
Yeah. When we was here, all of this was Sunnyside. You know, we used to go to Cooley's. Yeah. Brays Bayou [ __ ] just to swim. Yeah.
>> what I'm saying? We used to go to [ __ ] [ __ ] South Park Village. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? That was Sunnyside.
Yeah.
You know, the only reason they call that [ __ ] South Park because of the street name. Oh.
>> Yeah. Okay. It's the street name. Okay.
Yeah.
The street name MLK, it's called South Park Boulevard. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> Boulevard all the way down to McGregor Park all the way down. Uh-huh. They call it [ __ ] South Park. Okay.
>> South Park. But it You said it was a street name. It's a street name. Okay.
>> Yeah, from McGregor Park all the way to goddammit the dead end. Okay. And they adapted to South Park. So South Park was a street that ran a long ways.
MLK Boulevard >> Yeah. was South Park.
Oh, okay.
>> MLK Boulevard was South Park Boulevard.
Okay. Yeah, they named it after MLK.
Okay.
>> You know what I'm saying? They let them have it.
Okay. And I appreciate that. You know what I'm saying? So let me know they thinking about us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All of this actually Sunnyside. Okay.
>> Sunnyside like Trinity Gardens. Trinity Gardens, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's Sunnyside Gardens.
Right here, this exact spot, it's Sunnyside Gardens.
Oh.
>> I'm saying?
But all of it was Sunnyside.
Okay.
All the old school that know McGregor Gardens y'all don't know this history.
No, they don't.
You know? And Mr. Wine Garden you know, he the one bought this for us for black folks goddammit to come home.
Yeah.
>> You know what I'm saying? Get property.
Wine Garden had all this [ __ ] Yeah. You know? Goddammit airport Yeah.
>> Cullen That was a drive-in theater. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> And Luther King and 16.
For the drive-in theater. What's up, pimp?
I'm trying to wait on them to get out the way so I can go park in the neighbor yard.
Yeah. That's a lot of That's a lot of history, man.
>> Yeah, this [ __ ] Mr. Weingarten, the white man. Yeah.
Had this [ __ ] and then goddammit, he let us come in. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Let us come in. We ain't going this way.
All the way from Yellowstone to Hillwood.
Weingarten had all this.
All this >> So, like you said, when you was a when you was a kid and y'all lived up here, was white people over here? Yeah, white kids. Yeah. White folks. White folks.
And goddammit, [ __ ] We had to get our [ __ ] house from a white man.
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? It was a live house. Yeah.
Four bedroom, workshop, everything. And then goddammit, we turned it to a den.
Yeah, yeah.
>> what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Weingarten's about this all Weingarten's Yeah. property. Yeah.
>> And goddammit, you know, they sold out Well, he ain't sell out, but Rice, you know what I'm saying? bought the people's property.
Weingarten right there on the corner.
Yeah. Right there where [ __ ] goddammit, your Fiesta is right now. Let me ask you this, when you was growing up, was it was there all this crime going on and stuff like that that that it has been over the years? No, no, sir. No. [ __ ] we fighting getting old, we would drink, be friends.
>> Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
Smoke our weed and Yeah. chill out.
[ __ ] it's over. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? [ __ ] wouldn't no sense or nothing. None of that.
>> that [ __ ] No Crips, Bloods.
Yeah. You know what I'm saying? LA was the first [ __ ] [ __ ] I ever met.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> saying? They smitted when they got him from LA. Brought him home with So you knew Smitty? That's my dude. Oh yeah?
Yeah. Yeah. I didn't heard about Smitty.
>> Smitty, Lil Larry. Yeah. God damn it, Kenneth Bell. Yeah. Kenneth Bell, yeah.
I heard about him.
Yeah. Yeah. God damn it, I just got off the phone with Lil Larry. [ __ ] asking me what the [ __ ] [ __ ] got going on. As a matter of fact, I called him right now. Yeah. You know?
Yeah. Yeah.
So So all all all them all this all them stories I didn't heard about Smitty and all them that that's factual. That Yeah, Smitty was in it, too. Yeah, it's Yeah.
Yeah. And he was from around this area?
Well, really he from [ __ ] the Southwest. Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. came over here. [ __ ] with eight rows. Yeah.
>> Lil Larry, man.
Yeah. Took care of the neighborhood.
Yeah. You know?
You took care of the neighborhood and showed love. Yeah. I ain't always been where I was, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm out here [ __ ] up. Yeah.
Nah, for sure.
>> me let this [ __ ] team make it.
Yeah. He had his boys god damn it calling Smitty boy. Yeah. Yeah.
[ __ ] Smitty was a giant out here.
Everybody hated Smitty. Man, that's what I that's what I seen. Yeah, that's what I Everybody hated Smitty. Yeah. Yeah.
[ __ ] couldn't [ __ ] with Smitty.
[ __ ] hating on Smitty. Oh yeah? Smitty was getting money. Yeah. [ __ ] hating >> They said they said he bought salt and pepper down here. Yeah.
Yeah. God damn it, [ __ ] They go to the Galleria and buy buy $25 worth of [ __ ] >> So the Galleria was around when y'all was coming up? The the been there forever. Yeah. Yeah, Smitty got damn near broke something people down here. [ __ ] they went in there and spent like about 20,000. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? They walking out with the bag. Security guard come out there and thought they were tripping. Mhm. You know what I'm saying? Thought they stopped them. [ __ ] what you doing with these bags? Yeah. [ __ ] showed them receipts, [ __ ] Yeah.
They ain't know what was going on. Yeah.
Yo, this was what? '80s and '80s. Yeah.
Yeah.
Smitty had it going on. Yeah.
>> Yeah, Smitty my [ __ ] Goddamn, may he rest in peace. Love him to death. [ __ ] never forget about him. Yeah. Yeah.
Damn, man. That's crazy. Stuff I've been hearing about since I was a kid, you was actually [ __ ] around to see it. [ __ ] yeah, I was here. Yeah.
I was here. Smitty was a money-making [ __ ] Yeah.
Smitty, Carlos.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Smitty was the [ __ ] Yeah. You You You ain't never going to leave uh uh Sunnyside? Why? I built it.
Yeah.
>> it.
Yeah.
>> phone bases. I got plantations.
>> Yeah.
>> Why would I leave? Yeah.
>> Home's where the heart is. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, cuz I moved away. [ __ ] I didn't move away.
>> Exactly. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
I built me a house and moved on, goddamn, but I still come home. Yeah.
>> Every day, check on my ports. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Damn, man.
But you know, we always hear about other places. People think that we just ride horses in Houston, Texas.
Let them think what they think.
[ __ ] [laughter] trying to be like us.
>> Oh god, yeah. [ __ ] trying to be like us.
>> Oh god. We ride swangas. Swangas, man.
>> I'm saying? Yeah.
>> Yeah, we started the slab.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> But [ __ ] catfish, Kevin Crooks.
>> Yeah.
>> You know I'm saying? Started this [ __ ] Yeah. 1983. Yeah. Yeah.
>> what I'm saying? Yeah. Same thing. These [ __ ] trying to be like us. They just They don't want to ride swangers. They want to [ __ ] get big wheels.
>> Big wheels. [ __ ] that [ __ ] ugly than a [ __ ] Ugly as hell, man.
No.
That ain't no slab. Yeah. Like I tell them [ __ ] out there when they get new cars, put elbows on them. You know that's That's not the slab. Yeah. When I was coming up [ __ ] was cutting the back seat out. It was the old school. [ __ ] [ __ ] cutting the back seat out. [ __ ] 6x9s and You know what I'm saying?
Yeah. Like 15 6x9s back there. [ __ ] god damn it banging. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Original '83s, '84s.
>> Yeah. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
They getting Texas Tire wheels now.
Yeah. You know, I ain't hating on them, but Yeah. You know what I'm saying? You go get a brand new car Uh-huh. and paint it Uh-huh. and put the rims on it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
That's not the slab. You got a clean car. Don't get me wrong. Yeah. You got a clean car. Yeah. That's not the slab.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
The slab going to be dropped. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Laying out low. Yeah.
Yeah. You know what I'm saying? A [ __ ] going to be laying low. Yeah. You know, just like the video shoot. [ __ ] he got a slab. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? That Regal, [ __ ] with the juice, that's a slab. Yeah.
You know, these [ __ ] ride. [ __ ] god damn it just get a brand new car, buy some rims. [ __ ] I'm [ __ ] I'm on the slab. I'm getting mine. Yeah.
[ __ ] you got a pretty car. Yeah. You got [ __ ] the car beautiful. Yeah.
It's not a slab. Yeah. No. So, a slab when you was coming up was old school ride. Old school. [ __ ] god damn it [ __ ] cutting [ __ ] making it what? [ __ ] getting a old [ __ ] car. And putting it together. Old school and put it together. [ __ ] god damn it '83s, '84s.
[ __ ] god damn it Hollywood T-tops.
[ __ ] however [ __ ] sunroof, [ __ ] goddammit, high elbows, [ __ ] you got to put it You just can't go get a car and make it pretty and say you got to slab. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That ain't how we did that [ __ ] Yeah.
That ain't how we did it. Yeah.
[ __ ] in the [ __ ] '83, '84, [ __ ] goddammit, '74 Impala. Yeah. [ __ ] goddammit, old school. Yeah. You make it a slab. You just don't go buy that [ __ ] Especially goddammit some [ __ ] a [ __ ] already built.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Already made, then you go get it Yeah. and try to do something with it.
No, that ain't a slab, [ __ ] Yeah. Slab is homemade. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? [ __ ] get that old school. Something you think about and and yeah, yeah. [ __ ] look at all these cars out here. Yeah. Look at all these cars. Yeah.
Look at all them [ __ ] cars.
Yeah.
You just can't put no rims on it and talk about you got a slab. That's not a slab.
>> a It's a lot of that going on today, though.
>> That's what they doing. Yeah. It's not a slab. Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
Call it the goddamn slab king.
You know? Yeah. But my [ __ ] Kevin Gates, Catfish, he started this [ __ ] Catfish? Catfish, Def Force. Yeah. They started this [ __ ] Yeah. Dylon. Yeah.
[ __ ] goddammit, Tony T. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I can mention them names. Yeah. You know I was [ __ ] with them [ __ ] Yeah. You know?
[ __ ] a whole bunch of these [ __ ] ain't seen a slab until that day.
Yeah. Somebody told me the first slab was on the north side.
[ __ ] yeah, my [ __ ] goddammit, [ __ ] little thing in there, yeah. He did that. He was the first [ __ ] to do it.
Yeah. He was the first [ __ ] to do it.
Yeah.
Then Catfish came. Catfish, yeah.
Catfish, [ __ ] they know who the [ __ ] he is.
Catfish came with that '74 Impala. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Back in the day?
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. So So boys on the South side back then, they was having it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Was it Was cuz you know was it like that cuz you know they try to make it seem like, you know, it was a lot of DVDs when I was coming up. See, I was born in 1990, so I was in like middle school in the 2000s, high school. Was it what Was it like that or was that just talk like Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, was it like we trying to show y'all up like Yeah.
You ain't never like that. Yeah. You know what [ __ ] it up between the north side and the south side? Yeah.
It's when [ __ ] uh from Rosewood Rosewood? came and got top dog [ __ ] next caliber, [ __ ] Oh, yeah? Yeah, he was the first [ __ ] riding on [ __ ] god damn semi mobile. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> I'm saying?
First [ __ ] when they came and got that car Oh, [ __ ] stole.
And that was that was that Oh, yeah, yeah.
>> was it.
Yeah.
>> Yeah, that is caliber [ __ ] god damn semi mobile. First [ __ ] ever did it.
Yeah.
Now, [ __ ] you got these [ __ ] putting eight and all this [ __ ] eight elbows, strong pop chart, [ __ ] god damn meat, [ __ ] on the side, [ __ ] on the roof.
And that [ __ ] ugly than a [ __ ] >> [laughter] >> That [ __ ] bland, don't [ __ ] Like, comment, subscribe, Big Amount TV, baby.
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>> [laughter] >> I'm good now. Hello. I'm good. Yeah, yeah.
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