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In 2007, the idea that some kid in some suburb somewhere was making weird, scrappy sounding rap on a PC and posting it online was still a novelty. Now, it’s a more or less a genre – or career-move – of its own. The homemade sound of software driven beats, blown-out vocals, and questionable mixing, has the same DIY charm of early garage rock or punk or hard-core.

Around the same time that Soulja Boy released his first mixtape Supaman, Lil Texas and a crew of friends called Dem Homicide Boyz released a few dozen songs on their Soundclick and Spit Yo Game pages. Lil Texas put these demos together and got signed to a small local deal, but nothing official was ever released.

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