Houston’s place in Hip Hop is unprecedented. The Texas city has birthed a plethora of rap’s biggest artists over the years including, most recently, Megan Thee Stallion, who was recently honored by Mayor Sylvester Turner with her own day and a key to the city.
Lil Flip, another Houston legend, was happy for Meg when asked on VladTV to share his thoughts on her accomplishment.
“I think it’s great! I mean, she did a whole bunch of shit for the city and do, you know,” he said. “Well-deserved. She’s won Grammys and stuff like that so, yes, salute to Megan. That’s a great thing.”
When asked if Meg was the biggest artist out of Houston, Lil Flip agreed Meg was the biggest rapper and then chose to rank his top 3 artists out of H-Town. He of course had to throw himself in the mix.
“Not the biggest artist. The biggest artist out of Houston is Beyoncé,” Flip clarified. “Then it’s Flip, but Travis Scott, he’s selling a shitload of records and they count streams now as sales, you know what I mean? But it’s like a different measuring stick but he on the way up there… I’ve sold millions of records worldwide. And a lot of places don’t have Soundscan so even some of my mixtapes, I’ve sold millions of.”
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He continued, “Everybody don’t have Soundscan so it might not show up in the numbers, but it was plenty mom and pop stores that was ordering 20, 30 thousand copies of The Leprechaun every two months, and we just cashin’ out,” he said. “That’s why Texas, we hustlers. Independent. We gon’ get it on our own. Definitely.”
Lil Flip was referring to his underground 2000 debut, which moved over 200,000 copies and recently spawned a 2020 sequel The Leprechaun 2. The Houston rhymer most recently dropped off his Tum Tum collab, Made In Texas 2, which featured appearances from Chevy Woods, Big Shasta and others.
If Beyoncé is truly the biggest artist out of Houston, then her hometown must have been going crazy on Thursday (June 16) when the singer revealed she’d be dropping a new album titled Renaissance on July 29. This marks the R&B queen’s seventh studio album and first since 2016’s 3x-platinum smash hit Lemonade.
Watch the full interview with Lil Flip below.
This dude is delusional. He may not be bigger than Mike Jones or Chamillionaire. And I’m from the area.
No you not lying like that!
Flip needs to go back in the garbage where he belongs…
this dude is smokin all the cracks. he can easily replace himself with Scarface on his own list but ego and all smh. Flip might be top 200 from H-town but top 3? fuqq naw! i’d put Slim Thug above him…Paul Wall too!
Then you’re a clown. He’s not over Face but them other two for sure. He’s after Beyoncé and Face
Boy getting high. Besides beyonce aint nobody in Houston name ring like Face
Flip is hands down the best artist alive from Texas fake people don’t like real people though!
And Paul wall y’all say was bigger man get the fuck out of here flip always been hated on from Houston so this shit don’t surprise me,he’s the one who brong the lime light back to Houston not scar face go ask scar face why he tried to sign flip to def jam South
No Z-Ro? No Bun B/UGK? Nobody from SUC? What a dumb list, such an idiot. Beyonce overrated ass? Really? Travis scott? That pile of trash, are you kidding me? And of course he has to rank himself, fuckin loser, flip ain’t even a top 20 rapper from houston, there’s so many rappers that would murder this poser. Flip has always been trash.
Z-Ro. Trae. Big Mello. Fat Pat. Hawk. Big Steve. Botney Boys. K-Rino. Lil Keke. Lil’ O. Scarface. Bun B. Even Slim Thug. So many better rappers from Houston than this clown. Hell even Maxo Kream, been around a shorter time but is already way better than flip.
And travis scott is one of the worst “rappers” (I hate to even call him a rapper) of the last decade.