Dope House Records

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Dope House Records
Founded1995 (1995)
Founder South Park Mexican
Arthur Coy Jr.
Genre Hip hop
Country of originU.S.
LocationHouston, Texas
Official website dopehouserecords.com

Dope House is an independent record label based in Houston, Texas. [1] It primarily releases hardcore, underground, and Southern hip hop.

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History

Dope House Records was founded in 1995 by Carlos Coy (a.k.a. South Park Mexican) who released his debut album Hillwood that same year. By 1997, Dope House, (having signed artist's Rasheed, Low-G, and Pimpstress) started working on SPM's second album "Hustle Town". Dope House released SPM's second album in March 1998, that same year. Baby Beesh (now Baby Bash), joined the roster and they started to work on the next Dope House album "Power Moves: The Table" it was released on December 22, 1998. By 1999 Dope House Records was big and had eleven artists signed under them and all off them working on their debut albums, only available to record stores in Majority of the works released under the Playaz Lifestyle label are the Southern US region and online retail outlets. However, for a time in early 2000 Dope House teamed up with Universal Records to gain some commercial success. [2]

Artists

Discography

1995
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2011
2014
2018
• 2019
•South Park Mexican – The Devil's Mansion
Carley Coy – My Father's Revenge

2020

South Park Mexican – Telephone Road

2021

•Baby Los – Some Things Never Change

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References

  1. Lomax, John Nova. "South Park Monster." Houston Press . Thursday June 6, 2002. 5. Retrieved on February 6, 2011. "On a hot July day two years ago, the deputy constable from Precinct 1 pulled up yet again to the fortresslike Dope House Records headquarters on Center Street."
  2. Houston Press – "South Park Monster" (page 3)
  3. Rodriguez, Rolanda. "Lucky Luciano: Boss Of Houston's Latino Rap Family". The Houston Press. Retrieved June 10, 2023.