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The Outfit, TX
12+ albums
dallasrapDirty SouthHip-Hopunderground hip-hop
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Born and raised Texans Dorian, JayHawk, and Mel make up the hip hop band The Outfit, TX. Consisting of two producers and three emcees, TOTX’s story begins in the city of Dallas, where all three members are from. Enrollment at the University of Houston in 2006 brought middle-school partners Dorian and Mel to JayHawk and three years later, The Outfit, TX was formed. Since its commencement, TOTX has been hard at work developing their specific brand of alternative hip-hop soundwaves. The trio has released several notable, critically acclaimed projects, including Starships & Rockets: Cooly Fooly Space Age Funk (2012), and Cognac/Four Corner Room (2013). They have been lauded by the likes of The Fader, Noisey, Complex, SPIN, and numerous other leading publications. In 2012, Starships & Rockets was voted one of Houston’s “Best Underground Rap Tapes” by the Houston Press, receiving coverage from the likes of 2Dopeboyz, Fox Austin, and Complex Magazine. MTV Hive called them “The Best Rap Group You’re Not Talking About (Yet)”. Their most recent project, the double-disc album Cognac/Four Corner Room, exists as two varying solo projects conjoined at the hip to represent the juxtaposed unity that makes up TOTX. Entirely produced, written, and engineered by Mel and Dorian of TOTX, Cognac/Four Corner Room takes listeners deeper into the individual spirits of TOTX’s two founding members. Complex ranked it as one of the top ten Houston Rap Mixtapes of 2013. TOTX’s live show reputation prece
