#swanga

[jettacar]

swangin' in style!

[jahbillah]

Odgprod - Best of 2023

#odgprod Odgprod presents best of best of their ever prolific 2023 label output. Join in for 21 track journey trough boundless lands of future dub.

[beyondthesurface]

Real Texas sh!t 🤘🏾

[looktowardsthesky]

https://www.instagram.com/moshnaked

[hiphopandanimerebuild]

[imsoknesecary]

Roadmaster Slabwerk ©

[davidstraange]

My Digi art era was shortlivd

Swangas, 2023

This is from a collection of ipad drawings I made last year. There’s about 50 of them, should I post more?

[jettacar]

felt like drawing an older more traditional slab car! had a lot of fun with the cadillac, so here's an odyssey that's surely to be unique :3

[oneetoomany]

[ahmadyinc]

Only in Houston, Texas.

Tesla Cyber truck on swangas 🤘🏿

[marsixm]

god i saw ANOTHER cybertruck 😭 so far neither have been the infamous one w swangas

[ofwings]

Genuine question, do you actually like Houston or is it just your hometown?

it's a bit more nuanced than that tbh. i understand why it's losing that poll - it's an absolutely massive car-central sprawl where driving on the freeway feels like you're in mad max, it's hot and humid, there's no real seasons, and what used to be a 100 year flood is now an every other year flood. like many blue cities in the south, you're still stuck dealing with the whims of whatever republican pieces of shit that run your state come up with; i've been trying to get rid of them in texas my entire life, so every time this is used as a dunk i just feel tired. because houston is so much more than that.

it's the most diverse city in the country. there are people from everywhere, from all classes and walks of life, and they bring their culture and hopes and dreams with them, and it makes houston incredibly unique under the surface. you can get viet-cajun fusion food anywhere from a strip mall to fine dining. everyone has tamales for christmas. you can get jerk chicken from the same restaurant that you get authentic indian food. street signs are in 3 different languages, and those languages change depending on what part of town you're in. on the street i grew up on in a working class suburb, my family was the only white family - i had neighbors from the philippines and ghana, cajuns from louisiana that grew up speaking french, and a mexican family whose kids grew up my siblings' friends. my teachers in elementary and middle school were vietnamese nuns, who now get celebrated every time they go to astros games (sr. mary catherine, who throws the first pitch, was my math teacher in middle school)!

i once had my alternator die in the middle of a major intersection near downtown houston, just completely killed my car; my emergency lights wouldn't even come on it was so dead. in the hour span i was stuck there, i had 5-6 different groups of people stop and try to help me - a businessman with a suit and tie and cowboy boots, a mom with her kids in the car with her, a guy with a slab and swangas, a car full of construction workers and neither of us spoke each other's language but they helped me push my car to a parking lot anyway. i've had people help me change flat tires, jump my car, push it out of the road, and i've stopped to do all of that for people too. it's a big city, but there's a level of trust and friendliness among people in a bind there that i've never seen anywhere else i've lived. you'll never eat a meal alone, you'll never be lost. strangers will talk to you everywhere you go, especially if they can sense you're having a bad day. people are friendly and helpful and they will shatter your preconceived notions about who they are or where they're from.

houston isn't a tourist town- i get it, i can't imagine why someone would want to vacation there. and full disclosure, i moved away 5 years ago and now live in a smaller city that feels more comfortable to me in terms of scale. but i strongly believe that growing up somewhere so friendly, so proud of its diversity and so strengthened by it, so different from where the places where the rest of my extended family grew up - i don't think i'd be the same person i am now if i'd lived somewhere else. growing up in an environment where you're exposed to so many different people, so many different cultures, and they're all fundamentally your neighbors? i really believe that makes a difference and makes much more well rounded, compassionate, thoughtful citizens. i wouldn't trade the 28 years i spent there for anything.

also if you have access to watch parts unknown with anthony bourdain, he did an amazing episode on houston. even just the opening minute captures so much:

[tumblezwei]

Swanga: "You'll never atone for your crimes, you ruthless tyrant! No matter how many 'good deeds' you performed for the people of Penacony, it will never wash away the gallons of blood on your hands."

*quest complete*

Clockie: "You did it! You fixed Tizocic's emodial! Yay!!!!!"

[imsoknesecary]

Gladiator Swang! KNSCRY

[rumorhasitnews]

"1979 Purple Coupe DeVille Cadillac on G22 Swangas – You Won't Believe t...