Robert Gabriel

1) Devin the Dude, To Tha X-Treme (Rap-A-Lot)

2) Money Waters, The Porch (SoulIsys)

3) Strange Fruit Project, Soul Travelin’ (Black Son/Spilt Milk)

4) Ocote Soul Sounds & Adrian Quesada, El Niño y el Sol (Aire Sol)

5) Tee Double, Lone Star (Mumbo Jumbo)

6) Rapid Ric, Whut It Dew (Top Dollar)

7) Chamillionaire, The Mix Tape Messiah (Chamilitary)

8) Slim Thug, Already Platinum (Interscope)

9) K-Otix, Ethos (Groove Attack)

10) Grupo Fantasma, Movimiento Popular (Aire Sol)

This article appears in 2004.

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Greg Beets was born in Lubbock on the day Richard Nixon was elected president. He has covered music for the Chronicle since 1992, writing about everyone from Roky Erickson to Yanni. Beets has also written for Billboard,Uncut, Blurt, Elmore, and Pop Culture Press. Before his digestive tract cried uncle, he co-published Hey! Hey! Buffet!, an award-winning fanzine about all-you-can-eat buffets.

San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.