K-Rino, a legend in the underground Houston rap scene, is, to Z-Ro, “the greatest muthaucka to ever hold a mic.” By that point, Ro had cut enough raps to gain a bit of a following, and he attracted the attention of some of the scene’s more established players, including the group Street Military and K-Rino’s South Park Coalition. The group released their first project, the critically acclaimed Rise, in 1999. He lost his mother, Dorothy Marie McVey Matthews, when he was six her name and image have been a constant in his raps for the better part of nearly three decades.Īlong with his friend Dinky D and cousin Frazier Thompson, who adopted the moniker Trae (later Trae Tha Truth), he formed Guerilla Maab. McVey grew up in Ridgemont, a relatively low-to-middle class enclave of Missouri City, Texas. Joseph Wayne McVey is, at 38, a Houston legend: a prolific, complicated rapper and arguably the most famous hook man in the city’s rap history. The metal gate buzzed open when we entered, and a large husky man, Al-D, the same man who first introduced DJ Screw to Ro, greeted the rapper like an old family member, which in a way, as a part of Screwed Up Click, he is. The store’s aesthetic was a mix of modern streetwear boutique and the classic feel of Screw’s old house. Ro came out to meet me dressed in all black, his eyes hidden behind black, blocked-off frames. Earlier this spring, we met at the new Screwed Up Records & Tapes shop on West Fuqua in Houston. Rather, he’s guarded and old school, raised from an era where masculinity stood at one pivot and never moved. As long as I’ve heard about Joseph Wayne McVey-first as part of Guerilla MAAB, then as a member of the Screwed Up Click, and even back in the heated cyphers where he and perennial Houston underground favorite K-Rino used to go bar for bar-he’s always been slapped with the label of unapproachable.
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