re: #199 austin_blue

Ah! Well it could have been Hidalgo, Hondo, Halletsville, Hutto (home of the Hippos!), Haskell (home of Rick Perry! Well actually, Paint Creek, but Haskell is the nearest real town and Paint Creek has, like, 40 people in it and Rick didn’t get a flush toilet until he was seven years old, no shit), Hereford, or Henrietta. Then there’s Hillsboro, Hemphill, Harker Heights and so on. The point being that Dallas may be referred to as “Big D”, but no one in Texas refers to Houston as “H-town”.

It’s just fucking Houston, a sprawling, behemoth of a disaster of urban planning. They have been trying to build their highway system to handle the load for thirty years and it remains a total fail.

So there was an R&B group that I grew up listening to in the 90s from Houston. Their name was H-town. Grew up listening to a lot of rap artists from Houston who also referred to it as such. Beyonce and her fam still call it that too.

en.m.wikipedia.org

H-Town
“H-Town” is a widely popular modern nickname for Houston.[12] It is commonly used in reference to the city both locally and internationally, especially within the entertainment community. In addition, the H-Town Blues Festival is a music festival held each year in the city,[13] and the H-Town Arena Theatre has hosted a variety of performing artists from around the country since the 1970s.[14] H-Town (with the “H” standing for Houston) is also the name of an R&B hip hop band from Houston that was formed in 1992.[15]