1990 Calliope-raised Percy Miller, a.k.a. Master P, starts the No Limit record shop in Richmond, California.
1990 "I Got Game" released by Ice Mike as a solo artist. Produced by Ice Mike.
1990 Bust Down puts out the classics "Putcha Ballys On," "Pop That Thang" and "Nasty Bitch" produced by Ice Mike.
1991 Ice Mike also releases "Bring da Heat" along with his full length album "True 2 da Game," both produced by Ice Mike.
1991 Popular club owner and show promoter Warren Mayes releases "Get It Girl," a rap penned by girlfriend Mia X and recorded over the instrumental for Too $hort's "I Ain't Trippin." Mayes' Get It Girl dancers popularize an early version of the "P-pop" booty dance.
1991 Uptown resident KLC (Craig Lawson) quits his job at Schwegmann's to start Parkway Pumpin' records, along with 3-9 Posse member Dart. Parkway's first release is 3-9 Posse's self-titled 12" featuring "Ask Them Hoes," "Got What It Takes To Make It," "Clockin," "Pump the Power" and "Pass The Snake."
1991 On the West Bank, Bust Down puts out the classics "Putcha Ballys On," "Pop That Thang" and "Nasty Bitch" on the Miami bass label Effect Records. Luther Campbell (aka Luke Skyywalker of 2 Live Crew), the label's owner, puts out his own suspiciously similar "Pop That Coochie."
1991 Pioneers West Bank rapper Tim Smooth drops "Gotsta Have It" on Dallas' Yo! Records.
1991 West Bank rapper MC Thick's "Marrero (What The Fuck They Be Yellin') comes out on Atlantic Records.
1991-92 7th Ward-born DJ Irvin Phillips (DJ Irv), spinning at the Uptown club Ghost Town, is joined by charismatic rapper T.T. Tucker. The two put out a cassette with moonlighting contractor Aaron Charlot on his Charlot label; later, Irv's sister Loren takes over the duo's management and drops a second version of the cassette. Both are known as "the red tape."
1992 DJs Don Juan and Big Fess form the Full Pack label and release Kimmy P and Shorty T's "Females in Charge" album.
1992 Mobo Records releases Lower Level "Wanted by 5-0" produced by Ice Mike.
1992 Against the wishes of management, Q93.3 FM DJs Davey D and Wild Wayne premiere "Wha Dey At" on the air, playing it twice in a row.
1992 60's-era record man Isaac Bolden, who had been discussing making a hip-hop record with Seasaint assistant Devious, hears "Wha Dey At" playing in a restaurant and decides to make a bounce album instead. Devious brings in DJ Mellow Fellow to help produce Jimi's version.
1992 DJ Jimi's album "It's Jimi," featuring "Where They At" and "Bounce For The Juvenile," is released on Bolden's Avenue label.
1992 West Bank rapper Everlasting Hitman drops "Bounce Baby Bounce."
1992 Lil Elt and DJ Tee put out the gangsta bounce track "Get The Gat" on KLC's Parkway Pumpin' label; 9th Ward lady rapper Ju'C counters with her own suggestion, "Eat The Cat." Cheeky Blakk, not recording yet, performs as a backup dancer with Ju'C.
1992 The Take Fo Records label appears on the scene with its debut release, Da Sha Ra's "Bootin' Up."
1992 Brothers Bryan "Baby" and Ronald "Slim" Williams form Cash Money Records with Bobby Marchan as booking agent and adviser. Their first release is Kilo G's very gangsta "The Sleepwalker," then (in 1993) UNLV's gangsta-bounce flavored "6th and Baronne."
1992 WQUE 93.3 FM assistant program director begins writing "Street," a monthly column on rap, for Offbeat magazine.
1992 Most Wanted Posse puts out "It Was A West Bank Thing" on Mugz Records, one of several volleys back and forth across the river in an East Bank/ West Bank beef.
1992 "Mobo" Joe Paynes starts the Mobo Records label out of his West Bank Expressway record shop, with creepy, lo-fi gangsta acts like Death, the Ruthless Juveniles and the Lower Level Organization, plus later-addition bounce acts like Cheeky Blakk, Ricky B. and MC Spud.
1992 DJ Irv puts out his last release, "Mega Mix '92," on his own No ½ Steppin' label.
1993 Silky Slim puts out "Sista Sista," an answer song to T.T. Tucker, on Mugz Records.
1993 Tripple Beam Records released M.C. Spud "UnderTaker" which introduced Cheeky Blakk produced by Ice Mike.
1993 Ice Mike briefly relocates to Mississippi and puts out his own full-length album "Slammin Theez Hoez" on his own 3d Power Records.
1993 DJ Jubilee debuts on Take Fo with "Stop Pause (Do The Jubilee All)."
1993 Lil Slim puts out the bounce classic "Bounce Slide Ride" on his Cash Money debut, "Tha Game Is Cold." Slim is credited with discovering his middle-school-aged neighbor, Lil Wayne, and bringing him to Cash Money.
1993 Times-Picayune music writer Scott Aiges writes two cover stories for the weekend "Lagniappe"
section on local rap and the emergence of bounce.
1993 14-year-old Trishell Williams, a.k.a. Ms Tee, becomes the first female artist signed to Cash Money Records, and puts out "Chillin On Da Corner."
1993 DJ Irv is shot to death in the 7th Ward.
1993 Irv's sister Loren begins publishing New Orleans' first hip-hop magazine, Da R.U.D.E. (Raw Uncensored Dope Entertainment), inspired by a trip to Atlanta's Jack the Rapper convention.
1993 KLC and Mr. Serv-On also attend Jack the Rapper, where they meet Master P.
1993 Mia X and Loren Phillips begin working at Shirani Rea's Gentilly Boulevard record store Peaches Records & Tapes, which becomes a nexus for the local rap scene.
1993 Mannie Fresh begins working for Cash Money, producing the Iberville projects-based PxMxWx's debut "Legalize (Pass Tha Weed)" and (as DJ Crack Out) Bryan Williams' (as B32) first venture as a rapper, "I Need A Bag Of Dope."
1993 Former Ninja Crew rapper Sporty T puts out "Sporty Talk-N-Sporty '93" on club owner Charles Shaw, producer Leroy "Precise" Edwards, and Charles "Big Boy" Temple's Big Boy Records.
1993 Offbeat magazine runs a cover story by Keith Spera on New Orleans hip-hop and bounce, interviewing Joe Blakk, Gregory D and others.
1993 Mia X, already an up-and-coming hip-hop artist, puts out the bounce feminist screed "Da Payback" as a single on West Bank producer J. Diamond Washington's Lamina label.
1993 West Bank rapper Joe Blakk puts out "It Ain't Where Ya From," produced by Ice Mike, on Mercenary Records – in part, a call to end the cross-the-river lyrical beef.
1993 Ninth Ward rapper Pimp Daddy puts out "Got To Be Real" on Pack Records, and is then signed to Cash Money.
1993 Devious puts out "Picture This," which includes the bounce track "Hey P-Poppers," on the Worth the Wait label.
1993 Walter Williams and Mike Patterson, a.k.a. Kango Slim and Mr. Meana, form Partners N Crime after performing together at one of Bobby Marchan's Gong Shows and are signed to the newly formed Big Boy Records.
1993 Dave Bartholomew's son Don B. opens his Hitts Studios and becomes a much-in-demand local rap and R&B producer and engineer.
1994 PNC release "Pussy N A Can," a response to UNLV's "UNLV Style," which kicks off a Big Boy vs. Cash Money lyrical rivalry and results in, among other things, a PNC album cover featuring Kango and Meana urinating on the corner of 6th and Baronne, the intersection UNLV name-checked in the title of their first album.
1994 Ice Mike releases an LP titled "Slammin' Theeze Hoz" which embodied the singles "Feet Like A Nigga" & "I Shitted In That Hoe House".
1994 Magnolia Slim debuts on the Hype Enough label, with "Soulja Fa Lyfe."
1994 After leaving KLC's Parkway Pumpin' label, Mystikal releases his self-titled debut on Big Boy Records.
1994 Ice Mike produced "Smoke A Fire Blunt" from the Mobo Records release "Mobo Click."
1994 Cash Money puts out Pimp Daddy's "Still Pimpin," which includes a dig at his son's mother, Cheeky Blakk, in the song "Boo-Koo Bitches." The two famously spar lyrically in the clubs.
1994 Times-Picayune music writer Scott Aiges pens a cover story on New Orleans bounce for Billboard magazine.
1994 DJ Jimi puts out "I'm Back I'm Back" on Gamtown Records, with production from Leroy "Precise" Edwards and multiple writing credits for Terius Gray, a.k.a. Juvenile.
1994 Edgar "Pimp Daddy" Givens is shot to death in the 9th Ward.
1994 After turning down a Cash Money offer, Partners N Crime debut on Big Boy Records.
1994 Code-6 released "Load Up the Tec" & "Where My Ole Lady At" produced by Ice Mike.
1994 The quick-tongued Mr. Ivan puts out "187 In A Hockey Mask" on Cash Money Records.
1994 Fila Phil puts out "Da Hustla," featuring future No Limit artists Mia X and Tre 8, on Slaughterhouse Records.
1994 Big Boy drops the LA-influenced G. Slimm's "Fours Deuces & Treys" and PNC's party-pumping "Ride It, Roll It." Cash Money puts out Lil Slim's "Powder Shop" and UNLV's "Straight Out The Gutta."
1994-95 Master P flies KLC and Mia X to California for a Christmastime visit that would result in both artists joining No Limit, KLC as the leader of the Beats by the Pound production team.
1995 Master P brings No Limit back to Louisiana, settling in Baton Rouge.
1995 The HANO receives a federal HOPE VI grant to redevelop the crumbling Desire and Florida projects, although residents do not move into the new mixed-income development until after Hurricane Katrina.
1995 Tre-8 released "Ghetto Stories" on No-Limit Records which included "What's Happening" & "Half of Me," produced by Ice Mike.
1995 Frustrated by inattention from Cash Money, where he occasionally co-writes with girlfriend Ms Tee, Dolamite signs with Redrum Records and puts out the "3d Ward On My Mind" EP.
1995 Cheeky Blakk debuts on Mobo with "Gots To Be Cheeky," then decamps for the newly founded Tombstone Records, where she drops "Let Me Get That Outcha" the same year.
1995 Magnolia Slim releases "The Dark Side" EP on Hype Enough.
1995 Juvenile releases his first solo album, "Being Myself," on Warlock Records.
1995 Cash Money releases Kilo G's second and last album, "The Bloody City."
1995 9th Ward twin sisters Tonya and Trementhia Jupiter sign to Big Boy Records as the Ghetto Twiinz, after a deal with Eazy-E's Ruthless Records fails due to turmoil at the label. They put out their debut, "Surrounded by Criminals." The pair soon moves to Houston-based Rap-A-Lot Records, and Tonya marries Big Boy co-owner Leroy "Precise" Edwards.
1995 Future No Limit best-kept-secret Fiend debuts on Big Boy with "Won't Be Denied." On the same label, PNC drop the party anthem "Pump Tha Party."
1995 The 7th Ward's Ricky B releases the classic "Dedicating To You New Orleans" on Mobo Records, using the John Mac high school marching band. Mobo also drops hard-edged albums from Death, Dog House Posse and Ruthless Juveniles.
1995 Big Boy Records splits, with Charles Shaw moving on to start the South Coast Music Group and Precise focusing on independent production and management.
1995 Cash Money puts out Ms Tee's "Having Thing$" and UNLV's "Mac Melph Calio."
1995 10th Ward Buck appears as Herbie in the film "Dead Man Walking."
2002 The "sissy" explosion continues with the Calliope's Chev Off The Ave, who puts out "A Sissy With Class" on the Kingz Records label, as well as some singles that heat up a manufactured beef with Katey Red.
2002 DJ Jubilee and Take Fo Records sue Cash Money over the copyright to the song "Back That Azz Up," alleging Juvenile's 1999 song (which hit #19 on the Billboard Hot 100) infringed upon Jubilee's track of the same name from the year before. Take Fo lost.
2002 Ludacris name-checks Josephine Johnny on Amerie's "Why Don't We Fall In Love" remix.
2003 No Limit Records files for bankruptcy; Master P reorganizes as the New No Limit with a roster that focuses heavily on his brothers, C-Murder and Silkk the Shocker, and his son Romeo.|
2003 Soulja Slim releases "Years Later… A Few Months After," his last album, on his own Cut Throat Committy label. On Thanksgiving Eve,
2003, he is shot to death on his mother's front lawn. A famous bootleg of an album-in-progress with B.G. begins making the rounds.
2003 10th Ward Buck sends bounce into double-time with his track "Fasta," influencing a new generation of music.
2003-04 A new generation's super-speedy bounce sound emerges, with artists like Gotty Boi Chris, Déjà Vu, Peacachoo, Monsta Wit Da Fade (DJ Jubilee's nephew), Sissy Nobby and others.
2004 Mystikal is sentenced to 6 years in prison for sexual battery and extortion of a former employee.
2004 Tab "Turk" Virgil of the Hot Boys is sentenced to 10 years in prison in Memphis.
2004 Juvenile's collaboration with Soulja Slim, "Slow Motion," is released and gets Slim a posthumous #1 on the Billboard charts.