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If you have any information or edits, please submit them to darbygk [at] gmail [dot] com.</div> <div id="apDiv15">The timeline is compiled by Alison Fensterstock. Special thanks to Ethan Clark, Colin Meneghini, Lucky Johnson, Andrew Noz, Sean Yuent Schuster-Craig, Emil Nassar, Matt Miller, Stephen Thomas, John &amp; Glenda Robert, Wayne Benjamin and Eric Brightwell</div> <div id="apDiv3">1984 14-year-old rapper Mia X joins her 7th Ward neighbor DJ Mannie Fresh in the hip-hop crew New York Incorporated, playing school dances along with DJ Wop and Queens transplant Denny D.<br /> <br /> 1986 The New York group The Showboys release the 12&quot; single &quot;Drag Rap&quot; on Profile Records. The song became a hugely popular DJ spin in New Orleans and will become a major signature sample of New Orleans bounce. <br /> <br /> 1987 Flamboyantly gay 1960's R&amp;B hitmaker Bobby Marchan forms the Manicure record label and promotion and booking company with partner Henry &quot;Palomino&quot; Alexander. The label's first release is a cover of Clarence Carter's &quot;Strokin',&quot; featuring a version of the &quot;Project Rap.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1987 U.K. rapper Derek B. releases &quot;Rock The Beat,&quot; a track whose beat would form the basis for much New Orleans bounce.<br /> <br /> 1988 Roy Joseph, Jr., recording as MC J Ro'J, releases the second-line-flavored rap single &quot;Let's Jump,&quot; executive-produced by Manicure's Henry &quot;Palomino&quot; Alexander.<br /> <br /> 1989 DJ Mannie Fresh partners with rapper Gregory D, of the Ninja Crew, to record the album &quot;D Rules The Nation.&quot; It features the unique single &quot;Buck Jump Time&quot; - not a bounce song, but a compendium of New Orleans references featuring a tuba for a bassline and the first appearance of the &quot;Project Rap&quot;  the list of wards, projects and neighborhoods that would turn up in hundreds of bounce songs.<br /> <br /> 1989 Devious D and DJ Baby T (a.k.a. DJ Lil Daddy) drop &quot;Down With The Program&quot; on Brutal Records.</div> <div id="apDiv4">Also in the 80's& <br /> <br /> A very young Juvenile begins performing his song &quot;Bounce For The Juvenile&quot; in clubs. Leroy &quot;Precise&quot; Edwards, a young producer, records it the same night the two meet.<br /> <br /> DJ Jimi and Juvenile meet at Jimi's girlfriend's house near the Magnolia Projects.<br /> <br /> DJ Jimi begins spinning regularly at Newton's and Big Man's lounges in Uptown.<br /> <br /> DJ Captain Charles begins his residency at Club Discovery on St. Claude Avenue. <br /> <br /> Hollygrove rapper Devious begins working for Allen Toussaint and Marshall Sehorn at Seasaint Studios.<br /> A young DJ Jubilee begins spinning at parties with older brother Shawn's DJ crew, The Fellas.<br /> <br /> DJs like Slick Leo and Nighthawk begin spinning early hip-hop on stations like WAIL 105 and Hot 98.3.</div> <div id="apDiv5"> <p>1990 Calliope-raised Percy Miller, a.k.a. Master P, starts the No Limit record shop in Richmond, California.<br /> <br /> 1991 Popular club owner and show promoter Warren Mayes releases &quot;Get It Girl,&quot; a rap penned by girlfriend Mia X and recorded over the instrumental for Too $hort's &quot;I Ain't Trippin.&quot; Mayes' Get It Girl dancers popularize an early version of the &quot;P-pop&quot; booty dance.<br /> <br /> 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&quot; featuring &quot;Ask Them Hoes,&quot; &quot;Got What It Takes To Make It,&quot; &quot;Clockin,&quot; &quot;Pump the Power&quot; and &quot;Pass The Snake.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1991 On the West Bank, Bust Down puts out the classics &quot;Putcha Ballys On,&quot; &quot;Pop That Thang&quot; and &quot;Nasty Bitch&quot; 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 &quot;Pop That Coochie.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1991 Pioneers West Bank rapper Tim Smooth drops &quot;Gotsta Have It&quot; on Dallas' Yo! Records.<br /> <br /> 1991 West Bank rapper MC Thick's &quot;Marrero (What The Fuck They Be Yellin') comes out on Atlantic Records.<br /> <br /> 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 &quot;the red tape.&quot; <br /> <br /> 1992 DJs Don Juan and Big Fess form the Full Pack label and release Kimmy P and Shorty T's &quot;Females in Charge&quot; album.<br /> <br /> 1992 Against the wishes of management, Q93.3 FM DJs Davey D and Wild Wayne premiere &quot;Wha Dey At&quot; on the air, playing it twice in a row.<br /> <br /> 1992 60's-era record man Isaac Bolden, who had been discussing making a hip-hop record with Seasaint assistant Devious, hears &quot;Wha Dey At&quot; playing in a restaurant and decides to make a bounce album instead. Devious brings in DJ Mellow Fellow to help produce Jimi's version.<br /> <br /> 1992 DJ Jimi's album &quot;It's Jimi,&quot; featuring &quot;Where They At&quot; and &quot;Bounce For The Juvenile,&quot; is released on Bolden's Avenue label. <br /> <br /> 1992 West Bank rapper Everlasting Hitman drops &quot;Bounce Baby Bounce.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1992 Lil Elt and DJ Tee put out the gangsta bounce track &quot;Get The Gat&quot; on KLC's Parkway Pumpin' label; 9th Ward lady rapper Ju'C counters with her own suggestion, &quot;Eat The Cat.&quot; Cheeky Blakk, not recording yet, performs as a backup dancer with Ju'C.<br /> <br /> 1992 The Take Fo Records label appears on the scene with its debut release, Da Sha Ra's &quot;Bootin' Up.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1992 Brothers Bryan &quot;Baby&quot; and Ronald &quot;Slim&quot; Williams form Cash Money Records with Bobby Marchan as booking agent and adviser. Their first release is Kilo G's very gangsta &quot;The Sleepwalker,&quot; then (in 1993) UNLV's gangsta-bounce flavored &quot;6th and Baronne.&quot; <br /> <br /> 1992 WQUE 93.3 FM assistant program director begins writing &quot;Street,&quot; a monthly column on rap, for Offbeat magazine.<br /> <br /> 1992 Most Wanted Posse puts out &quot;It Was A West Bank Thing&quot; on Mugz Records, one of several volleys back and forth across the river in an East Bank/ West Bank beef.<br /> <br /> 1992 &quot;Mobo&quot; 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.</p> </div> <div id="apDiv6"> <p>1992 DJ Irv puts out his last release, &quot;Mega Mix '92,&quot; on his own No ½ Steppin' label.<br /> <br /> 1993 Silky Slim puts out &quot;Sista Sista,&quot; an answer song to T.T. Tucker, on Mugz Records.<br /> <br /> 1993 Ice Mike briefly relocates to Mississippi and puts out his own full-length album &quot;Slammin Theez Hoez&quot; on his own 3d Power Records.<br /> <br /> 1993 DJ Jubilee debuts on Take Fo with &quot;Stop Pause (Do The Jubilee All).&quot;<br /> <br /> 1993 Lil Slim puts out the bounce classic &quot;Bounce Slide Ride&quot; on his Cash Money debut, &quot;Tha Game Is Cold.&quot; Slim is credited with discovering his middle-school-aged neighbor, Lil Wayne, and bringing him to Cash Money.<br /> <br /> 1993 Times-Picayune music writer Scott Aiges writes two cover stories for the weekend &quot;Lagniappe&quot; <br /> section on local rap and the emergence of bounce.<br /> <br /> 1993 14-year-old Trishell Williams, a.k.a. Ms Tee, becomes the first female artist signed to Cash Money Records, and puts out &quot;Chillin On Da Corner.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1993 DJ Irv is shot to death in the 7th Ward.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 1993 KLC and Mr. Serv-On also attend Jack the Rapper, where they meet Master P. <br /> <br /> 1993 Mia X and Loren Phillips begin working at Shirani Rea's Gentilly Boulevard record store Peaches Records &amp; Tapes, which becomes a nexus for the local rap scene.<br /> <br /> 1993 Mannie Fresh begins working for Cash Money, producing the Iberville projects-based PxMxWx's debut &quot;Legalize (Pass Tha Weed)&quot; and (as DJ Crack Out) Bryan Williams' (as B32) first venture as a rapper, &quot;I Need A Bag Of Dope.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1993 Former Ninja Crew rapper Sporty T puts out &quot;Sporty Talk-N-Sporty '93&quot; on club owner Charles Shaw, producer Leroy &quot;Precise&quot; Edwards, and Charles &quot;Big Boy&quot; Temple's Big Boy Records.<br /> <br /> 1993 Offbeat magazine runs a cover story by Keith Spera on New Orleans hip-hop and bounce, interviewing Joe Blakk, Gregory D and others.<br /> <br /> 1993 Mia X, already an up-and-coming hip-hop artist, puts out the bounce feminist screed &quot;Da Payback&quot; as a single on West Bank producer J. Diamond Washington's Lamina label.<br /> <br /> 1993 West Bank rapper Joe Blakk puts out &quot;It Ain't Where Ya From,&quot; produced by Ice Mike, on Mercenary Records  in part, a call to end the cross-the-river lyrical beef. <br /> <br /> 1993 Ninth Ward rapper Pimp Daddy puts out &quot;Got To Be Real&quot; on Pack Records, and is then signed to Cash Money.<br /> <br /> 1993 Devious puts out &quot;Picture This,&quot; which includes the bounce track &quot;Hey P-Poppers,&quot; on the Worth the Wait label.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 1993 Dave Bartholomew's son Don B. opens his Hitts Studios and becomes a much-in-demand local rap and R&amp;B producer and engineer.<br /> <br /> 1994 PNC release &quot;Pussy N A Can,&quot; a response to UNLV's &quot;UNLV Style,&quot; 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.<br /> <br /> 1994 Magnolia Slim debuts on the Hype Enough label, with &quot;Soulja Fa Lyfe.&quot;</p> </div> <div id="apDiv7"> <p>1994 After leaving KLC's Parkway Pumpin' label, Mystikal releases his self-titled debut on Big Boy Records.<br /> <br /> 1994 Cash Money puts out Pimp Daddy's &quot;Still Pimpin,&quot; which includes a dig at his son's mother, Cheeky Blakk, in the song &quot;Boo-Koo Bitches.&quot; The two famously spar lyrically in the clubs.<br /> <br /> 1994 Times-Picayune music writer Scott Aiges pens a cover story on New Orleans bounce for Billboard magazine.<br /> <br /> 1994 DJ Jimi puts out &quot;I'm Back I'm Back&quot; on Gamtown Records, with production from Leroy &quot;Precise&quot; Edwards and multiple writing credits for Terius Gray, a.k.a. Juvenile.<br /> <br /> 1994 Edgar &quot;Pimp Daddy&quot; Givens is shot to death in the 9th Ward.<br /> <br /> 1994 After turning down a Cash Money offer, Partners N Crime debut on Big Boy Records.<br /> <br /> 1994 The quick-tongued Mr. Ivan puts out &quot;187 In A Hockey Mask&quot; on Cash Money Records.<br /> <br /> 1994 Fila Phil puts out &quot;Da Hustla,&quot; featuring future No Limit artists Mia X and Tre 8, on Slaughterhouse Records.<br /> <br /> 1994 Big Boy drops the LA-influenced G. Slimm's &quot;Fours Deuces &amp; Treys&quot; and PNC's party-pumping &quot;Ride It, Roll It.&quot; Cash Money puts out Lil Slim's &quot;Powder Shop&quot; and UNLV's &quot;Straight Out The Gutta.&quot;<br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> 1995 Master P brings No Limit back to Louisiana, settling in Baton Rouge.<br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;3d Ward On My Mind&quot; EP.<br /> <br /> 1995 Cheeky Blakk debuts on Mobo with &quot;Gots To Be Cheeky,&quot; then decamps for the newly founded Tombstone Records, where she drops &quot;Let Me Get That Outcha&quot; the same year.<br /> <br /> 1995 Magnolia Slim releases &quot;The Dark Side&quot; EP on Hype Enough.<br /> <br /> 1995 Juvenile releases his first solo album, &quot;Being Myself,&quot; on Warlock Records.<br /> <br /> 1995 Cash Money releases Kilo G's second and last album, &quot;The Bloody City.&quot; <br /> <br /> 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, &quot;Surrounded by Criminals.&quot; The pair soon moves to Houston-based Rap-A-Lot Records, and Tonya marries Big Boy co-owner Leroy &quot;Precise&quot; Edwards.<br /> <br /> 1995 Future No Limit best-kept-secret Fiend debuts on Big Boy with &quot;Won't Be Denied.&quot; On the same label, PNC drop the party anthem &quot;Pump Tha Party.&quot;</p> <p>1995 The 7th Ward's Ricky B releases the classic &quot;Dedicating To You New Orleans&quot; 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> 1995 Cash Money puts out Ms Tee's &quot;Having Thing$&quot; and UNLV's &quot;Mac Melph Calio.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1995 10th Ward Buck appears as Herbie in the film &quot;Dead Man Walking.&quot;<br /> <br /> </p> </div> <div id="apDiv8">1996 Everlasting Hitman is murdered on the West Bank.<br /> <br /> 1996 Lady Red puts out &quot;Smokin Dat Weed.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1996 Lokee puts out the creepy &quot;Voodoo Gangsta Funk&quot; on Tombstone Records, with a guest verse from Magnolia Slim and production from Ice Mike.<br /> <br /> 1996 Big Man of PMW releases &quot;A New Beginning&quot; on Hard Hittin' Records. His partner moves to Atlanta and gains a measure of fame in '97 as Freak Nasty, with the hit &quot;Da Dip.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1996 Stewart &quot;MC Thick&quot; Harris dies.<br /> <br /> 1996 Magnolia Shorty, a childhood friend of B.G. and Soulja Slim, debuts on Cash Money with &quot;Monkey On Tha D$ck.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1996 UNLV drop their last Cash Money album, &quot;Uptown 4 Life,&quot; featuring the Mystikal-diss track &quot;Drag 'Em In The River.&quot; They'll later remix it as a Cash Money diss, along with B.G., after both leave the label.<br /> <br /> 1996 Tombstone Records puts out the L.O.G.'s &quot;G's and Soldiers&quot; and 2 Blakk's &quot;Represent 4 Life,&quot; featuring the track &quot;Second Line Jump.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1996 Master P sticks his flag in the New Orleans sound with &quot;Ice Cream Man,&quot; the first platinum No Limit release.<br /> <br /> 1997 UNLV's Albert &quot;Yella Boy&quot; Thomas is murdered.<br /> <br /> 1997 Cheeky Blakk hops labels again to drop &quot;Whores Pimps Niggaz&quot; on Total Respect Records.<br /> <br /> 1997 Kilo G is shot and killed in his 7th Ward home, at age 20.<br /> <br /> 1997 Sporty T puts out &quot;Street Soldier&quot; on Big Boy, an album that responds to Juvenile's &quot;Solja Rags&quot; diss with the track &quot;Juvi (You Ain't No Soldier.)&quot; A video is made with a Juvenile impersonator.<br /> <br /> 1997 Take Fo puts put new albums on DJ Jubilee (&quot;Get Ready Ready&quot;) former dancer Willie Puckett (&quot;Doggie Hopp&quot;) and 2 Sweet (&quot;Actin Bad.&quot;)<br /> <br /> 1997 The Hot Boys (B.G., Lil Wayne, Turk and Juvenile) debut on Cash Money with &quot;Get It How U Live.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1997 Mia X's &quot;Unlady Like&quot; album goes to #2 on the Billboard hip-hop and R&amp;B chart.<br /> <br /> 1997 Master P puts out &quot;I'm Bout It,&quot; the first of many low-budget No Limit movies starring his roster of artists.<br /> <br /> 1998 Magnolia Slim changes his handle to Soulja Slim and debuts on No Limit Records with &quot;Give It 2 Em Raw,&quot; but has little time to promote it, as he is incarcerated for armed robbery the same year.<br /> <br /> 1998 DJ Jubilee puts out &quot;Take It To The St. Thomas&quot; on Take Fo, an album that includes his most gangsta-ish song: &quot;Westbank Showdown,&quot; a tribute to the tough guys across the river.<br /> <br /> 1998 PNC collaborates with DJ Jubilee on the classic, &quot;Iko Iko&quot;  influenced song &quot;NO Block Party.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1998 Two local public-access urban-music cable TV shows debut: John and Goldie Roberts' &quot;It's All Good In The Hood&quot; and Chris Roberts and Wild Wayne's &quot;Phat Phat N All That.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1998 Mystikal pays homage to his mentor, Tim Smooth, appearing on Smooth's Mobo single &quot;Handle Yo Business.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1998 West Bank is in effect with Ice Mike and Code 6's Mardi Gras Indian-influenced album &quot;Let's Go Get 'Em&quot; on the Ice Mike Entertainment label.<br /> <br /> 1998 Cash Money, now focusing on Juvenile and the Hot Boys, signs a multimillion-dollar distribution deal with Universal Entertainment. Juvenile's &quot;400 Degreez&quot; goes 4x platinum by 2000.<br /> <br /> 1998 Katey Red, a striking drag queen, is discovered rapping in the Melpomene Projects by DJ Jubilee and signed to Take Fo. The following year, she releases &quot;Melpomene Block Party,&quot; her debut on the label.<br /> <br /> 1998 Tim Smooth drops &quot;Da Franchise Player&quot; on Mobo, which has begun to feature a new logo with the words &quot;It Ain't The Same No Mo&quot; on it on its releases.<br /> <br /> 1999 Backup dancer 5th Ward Weebie meets Mobo producer Kenneth Taylor at rapper Kilo's studio on Bayou Road, and puts out his debut &quot;Show The World&quot; on Mobo Records.<br /> <br /> 1999 No Limit reveals their trademark technique of flooding the market, with multiple releases from Silkk the Shocker, Mia X, Magic &quot;Mr. Ninth Ward,&quot; Mr. Serv-On, Fiend and others all with classic Pen &amp; Pixel artwork.<br /> <br /> 1999 Cash Money has a banner year with the introduction of the Big Tymers (Baby Williams and Mannie Fresh), hit records and songs from the Hot Boys (the album &quot;Guerilla Warfare&quot;) Lil Wayne (&quot;Tha Block Is Hot&quot;) and Juvenile (the album &quot;Tha G-Code&quot; and singles &quot;Ha&quot; and &quot;Back That Azz Up&quot;) and B.G.'s introduction into the lexicon of the phrase &quot;bling bling.&quot;<br /> <br /> 1999 On July 31, Warren Mayes is shot to death in his car while leaving a concert at the Treme Center.<br /> <br /> 1999 Roy Joseph (J Ro'J) of Slaughterhouse Records sues Master P. for $10 million over Mia X's contract.<br /> <br /> 1999 The Magnolia Projects' Vockah Redu, a male rapper and former high school girls' dance team leader, 10th Ward Buck's cousin, debuts with the self-released &quot;Vockduizm.&quot; </div> <div id="apDiv10">2000 Katey Red's high school classmate and former backup dancer Big Freedia debuts on the Money Rules Entertainment label with &quot;Queen Diva.&quot;<br /> <br /> 2000 Josephine Johnny debuts on Jam Tight with &quot;Trouble Will Find U.&quot;<br /> <br /> 2000 Katey Red is interviewed by Neil Strauss for a feature in the New York Times.<br /> <br /> 2000 Twin brothers Kane &amp; Abel leave No Limit and start their own Most Wanted Empire label, putting out 5th Ward Weebie's &quot;Ghetto Platinum&quot; album.<br /> <br /> 2000 DJ Baby T, aka DJ Lil Daddy, is killed in Baton Rouge.<br /> <br /> 2000 Mystikal leaves No Limit decisively for Jive Records and drops &quot;Let's Get Ready.&quot;<br /> <br /> 2000 The Cash Money Millionaires make the film &quot;Baller Blockin.'&quot;<br /> <br /> 2001 Kilo releases &quot;Too Cold To Be A Hot Boy,&quot; featuring the classic album cover photo of the rapper with a polar bear on a leash.<br /> <br /> 2001 B.G. leaves Cash Money.<br /> <br /> 2001 Choppa drops &quot;Choppa Style&quot; on Take Fo.<br /> <br /> 2001 The St. Thomas Housing Development is slated for demolition, to be renovated into a mixed-income community under the federal HOPE VI program.<br /> <br /> 2001 Cheeky Blakk and Soulja Slim rap on the Rebirth Brass Band's &quot;Hot Venom&quot; album.<br /> <br /> 2001 Former residents of the Desire project sue HANO for improper implementation of the HOPE VI grant.<br /> <br /> 2001 Juvenile leaves Cash Money to form his own UTP label, though he returns to put out &quot;Juve The Great&quot; in 2003 before decamping again for Atlantic Records in 2005.</div> <div id="apDiv11"> <p>2002 The &quot;sissy&quot; explosion continues with the Calliope's Chev Off The Ave, who puts out &quot;A Sissy With Class&quot; on the Kingz Records label, as well as some singles that heat up a manufactured beef with Katey Red.<br /> <br /> 2002 DJ Jubilee and Take Fo Records sue Cash Money over the copyright to the song &quot;Back That Azz Up,&quot; 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.<br /> <br /> 2002 Ludacris name-checks Josephine Johnny on Amerie's &quot;Why Don't We Fall In Love&quot; remix.<br /> <br /> 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.|<br /> <br /> 2003 Soulja Slim releases &quot;Years Later& A Few Months After,&quot; his last album, on his own Cut Throat Committy label. On Thanksgiving Eve, <br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 2003 10th Ward Buck sends bounce into double-time with his track &quot;Fasta,&quot; influencing a new generation of music.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 2004 Mystikal is sentenced to 6 years in prison for sexual battery and extortion of a former employee.</p> <p><br /> 2004 Tab &quot;Turk&quot; Virgil of the Hot Boys is sentenced to 10 years in prison in Memphis.<br /> <br /> 2004 Juvenile's collaboration with Soulja Slim, &quot;Slow Motion,&quot; is released and gets Slim a posthumous #1 on the Billboard charts.</p> </div> <div id="apDiv12">2005 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastate New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. New Orleans' housing projects are shuttered, and the &quot;Big Four&quot;  the Magnolia, Calliope, Lafitte and St. Bernard  are slated for demolition.<br /> <br /> 2005 - 10th Ward Buck releases the club hit &quot;Drop and Gimme 50,&quot; which is re-recorded in 2007 by Houston rapper Mike Jones and becomes a top-selling ringtone.<br /> <br /> 2005 5th Ward Weebie drops the post-K anthem &quot;Fuck Katrina.&quot;<br /> <br /> 2005 The gritty &quot;N.O. Exposed&quot; DVD documentary is released.<br /> <br /> 2005 Mannie Fresh leaves Cash Money.<br /> <br /> 2005 Lil Wayne releases &quot;Tha Carter II&quot; and starts to prime the pump with frequent mixtape releases.<br /> <br /> 2005 Nik Cohn publishes &quot;Triksta,&quot; a memoir of his time in the New Orleans bounce scene.<br /> <br /> 2006 Terence &quot;Sporty T&quot; Vine is shot to death in his FEMA trailer.<br /> <br /> 2006 Sissy Nobby and Big Freedia emerge as the dominant artists in post-Katrina bounce with literally a dozen or more shows per week.<br /> <br /> 2006 Take Fo artist KC Redd is killed in Houston.<br /> <br /> 2006 Mia X and Joe Blakk speak on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on behalf of New Orleans evacuees in danger of losing their FEMA hotel vouchers.<br /> <br /> 2006 Sess 4-5, formerly of the S.A.G. Mafia on Untouchable Records, opens the Nuthin But Fire record store in the 9th Ward.<br /> <br /> </div> <div id="apDiv13">2007 Q93 DJ Wild Wayne begins his monthly &quot;Industry Influence&quot; networking nights in New Orleans, featuring tributes to bounce pioneers.<br /> 2007 Mr. Ivan dies in Atlanta.<br /> <br /> 2007 B.G. and Bryan &quot;Baby&quot; Williams reconcile on-air on Q93 FM when B.G. calls in to a live interview to offer condolences for Baby's sister's tragic death in a car accident.<br /> <br /> 2007 Filmmakers Matt Miller, Stephen Thomas and &quot;It's All Good In The Hood&quot; producers John and Goldie Roberts debut their bounce documentary &quot;Ya Heard Me&quot; at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans.<br /> <br /> 2008 Lil Wayne's record-breaking &quot;Tha Carter III&quot; sells over a million copies in its first week out, in mid-June.<br /> <br /> 2008-09 Some of Lil Wayne's famous mixtapes include vintage bounce lyrics from PMW (&quot;Alphabet Bitches&quot;) Big Freedia (&quot;Gin N My System&quot;) and DJ Duck and MC Shorty (&quot;Where My Old Lady At.&quot;)<br /> <br /> 2009 Big Freedia, Katey Red, Sissy Nobby and Cheeky Blakk join the funk band Galactic on the pastiche-funk album &quot;Ya Ka May.&quot;<br /> <br /> 2009 Rapper Ju'C (former wife of Tre 8) is murdered in the Lower 9th Ward.<br /> <br /> </div> <div id="apDiv14">2010 PNC release &quot;We Are Legends.&quot;<br /> <br /> 2010 Lil Wayne begins serving a year-long jail term for a weapons possession charge in New York.<br /> <br /> 2010 Skip of Big Choo's Game Ova Boys dance crew appears on Fox's &quot;So You Think You Can Dance.&quot;<br /> <br /> 2010 Rihanna's hit &quot;Hard&quot; quotes DJ Jimi's &quot;Where They At.&quot;<br /> <br /> 2010 10th Ward Buck, the Take Fo executives, DJ Captain Charles and Mia X all open restaurants in New Orleans.<br /> <br /> 2010 Mystikal is released from prison and plays a comeback show Mardi Gras night at the Mahalia Jackson Theater.<br /> <br /> 2010 VH1 honors No Limit with a tribute to Master P on a &quot;Dirty South&quot;  themed version of their annual Hip-Hop Honors show.<br /> </div> </body> </html>