Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle TownBy Langston CollinWilkins, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2023. 192 pp. $24.95 (pbk)

Welcome 2 Houston breaks new ground and presents new techniques in the study of local Hip Hop culture and rap music.Wilkins presents six main chapters, with the introduction and conclusion serving very important roles in the book's analysis.Welcome 2 Houston makes at least three important contributions to the field.First, it is one of the first known books to apply a neighborhood level of analysis to the longitudinal study of a local Hip Hop or rap scene.Second, the book pushes research towards the neighborhood level of analysis, driving gains in general musical scene analysis and gains in cultural analysis of Houston.Third, the book frames this analysis of Houston within a larger scope of Hip Hop in the U.S. and worldwide.