KOCH Records to Release New Album by Houston Rap Legend Big Pokey

NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ KOCH Records) - KOCH Records is happy to announce the addition of yet another Houston legend to its burgeoning hip-hop roster. Houston rapper Big Pokey will release his new album, "Evacuation Notice," on KOCH Records on July 22nd, 2008. The album features Lil Keke, Paul Wall, Slim Thug, Z-Ro, Trae, Big Moe and Bun B. "Evacuation Notice" is the prequel to Pokey's next KOCH Records release, "Hurricane Sensei," due later this year.
Pokey's new single "Boss Hogg on Candy" features Slim Thug and is impacting now at radio. The single can be heard at: https://kochent.edgeboss.net/download/ kochent/radiohits/01_boss_hogg_on_ candy_clean_1.mp3.

Big Pokey hooked up with DJ Screw in the early '90s and started dropping rhymes on the DJ's many mixtapes. His first full-length album, "Hardest Pit in the Litter," appeared in late 1999 and ended up being one of the better underground hip hop albums to come out of the South that year. Big Pokey returned a year later with "D-Game 2000," another album of mid-tempo 808-driven beats featuring several of his Houston peers as guests. In 2001 he collaborated with the Wreckshop Wolfpack for "Tha Collabo."

Pokey has recorded with a who's-who of southern rap icons including Slim Thug, Z-Ro, Big Hawk, Big Moe, Lil' Flip, Lil' Keke, and Chamillionaire. In 2005, he was featured on "Sittin' Sidewayz" by Paul Wall which reached No 93 on Billboard Top 100.
For more info on Big Pokey go to: www.myspace.com/sucbigpokey or www.kochrecords.com