Michael Watts

About Michael Watts

As the co-founder of the famed label Swishahouse, which has housed musicians such as Mike Jones and Slim Thug, he became a Houston hip-hop icon, earning the moniker"5000". He is considered as one of the godfathers of the"chopped and screwed" movement.

Michael J. Watts is Emeritus "Class of 1963" Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He retired in 2016. He is a leading critical intellectual figure of the academic left, described as "a fiercely original mind, and a brilliant theorist". His first book, Silent Violence:Food, Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria, is considered a pioneering work in political ecology. Other published works include Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent, Liberation Ecologies, The Hettner Lectures: Geographies of Violence, Violent Environments and the Curse of the Black Gold. Watts has also been an assistant editor of the award-winning New Encyclopedia of Africa and its predecessor, the Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara.

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Trivia

He has hosted his own mix show on 97.9 The Box.

Michael Watts before fame

He grew raised in Homestead, a neighborhood in northeast Houston. Swishahouse arose from his discontent with the rap music originating from the city's south side.

Achievement of Michael Watts

He hosts his own mix show on 97.9 The Box.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$1 Million - $2 Million (Approx.)

Michael Watts family life

He married Latammie, with whom he has three daughters: Destiny, Kelsey, and McKenzie.

Associations of Michael Watts

He produced the Swishahouse compilation album The Day Hell Broke Loose 3 (2006), which featured rappers such as Paul Wall and Juelz Santana.

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