This DBTV archive video captures [Mr Kutsum] performing live at Roc-D-Mic Fridays at Club Yakum in Houston, Texas, on January 30, 2015. Preserved through the Dammit Boy Productions video archive, the footage documents Mr Kutsum during the Club Yakum chapter of the recurring Houston independent hip-hop showcase.
The 7:03 recording documents a two-song performance by Mr Kutsum. His set features “Ballin at Its Best” and “My Life,” preserving both songs as they were presented live before the Roc-D-Mic audience.
Unlike a studio recording or music video, the surviving footage provides a direct record of Mr Kutsum performing in the club environment. It captures the artist, music, audience setting, and atmosphere surrounding one of the Roc-D-Mic performances documented by DBTV during this period.
Hosted by [Wickett Crickett], Roc-D-Mic provided independent artists with a recurring platform to perform live in Houston. During the Club Yakum period, Dammit Boy Productions became increasingly involved with the events, with Tre Dizzle working Roc-D-Mic as a DJ in addition to participating as an artist.
Mr Kutsum’s January 30 appearance is part of the surviving DBTV footage from this chapter of Roc-D-Mic. These recordings preserve individual performances from artists who shared the showcase platform and collectively document the activity surrounding the Houston event series.
Mr Kutsum also became connected to the broader Dammit Boy Productions music archive beyond this performance. His presence in DBP’s surviving music and video history makes the Roc-D-Mic footage part of a larger record of his association with the production company and its network of artists.
The performance was filmed January 30, 2015 and originally published February 3, 2015, placing the surviving video within the same early-2015 period as other Club Yakum performances preserved in the DBTV archive.
Earlier surviving footage from January 2, 2015 documents Boleggz, C-Clain, Jus Kno Mac, Mr 1000 and additional performers appearing on the Roc-D-Mic stage. Mr Kutsum’s January 30 recording expands that archive beyond a single night and helps establish Roc-D-Mic Fridays as an ongoing showcase rather than an isolated DBTV event.
Because the individual recordings retain their original performance and publication dates, the collection can be viewed chronologically to reconstruct portions of the Club Yakum era and identify the artists who moved through the Roc-D-Mic platform during this period.
Preserved through the DBTV archive, this performance documents Mr Kutsum, Wickett Crickett’s Roc-D-Mic platform, Club Yakum, and Dammit Boy Productions during an active period in Houston’s independent hip-hop scene.
Together with the other surviving Roc-D-Mic Fridays recordings, the January 30, 2015 footage contributes to a larger historical record of the artists, songs, venues, performances, and relationships connected to Dammit Boy Productions and Houston independent hip-hop during the mid-2010s.
The recording also demonstrates why preserving the individual Roc-D-Mic performances matters: each video represents one piece of a recurring live platform, while the complete DBTV collection allows those individual appearances to be reconnected into a broader chronology of the scene.
Explore Roc-D-Mic Fridays Club Yakum in Houston, where Dammit Boy Productions became fully involved and Tre Dizzle began DJing events hosted by Wickett Crickett.
Club Yakum
