South Park

The South Park community of Houston, Texas is a broad development in the south-central area of the city, just south of MacGregor Park (from which it gets its name) and the 610 Loop. According to the 2000 Census, the community has a population of 22,282. 81% of the South Park population is African American, compared to 25% for the city as a whole. Houston's Martin Luther King Boulevard (formerly called South Park Boulevard) runs through the area. The boundaries for South Park are as follows: North: South Loop 610 South: Beltway 8 East: Mykawa Road West: Cullen Blvd The area is also infamous in the region as the origin of codeine cough syrup abuse, which spread across Houston and the Gulf Coast in the 1990s; this part of Houston is the birth of Chopped & screwed music. South Park is a notoriously dangerous section of Houston, as murders, prostitution, rapes, and carjackings have been mostly committed in this section of Houston. Rappers South Park Mexican, Scarface, Phenomenon kid , K-Rino, Point Blank and the group South Park Coalition are from South Park. John Edward "Big Hawk" Hawkins and the legendary Screwed Up Records and Tapes are part of South Park rap history also. High schools in the South Park area include Jones High School and Sterling.