Remember Herney The Great's Diary of a Young Black Male?

Houston's history is dotted with albums that, fairly or un, have been swept aside. We'll examine them here. Have an album that you think nobody knows about but should? Email sheaserrano@gmail.com.

Herney the Great is an occasionally explosive, always frothy rapper from north Houston. He made his first Rocks Off appearance at back in December, when he was featured as our Artist of the Week, and has been on the radar ever since.

Diary of a Young Black Male is his debut album, a swarming, spiraling, unforgiving tape. There are pieces of it that seem to all rush at you once - "Stayin' Focused," for example, is ironically scatterbrained and loose - pieces of it feel completely natural and intimate, such as the acid-jazz atmospherics of "Let's Chill."

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The Most Incidentally Enjoyable Aspect of the Album: It is chock full of neat little pieces to pick apart. The cover, for example, features Herney sitting next to a picture taken during the Civil Rights Movement , which is a hat-tip to a previous song of his where he states that he's making movements like the Civil Rights ("City Lights").

More than that, the Civil Rights picture, if you look close enough, features several watermark pictures beneath it, including Herney again and a woman in a bikini(!?). Good look figuring all that shit out.

Most Auspicious Sample: The grungey, dragging, five-minute-plus "Stoner Daze," wherein Herney samples Green Day and guest feature George Young uses the phrase "remarkable hobo" perfectly.

Third Best Line on the Album: "Love lasts just about as long as my erection."

Second Best Line on the Album: From "Diary," a choppy, frustrated track where Herney is assisted by the bizarre songbird Sydney: "When the fuck I'ma blow, getting real impatient. I just want my mama to get in the conversation and say that I made it." When he opens his veins, Herney is a handful.

1st Best Line on the Album: "I pass on Reggie Bush. Why? Because I'm a Houston Texan, bitch." That's just clever.