Big Pokey

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Big Pokey

Background information
Birth name	Milton Powell
Born	December 4, 1977^{[citation needed]}
Origin	Houston, Texas
Genre(s)	Southern rap
Occupation(s)	rapper
Years active	1998 - present
Associated acts	Screwed Up Click

Big Pokey (real name Milton Powell) December 4, 1977^{[citation needed]} is a rap artist from Houston, Texas and is one of the original members of the Screwed Up Click.

While rapping, he attended Blinn College in Brenham, Texas.^{[citation needed]} Big Pokey joined up with DJ Screw in the early 1990s and started released songs on the DJ Screw's many mixtapes. His first full-length album appeared in late 1999, "Hardest Pit in the Litter". The following year, Pokey returned 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 Collabo and then returned in 2002 with another solo album, "Da Sky's Da Limit". In 2005 he was featured in a song which was #93 on US Top 100^{[citation needed]} with Paul Wall called Sittin' Sidewayz.