Teezo Touchdown Follows His Own Playbook for Innovation in Hip-Hop
Show & Prove: Teezo TouchdownWords: Georgette ClineEditor’s Note: This story appears in the Spring 2024 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands now. Everything is bigger in Texas, down to the metal nails decorating Teezo Touchdown’s hair and, sometimes, his face. The 31-year-old artist repping the city of Beaumont, a.k.a. Boomtown, has built a playful world in which nails, football shoulder pads, facial piercings and eye black (what football players use on their face) often formed into the letter T on his upper cheeks are part of his daily look. The avant-garde approach to his outer shell is as creat...