713
Original Houston area code
4th
Largest US city
1947
Year 713 was assigned
HTX
City abbreviation
THE NUMBER
What 713 means.
713 is the original area code for Houston, Texas. Before 281. Before 832. Before 346. 713 was the whole city.
It's a geographic marker that became a cultural one. To say 713 is to say Houston — specifically the Houston that existed before the sprawl, before the subdivisions, before the city got big enough to need more numbers.
For people who grew up with it, 713 is identity. It's where you're from in a way that a zip code can't capture.
THE NAME
Why it's in the name.
Skir713. The 713 isn't decoration. It's not branding. It's the same reason Houston artists have always put the city in the name — because the city is the music.
The sound, the subject matter, the bilingual delivery, the pressure in the production — all of it comes from a specific place. 713 is the address.
THE CITY
Houston.
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States. It's also one of the most diverse — by ethnicity, by language, by income, by neighborhood. The city contains multitudes.
The music that comes out of Houston reflects that. Screwed and chopped. Trap. Tejano. Cumbia. Rap en español. The city has always been bilingual, always been hybrid, always been building something that doesn't fit cleanly into a single category.
Skir713 is a product of that city. The music is what Houston sounds like when you're honest about it.