![]() ![]() "I would get off work from Freightliner at 7 a.m. Houston started his racing career working fulltime – the third shift, no less - at Freightliner and spending his weekends traveling the country with an ARCA team. It sounds competitive and that you could make a living doing it.’ "One of the recruits came out and introduced us to the NASCAR experience,’’ Houston recalled. After graduation he was working fulltime for Freightliner and playing semi-pro ball when he met a recruiter for the NASCAR Diversity Program’s pit crew program. He played defensive back for the Catawba College football team in Salisbury, N.C. Born in the Bronx, he spent summers in North Carolina before moving there fulltime as a teenager. Houston does concede, however, that early in his life, NASCAR may not have been such a strong theme. You could write a song about any NASCAR race at any given time." "I do ," Houston concedes, "Because it’s about the experience and each race something is going on and I’m like, I could write a song about that. "I remember walking around and out of 30 pit boxes, at least half of them were playing my song, 'Life in the Pits,'" he said. A song he wrote back in 1996 - “Life in the Pits” - was even featured on the former SPEED Channel. This is actually the second song Houston has created with lyrics centered around his NASCAR experience. I get a lot of great feedback from the garage all around." "And some people that I know don’t like rap - maybe country or hard rock is their favorite - when they hear a song that relates to what they do, they are like, 'I like this' because it’s talking about pit stops, it’s talking about NASCAR. "People are surprised, like 'I didn’t know you made music,'" Houston says of the reception he sometimes gets. ![]() And the Bronx, New York-born, North Carolina-raised, NASCAR convert couldn’t be happier professionally or personally as the second-year Trackhouse Racing team heads to Phoenix with driver Ross Chastain a legitimate favorite to bring home the organization’s first championship trophy. ![]() WATCH: "99 Problems But The Pits Ain't One" Music VideoĬlearly, this popular veteran pit crew member is living his best life. 99 Trackhouse team haulers, the video even includes a close-up of Houston wearing his “Trackhouse First Win” ring. With Houston dressed in cowboy hat and sunglasses with shots inside and outside the No. The song’s words reference different aspects of the team’s championship-caliber work this season, from a nod to the unique Project 91 and driver Marco Andretti to pit stops and pace laps. "I'm still on my grind probably cause I get it done," the lyrics continue, "Opportunity hits, if you blink then it’s gone. With a solid beat, and soulful lyrics carrying his just-released song and video "99 Problems But the Pits Ain’t One" Trackhouse Racing pit crew member Kenyatta “Kap” Houston picked a great time to debut his newest musical creation – just as he and the Trackhouse team are headed to Phoenix Raceway to contest the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series championship on Sunday.ĭressed in the familiar Trackhouse-blue logo shirts wearing sunglasses and swapping out a cowboy hat and a Trackhouse Racing cap, the 44-year old Houston – with fellow pit crew members Josh Bush and Breanna O’Leary - reference the song’s title throughout the video, "I got 99 problems but the pits ain’t one." ![]()
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