Houston Chronicle on Instagram: "Swangas, the signature extended rims popular in Houston’s slab culture, are easy to spot but tricky to explain if you’re not from here, so much so that non-Houstonians have gone viral for posting videos of slabs on the highway and wondering what they are.⁠ ⁠ The spoked rims protrude outward from the wheels, often by several inches or even feet. They were popularized from the 1980s onward and became deeply tied to both slab culture and the city’s hip-hop scene.⁠ ⁠