DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution Walker Lance Scott
DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution Walker Lance Scott DJ Screw, a.k.a. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed.…
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DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution Walker Lance Scott
DJ Screw, a.k.a. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever.
Soon Houstonians were lining up to buy his cassettes--he could sell thousands in a single day. Spinning two copies of a record, Screw would "chop" in new rhythms, bring in local rappers to freestyle over the tracks, and slow the recording down on tape. Fans drove around town blasting his music, a sound that came to define the city's burgeoning and innovative rap culture.
June 27 has become an unofficial city holiday, inspired by a legendary mix Screw made on that date.Lance Scott Walker has interviewed nearly everyone who knew Screw, from childhood friends to collaborators to aficionados who evangelized Screw's tapes--millions of which made their way around the globe--as well as