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Their work has helped establish current rappers Paul Wall, Chamillionaire, Slim Thug, and Mike Jones, and rap groups such as The Color Changin' Click and the Screwed Up Click.

Other southern recording artists, including Eightball and MJG, Lil' Troy, The Geto Boys, MC Breed, and Three 6 Mafia, as well as Chicago's Do or Die, had similar success.Ĭurrently, the style is exemplified in the music of Swishahouse DJs such as OG Ron C and Michael 5000 Watts. Mississippi rapper David Banner released a chopped and screwed version of his Mississippi: The Album in 2003, marking one of the first efforts by a Mississippi artist. 'Screw Tape in the Deck', a popular mid-tempo song from DJ Screw and collaborators By the time of Screw's death in 2000, the genre had become widely known throughout the southern United States.ĭj Screw-Screw Tape In The Deck-Let Me Roll Early tapes were often screwed and chopped versions of instrumentals over which rappers would later freestyle, but later tapes were mostly vocal tracks with occasional toasting or freestyle intermissions. This provided a significant outlet for MCs in the south Houston area, and helped local rappers such as Lil' Flip, E.S.G., UGK, Lil' Keke, and Z-Ro gain regional and sometimes national prominence. Willie D's Die, from the album I'm Goin' Out Lika Soldier, featured a slowed-down sample of Scarface's line 'Balls and my word' (from the feature film) well before chopped and screwed gained more mainstream acceptance.ĭJ Screw made a significant number of mixtapes (purported to be in the thousands), usually with a theme. Ganksta N-I-P and Willie D) began to incorporate the slowed tempo into rap songs. Pimp the Pen from Lil Keke & DJ Screw, featuring samples from Pocket full of Stones from UGK and Cocktales from Too Short Phasing, Flanging and echo effects were originally the result of the two records being played at millisecond intervals. Originally, this process involved mixing two copies of the same record, slowed down either on the turntables using pitch shift or, later, through use of an after-mixer device.

DJ Screw began making mixtapes of Houston rappers' slowed-down music in the early 1990s. The style was developed in Houston, Texas by DJ Screw, The late DJ Screw, a South Houston DJ, is credited with the creation of and early experimentation with the genre.

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