Biography of dj screw june
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Kyu Boi, South Park CoalitionScrew said, “All y’all out there crumbsnatching. If your name’s Joe, that’s a Joe tape. If your name’s Mike, that’s a DJ Mike tape. If your name Paul, then that’s a Paul tape. My name is Screw.” It’s not a Screwtape unless Screw did it.
In the early 1990s, a teenager named Robert Earl Davis Jr. pioneered the DJ style known as “screwed and chopped” in a small apartment on the Southside of Houston, Texas. His friends already called him DJ Screw back then, but the world hadn’t yet learned about the quiet dude with the flat top and that big sound. Just a couple of years later, his music would become impossible to ignore around Houston. Over the next decade, Screw mixed and record hundreds of “Screwtapes” with dozens of collaborators, birthing a legacy that would continue to grow long after his death in November 2000.
Screw’s influence spread first through hip hop, fueling the Houston rap juggernaut of 2005 (when the city’s rap game reached heights unseen since Geto Boys broke in 1991), and has now stretched around the world. Contemporary rappers like Drake and A$AP Rocky have adapted the Houston sound into their own, bringing it to an even wider audience, and the term “screw” has been co-opted to describe any kind of music that has been sl
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DJ Screw
American hip hop DJ (1971–2000)
Musical artist
Robert Earl Davis Jr. (July 20, 1971 – November 16, 2000), better known by his stage name DJ Screw, was an American hip hopDJ based in Houston, Texas, and best known as the creator of the chopped and screwed DJ technique.[1] He was a central and influential figure in the Houston hip hop community and was the leader of Houston's Screwed Up Click.
Davis released over 350 mixtapes and was recognized as an innovator mostly on a regional level until his death from codeine overdose in 2000.[1] His legacy was discovered by a wider audience around 2005, and has gone on to influence a wide variety of artists.
Early life
[edit]Robert Earl Davis, Jr. was born in Smithville, Texas. His father, Robert Earl Davis Sr., was a long-haul truck driver based in Houston. His mother, Ida May Deary, who had a young daughter from a previous marriage, came to the Smithville area to be with her mother when her son was born in 1971. She later returned to Houston, but the marriage was floundering. Soon it would be over, and she and her kids moved to Los Angeles for a couple of years, then back to Houston, and returned to Smithville in 1980 when Davis was age nine.[2]
When he was young, DJ Screw ha
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This Week complain Texas Euphony History a DIY DJ lays nibble Houston’s constant summer soundtrack.
Written by Jason Mellard, Avery Armstrong queue Alan Schaefer
DJ Screw June 27th Freestyle
Jason Mellard liberate yourself from the Center for Texas Music Account at Texas State University
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