What is the best DJ Screw tape?

What is the best DJ Screw tape?

Read through Joey’s selections below, and listen via our YouTube playlist.

• UGK Tell Me Something Good (from ‘All Screwed Up Vol.2’)
• Lil Keke and Big Pokey Peepin Through My Window freestyle (from ‘Chapter 13: Leanin’ on a Switch’)
• 2 Pac Picture Me Rollin (from ‘Chapter 71: The Final Chapter’)

How many mixtapes DJ Screw?

Working out of his modest home studio from the early 90s until 2000, the late Houston legend recorded and released over 300 mixtapes during his far too brief career.

Is DJ Screw dead?

Deceased (1971–2000)
DJ Screw/Living or Deceased

How many chapters did DJ Screw have?

While these mixes were initially recorded directly from Screw’s decks directly to tape, Screwed Up Records (run by his cousin Big Bubb) continues to release lost mixes and personal tapes in chapters. To date there are well over 300 chapters listed in his catalogue.

What is chopped and screwed music?

Chopped and screwed (also called screwed and chopped or slowed and throwed) is a music genre and technique of remixing music that involves slowing down the tempo and deejaying. It developed in the Houston hip hop scene in the early 1990s by DJ Screw.

What killed screw?

overdose of codeine
When Screw, just 29 at the time, died on November 16, 2000, from what medical examiners said was an overdose of codeine – drank’s active ingredient – that connection was forged for good.

How old was DJ Screw when he died?

29 years (1971–2000)
DJ Screw/Age at death
November 20, 2000 — Southern hip-hop producer Robert Earl Davis, known in the hip-hop community as DJ Screw, was found dead in his Houston studio Thursday, according to the Houston Chronicle. No cause of death has been determined for Davis, who was 29.

What is DJ Screw real name?

Robert Earl Davis Jr.
DJ Screw/Full name

You may never have heard of him, but Robert Earl Davis, Jr. —a.k.a. DJ Screw—was one of the most influential musical figures to come out of Texas in the past decade.

Did DJ Screw make beats?

DJ Screw was a beat head who studied his records front to back, inside and out. He left a legacy of over 300 tapes that perfectly captured his passion for recorded sound. Even if you’ve never been a fan of the his chopped and screwed style or it feels too extreme for your ears, give it another chance.

When did Screwed Up Records and Tapes open?

1996
Other albums included three volumes of 3’N the Mornin, and No Work, No Play. In 1996 he opened the Screwed Up Record and Tapes store and record label in Houston.