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Over 1,000 albums owned and used by the late DJ Screw, known Robert Earl Davis have been donated to the University of Houston Libraries.
DJ Screw, who died in November of 2000, was just 29-years-old when he died of a heart attack, after drinking a lethal mixture of codeine and cough syrup.
Screw was a pioneering figure in not only Texas hip-hop, but hip-hop as a whole, by creating the "chopped and screwed" style of production that carries his name.
“Who would’ve guessed slowed down music of all damned things would become a national phenomenon?” Michael “5000” Watts, a DJ, producer and co-founder of the Swishahouse label, said earlier this year. “But there was always more to it than just slowing down a record. One thing that destroyed a lot of the Southern stuff is people looking at the bottom line. ‘What can I do to make a profit?’ They weren’t looking at it as art. . . . It’s very rare when a man goes out of the box to do something.
The LPs were donated by his father Robert Earl Davis Sr. and John and Rebeccca Moores Endowed Library Fund and it is currently being cataloged and available for research in 2013.
In addition, some of the recordings will be part of an exhibit called "DJ Screw and the Rise of Houston Hip-Hop," which opens March 19th, 2012
at the M.D. Anderson Library.
Source: allhiphop.com
DJ Screw, who died in November of 2000, was just 29-years-old when he died of a heart attack, after drinking a lethal mixture of codeine and cough syrup.
Screw was a pioneering figure in not only Texas hip-hop, but hip-hop as a whole, by creating the "chopped and screwed" style of production that carries his name.
“Who would’ve guessed slowed down music of all damned things would become a national phenomenon?” Michael “5000” Watts, a DJ, producer and co-founder of the Swishahouse label, said earlier this year. “But there was always more to it than just slowing down a record. One thing that destroyed a lot of the Southern stuff is people looking at the bottom line. ‘What can I do to make a profit?’ They weren’t looking at it as art. . . . It’s very rare when a man goes out of the box to do something.
The LPs were donated by his father Robert Earl Davis Sr. and John and Rebeccca Moores Endowed Library Fund and it is currently being cataloged and available for research in 2013.
In addition, some of the recordings will be part of an exhibit called "DJ Screw and the Rise of Houston Hip-Hop," which opens March 19th, 2012
at the M.D. Anderson Library.
Source: allhiphop.com