There’s a specific word Britell uses to describe what’s taking place: evolution.Īn evolution is an appropriate way to describe the activity surrounding Screw culture, too, though sonically it retains many of the same properties as the original Screw tapes. A pivotal scene in the film is soundtracked by a chopped and screwed version of Jidenna’s Classic Man, but it’s more subtly used in the score itself: Chiron’s theme is a “ bent version” of Little’s theme, and Black’s theme is a chopped and screwed version, warping the strings out of shape. Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight, which is scored by Nicholas Britell, uses chopping and screwing to create texture and imply depth. Perhaps the most surprising turn for DJ Screw’s now decades-old technique was that it became a part of the very fabric of an award-winning film. Even Tame Impala’s Currents got the chopped and screwed treatment. A screwed version of Mitski’s Your Best American Girl surfaced on YouTube and Dirty Projectors’ comeback single Keep Your Name replicated the effects with pitch-down slo-mo vocals. The technique was also applied to indie rock. Solange’s A Seat at the Table, Childish Gambino’s Awaken, My Love!, and Bryson Tiller’s Trapsoul also got screwed. Big-time rap releases including Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo, Drake’s Views, and Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book were all reworked. More records got screwed than ever before, Rihanna’s Anti, the Weeknd’s Starboy, Beyoncé’s Lemonade, and Frank Ocean’s Blonde among them.
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Other Houston DJs such as DJ Purpberry and DJ AudiTory are doing their part to keep Screw’s name alive, too, tirelessly screwing everything from Lil Uzi Vert to Tory Lanez to Mac Miller. In 2015, Ron C got a signal boost on Drake’s Beats 1 show, OVO Sound Radio. In recent years, and with the internet as a distributor, OG Ron C and the Chopstars have continued to churn out tapes with their Chopped Not Slopped series, their ultimate goal being preservation of DJ Screw’s legacy. People like A$AP Rocky, they really put it out there and it’s like bringing a whole genre to life, that makes people pay attention to it again, they know it’s not dead.” “A lot of people thought the whole thing was dead, but out here in Texas – like me, the OG Ron C, and a few others – we always been doing it. “I see a lot of people that aren’t even from Texas that are part of the screwed movement and that are giving the movement a big boost and jump,” he said in 2011. The Houston DJ Michael “5000” Watts suggested that appropriation of the form by popular outsiders was a good look for the culture, even if he believed Rocky’s Purple Swag to be a “swagger jack”. Perhaps coincidentally, only a few months after Purple Swag, the University of Houston Libraries acquired DJ Screw’s record collection for an exhibit. (Drake’s 2011 Take Care single HYFR also samples a screw classic – ESG’s Swangin’ and Bangin’.) Around the same time, the Odd Future member Mike G was making his own chopped mixes online. DJ Screw Photograph: Photograph courtesy of Orian LumpkinĪfter the Texas rap explosion of the mid-00s (which saw rappers such as Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Chamillionaire, Lil Flip, and Slim Thug find popularity and bring attention to the scene), the technique underwent another renaissance in the late aughts and earlier this decade, first when a DJ Screw flip (November 18th) landed on Drake’s breakout mixtape So Far Gone, then on A$AP Rocky’s viral single Purple Swag.
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