HOUSTON, Texas -- With his slowed down tempo, DJ Screw gave Houston a sound and changed hip hop forever. DJ Screw is credited for pioneering the sound known as "Chopped and Screwed." "He was the ...

*The Houston Chronicle reported that back in the 90s, George Floyd played a role in the rise of Houston’s beloved rap crew, the Screwed Up Click. In the wake of Floyd’s death at the knee of a ...

Star Belly, the sixth and final installment of the DJ Screw tribute mixtape series from Rabit a.k.a. Eric C Burton, begins with a clip of an old local news interview with Screw, the man who created ...

Houstonians and others in the music industry remembered Robert Earl Davis Jr., also known as DJ Screw. The community honored the late hip-hop DJ by reflecting on his life on June 27 — which is a ...

Big Pokey, an early member of the Houston hip-hop collective Screwed Up Click and a pioneer of the "chopped-and-screwed" style, died Sunday, according to a statement on his verified Instagram account.

The “chopped and screwed” sound has become such a staple of hip-hop that most fans probably don’t even wonder where the slowed-down, stop-start sonic approach came from — and thus, the late DJ Screw, ...