Music Is My Weapon

A few years ago, I worked at a gas station cashier in Clemson. While working there I came to know the customers pretty well. They came to appriciate my knowledge of music, and eventually they would ask me for more information on their favorite bands. Eventually, they were coming to me to buy bootleg cds that I had downloaded. I know people think thats wrong and such but what can you do about it, there are too many people doing it out there and no way to stop it. Well i had sold a few cd to the customer not making to much, but one thing i ofund out while dealing them cd's was a artist by the Name Dj Screw a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr. The producer became renowned on the Southern hip-hop scene — and eventually around the United States — for his "screwed down and chopped" or "screwed up" versions of hit tracks, which the producer would manually slow down using the pitch control on a turntable.

DJ Screw is responsible for creating the "stoner rap" style known as "screwed" or "screwed down." By slowing songs down to half speed, or slower, Screw created eerie, disturbing music similar to what the cassette in your ancient Walkman would sound like if the batteries were almost dead. Slow and draggggged out.

Screw died of a heart attack in his studio in November 2000. He was only thirty years old. Rumor's attributed the cause of death to be a codeine overdose which was later confirmed. His legacy opened the doors for others such as screwed and chopped labels Swisha House and Beltway 8, as well as countless artists including Z-Ro, Mike Jones, Slim Thug and Paul Wall.

www.screweduprecords.com/