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The Duke Of Houston

Posted by mikeybass On April - 12 - 2011

Meet The Duke. The troublesome youngin’ was born in Houston, TX, where his father is from. After he and his mom moved back home to California where the majority of Duke’s family is from, he was exposed firsthand to life in Los Angeles, CA. In the time of gangs and extreme street violence on the West Coast, the chances of a young black man heading towards progression instead of the penitentiary were slim.

After moving back to the south with his father, the street ambition in him led him to hustlin’, only at 10 years old. After he got into the practice of it, the money came. Duke got his first car at 12 while in middle school. Gold chains were the norm for the young man; he had made it all the way from pumping gas for cash and groceries while he was in California. He was accustomed to putting food on the table for his family. His hustle had grown to another level in Houston, however, and he was once again out of control. The young firecracker was heavy in the streets though, in and out of juvenile and correctional facilities.

It was in these solitary confinements away from his fast life that Duke was able to recognize and accept his talent. He had written his first song at a very young age, and he and his cousins would sing it all the time. It wasn’t until 13 that Duke picked up writing as a hobby. As all mistakes can be blessings, jail gave Duke the time to perfect his craft. He credits his gift of not writing down rhymes to his prison stint. He’s been memorizing lines ever since.

Duke has receivedThe Hood Know overwhelming encouragement to explore his rap talents. The vibe of the rap game was interesting to him, especially with the status of Houston rappers at the time. Duke and a few guys he used to hustle with wanted him to work on music with them as well. The group eventually dissolved, but Duke was able to use his music networks to meet Mike D of the original Screwed Up Click.

Mike D continued to look out for young Duke as he learned the industry. This relationship developed a number of additional networks for Duke in Houston: The Southside Playaz, Big Pokey, Z-Ro, and Hawk. From a West Coast standpoint, Duke has landed standout verses on two songs featured on mixtape with Bay Area’s finest, Yukmouth. All of these acts have helped contribute their originality and talent to Duke’s growing popularity and respect. Duke has laid the hottest hooks for a number of Houston artists, and was given the rare opportunity of being featured on DJ Screw’s first CD in stores, as well as featured on the DJ Screw documentary. Duke has also worked with Original gangster Bad Azz of Long Beach., who is featured on Duke’s latest mixtape.

Duke views the rap game as a business. He views himself as an investor, and his talent as an investment. Duke wants to motivate the hoods of Houston, and the south in general, from a hustler’s standpoint. “Don’t be a bum, get some work or a hustle.” His music comes with a trap feel, from a grinding mind state.

Duke hopes to bring some more light to the city; to give it charisma and respect like it used to have. “There should be something to do every single night in Houston, like New York. It should be more exciting here. We need enlightenment!” Duke is putting out 100% of his effort to help build Houston on solid rock. He is refining his rap image and letting listeners know that success is tangible. Houston can be rescued by the real Houston rappers that it already has.

Duke’s current mixtape, Trap Mode, hosted by GO DJ Hi-C is available now. The mixtape features former Day 26 singer Brian Angel, R&B Singer Trace, legendary West Coast rapper Bad Azz, and Yukmouth. Duke currently has two videos out online featured on WSHH, including his first video “Tha Hood Knows” with 80,000 views, and a Big Moe tribute/“Streetz Choze Me” with 250,000 views. Besides having tour dates from Mississippi to Miami, Duke still holds down Houston strong. Duke is willing to put the city on his back, but he has numbers in mind. This is a complete takeover of rap. Check out Duke at @thedukegutta and listen to his music first at www.sosouth.com.

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Paul-Wall-Heart-Of-A-ChampioPaul Wall’s upcoming album, “Heart Of A Champion” is coming June 29th! Houstonhiphop.net will definetly keep you up to date with all the info on Paull wall. This is the rapper’s fifth studio album and you can expect a lot of production from none other than Travis Barker. Other collaborators include Yelawolf, Jim Jones, Chamillionaire, Bun B and Devin the Dude. ‘Champion’ hits stores June 29th.

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Lucky- Lucianowe always gotta school you youngins out there to this htown music and today is no different. Today Im gonna post a bunch of Lucky lucianos music. You can follow him on twitter.com/luck0713 and go to his site at steaknshrimpmusic.com
Houstonhiphop.net exlcusive – Lucky luciano feat Mav of sol camp and Gmoe of avondale productions

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dallas

Dallas is King! Hailing from Texas comes Dallas-born, Houston-raised singer/songwriter/music producer, Dallas Blocker. In a time where many artists are being coined as hierarchy in the music business, Dallas is no exception. What will make this crooner rise to the top is his ability to do what many R&B artists have had trouble doing – gaining the love of the ladies while keeping the overwhelming support of the fellas.
Dallas has worked with practically every major Texas rapper – Slim Thug, Paul Wall, Lil Keke, Trae the Truth, Rob G, Lil Flip, Mike Jones, Tum Tum, Fat Pimp and 50 Cent’s most recent #1 nemesis, Rick Ross, on a track called “For The Hood”. Dallas has been featured on very popular music sites such as Singersroom.com and DJBooth.net to name a couple.
In September 2009, Dallas was invited to Japan for the “Save R&B Tour” where he headlined his very first tour. The support was fantastic. Being from Houston, one might ask if Dallas has worked with Matthew Knowles, and that answer is of course! Dallas has written and produced songs for several Musicworld Music artists, as well as childhood friend Brian “Angel” of Day 26 in Matthew’s old boy group Mason Rd. Basically, Dallas is no newcomer to the music business and his dues are well paid.

Check out Dallas Blocker’s new single “Rock Ya Body” which is a sexy number thats sure to get the blood flowing and the hormones raging – written & produced by Beanz N Kornbread. The single was released to radio January 2010 via Houston-based record label T.F. Records in collaboration w/ Beanz N Kornbread’s imprint SydeDish and Dallas’ own imprint Blockerboy Music.

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J Dawg feat Slim Thug- first 48 OFFICIAL VIDEO

Posted by admin On May - 24 - 2010

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Geto Boys

Geto Boys (originally spelled Ghetto Boys) is a hip hop group from Houston, Texas, consisting of Scarface, Willie D and Bushwick Bill. The original Ghetto Boys consisted of: Prince Johnny C, The Slim Jukebox, DJ Ready Red and Little Billy, the dancer who later came to be known as Bushwick Bill. The group released a mostly unheard of album titled Making Trouble. The group broke up shortly after and a new line-up was put together with the inclusion of Scarface and Willie D, both aspiring solo artists.

The Geto Boys earned notoriety for its transgressive lyrics which included gore, psychotic experiences, necrophilia and misogyny. Despite the explicit content of their songs, critic Alex Henderson argues that the group “comes across as much more heartfelt than the numerous gangsta rap…wannabes who jumped on the gangsta bandwagon in the early ’90s.”[1] The Geto Boys broke new ground with their soulful southern sound (a precursor to the Dirty South style).

History of Geto boys

The group’s 1990 album The Geto Boys caused Def American Recordings, the label to which the group was signed at the time, to switch distributors from Geffen Records to Warner Bros. Records (with marketing for the album done by WB sister label Giant Records) because of controversy over the graphic portrayal of rape, necrophilia, murder, explicit sex, cartoonish violence, and hostility toward women. The album, however, was actually a compilation, consisting mainly of ten tracks taken from its 1989 album Grip It! On That Other Level (most of them remixed), as well as two new songs and one song from its debut LP, Making Trouble.

In the early part of the decade, several American politicians attacked gangsta emcees, including the Geto Boys (most famously Ice-T and the N.W.A). A high-profile incident in which Bushwick Bill lost an eye in a shooting with his girlfriend helped boost sales of its third album, We Can’t Be Stopped. The album cover had a picture of the injured Bushwick being carted through a hospital by Scarface and Willie D. On the album’s title track, the group responded to Geffen Records ending its distribution deal with Def American. “Mind Playing Tricks on Me” became a hit in the hip-hop community.

All three members began solo careers, but Willie D. was the only one who actually left the group. Scarface and Bushwick Bill continued with the Geto Boys, adding Big Mike for Till Death Do Us Part in 1993. Although Till Death Do Us Part was certified gold it was not as well received by fans, as the lyrically gifted shoes of Willie D who also wrote for Bushwick, proved too big to fill for Big Mike. Subsequently, Big Mike was dropped and Willie D returned for 1996′s critically acclaimedThe Resurrection and 1998′s Da Good Da Bad & Da Ugly which Bushwick was not a part of. After years on hiatus, the group reunited to released its seventh album, The Foundation, in 2005. The Geto Boys were featured on Scarface’s My Homies Part 2 album.

The Geto Boys’ popularity was boosted somewhat in 1999 by the prominent use of two songs—”Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta” (original, later released as a single on vinyl) and “Still” (from The Resurrection)—in Mike Judge’s film Office Space, now considered a cult classic. The song “Mind of a Lunatic” has been covered by many recording acts including Marilyn Manson in 2003, as a b-side off the album The Golden Age of Grotesque.

The single “Damn it Feels Good to Be a Gangsta” has also been covered by the band Aqueduct and country singer Carter Falco. [2] The song “Street Life” from the album Till Death Do Us Part was featured on the motion picture South Central. A video clip for the song with footage from the film was released. [3]

The band did a rare performance as a reunion at the Smoke Out festival in San Bernardino, CA on October 23rd, 2009. [4] The Geto Boys are credited as the group who put the south on the hip hop music map’ and inspired a legion of acts including 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G., UGK, TI, Goodie Mobb, Outkast, Chamillionaire, Lil Wayne, Juvenile, Mystikal and others.

The group’s name, Geto Boys, comes from a deliberate misspelling of the word Ghetto. For its first album 5th Ward Chronicles: Making Trouble (1988) and its second, Grip It! On That Other Level (1989), the spelling was the English standard “Ghetto Boys”. For its third album, The Geto Boys, they changed it to the “Geto” spelling, which the group has used since.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Album information
Making Trouble

  • Released: 1988
  • Billboard 200 chart position: -
  • R&B/Hip-Hop chart position: -
  • Singles: “You Ain’t Nothin’” / “I Run This”
Grip It! On That Other Level

  • Released: 1989
  • Billboard 200 chart position: #166
  • R&B/Hip-Hop chart position: #19
  • Singles: “Do It Like A G.O/Fuck ‘Em”
The Geto Boys

  • Released: 1990
  • Billboard 200 chart position: #171
  • R&B/Hip-Hop chart position: #67
  • Singles: “Do It Like A G.O/Fuck ‘Em”
We Can’t Be Stopped

  • Released: July 1, 1991
  • Certification: Platinum
  • Billboard 200 chart position: #24
  • R&B/Hip-Hop chart position: #5
  • Singles: “Mind Playing Tricks on Me“, “I Ain’t With Being Broke/My Mind Playing Tricks On Me/Gotta Let Them Hang”
Till Death Do Us Part

  • Released: March 19, 1993
  • Certification: Gold
  • Billboard 200 chart position: #11
  • R&B/Hip-Hop chart position: #1
  • Singles: “Six Feet Deep”, “Crooked Officer”, “Straight Gangstaism”
The Resurrection

  • Released: April 2, 1996
  • Certification: Gold
  • Billboard 200 chart position: #6
  • R&B/Hip-Hop chart position: #1
  • Singles: “The World Is A Ghetto/Still”
Da Good Da Bad & Da Ugly

  • Released: November 17, 1998
  • Billboard 200 chart position: #26
  • R&B/Hip-Hop chart position: #5
  • Singles:
The Foundation

  • Released: January 25, 2005
  • Billboard 200 chart position: #19
  • R&B/Hip-Hop chart position: #3
  • Singles: “G-Code/When It Gets Gangsta/The Secret”, “Yes, Yes, Y’All”
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Geto Boys – The World Is A Ghetto (Uncut)

Geto Boys – Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta

Geto Boys – Yes Yes Ya’ll (Uncensored)

Geto Boys – Mind Playing Tricks On Me (Uncut)

Bushwick Bill’s Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/therealbushwick

Willie D’s Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/williedinfo

Scarface’s Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/scarface

TOP HOUSTON HIP HOP SONGS OF ALL TIME

Posted by admin On January - 31 - 2010

GHETTO BOYS- MINDS PLAYING TRICKS ON ME VIDEO

SCARFACE AND TUPAC – SMILE


SLIM THUG -LIKE A BOSS

CHAMILLIONAIRE – RIDIN DIRTY

Mike Jones, Paul Wall & Slim Thug – Still Tippin

LIL KEKE – SOUTHSIDE OFFICIAL VIDEO

LIL TROY -WANNA BE A BALLER VIDEO

SPM – MEXICAN RADIO VIDEO

CHINGO BLING – LIKE THIS AND LIKE THAT

Paul Wall – Sittin Sidewayz Feat Big Pokey

MIKE JONES – BACK THEN

SLIM THUG – I RUN

Bio and Videos of Legendary Houston rapper Pimp C of UGK RIP

Posted by admin On January - 31 - 2010

Chad Lamont Butler (December 29, 1973 — December 4, 2007), better known by his stage name Pimp C, was an American rapper and producer. Pimp C was one part of the influential hip-hop group UnderGround Kingz aka UGK , along with Bun B.

Early life
Butler was born and raised in Port Arthur, Texas. His father, who played trumpet professionally with Solomon Burke, showed Butler to a variety of music throughout his youth. Butler studied classical music while in high school, and, as a testament to his singing ability, Butler also received a Division I rating on a tenor solo at a University Interscholastic League choir competition. He began to be interested in hip-hop when a friend of his gave him a Run-DMC album.

Music career
UGK
Main article: UGK
With best friend Bernard “Bun B” Freeman, Butler formed the rap group Underground Kingz, colloquially known as UGK. In 1992, Jive Records signed UGK and released Too Hard to Swallow, followed by the critically acclaimed Super Tight. The group’s third album, Ridin’ Dirty, reached #2 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and their momentum was continued with features on the popular singles “Big Pimpin’” with Jay-Z and “Sippin’ on Some Syrup” by Three 6 Mafia. UGK’s fourth album, Dirty Money, was distributed in 2001.

Due to Butler’s incarceration in 2002, UGK only released two projects prior to 2009: Side Hustles and the eponymous Underground Kingz, the latter of which spawned the hit single “International Player’s Anthem (I Choose You)”, a collaboration with Atlanta’s OutKast.

[edit] Arrest and solo debut

In 2002, Pimp C was sentenced to eight years in prison for violating his probation.[6] His arrest was widely protested by the hip-hop community, who immediately initiated a grassroots “Free Pimp C” campaign.[3] While Pimp C was in prison, Jive released Sweet James Jones Stories in 2005, most of which consisted of unreleased freestyle recordings.[6] On December 30, 2005, Pimp C was released from prison and placed on parole until December 2009.[7]

Death
Pimp C died on December 4, 2007. He was found face down on his bed. Asleep next to him was girlfriend Samantha Huerta. According to the Los Angeles County Coroner, Butler suffered respiratory depression caused by an accidental overdose of promethazine and codeine cough syrup coupled with a preexisting sleep apnea condition. Like many other Southern rappers, Pimp C frequently referenced the recreational consumption of “sizzurp” in his music.

 Legacy
Pimp C undoubtedly played a huge role in shaping the Houston rapping style. His contemporaries often reference his contributions to the Houston rap scene as indelible. He has always been an UnderGroundKing.

After his death, Pimp C made posthumous appearances on several Bun B’s song “Underground Thang” (also featuring fellow Houston rapper Chamillionaire) from II Trill and much later, the track “Naked Lady” which is to be featured on Chamillionaire’s third album Venom (coming march 2010) . The latter track was produced by Pimp C, marking his final production credit.

Bun B dedicated the final UGK album, UGK 4 Life, to Pimp C’s memory.

 

 

Outkast Ft. UGK – International Players Anthem Official Video

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PIMP C SPEAKS HIS MIND ABOUT THE DOPE GAME AND RAPPERS! CALLS OUT YOUNG JEEZY AND YOUNG BUCK

ONE OF MY FAVORITE UGK SONGS “POCKET FULL OF STONES”

Carlos coy SPM South park mexican Bio

 

Carlos Coy (born 1971), better known by his stage name South Park Mexican, is an American rapper, and company founder of Dope House Records. His stage name is derived from the South Park neighborhood in Houston, Texas where he was raised.

Coy, his brother Arthur, and a friend founded Dope House Records in 1995; Spms first album as South Park Mexican was in 1998 with the album Power Moves under the label Dope house records . His next album, The 3rd Wish, generated two charting singles, “You Know My Name” and “High So High”. At that point the SPM movement was gaining noteriety in both the houston and latino hip hop scene. 

In 2002, Coy was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child and sentenced to 45 years incarceration, and is currently serving his sentence at Powledge Unit near Palestine, Texas. While incarcerated, he continues to record music.

 

Early life

SPM was born to Arturo Coy, a former Marine from the Falfurrias community in Brooks County, and a woman who dropped out of high school to marry. The marriage ended three years after Coy’s birth. Coy’s sister, Sylvia, described herself as his “mother-sister”. Coy attended various elementary schools, before entering the music magnet program at Welch Middle School. His family moved from southeast Houston to South Park, and Coy attended Woodson Middle School. Rapper Scarface (real name Brad Jordan) also attended Woodson. Coy attended Milby High School until he dropped out in 1987 while still in ninth grade. Coy obtained a GED and enrolled in San Jacinto Junior College for a business associate’s degree but failed all his classes there. He then worked at a chemical plant for minimum wage, but after being again unemployed he worked as a door-to-door perfume seller and eventually a crack cocaine dealer.[2]

Music career

Coy began as a Christian rapper but felt that doing so made him an outcast. In 1995, Coy, along with his brother Arthur Jr. and good friend Jose Antonio Garza from McAllen, Texas sounded his own record label, Dope House Records.  as south Park Mexican (SPM), Coy released one album in 1998, Power Moves, through his label with distribution in Houston under Southwest Wholesale. Live album Hillwood and studio album The 3rd Wish followed in 1999. 3rd Wish was a regional hit, with single “High So High” gaining much local buzz and even charting at #50 on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart.  In 2000, SPM signed a joint venture between his label and Universal Music Group which earned him a $500,000 advance and national distribution.  Universal released three of SPM’s albums: Time is Money and The Purity Album (2000) and Never Change (2001). The Purity Album included single “You Know My Name”, which peaked at #99 on the Billboard R&B chart and #31 on the rap chart. SPM’s Universal releases did not gain much mainstream attention; Jason Birchmeier of allmusic suggested: “Coy’s hardcore rapping proved to be too harsh for the masses”. SPM’s 2002 album Reveille Park, a compilation of freestyles, was released by Dope House. Dope House released two new albums by SPM that he recorded while incarcerated. When Devils Strike, released in 2006, debuted at #46 on the Billboard 200   The Last Chair Violinist followed in 2008.

Child molestation case

Carlos Coy
Born 1971
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Alias(es) South Park Mexican
Conviction(s) sexual assault (May 18, 2002)
Penalty 45 years imprisonment
Status Inmate, TDCJ #01110642 in Powledge Unit; eligible for parole on October 7, 2024; projected release date April 8, 2047
Occupation rapper

On September 25, 2001, Houston police arrested SPM on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child who was then nine years old but was released from jail after posting bail.[6] The incident occurred on Labor Day weekend that year.  A Harris County, Texas jury indicted SPM on December 10, 2001 and added another charge over a 1993 incident when SPM allegedly impregnated a then-13-year old girl, who later demanded child support payments from him.   Two more charges followed in March 2002 for sexual assault of two 14-year old girls; SPM was held without bail.  SPM’s trial began on May 8, 2002, when the alleged 9-year old victim’s mother testified that the girl left a sleepover because of abuse.   The next day, the girl testified that SPM touched her inappropriately when she was sleeping. On May 18, 2002, a Houston jury convicted Coy of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Coy was sentenced to 45 years in prison on May 30 and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine. SPM is currently incarcerated in the Powledge Unit in unincorporated Anderson County, Texas, near Palestine, Texas. Coy is eligible for parole in 2024. SPM’s projected release date is April 8, 2047, and his Texas Department of Criminal Justice number is 01110642.  There are persistent messages from online posters calling for his release.

SPM – I must be high Video

SPM – Mexican Heaven Video

lyrics SPM – Mexican Heaven

This new shit off SPM album The Last Chair Violinist

Will i see my homie chris there
he got smoked by some fools who shouldnt be alive
im tryna cope but its just so hard
dear god will i see him on the boulevard
can u tilt ur hat to side if you want
or do gotta have it straight to the front
ive been saggin dickies ever since i was 8
and i wonder will somebody try to tell me i cant
i won a knife at the carnival they have of jensen
its just for goood luck not for a weapon
i wonder can i take it
well thats if i make it
but i dont wanna walk around all butt naked
will my hydralics work up in tha clouds
do people start complainin’ if the music is loud
and these are the things that i ask the reverend
excuse me sir but can mexicans go to heaven

Will my grandfathers beer breath be real bad
or will they make him take mints or tha white tic tacs
do the r&b and hip hop radio stations
play all raps or do they still be hatin
people owe me money from previous business
i wonder can i get it with a little bit interest
and what about drop outs with no education
i cant spell good but i know multiplication
do they got real tortillas for all the races
or them fake little skinny ones like some places
i know my sancha is out of the question
but on tha cool she got love for a meskin
will my homies pitch in or wanna smoke for free
will they have gas money or depend on me
can i roll on gold streets in my 57
let me know can mexicans go to heaven

Will they charge arm and leg for the new mike jordans
or sell em half price so everyone can afford em
what about tobacco products will they ban em
one thing about cigarettes i just cant stand em
is minimum wage all they offer my people
does my uncle gota marry someone just to be legal
will he get dirty looks cause he cant speak english
do the chicks dress up or do they show their chiches
what kind of clubs do they have in heaven
i dont dance techno and no 2steppin
i got a few warrants will they follow me there
or can i start clean with a record thats clear
is my pitbull there, his name is plex
he choked on his chain jumpin over the fence
im sorry if im askin you too many questions
i just gotta know can mexicans go to heaven

SPM Speaks from Prision

Carlos Coy speaks from prison this shit dont stop
SPM INTERVIEW FROM PRISON

Biography and video interviews of Htowns legendary DJ Screw

Posted by admin On January - 31 - 2010

Biography of Dj Screw Screwstons Legend

Dj Screw spent most of the 1990s as an infamous local phenomenon in Houston, TX.  Not very soon after that DJ Screw suddenly found himself gaining sudden notoriety before his unfortunate death in late 2000. The Houston DJ made a name for himself primarily because of his legendary “screwed out ” style, which found him pitching down his records to a very slow and eerie pace. Throughout the  ’90s, what began as novelty actually became a rather lucrative venture for DJ Screw, who “Screwed out” hundreds of mix tapes, with some estimates projecting his total number of tapes topping over a thousand; furthermore, he sold the tapes at his Houston-based record store, Screwed Up Records and Tapes. He used master ps plan and applied it to Houston and his unique style of “screwing out” music.  Oddly enough, he preferred to release his mixes almost exclusively on cassette, though fans often recorded the mixes and traded them via the Internet; in addition, countless “screwed” remixes of popular rap anthems were widely available on Napster thanks to his loyal following. Yet it’s hard to imagine Screw’s legacy being what it is if not for his role as an adamant advocate of “syrup sippin’,” a Southern rap phenomenon involving codeine-infused cough syrup mixed with sprite or orange soda or puprle soda – the resulting intoxication induces a hallucinatory state where everything slows down and becomes the senses swirl. As marijuana was to early-’90s gangsta rap, LSD was to late-’60s psychedelic rock, ecstasy was to late-’80s rave — and so on — the syrup sippin’ advocated by Screw’s trippy hip-hop mixes led to a small drug movement within the late-’90s Dirty South genre, reaching its zenith with Three 6 Mafia’s hit “Sippin’ on Some Syrup” in 2000. It’s hard to deny that this phenomenon wasn’t as important to Screw’s popularity as his music was (especially considering some of his tape titles: Syrup & Soda, Syrup Sippers, Sippin’ Codeine, etc.) Still, Screw did serve as a leader for Houston’s burgeoning rap scene; his home studio, The Screw Shop, functioned as the home base for what was loosely referred to as the Screwed Up Click, including Houstons own rappers such as Big Pokey and Lil’ Keke, along with about 30 others were known locally. Ironically, when Screw was found dead in his studio of a fatal heart attack at the tender age of 30 on the morning of November 16, 2000, the Houston Chronicle published a story stating that police suspected Screw of overdosing on the same syrup that he so adamantly advocated. Weeks later the theory proved valid, making the artist the victim of his own self-promoted phenomenon. More unfortunate, though, was the loss of Screw to Houston’s fledging scene, which seemed on the verge of being nationally recognized as a Southern rap mecca. His legacy lived on, though, since his trademark mixing style was by no means exclusive, as countless imitators had arisen in the South by the time of his death, the most noteworthy being the Swisha House and Beltway 8 record labels.

 

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Screwstons on DJ Screw. Screw: The Untold Story’ tells the story of Robert Davis
before the phenomenon and before the fame from the
people who were there. This film also contains never
before seen footage of the one man who gave Houston it’s
sound identity, at work and at play as well as interviews with
the original members of S.U.C. (Screwed Up Click), Davis
family members, the last interview from “Hawk” and his
thoughts about his brother and D.J. Screw filmed just 3 days
prior to his untimely death.


Segment from the Soldiers United 4 Cash Documentary by REL Entertainment, L.L.C. This segment features DJ Screw doing what he did best and showing the world his true talent….

…”Often Immitated, Never Duplicated”

“There is only 1 DJ Screw”

Rest In Peace
Robert Davis, Jr.
DJ Screw

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Dj Screw interview on abc 13 in feburary 1998
This is a news interview with DJ Screw. It aired on ABC 13 in Houston around February 1998.

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