Screenshot from All Screwed Up
Hip-hop owes a lot to Houston's DJ Screw. Practically every popular rap song carries the influence of the blueprint he created decades ago—garbled vocals slowed down to a creep, distorted beats creating new dimensions. Twenty years after his death, he's still watching over hip-hop's most promising acts, with Texan artists eager to pay homage where it's due. His influence is seen on massive records like Travis Scott's ASTROWORLD, Megan Thee Stallion's Fever, and Solange's When I Get Home, and now an entire generation that has grown up in a world without him since his death in 2000 will finally learn his story from the beginning. As announced this week by VIBE, a new television series called All Screwed Up is diving into the inspiring genius of DJ Screw.
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