Artist: DJ Screw Album: All Screwed Up

Artist: DJ Screw
Album: All Screwed Up
Release: 1994
Label: Bigtyme Recordz

Tracklist:

1. Intro
2. UGK - Short Texas
3. Point Black - Wreckless feat. K-Rino
4. UGK - Pregnant Pussy
5. Point Blank - After I Die
6. 20-2-Life - Backstreets feat. PSK-13
7. UGK - Something Good
8. 20-2-Life - Inside looking Out
9. Point Blank - My Mind Went Blank
10. PSK-13 - 13 Ways
11. Point Blank - Straighten It Out
12. PSK-13 - Headin' Fo My Trunk
13. 20-2-Life - Da Music

I'm a firm believer that every genre has a legit beginning. Look at modern day pop-punk. Most of the shitty metalcore-pop-punk hybrids will tell you that they're main influence Lifetime. Hell, there is even an awful band named after The Movielife's This Time Time Next Year.

Now a couple years ago the world felt the presence of Houston hip-hop. A big part of that movement was the remixing or "chopping and screwing" of big rap albums. For the most part, that shit was fucking awful. I decided to spend some time looking into it and possibly see what people saw in it. What I found was that the whole thing was the baby of one DJ. DJ Screw started slowing down and remixing music in 1984 when he was 13. During the 90s he took Houston (mostly the south) by storm. He has over 200 mixtapes and put out five albums. He was completely legit about his music. He proved that it wasn't about money when Priority records offered him a big record deal and he declined. He just wanted to make music, do drugs, and hang the fuck out with his boys. That shit is so fucking real (minus the drugs). The codeine actually killed him, though. Bummer.

This is Mr. Screw's first album. Because it was early in the game for him, his selection of songs to screw up are Houston's elite and not the world's. But Houston hip-hop at the time was grimy, slow and vulgar, and a perfect fit for where DJ Screw was at. He made every song dark and heavy. The songs that showcase this are "Something Good," "After I Die," and "Inside Looking Out." My fav is the then up and coming UGK's "Something Good." The beat is absolutely incredible and Pimp C (another Houston rapper that has since died because of codeine) shines while talking about loving his booty getting licked by your sister. They also both kill it on the vile "Pregnant Pussy." It's slowed down so you can really take in the lyrics.

I can satisfy her and at the same time give the kid a pacifier. Enjoy.

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