The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place – lots of times, you’re even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good – so once a week we’re going to get with a rapper and ask ...

According to social media, white TikTok teens are now discovering the “chopped and screwed” production style created and popularized by late deejay, DJ Screw. Suggested Reading ‘Antebellum’ and Other ...

The late, great DJ Screw, born Robert Earl Davis Jr., sold mixtapes in high school for lunch money. He went on to open his own record store—the legendary Screwed Up Records & Tapes—sell hundreds of ...

Screw Day: the only 24-hour period when you can guarantee that every Houston hip-hop station will be playing posse cuts by DJ Screw and the rap collective he started, Screwed Up Click (S.U.C.). It’s a ...

A real musical legacy never fades. There are always things like songs, albums or people that help keep an artist's memory afloat after they've passed. And in the case of the fallen legend DJ Screw, ...

A new book tells the story of the influential Houston producer with interviews of the people who knew and worked with him. His voice is among the most influential in modern day hip-hop. And now, two ...

2000: Eighteen years ago today, Houston rap legend Robert Earl Davis, Jr., A.K.A. DJ Screw, passed away. As one of the most celebrated and influential DJs in hip-hop history, Screw is best known for ...

Today, 13 years ago, Robert Earl "DJ Screw" Davis, Jr., died of a codeine overdose inside his Houston recording studio. He was only 29, and his impact on the world of hip-hop and pop music was just ...

Back in 1998, Houston’s ABC television affiliate aired an interview with a local hip-hop superstar whose meteoric rise had taken the city by storm. The segment features Robert Earl Davis Jr.—known as ...

With a TV miniseries on the way and the enduring popularity of his chopped-and-screwed production style, Houston’s DJ Screw remains a vital cultural figure 22 years after his death. Now a new ...

His name is Robert Davis Sr., and he's the father of Robert Davis Jr., who is otherwise known as DJ Screw. For this reason, the elder Davis prefers to be known as "Papa Screw." Papa Screw's son died ...

We spoke to Lance Scott Walker, the author of the thorough but breezy DJ Screw biography, A Life In Slow Revolution. When it comes to DJ Screw (real name Robert Earl Davis Jr), it’s sometimes ...