Fans drove around town blasting his music, a sound that came to define the city’s burgeoning and innovative rap culture. Soon Houstonians were lining up to buy his cassettes-he could sell thousands in a single day. Spinning two copies of a record, Screw would “chop” in new rhythms, bring in local rappers to freestyle over the tracks, and slow the recording down on tape. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever.
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