![]() Walker brings these voices together with captivating details of Screw’s craft and his world. ![]() Lance Scott Walker has interviewed nearly everyone who knew Screw, from childhood friends to collaborators to aficionados who evangelized Screw’s tapes-millions of which made their way around the globe-as well as the New York rap moguls who honored him. June 27 has become an unofficial city holiday, inspired by a legendary mix Screw made on that date. 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. Walker will be in conversation with writer and curator Briana Younger about the story of DJ Screw and his influence in hip-hop and beyond.ĭJ Screw, a.k.a. ![]() MOCA Store is pleased to announce an evening to celebrate the recent publication of Lance Scott Walker’s book DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution (University of Texas Press, 2022). DJ Screw: Lance Scott Walker in conversation with Briana Younger ![]()
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