On Thursday (March 17) during an informative panel at South by Southwest 2022, DJ Screw’s family, friends, and close collaborators discussed the life and legacy of the late Houston Hip-Hop pioneer.

Editors’ note: As we approach our fiftieth anniversary, in February 2023, we will, every week, highlight an important story from our past and offer some perspective on it. One night back in 2000, a ...

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 ...

The “chopped and screwed” sound has become such a staple of hip-hop that most fans probably don’t even wonder where the slowed-down, stop-start sonic approach came from — and thus, the late DJ Screw, ...

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 ...