DJ Screw’s catalog is lastly making it to streaming platforms this month. Beginning right this moment with the digital launch of the 56-minute DJ Screw Originals (Quantity 1), the DJ Screw Property will roll out the Houston legend’s traditional mixtapes weekly via the top of June. Hearken to DJ Screw Originals (Quantity 1) beneath.
Up till now, the chopped and screwed pioneer’s music was solely obtainable by way of bodily CDs and YouTube uploads from followers. “That is for the followers who’ve all the time identified and for these discovering him now,” the DJ Screw Property stated in a press release to Complicated. “From a neighborhood legend to a world icon, his catalogue will now be accessible all over the place retaining his legacy alive one stream at a time.”
DJ Screw helped outline Houston’s music scene within the ’90s, when he developed a syrupy, glitchy sound by slowing down hip-hop songs on his turntables. At 29 years previous, he handed away in 2000 from a codeine overdose.
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