11-16-00, Vol. 2 [Box] [PA]

Performer: DJ Screw
Distributor: Select-O-Hits

Notes: A three-disc set named after the date of his tragic death, 11-16-00 VOL. 2 brings together over three hours of quintessential chopped-&-screwed mixtape sets from the master, DJ Screw. Much of the content included here--which touches on everything from slow jams by the likes of R. Kelly and Isaac Hayes to slow-bangers from local H-Town artists--was released in the late 1990s and provides valuable insight into the origins of Houston's codeine-fueled, psychedelic hip-hop underground.

Houston native DJ Screw (born Robert Early Davis Jr.) is universally acknowledged as the creator of the underground hip-hop phenomenon known as screw music. In an attempt to recreate the sensation one gets from drinking prescription-strength cough syrup, Screw would take records, slow them down, and cut a remix at the new tempo. The effect was a woozy, tripped-out take on the original track. Screw music became a Houston phenomenon and eventually spread to other regional hip-hop scenes. And for a time in the early 2000s, numerous albums were released in both their original forms and in a "chopped & screwed" version. Sadly, DJ Screw passed away in '00, just before the style's mainstream breakthrough.

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