The University of Houston Libraries have acquired a piece of Hip Hop history, as the institution has obtained the DJ Screw Sound Recordings.
The collection, consisting of over 1,000 vinyl records, served as the basis for DJ Screw’s “screw tapes,” which originated the “copped and screwed” sound so popular in Houston.
The collection contains rare 12″ records by Southern and West Coast artists, and the majority of it was donated by the late deejay’s father, Robert Earl Davis Sr., with additional support from the John and Rebecca Moores Endowed Library Fund.
The collection will be open for use by researchers in 2013. Selections from the collection will be on dispaly in the M.D. Anderson Library as part of the exhibit “DJ Screw and and the Rise of Houston Hip Hop,” reports ozonemag.com.
The exhibit will be presented jointly by the University of Houston Libraries, the HERE at Rice University, African American Students at the University of Houston, and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston.
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its chopped and screwed not copped and screwed idiots.
Its just a typo man chill out lmao
thats what editors are for
if we can catch that shit after skimming through this article once the people who fucking write and post this shit should be able to find them first
Itz actually “screwed & chopped” michael watts and t- pain started saying”chopped & screwed”
What a surprise, substandard editing for a Hip-Hop site. “Copped” really? I mean what happened to actually, idk, LOOKING OVER YOUR WORK? I know it doesn’t matter to you because it’s not you. Yes, you reading this. Other than that, I’m glad to see DJ Screw get his props finally since everybody is raping his sound w/o acknowledging who the creator is. Vultures at their best.
RIP SCREW………..H/TOWN STILL HOLDING IT DOWN FOR YOU MANE!!
This is awesome
“DJ Screw and and the Rise of Houston Hip Hop”
Did they really chop and screw the name of the exhibit at library or is that another fucked up typo on the DX staffs behalf?
Being from Houston and a dj I think this is awesome. RIP Dj Screw !