Robert Earl Davis Jr. (July 20, 1971 – November 16, 2000), better known by his stage name DJ Screw, was an American hip hop DJ based in Houston, Texas, and best known as the creator of the chopped and screwed DJ technique. [1] He was a central and influential figure in the Houston hip hop community and was the leader of Houston's Screwed Up ...

You may never have heard of him, but Robert Earl Davis, Jr.—a.k.a. DJ Screw—was one of the most influential musical figures to come out of Texas in the past decade. He wasn’t a musician or even...

Robert Earl “DJ Screw” Davis was an American hip-hop Disk Jockey (DJ) who was best known as the creator of the chopped and screw technique, a music technique that slowed down the tempo of songs and became central to the rise of the musical foundation of hip hop.

DJ Screw, Robert Earl Davis Jr., was an American hip-hop DJ, who is best remembered as the creator of the famous “chopped and screwed” DJ technique. He was born into a lower-middle-class family in Texas.

DJ Screw would record more than 300 such original mixtapes during his brief, yet historic, career and though he did not live to see his musical style transcend time, his legacy is certain. He died in 2000 at 29 of a drug overdose.

Robert Earl "DJ Screw" Davis (July 20, 1971 – November 16, 2000), was a Houston, Texas-based DJ. He was known as a central figure in the Houston hip-hop community and was the creator of the now-famous Chopped and Screwed DJ technique.

November 20 -- Southern hip-hop producer Robert Earl Davis, known in the hip-hop community as DJ Screw, was found dead in his Houston studio Thursday, according to the Houston Chronicle. No cause of death has been determined for Davis, who was 29.

Nov 15, 2010 · DJ Screw worked with damn near every rap group in the Houston rap scene, but a rapper from Sacramento, Calif., C-Bo, was his favorite. We’re not quite sure why, but what Screw says is law.

May 31, 2022 · 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...

Jul 23, 2021 · The last several years have seen DJ Screw’s music permeated online within in the current state of Hip-Hop. This year, the Spotify podcast Mogul on hosted by Hip-Hop journalist Brandon Jenkins focusing on the stylistic origins of Chopped & Screwed music and DJ Screw’s impact on hip-hop at large.