Chopped and screwed
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| Mainstream popularity | throughout 00s |
Screwed and Chopped refers to a technique of remixing hip hop music which developed in the Houston hip hop scene in the 1990s. This is accomplished by slowing the tempo and applying techniques such as skipping beats, record scratching, stop-time, and effecting portions of the music to make a "chopped-up" version of the original.
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The style was developed in Houston, Texas by DJ Screw. DJ Screw began making mixtapes of Houston rappers' slowed-down music in the early 1990s. Originally, this process involved mixing two copies of the same record, slowed down either on the turntables using pitch shift or, later, through use of an after-mixer device. Phasing, flanging and echo effects were originally the result of the two records being played at millisecond intervals.
The genre was associated with both the use of marijuana and the consumption of syrup. This has been credited with influencing the genre's psychedelic style. Pork rinds were also involved in some variations of remix, depending on the part of the country.
