DJ Screw by Lance Scott Walker

Author:Lance Scott Walker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2022-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

GHETTO DREAMS

December 4, 1997—Late fall wind blows in big cold gusts down Greenstone on a Thursday night. It was Fat Pat’s twenty-seventh birthday, and folks were still recovering from the Bayou Classic, a Texas-Louisiana football holiday that, for the gumbo of families that make up East Texas and all of the Boot, is no lesser an occasion than the Thanksgiving and Christmas it falls between. They started playing the game in New Orleans in 1974, and in this particular installment, Southern had beaten Grambling 30–7. Screw was still feeling the New Orleans vibe in the house that night, and pulled some records to tease out the feeling. It was shortly before the release of Pat’s debut album Ghetto Dreams, which was to be put out by D-Reck’s Wreckshop Records early in the new year. Ghetto Dreams—and Pat—had traveled a long road.

Double D “Pat had already told me from when he came over and got on a track that I had did for Keke, you know, when I was with Jam Down. He was like, Man, you can rap. When I work on my album, I’ma have you do my beats and rap on it. And, you know, I ain’t really think much of it, but it played out just like that! We had a chemistry. We was puttin’ in a lot of work, because I guess at that time, too, the rest of the producers, like Noke D and all them, they was still in Beaumont, so they would be back and forth to Beaumont. But I was in the studio all the time, and I was ready. I was like, I got beats, let’s do it. It got to the point where I would call Pat every morning, I got a lil beat. Because a lot of times, I’d stay up and work all night. We wasn’t sleepin’, man. I’m serious. We wasn’t sleepin’. We saw the dream! So of course we tryin’ to do it, tryin’ to make it happen. So he would be like, Yeah, man. I’m about to get up and I’ma grab somethin’ to smoke and I’ll be through there. And he’d come through, and when he’d come in, I’d already have one pulled up and he’d start bobbin’ his head.”

K-Rino (as told to Matt Sonzala) “I went to Sterling with Pat and Screw. Screw was a couple years earlier. I took home economics with Pat. This is how I knew, ’cuz I was rapping and Pat was a class clown. He’d be rapping, singing, doing everything, but I mean I didn’t know he rapped. I thought he was just acting a fool in the class. Then I started hearing, Fat Pat, Fat Pat, in the streets. And I had no idea, I thought, I guess there’s a new dude called Fat Pat. And I went to the Stadium Bowl. They used to have these shows . . . I don’t know how I ended up in Stadium Bowl, I’m coming in and everybody coming out.

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