The Come Up by Jonathan Abrams

Author:Jonathan Abrams [Abrams, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2022-10-18T00:00:00+00:00

Lil’ Keke (artist, Screwed Up Click): We have a lot of significant artists who make up the Screwed Up Click: Big Hawk, Big Moe, Fat Pat, Lil’ Keke, Big Pokey, AI-D. These are the real cofounders of it, and then we have all kinds of members that added and went on.

K-Rino (artist, South Park Coalition): I went to school with Screw, so I knew Screw before he was the Screw that everybody else knows. Years passed, and then you would hear people riding down the street, playing this music that sounded like back in the days when you’d slow down your record player on purpose.

Everybody said, “That is Screw. Screwed and chopped. DJ Screw.”

Then I ran into him. Then it all made sense. He was like, “That’s what I’m doing, man.”

I was just proud of him, because he’s another one who innovated a sound, who innovated a style, and basically created another genre within a genre.

Bun B (artist, UGK): It was very interesting seeing this whole subculture of Houston come together. When he actually started making the Screw tapes, the music switched from where he was just making a regular mixtape to something that was his own personal creation. That’s when things really started to take off. It became this phenomenon—something that culturally was very new for everyone, but distinctly Houston.

Matt Sonzala (journalist, Houston): Most people, the first time they heard Screw, didn’t like it. But if you lived in Texas at that time, Screw became an undeniable force. There were people who literally grew up not hearing albums regular-speed. They grew up with slowed-down DJ Screw mixes being the norm.

Paul Wall (artist, Houston): When DJ Screw, Lil’ Keke, Fat Pat was first doing it, I was the generation that that was my hip-hop. It was something that I took a lot of pride in. Just the way they were talking, the slang and stuff they were saying. You’d hear this with the Geto Boys too, but they spoke to the ghettos of the world, where the Screwed Up Click was more just a local Houston thing. The Screwed Up Click is what I aspired to be: a rapper that’s speaking for my tribe, for my section, for my area.

A lot of times we’d make music just for the car, just because, “Shit, I got to have my playlist to ride around the parking lot tonight for about forty-five minutes. I’ve got to have a good little mixtape.” So that’s how we would hear the music, is on the Screw tape. That’s how we would hear our local artists.

And to me, local is always better. Snoop Dogg to me is as local as it gets; he’s as Long Beach, West Coast, as it gets. Lil Wayne is New Orleans. Jay-Z is Brooklyn. The top artists, they’re local as fuck, for the most part.

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