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El 27 de junio se celebra en Houston, Texas, principalmente en la comunidad hip hop del sur de Estados Unidos, como el "Día de DJ Screw" (DJ Screw Day). Esta fecha fue proclamada oficialmente por la ciudad de Houston en honor a DJ Screw, una leyenda local del hip hop y pionero del estilo "chopped and screwed", una técnica de remixado de música que se volvió icónica en el sur.

¿Quién fue DJ Screw?

Nombre real: Robert Earl Davis Jr.

Origen: Smithville, Texas (pero vivió en Houston)

Aportación: Inventó el estilo "chopped and screwed", que ralentiza las canciones y las manipula con técnicas de tornamesas.

Fundó el colectivo Screwed Up Click (S.U.C.), clave en el desarrollo del rap sureño.

¿Por qué el 27 de junio?

Esta fecha hace referencia a una freestyle legendaria grabada el 27 de junio de 1996, donde varios miembros del Screwed Up Click improvisaron sobre un beat creado por DJ Screw. Ese freestyle es considerado un himno del rap de Houston.

La ciudad de Houston declaró oficialmente ese día como el "DJ Screw Day" para conmemorar su influencia cultural.

¿Qué se hace ese día?

Se celebran conciertos, freestyles, documentales y fiestas.

Se honra la memoria de DJ Screw y su legado en la música.

Muchas estaciones de radio y DJs tocan sets "chopped and screwed" todo el día.

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En resumen, el 27 de junio en Houston es una celebración del legado de DJ Screw y del rap del sur de Estados Unidos. Es un día importante dentro de la cultura hip hop, sobre todo para la escena local y los fans del estilo "screw".
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In the early 1990s, a teenager named Robert Earl Davis Jr. pioneered the DJ style known as “screwed and chopped” in a small apartment on the Southside of Houston, Texas. His friends already called him DJ Screw back then, but the world hadn’t yet learned about the quiet dude with the flat top and that big sound. Just a couple of years later, his music would become impossible to ignore around Houston. Over the next decade, Screw mixed and record hundreds of “Screwtapes” with dozens of collaborators, birthing a legacy that would continue to grow long after his death in November 2000.

Screw would have two copies of the same record spinning on the turntables, one playing just behind the other, and he’d “chop” back and forth between them with his crossfader at moments he wanted to bring out; scratching and running records back to repeat phrases and double up beats, sometimes dragging a finger alongside the wheel to give it a warble. He had his fader set to Hamster style, the reverse of most turntable setups, so that he could make quicker stabs between the discs. This would all be recorded live to tape, with Screw knowing exactly how long he could record for and still stretch it out to fill one side of a 100-minute Maxell gray cassette. Then, he’d run that recording back through the tape deck, slowing it down with the four-track’s pitch control and taking the tape down another generation. The waves of the music were buried into the natural rattle of the cassette, and that was where Screw found his frequency.

June 27 actually is DeMo's birthday, and he was the second Screwed Up Click rapper on the microphone when the song was recorded at DJ Screw's house on June 27, 1996 - exactly 25 years ago today.

When Big Moe, Key-C, Yungstar, Big Pokey, DeMo, Haircut Joe and Kay-Luv stepped to the mic over a screwed-up sample of Kriss Kross' "Da Streets Ain't Right," surely they didn't realize the Houston history they were about to make.