In general, I try not to learn too much about new movies before I see them; I like to protect the unpredictability and promise one feels in the dark theater just before the movie begins. The only ...

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. Not long after he made Houston his home, Rabit became ...

For those unfamiliar, the “chopped and screwed” genre involves remixing an existing song by slowing it down and deejaying. Now, a Bon Iver song, 2020’s “PDLIF,” has gotten that treatment by The ...

Houston’s ice king, Paul Wall, is releasing a chopped and screwed version of his sophomore album, Get Money, Stay True. The album hits stores on April 17 on ...

"P.O.V.," the new song from dvsn, is a reflection of the deep and personal connection the duo's label OVO has with the city of Houston. The intimate play-by-play is colored with the purple sound of DJ ...

21 Savage and Metro Boomin have upgraded their latest album, Savage Mode 2, to pay homage to the 1990s. On Monday (Oct. 19), 21 and Metro unleashed a chopped and screwed version of Savage Mode 2 to ...

According to social media, white TikTok teens are now discovering the “chopped and screwed” production style created and popularized by late deejay, DJ Screw. Suggested Reading ‘Antebellum’ and Other ...

The “chopped and screwed” sound has become such a staple of hip-hop that most fans probably don’t even wonder where the slowed-down, stop-start sonic approach came from — and thus, the late DJ Screw, ...

The late, great DJ Screw, born Robert Earl Davis Jr., sold mixtapes in high school for lunch money. He went on to open his own record store—the legendary Screwed Up Records & Tapes—sell hundreds of ...

Celebrated annually on June 27, DJ Screw Day commemorates the life, career and loss of DJ Screw, the king of Houston hip-hop. Although it’s not officially a holiday, DJ Screw Day has become an annual ...

It’s been almost two decades since the first wave of Houston’s rap dominance when names like Slim Thug, Paul Wall, and Mike Jones ruled the airwaves. Since then, we’ve seen Houston culture ...