Tag: chopping and screwing
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I Can Screw The Rain
Great article on DJ Screw from RedBullAcademy of all places. Really sad that him and quite a few of that gang aren’t here today to see how chopping and screwing is everywhere – when someone in hiphop slows the beat down, chops it or does that slowed down rap, it’s basically a nod to him.…
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Return to the Cloud: Clams Casino, Trill and the new D.A.I.S.Y. age
A few years ago I was all about what later got called ‘Cloud Rap’ – Main Attracktionz, Babe Rainbow, Odd Future – I saw it as the hip hop successor to witch house and an extension of IDM. I tuned out, partly because the lyrical content wasn’t there, and listening now to the more recent…
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Last out of the Trap
Checking out this trap business…which turns out it’s part what I thought it was, and part not – I knew it was those skippetty 808 claps and snares, slow like chopping and screwing – what surprised me checking out this potted history of Trap is how most of what is called ‘Trap’ I’d call crunk…
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Chopping and screwing and…Crowbar?
Just to prove what a strange place my head is, was watching this video of Crowbar for purely shallow reasons *ahem* but then the ‘bring it DOOOOOOOOOWN’ bit at the end made me stop. That’s the metal equivalent of chopping and screwing (rip DJ Screw, you knew not what you started!), surely? Apparently it’s called…