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DJ.SCREW 7/20/1971 - 11/16/00
DJ. SCREW was the main music mixer for the Screwed Up Click and involved in the Houston hip hop scene; screw music, a type of rap music with heavy bass and "a languid, eerie quality" is named for him. He died of drug overdose. He began deejaying at age 13, and started his trademark slowed-down mixes in 1984. During the early 1990s, he invited some of Houston's rappers from the south side of the city to flow on his Screw tapes. This eventually led to the formation of the Screwed Up Click. The medical examiner who performed the autopsy on DJ Screw concluded that DJ Screw died from a lethal combination of codeine and other drugs.
