Comments on: DJ Screw documentary trailer (video)

By: Comatoast

Comatoast — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:00:37 +0000

o yea, does anyone know where to find any other footage of Screw?? Im looking for some footage of him really cutting records up and getting down or possibly even him working on one of his mixtapes in the studio. Ive seen a lot of the stuff on youtube and what not and no disrespect to this documentary but there just isnt much out there of him really killing it on the tables.

By: Comatoast

Comatoast — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:56:14 +0000

Man, Nattymari, u just nailed it. Screw tapes are like a narration. Just from listening to his tapes you could tell he was a very humble and introspective dude. Never preaching hate on his mixes, his tapes were literally a platform for him to express his views and he usually kept it on a very positive tip (even though he would get frustrated with those fleamarket cats!).
A lot of people fail to recognize how sick of a dj he was. I mean, everyone gives him props for slowing the records and chopping it up but they fail to mention how technically skilled this man was. I’m a dj myself (10 years+) and he was amazing at blending, cutting, doubles, remixes, etc. Everything he did sounded perfect (to my ears atleast). Even on his older tapes it sounded like he had been cutting forever. That su4c video footage of Screw cutting isnt a good representation of his skills. He seemed a little stiff. Just listen to the cuts at the end of the ‘Still Hooping’ Freestyle (over Nas-If I Ruled…), there is scratches on there that to this day i still have no idea wat he is doing.
Anyways, im rambling bad just for a comment but Screw was one of the best. Even 10 years later

By: contra

contra — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:02:39 +0000

Ya’ll gotta know your history. Screw didn’t innovate the slowed down sound, though he was definitely the dude who popularized it. “Screwed” tapes were bumping in the southeast for years before; most recognize Disco Dave as being the true innovator.

By: Nattymari

Nattymari — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:57:50 +0000

Yeah… fuck those fat niggers… what the hell have they ever done for music? I hate them all… Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Derrick Carter. Fuck those skinny black dudes too… I mean, what the hell did Larry Lvan ever do – but play other people’s track and sometimes ad a little delay. He let his records skip while dj-ing too – what a fucking loser!

What I really like is skinny white guys who play the music of black people… especially when they add a driving four to the floor beat and/or mix it into some sort of 70′s or 80′s rock anthem, Now that’s what I call music!

Both J-Shot and REEALLY should listen to some of Robert Davis’ mixes. The man was a master of the mxtape. Mixes are about creating a mood and telling a story, using (get this) OTHER PEOPLE’S MUSIC!!!

Mr. Davis told a story like no other. Using the elements of pitch, selection (he was a master!,) freestyle and narration – he takes you into his life (a simple Southside Houston working class guy with “ghetto dreams” of being famous one day. A loyal friend, who never missed a friend’s birthday or a cousins’ graduaton. An observer of the streets, who would rather slang tapes than crack. A depressed codeine fiend, for whom sadness and syrup was he gift and his curse.) Once you immerse yourself in his mixes, the pitch is hardly apparant. The best part about him is that he took chances. Records skip, beats trainwreck and high hats fight with basslines for supremacy… but when his mixes click – they are, like the truth sayid: like no other..

By: reeally

reeally — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:46:16 +0000

lame lame lame

fat black guys slowing other peoples music down is lame

By: the truth

the truth — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:44:18 +0000

ya’ll hatin azz bitches need 2 respect tha game and its founderz. screw was an innovator. he fucked with records like no other nigga. show respect or shut the fuck up.

By: Gasman

Gasman — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:45:39 +0000

J Chot…YOu should just shut the fuck up you herb fagget

By: J-chot

J-chot — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:37:35 +0000

soildiers for cash!? I can’t get behind that, how tacky and materialistic

this dj is known for slowing records down, and that’s a style?…..what?

By: Gasman

Gasman — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:39:19 +0000

This movie came out ages ago..

By: LaLean

LaLean — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:08:39 +0000

It’s time to wake up n smelle the coffe, post an ad for a 7 year old dvd!!!