"Houston Rap Tapes" complements Beste's photography with a series of oral histories conducted by writer Lance Scott Walker. She was previously an editor at The New Yorker, and her work has been published in Rolling Stone, W Magazine, Pitchfork, Washington Post, NPR and others."Houston Rap Tapes" is the companion to "Houston Rap," Peter Beste's intimate photo book on this important hip hop culture. He has written for the Houston Chronicle, Houston Press, Red Bull Music Academy, Vice, Wondering Sound, Los Angeles Review Of Books, and The Wire.īriana Younger has been working in music for over a decade, with experience as both a writer and curator for companies like SiriusXM, YouTube and Apple Music.
He is the author of Houston Rap Tapes and collaborated on the companion photo book Houston Rap. Lance Scott Walker is originally from Texas and is now based in New York. But none can top Screw himself, a pioneer whose mystique has only grown in the two decades since his death. More than the story of one man, DJ Screw is a history of the Houston scene as it came of age, full of vibrant moments and characters.
Walker brings these voices together with captivating details of Screw’s craft and his world. Lance Scott Walker has interviewed nearly everyone who knew Screw, from childhood friends to collaborators to aficionados who evangelized Screw’s tapes-millions of which made their way around the globe-as well as the New York rap moguls who honored him. June 27 has become an unofficial city holiday, inspired by a legendary mix Screw made on that date. Fans drove around town blasting his music, a sound that came to define the city’s burgeoning and innovative rap culture. Soon Houstonians were lining up to buy his cassettes-he could sell thousands in a single day. Spinning two copies of a record, Screw would “chop” in new rhythms, bring in local rappers to freestyle over the tracks, and slow the recording down on tape. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed.
Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. Walker will be in conversation with writer and curator Briana Younger about the story of DJ Screw and his influence in hip-hop and beyond.ĭJ Screw, a.k.a. MOCA Store is pleased to announce an evening to celebrate the recent publication of Lance Scott Walker’s book DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution (University of Texas Press, 2022). DJ Screw: Lance Scott Walker in conversation with Briana Younger
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