A couple years back I got into a chop-and-screw phase. Mike Watts. DJ Screw (rip). Paul Wall. OG Ron C. These are some of the C&S heavyweights. If you pay close attention to the original(s) and then apply that same attention to the chopped and screwed product, you can often find positive and negative attributes (skillwise) about the DJ. And while some of the greats listed above are heralded for their originality and chop skills, others fall... oh so very short. Take this mixtape, for instance, in which the "DJ" chose to simply screw the tracks. In essence, he plugged in the original MP3 tracks onto an audio editing program and slowed down the tempo (but seemingly kept the pitch). Brilliant! Just marvelous! Look, I've got nothing against homie. For all I know, this was his first shot. {** CHECKS DATPIFF COMMENT SECTION... HMMM... I WAS WRONG **} But it's yet another instance where we come face to face with the task of judging quality. A DJ is a DJ. A kid who plays around on Adobe Audition or Cool Edit Pro (such as myself) is not. Can I get a heh-hell yeh-yeah?
Hell yea. I've seen so many 'so called' screwed and chopped songs on soundclick.com. They are pitiful. All they do is speed up a song or slow it down. No chopiing just screwing(around with) the pitch. I'm glad someone brought attention to this matter. If you are gonna screw and chop, cop some Texas shit and see how it's done. RIP DJ Screw!!
ReplyDeleteI dont like Chopped n Screwed. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteHELLL YEAH!!
ReplyDeletenice job of clarifying. people who mess around with adobe audition and cool edit pro are definitely not djs.
ReplyDeleteCHOP N SCREW IS ONLY GOOD WHEN YOUR ARE HIGH
ReplyDeleteNo one can beat the originator. R.I.P. DJ SCREW
ReplyDeleteMichael Watts is the next best thing.
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ReplyDeletekrs one made a song about whack/fake dj's. i forgot what it was called.
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