PAUL WALL’S 10 PERSONAL FAVORITE SCREW TAPES
Disclaimer: DJ Screw is the originator. If he didn’t mix it, technically it’s not “Screwed.” However, it’s our obligation and responsibility to represent his legacy as Texans and loyal fans of “Screw” music. To call the music anything other than “Screw” would be a discredit to the originator himself.
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Michael “5000” Watts – Before The Kappa 2000 This was the mixtape that gave me my claim to fame. I freestyled over Dre Dre’s “Xxxplosive” and made my place in the Screw Hall of Fame.
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Michael “5000” Watts – Northside 9 Slim Thug, J-Dawg, and PJ put forth some very memorable freestyles that Watts mixed, chopped, and blended. It was the shit.
ABA – Lil Keke: The Album Before The Album Lil Keke’s most recent mixtape shows that he can still hold his own on the m-i-c. It’s amazing to see how the original freestyle pro and Screwed Up Click originator can still set trends and turn heads.
Paul Wall & Gu – Mushu Academy This mixtape was a collection of all the best slow jams from the 90s, Screwed and Chopped. It was a huge hit on the slow jam
Slim Thug & Michael “5000” Watts – I Represent This A collaboration of all of Slim Thug’s best known freestyles up to the date of its release in 1999. By ’99, Slim Thug already had a “Greatest Hits” collection.
Michael “5000” Watts – Swisha 90 This was the first time we heard Slim Thug on a mixtape. His verse to Master P’s “Homies and Thugs” is still well-known to
DJ Screw – 3 N’ The Mornin’ Vol. 2 This was the first ever nationally distributed “Screw” tape. Lil Keke ravaged the airwaves of radio with the hit freestyle “Pimpin’ Pens,” unquestionably the biggest song/freestyle to ever come out of Houston. To this day if you play this in any club in Houston, you’ll get a bigger response than any other song all night long.
DJ Screw – Leanin’ On A Switch Lil Keke ruled the mic on this one. Him and Big Pokey did their thing to various instrumentals like Goodie Mob’s “Peepin’ In My
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Michael “5000” Watts – Rolling Strapped This was the original Swishahouse mixtape that had the Slim Thug freestyle which contained the sample for the hit song “Still Tippin’,” six years later.
DJ Screw – Who’s Next With Plex Lil Keke, Big Pokey, and Bird wrecked instrumentals like “Love’s Gonna Get Ya’ and “You’s A Customer.” Lil Keke showed finesse and one hell of a vocab as he dismantled the mic in classic freestyle form: no pen, no pad, off the top of the dome.
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