Just as the Sex Pistols hijacked standard rock riffs and forced them into their rebellion, the Geto Boys pinned traditional rap formats to the wall by the sheer intensity of their anger and confusion. With the 1989 release of the Geto Boys’ Grip It! On That Other Level, it became apparent that the other level was to rhyme more explicitly, more violently than anybody else. was the home of “gangsta” rap, Dirty South mixed those elements and slowed ’em down with a beat equally influenced by ’60s Memphis soul and New Orleans funk. Where Miami was known for its heavy bass sound in the late ’80s and L.A. Houston rap was inferiority’s revenge, a reign of audio terror from a town tired of everyone saying they ain’t got shit! crew, and the Geto Boys, who set out to make West Coast gangstas come off like Young MC. Houston was so hot it was hard to believe that in the late ’80s, the only Texas rap acts of any note were Donald “The D.O.C.” Curry, the Dallasite who hooked up with Dr. Atlanta, Memphis, and New Orleans joined the rumble and in December 2003, Southern hip hop accounted for six of the top ten slots on the Billboard Hot 100.
The “Dirty South” sound (originally called “Down South”) was pioneered by the Geto Boys, rode dirty with UGK (Underground Kingz) in the mid-’90s and then was taken to the bank by Master P in the late ’90s. He slowed it down and chilled it out when all the other cats were trying to go faster, harder.” But even Watts has to admit that, “Screw started the revolution. Other Houston producers, most notably Michael “5000” Watts of Swisha House, keep pumping out the slowed-down jams. Not since the death of Selena have so many Texas music fans grieved as when Screw died, quite simply, from trying to get too slow. The autopsy reported the cause of Robert Earl “DJ Screw” Davis Jr.’s death as an overdose of codeine, with traces of Valium and PCP also in the bloodstream.
Screw protege Big Moe dubbed Houston “The City of Syrup” with his 2000 album, but by the end of the year, the mayor of the screwheads was gone.
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But the attendant lifestyle, which included “sippin’ lean,” codeine cough syrup, to get the full sluggishly hallucinogenic effect of the music, ended up killing him at age 29. Forget the trippy delicates like PM Dawn and De La Soul DJ Screw made rap music psychedelic. 16, 2000, death, DJ Screw still rules the streets, wreaking havoc with his psychotic-sounding remixes. Houston-based hip hop, slowed and manipulated to sound like a hallucinogenic flashback, is the new punk rock. You’ve heard it whether you wanted to or not. You’ve heard the stuff - that rap music with the nuclear bass that flattens out and sustains like a heavy appliance on the fritz. When an SUV, spewing trunk-rattling bass, sidles up to the corner of 12th and Chicon, the intersection sounds like Vietnam, 1968. It’s East Austin in 2003 and the slow and furious promenade rolls almost non-stop.
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