Chopped and screwed

Chopped and screwed (also called screwed and chopped or slowed and throwed) is a music genre and technique of remixing music that involves slowing down the tempo and DJing. It was developed in the Houston hip hop scene in the early 1990s by DJ Screw. The screwed technique involves slowing the tempo of a song down to 60 and 70 quarter-note beats per minute and applying techniques such as skipping beats, record scratching, stop-time and affecting portions of the original composition to create a "chopped-up" version of the song.

This article is about the technique. For the album by MC Breed, see Chopped and Screwed (album). For the song by T-Pain, see Chopped 'n' Skrewed.

Chopped and screwed
Stylistic origins
Cultural originsEarly 1990s, Houston, Texas, United States
Derivative forms
Subgenres
  • Future screw
  • Slowed + reverb
Regional scenes
Houston and Longview, Texas
Other topics
Codeine
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