Chopped and screwed

Music genre and technique of remixing music Chopped and screwedOther names Screwed and chopped slowed and throwed Stylistic origins Southern hip hop electro bounce Memphis rap sampledelia codeine effect Cultural originsEarly 1990s, Houston, Texas, United StatesDerivative formsWitch houseseapunkvaporwavecloud rapsigilkorephonkSubgenresFuture screwSlowed + reverbRegional scenesHouston and Longview, TexasOther topicsCodeine Dirty rapbounceMemphis rapChopped and screwedcrunktrap Chopped and screwed (also called screwed and chopped or slowed and throwed) is a genre of hip-hop music and technique of remixing and sampling music that involves slowing down the tempo and DJing. It was pioneered by DJ Screw, and became a staple in the Houston hip hop scene in the 1990s. 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" variant of the material. Characteristics In dance or hip hop music sampling, the term "chopping" is the "altering [of] a sampled phrase [or break] by dividing it into sma