Music, media and entertainment---how you want,
when you want, where you want.
when you want, where you want.
Finally, DJ Screw’s Music Is Coming to Streaming Services
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Three guys walk into a bar. Wait, not three—eight. And actually, it’s not a bar; it’s a house. In Houston. So, eight guys walk into a house in Houston, midsummer, late night. They start drinking “lean,” codeine cough syrup mixed with soda. Then the guys start rapping, one at a time. They rap for a while, passing a mic around, drinking lean. And the punch line: They record the greatest freestyle rap in history. It’s called June 27th, for the date this all took place exactly thirty years ago today. (Which, tangentially, happens to be my birthday.)The Houston session is lore among rap-music mavens, its details recounted over three decades by word of mouth, on web forums,…The post Finally, DJ Screw’s Music Is Coming to Streaming Services appeared first on Texas Monthly.