Let It Roll

DJ Screw Slowed Hip-Hop Down and Built a Home Grown Empire in Houston

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An interview with Lance Scott Walker, author of "DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution." Host Nate Wilcox asks Lance about the rise and fall of DJ Screw and the influence of the chopped and screwed sound.

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More Hip-Hop on Let It Roll: 

  • Hip-hop's early entrepreneurs: Sugar Hill & Def-Jam.
  • Time-Warner and the Campaign against Ice-T and Body Count
  • J Dilla Transformed Time For Q-Tip, The Pharcyde, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu & Common 

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