Listen to the Mogul episode above to learn more about the creation of “June 27th” as both a freestyle and influential Screw tape. But this was at a time when the South wasn’t getting that look of being creative in hip-hop.” I feel like if this was something that happened in New York, there would be a whole documentary on this sh*t. “I don’t even know where it came from, but I made that beat … I started hanging around Bryan Michael-Cox and more people from Houston I learned this was their version of ‘Planet Rock.’ Everybody has rapped over this beat. “I don’t even know how Screw got the instrumental,” Dupri said.
With his birthday tape coming up, DeMo knew the only person he wanted to make the tape more special – was the young rapper with the croak in his voice. Big DeMo first spotted Yungstar rapping shirtless and rhyming endlessly. The night was Yungstar’s introduction to the Screwed Up Click and “June 27th” was his first recording with the SUC ever. Somehow, due to Texas ingenuity, it persevered on. In fact, it wasn’t even an official single from the album as “Tonite’s Tha Night” was pushed. “Da Streets Ain’t Right” wasn’t a major hit for Kriss Kross on their third and final album Young, Rich & Dangerous. In part, the episode shows how Dupri’s contribution of crafting Kriss Kross’ “Da Streets Ain’t Right” eventually led to the most used instrumental in Houston rap history. On the latest season of Mogul centered around Screw’s short life, the dizzying rise of chopped and screwed music, and his untimely death, “June 27th” gets an entire episode dedicated to it. But none can top Screw himself, a pioneer whose mystique has only grown in the two decades since his death.However, Dupri’s impact on Houston lays within the fabric of DJ Screw and “June 27th,” a 37-minute freestyle by members of the Screwed Up Click and showcase moments for Big Pokey and Yungstar.
More than the story of one man, DJ Screw is a history of the Houston scene as it came of age, full of vibrant moments and characters. Walker brings these voices together with captivating details of Screw’s craft and his world. Lance Scott Walker has interviewed nearly everyone who knew Screw, from childhood friends to collaborators to aficionados who evangelized Screw’s tapes-millions of which made their way around the globe-as well as the New York rap moguls who honored him. June 27 has become an unofficial city holiday, inspired by a legendary mix Screw made on that date. Fans drove around town blasting his music, a sound that came to define the city’s burgeoning and innovative rap culture.
Big DeMo was the 2nd rapper to freestyle on this iconic song for DJ Screw. Soon Houstonians were lining up to buy his cassettes-he could sell thousands in a single day. June 27th was actually the rapper Big DeMo’s birthday, and DJ Screw created a 35 minute freestyle titled this in honor of his birthday.
Spinning two copies of a record, Screw would “chop” in new rhythms, bring in local rappers to freestyle over the tracks, and slow the recording down on tape. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever.