Posts tagged chopped and screwed

Old Head - DJ DMD: 25 Lighters Feat. Fat Pat and Lil Keke, Chopped and Screwed

For some reason, it’s just feels like a “25 Lighters” kinda day.

If you’re new, “Lighters” is the song that all the hot young thangs, from it-boy Kendrick Lamar to (of course) Southern classicist Big K.R.I.T., seem to be referencing.

“Chopped and screwed” (RIP to Screw) seems like kind of an idiotic studio fumble, until you hear it applied to the right track. Then it becomes a slice of slow-drip wonderful, the aural equivalent of a zip and a double cup on a hot Houston day. In this case, the C&S take is vastly superior to the original.

Thursday more like Get Throwedsday amiright eh eh?

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Drake (Feat. the Weeknd) - Crew Love (Shlohmo Remix)

"Smokin' weed under star projectors."

Here it is, the first piece of actual music posted on my blog.

The best remixes both provide a new POV on a track and flesh out its best qualities. L.A. producer Shlohmo has turned “Crew Love,” a highlight from Drake’s overlong-but-still-good Take Care, and injected a large dose of codeine directly into its femoral artery. The opening drum salvo, peppy - at least for the Weeknd - in the original track, takes on a languid, heavy-lidded quality in Shlohmo’s version, especially when surrounded by evil-sounding synths and those firefly drips of percussion. Drake, typically the weakest part of his own tracks, spits a fine verse on “Love,” now further improved by being chopped & screwed. This was really a Weeknd track to begin with, and the remix cements that. Smoke some weed under star projectors.

(PS - Yep, the title’s a Coach Taylor reference.)

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