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| Slowed-up beats & brutal rhymes. Where You From, Drama, Welcome To New Orleans, Stressin', Photo Book, Street Army, Here We Come, etc. |
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| 1 Where U From |
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| 2 Drama |
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| 3 Street Army |
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| 4 Buckle Up |
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| 5 Hood & Street |
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| 6 Headhunter |
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| 7 Go Off |
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| 8 Stressin' |
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| 9 Shake It |
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| 10 Point Em' Out |
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| 11 Ride |
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| 12 Here We Come |
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| 13 Sea Saw for Me |
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| 14 Photo Book |
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| 15 Squeeze |
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| 16 Welcome to New Orleans |
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| 17 You Ain't Sayin Nothin' |
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Album Review
Since DJ Screw's death in 2000, the leader of the south Texas-based "chopped and screwed" style is Michael "5000" Watts, a Houston-based remixer who has taken DJ Screw's idiosyncratic style and ran with it. A chopped and screwed version, in its simplest incarnation, is simply the original track slowed down to somewhere between 50 and 75 beats per minute, with occasional drop-outs and other bits of dub-style sonic trickery added. The results are legendarily supposed to mimic the effects of a cough syrup high, but just as often, it simply sounds like you're listening to the album on a Walkman with the batteries dying. "The Truth (Chopped and Screwed)" is simply Watts' version of Tru's underwhelming 2004 comeback album "The Truth", and while the original album's fundamental flaws -- most notably a lack of really inspired rhymes -- are largely obscured by the novelty of the new settings, Watts sounds like he's pretty much just going through the motions here. At its best, this style can produce a genuinely hallucinogenic musical experience, on a par with Lee "Scratch" Perry's most out-there work, but on "The Truth (Chopped and Screwed)", Watts' customization of the original tracks suggests that the remixer is starting to run out of ideas. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
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