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Culture12 min read
Houston at half speed: DJ Screw, Rap-A-Lot, and the city that slowed rap down
DJ Screw's tape chapters and the Screwed Up Click, Rap-A-Lot and the Geto Boys, UGK's country rap tunes, Swishahouse and the 2005 takeover, and how chopped and screwed became the internet's slowed-and-reverb default.
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Culture12 min read
The regional sounds of American rap: A field map from Memphis crunk to Detroit scam rap
A city-by-city tour of America's distinct rap sounds — Memphis, Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, the Bay, the DMV, Baltimore, and New York — and why regionalism is back.
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Culture12 min read
Rap lyrics on trial: How a verse becomes evidence, and the fight to make it stop
The cases where prosecutors read rhymes to juries, why no other genre gets this treatment, the Rap on Trial research, California's 2022 law, the federal RAP Act proposals, and what it all means for how artists write.
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