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One night back in 2000, a friend at my weekly poker game of Austin music-scene veterans announced that, according to a guy he knew in Houston, young people in the hip-hop scene were basically going insane. They were slowing down their music so it sounded like the tape machine was running out of batteries, drinking codeine cough syrup, and driving around town listening to the music as loud as their speakers would go. “No way,” we all said. The leader of this musical movement was a young man who went by the name DJ Screw, and he was some kind of local legend. All we knew was, there was nothing like that happening in Austin—supposedly the music capital of Texas. A month later, Screw, 29,…

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