Rapper Big Pokey, an early member of Houston’s Screwed Up Click hip-hop collective, which helped pioneer the city’s groundbreaking “chopped and screwed” style, died on Sunday, according to a statement posted to his official Instagram account.
with K-Rino Radio, Big Pokey credited the start of his career to meeting DJ Screw, who developed the style. “I ain’t ever touched a mic until I met Screw,” he said. “As far as music, I hadn’t done anything other than freestyling over somebody’s beats.”“It all starts somewhere. Everything triggers something else. That’s the name of the game, that’s the beauty in it,” he said.
In 1999, Big Pokey released “Hardest Pit in the Litter,” the first of five solo studio albums. “I was shocked then,” the rapper said 20 years later. “The Screw Movement, that’s kind of what did it,” he said. “I didn’t know that this was my future. It was just a little music.” The “chopped and screwed” style, which has a more laid-back tempo than other hip-hop genres, originated in Houston but later had a significant influence on the genre nationally, including on artists like Drake, Travis Scott and Beyoncé. Megan Thee Stallion, who is also from Houston, featured Big Pokey in her 2022 studio album, “Traumazine.”, rapper Bun B, who was part of Screwed Up Click, remembered Big Pokey as a pillar of Houston’s hip-hop scene.
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