"Monster" was promoted with an accompanying music video, directed by Jake Nava. The song debuted and peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at position 18. The song was listed amongst the best tracks of 2010 by publications, with NME placing it at number 53 on its list of the "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". However, critics were mixed in their assessing of who had the better verse between West and Jay-Z. It was met with mostly positive reviews from music critics, with Minaj's verse being praised, and West's production being well received.
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Originally released through West's GOOD Friday initiative, a weekly free music giveaway he started to promote My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, "Monster" was later confirmed to be featured on the album, and was released as a digital download on October 23. The song contains an atmospheric, drum-heavy composition. Lyrically, the song expresses often disturbing, horror film-influenced concepts, with some comparing the song's eerie aesthetic to the Michael Jackson track " Thriller". All five credited acts have writing credits on the posse cut, with the production handled by West and Mike Dean. The song features rappers Jay-Z, Rick Ross, and Nicki Minaj, along with indie folk group Bon Iver. Where in real time a song like ‘Monster’ takes dozens of listens and deep concentration to completely understand, the chopped version lays it all out there for you." Monster" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Kanye West, released as the third single from his fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). Watts has yet to finish, but a few people have beat him to the punch, most notably DJ Candlestick of the Chopstars, also of Houston, whose ‘Chopped Not Slopped’ version of West’s work reveals all the nooks and crannies within the production work, and best, slows down West’s breakneck wordplay and narrative to a more digestible speed. What do u think?’ The response was overwhelmingly for West. In fact, DJ Michael Watts last week tweeted, ‘I said I was gonna chopp Nicki Minaj’s album, but everydody’s seems to want me 2 do Kanye’s. It was inevitable, then, that Kanye West‘s acclaimed new album, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,’ would get chopped and/or screwed. Last year, some joker chopped and screwed Justin Bieber, and nothing sounds more dangerous than this screwed version of ‘Party in the U.S.A.’ by Miley Cyrus. The remix technique has continued to germinate underground since its peak in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s, and its influence has spread to a new generation of music makers - including the loose affiliation of producers such as Salem and oOoOO creating spooky, syrupy dance tracks that fall under the so-called witch house subgenre.
David Banner’s 2003 album ‘Mississippi: The Screwed and Chopped Album,’ given a reworking by chop and screw master DJ Michael Watts of the Swisha House crew, is one of the darkest, bleakest documents of the ‘00s.
But the more you listen, the stranger and more magnetic the music becomes.Īfter Screw died in 2000 - he was addicted to cough syrup, a fact that no doubt played a part in the allure of such slow sounds - his mixtapes became Texas talismans, underground tokens of a weird moment in rap history. At first, chopped and screwed tracks sound funny. The result, released on mixtapes (the real kind: cassettes) and sold on the streets of Houston, was a tripped-out, bugged-out sound that turned real-time 88 bpm boasts into menacing, deep, digital 44 bpm blues. A storied personality in the history of Southern rap, Screw would ‘chop and screw’ his tracks with the aid of cassette players by slowing down the music to half-speed.
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See About archive blog posts.Ī few weeks ago, writer Jon Caramanica wrote a perceptive piece in the New York Times on a remix technique developed in the mid-1990s by the late Houston producer DJ Screw. This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.