In the 80s and 90s the rap music scene was dominated by the East and West Coast. But in the early 2000s the Dirty South began to gain national attention, and in Houston, Texas, rappers created a unique sound of their own. Sydnee Washington, Marie Faustin, and Houston native Brandon Caldwell slow it way down to understand how chopped and screwed music made its way into the mainstream.

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