Dang! Maybe it's the fact he's got more than one artist to choose from, but whatever the reason, DJ/remixer
Michael Watts
is positively on fire here. The
Swishahouse
main man and Texas' greatest contribution to syrup sippers everywhere bounces between destroying and pumping up
Lil Scrappy
and
Trillville
's split album, creating a hypnotic haze that's one part party, one part bad trip. He doesn't go half and half like original producer
Lil Jon
did. Instead, he switches artists every three songs or so, sticks the
Bohagon
bonus track in the middle instead of on the end, and makes the album busier and fiercer with tight edits and perfect flow. He's screwed (slowed) things down more on other releases, but he's only chopped up tracks this vigorously on his bootleg mixtapes (and if you can find the
mix of
Prince
's
"Purple Rain"
-- whoo-lawd!). Thunderous booms and jerky stutters are the way
Watts
takes
's more hook-filled chants on, while
gets every third or fourth hectic lyric rewound. Since no major label has allowed
to chop and screw a compilation's worth of artists, this has to be the best aboveground example of what the man can do, and without a doubt the most varied. Chopping and screwing will remain a simplistic, freakish, and totally unnecessary genre to most, but
' savage ripping of these
proteges will make skeptics with even a sliver of excitement for the druggy sound into jaw-dropped believers. ~ David Jeffries