Now, despite Lil’ Jon’s popularity (which, in itself, is perhaps gratuitous), his Crunk Juice gets the screwtape treatment. For every bit of praise there seems to be the school of thought that a C&S album sounds like a record being played on the wrong speed.
There is much dispute about C&S’s legitimacy as a form of remix, though. Indeed, by slowing the record to a sludge-like pace, each verse begins to sound as if its MC needs an exorcism. The drastic slowdown of a screwtape has had the tendency to bring out a darkness in its subjects. Who would have thought that by slowing hip-hop albums down one could then market the result as a completely different album altogether? The mic work remains intact, and some of the production as well even the cover art looks exactly the same. Chopped & Screwed is a strange art form indeed.
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