King and Johnnie Taylor records and scratched them on the turntable the way DJs did, slowing the spinning disc and then allowing it to speed back up, playing with sound.ĭavis began buying records of his own and would spin with his friend Trey Adkins, who would rhyme. His musical interest shifted as he took his mother's B.B. After seven years of practice, he was able to play works like Chopin's Etude in C major by ear. His admiration of classical music drove him to resume piano lessons. When young, DJ Screw had aspirations of being a truck driver like his father, but seeing the 1984 hit break dancing movie Breakin' and discovering his mother's turntable attracted him to music.

She returned to Houston, but the marriage was floundering soon it would be over, and she and her kids moved to Los Angeles for a couple of years, then back to Houston, and returned to Smithville in 1980 when Davis was age nine. His mother Ida May Deary (who had a young daughter from a previous marriage), came to the area to be with her mother when her son was born in 1971. His father, Robert Earl Davis Sr., was a long-haul truck driver based in Houston.

4.4 Nationally distributed documentary films.

4.3 Nationally distributed biopic TV series.

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