Houston rapper Big Hawk shot to death

Associated Press ^ | Tuesday, May 2, 2006 | Kristie Rieken

[Jane Austen]

LOL

Never heard of Big Hawk. How many rappers have now been shot to death or suicides?

[theDentist]

How many Jazz artists are shot in a year? How many Swing band leaders? How many Rock and Rollers? How many Vocalists? Combined?

[river rat]

"The rap industry sure does have a high rate of attrition it seems."

HIGHER & FASTER would be nice...

Semper Fi

[Rastus]

You got your babie's mamas

*Ahem* I believe it "yo baby mama." As in, "I stays with my baby mama."

[Revolting cat!]

So many Artistes, so few bullets!

[Rakkasan1]

he's a Lil' dead.

[NRA2BFree]

First Fat Pat, now his brother Big Hawk.

LOL! I would like to know what the rest of the kids in that family are called. :o)

[GreenLanternCorps]

"Rapper Shot to Death" is not news.

"Rapper Dies of Old Age Surrounded by Friends and Family Menbers" Now that would be news!

[Maceman]

Hawk was respected in the Houston underground rap scene

Well obviously somebody dissed him big time by shooting him.

[Revolting cat!]

How many Jazz artists are shot in a year? How many Swing band leaders? How many Rock and Rollers? How many Vocalists?

I don't know about the others, but as far the Rock and rollers and Vocalists: not enough!

[ishabibble]

>>>Hawk was respected in the Houston underground rap scene.<<<

Judging by the article, I think there are only two people left in the Houston rap scene. The rest have murdered themselves into oblivion. Why can't someone murder that rap music and give the planet a break?

[DOGEY]

The day the music died.

[vetvetdoug]

This is the story of man named Hawk
A poor lil' rapper than can no longer squawk
He went around singin' screwed music sounds
But now he's singin' from deep in the grounds

Down below, stiff as a board, more holes than swiss cheese...

[MplsSteve]

LOL

[1Old Pro]

I may have to go home...I don't know if I can get any work knowing the world is just a little emptier.

sadly, this is one of those days people will remember where they were when they heard this awful news. I just returned from the Department of Motor vehicles and all I saw was hundreds of state workers standing around, doing nothing, appearing listless, you could tell how this terrible loss is affecting people.

[Billthedrill]

DJ Screw, who died in 2000, and the Screwed Up Click popularized Houston's hypnotic, slowed-down style of rap called screw music.

Nope. Uh-uh! Not gonna touch it.

[tumblindice]

A real shakespearan tragedy. I had all his albums.
http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/elsinore.html

[wideawake]

The Houston hiphop scene's recent rise to prominence is based on the appeal of the production technique of the deceased DJ Screw. DJ Screw was, if not the originator, the acknowledged master of the technique known as "chopping and screwing."

Basically this is similar to the Jamaican dub technique - DJ Screw would take beats or melodies from songs and cut and paste the parts he liked together using rough transitions like scratches and skipped beats ("chopping"), while slowing down the tempo to make the beat sound slightly "off" ("screwing").

He did this in order to reproduce the effects that being "screwed" on "lean" has on one's perception of music.

"Lean" is Houston slang for codeine syrup.

The Screwed Up Click is basically a group of musically inclined friends and hangers-on of DJ Screw, many of whom were and are involved in the "lean" trade.

DJ Screw himself died of a codeine overdose, though some claim that his codeine was spiked with "ice" or methamphetamine.

Fat Pat may have died in a "lean" deal gone sour and the circumstances of Big Hawk's death look a little suspicious as well.

The Screwed Up Click is one of the most integrated hiphop crews in the US, with their major star right now being Paul Wall, a white Houstonian.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

He couldn't carry Screaming Jay Hawkins' jock strap.

[BadAndy]

Big Hawk, now Dead Duck.