Over the past five or six years the Texas based musical art form known the world over as screw music has exploded on the hip hop scene. Screw music and the culture it spawn has given light to an abundance of hip hop super stars such as Paul Wall, Chamillionare and Slim Thug and made screw DJs major players in the rap game. One the genre’s biggest and brightest stars are Beltway 8, whose mix tapes have been circulating through the South and the mid west since 1999.

Since the tragic demise of its founder DJ Screw, Beltway 8 has been one of the crews that has picked up the torch and carried the chopped and screw music into the new millennium.
“When screw music started there only three cats that were doing it. First and foremost it was DJ Screw. He started it off. Then there was Michael Watts and Swishahouse. We are the last crew from that original era. That is why it is important that we carry this thing on.”

Beltway 8 started seven years ago when its founder/producer Mike Moe, a native of Houston’s 3