November 16

4 hip-hop anniversaries on November 16

1. 1999

   2001 is released

   2001 is released.

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2. 2000

   DJ Screw dies — sealing chopped-and-screwed as a Houston canon

   Robert Earl Davis Jr. — DJ Screw, the Houston DJ whose half-speed mixtapes (released in 200+ chapter-numbered 'Screwtapes' between 1990 and 2000) had codified chopped-and-screwed as a discrete sub-genre and a regional ae…

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3. 2000

   DJ Screw dies

   DJ Screw dies (codeine overdose).

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4. 2010

   Jay-Z publishes 'Decoded'

   Spiegel & Grau publishes Jay-Z's part-memoir, part-lyrics-annotation book Decoded. Co-written with author dream hampton, the book reaches #3 on the New York Times Bestseller list and stands as one of the first major-publ…

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