Texas Rapps Flashback: Ron C's "Trendsetter"

In 1989, before DJ Screw emerged out of Houston as the end-all, be-all purveyor of slowed and slurred rap music, Ron C of Nemesis tried his hand at the practice. Halway through "Trendsetter" the tempo decelerates to a staggering creep and the bass drops even lower than seemingly imaginable. As Ron C was a California transplant posting up in Dallas and typically sounded like a second rate Too $hort, he had no direct ties to the Houston scene that would later produced Screw. Thus, there is a historical disconnect between the "Trendsetter" experiment and the Screw phenomenon. But "Trendsetter" remains as quite the precedent for what was to come in Texas, standing strong still as an 808-styled standard and far more than a mere coincidence of Texas-derived technical trickery...