Slapwoods is announcing its first-ever official collaboration with DJ Screw, the late Houston legend whose chopped-and-screwed sound changed the pace of hip-hop. The limited release, called The Screw Pack, pairs Slapwoods’ premium natural leaf wraps with a flavor profile inspired by purple soda and dirty Sprite, according to Slapwoods.
For a Houston-born brand built around blunt culture, music, and natural leaf smoking, the move makes sense. Slapwoods didn’t pick a random name for its first official collab. It went straight to one of the city’s most important cultural architects.
The Screw Pack Brings Slapwoods Back to Houston
Slapwoods launched in 2020 with a simple read on the session: smokers wanted better leaf without all the extra work. The brand built its name on premium natural leaf cones with an all-natural corn husk tip, made to keep the look and feel of a hand-rolled blunt while cutting down the mess that came with breaking down, cleaning out, and rebuilding cigar products.
The Screw Pack keeps that same identity but ties it directly to Houston music history.
According to Slapwoods, the limited release features the brand’s signature premium natural leaf wraps, produced in the Dominican Republic using top-tier leaf and distributed out of Houston, Texas. The flavor profile pulls from purple soda and dirty Sprite references, a clear nod to the sound, color palette, and coded language that surrounded Houston rap during DJ Screw’s era and beyond.
That is not a small lane to step into. Screw’s name is not just a graphic. It belongs to a whole ecosystem: slowed-down tapes, freestyles, car culture, Southside Houston, Screwed Up Click, and a city that still treats June 27 like sacred ground.
For Slapwoods, that connection is personal as much as strategic. The brand has described music as part of its DNA from the beginning, with hip-hop artists and creative communities among its earliest supporters. Its first collaboration could have gone a lot of directions. Going with DJ Screw plants the flag at home.
DJ Screw Still Sets The Tempo
DJ Screw, born Robert Earl Davis Jr., created something that could not be rushed.
He began experimenting with turntables and pitch control in the late 1980s, eventually pioneering the chopped-and-screwed style that would come to define Houston hip-hop. By slowing records down, cutting phrases back into themselves, and stretching familiar songs into something heavier and more hypnotic, Screw built a sound that felt inseparable from the city itself.
By the ’90s, Screw was making tapes that moved through Houston like contraband scripture. Cars became listening rooms. Parking lots became release parties. The trunk was the sound system, the tape was the currency, and the whole city learned to move at a different speed.
He produced more than 300 original mixtapes, known as Screw Tapes, and helped anchor the Screwed Up Click, the Houston collective that included names like Big Hawk, Fat Pat, Big Moe, Lil’ Keke, Lil’ Flip, Z-Ro, and others. Screw died in 2000 at 29, but his influence kept spreading.
More than two decades later, you can still hear it in Houston rap, obviously, but also in the slowed-and-reverb internet era, in artists far outside Texas, and in the way music culture keeps returning to the mood he built: heavy, syrupy, patient, and impossible to separate from place.
That is why The Screw Pack has to be treated as a tribute, not just a drop. Screw’s legacy is alive, but it is also guarded. Houston knows when people are paying respect and when they are just grabbing at the purple.
Slapwoods DJ Screw Arrives During A Bigger Moment
The timing is sharp. DJ Screw’s legacy is having a very visible run across music, sports, fashion, and Houston culture.
The Houston Astros released an official DJ Screw collaboration on DJ Screw Day in 2024, with an 11-piece collection that included T-shirts, a bomber jacket, shorts, hats, and a bobblehead. Supreme followed in 2026 with a DJ Screw collection made with the estate, bringing Screw’s image into the global streetwear machine and sparking the kind of debate that always follows when underground legends become mainstream symbols.
Most importantly, the music is getting a wider release. In May 2026, DJ Screw’s catalog began arriving on streaming platforms for the first time, beginning with DJ Screw Originals (Volume 1), with more classic mixtapes scheduled to roll out weekly through the end of June.
That context matters. The Screw Pack is landing at a moment when Screw is not being rediscovered so much as properly re-centered. The people who always knew are watching a new generation catch up.
Slapwoods fits into that moment from a specific angle. It is not a baseball team. It is not a fashion house. It is a smoking brand born in Houston, built around the kind of session where Screw tapes never felt out of place.
A Tribute Built for the Session
Blunt culture and Screw culture have always shared a room. Not in some lazy, surface-level way. More like this: both are about pace. Both are about patience. Both reward people who know the difference between doing something quickly and doing something right.
A blunt session has its own rhythm. Someone breaks down the flower. Someone picks the music. Someone rolls. Someone complains about the roll. Someone gets ignored. Then the lighter hits, the track starts over, and the whole room settles into itself.
That is where Slapwoods lives. The brand’s natural leaf cones were built for smokers who still care about the ritual but don’t always want to fight the wrap before the session starts. The Screw Pack pushes that idea into tribute territory, connecting the act of smoking with the sound of a city that made slowing down feel powerful.
There is also something fitting about this being Slapwoods’ first official collaboration. The brand has said it avoided chasing hype for hype’s sake, staying focused instead on leaf quality, consistency, and culture. Starting with DJ Screw gives that claim some teeth.
Get Yours
The Screw Pack is a limited release, but the idea behind it is bigger than scarcity.
Slapwoods is using its first official collaboration to honor a Houston legend whose sound still moves through music, fashion, sports, and smoke sessions. DJ Screw changed how a city heard itself. Slapwoods is paying respect from inside that same cultural orbit, where music, leaf, and late-night ritual still overlap.
A good Houston tribute does not need to shout. It just needs to know the tempo.
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