Houston Rapper Big Pokey Passes Away After On-Stage Collapse.

Big Pokey, an early member of the Houston hip-hop collective Screwed Up Click and a pioneer of the "chopped-and-screwed" style, has died. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s as a member of Screwed Up Click, led by the innovative DJ Screw. The group helped lay the groundwork for the "chopped-and-screwed" style, a Southern hip-hop tactic of slowing down the tempo of a track. Big Pokey released four studio albums after "The Hardest Pit in the Litter" debuted in 1999. He was featured on Megan Thee Stallion's 2022 album "Traumazine."