As people across the world mourn and protest the police killing of George Floyd, more and more are also discovering his music.
As Big Floyd, the 46-year-old was a freestyle rapper in the late 1990s, as part of Houston legend DJ Screw’s influential Screwed Up Click.
One song that’s made the rounds on social media is a freestyle Floyd recorded over the beat for Da Brat’s “Sittin’ on Top of the World,” from Screw’s 1996’s Chapter 324: Dusk 2 Dawn tape.
Fellow Houston rapper Travis Scott recently posted the track on his Instagram Story. Floyd, entering around the 4:55 mark, rumbles, “B-I-G, it’s F-L-O-Y-D/Watch me raise up in my drop-top seat.” The song was the result of a late-night session at Screw’s house, where Floyd and his friends laid it
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