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 …
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Author: High Times / High Times
