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Supreme and DJ Screw's Estate Unite for a Nostalgia-Driven SS26 Capsule

Supreme's six-piece DJ Screw estate capsule, priced $48–$188, is live now in the U.S. and Europe, with Asia following April 4.

Claire Beaumont2 min read
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Supreme and DJ Screw's Estate Unite for a Nostalgia-Driven SS26 Capsule
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Supreme's Week 6 SS26 drop arrived today in the U.S. and Europe, and the collaboration anchoring it reaches back to Houston's southside in the early 1990s. The six-piece capsule, built with the estate of Robert Earl Davis Jr., the DJ who invented chopped and screwed music and recorded under the name DJ Screw, spans a Football Jersey bearing his image, a Zip Up Hooded Sweatshirt rendered in spray paint-style graphics, matching Sweatshorts, an SUC Tee carrying Screwed Up Click insignias, a "Screw The World" SUC 5-Panel, and a FOCO bobblehead. Retail pricing runs from $48 to $188, and the Asia-Pacific release follows on April 4.

Davis taught himself to DJ at age 12 using his mother's blues records, a detail that makes the capsule's sensory design language feel earned. By 1990, he was playing two copies of the same record simultaneously on a four-track cassette recorder, pitching down the tempo and fracturing vocals into something drowsy and hypnotic. The rappers he invited to rhyme over those remixes became the Screwed Up Click, the S.U.C. initials now embossed across jersey and tee alike. Davis died in November 2000, but the sound he created on Houston's southside has continued to influence hip-hop production for more than two decades.

Working directly with the estate rather than licensing imagery from a third-party catalogue is what gives the capsule its specificity. The Houston references, S.U.C. insignias, and "Screw The World" slogan read as family-sanctioned details rather than surface-level tribute graphics, and that distinction tends to be visible in the finished product. Supreme has worked with estates before, but a partnership rooted in Southern hip-hop regionalism, centered on an artist whose cultural reach far outpaced his mainstream commercial visibility during his lifetime, sits in distinctly different territory than a legacy rock or skate brand tie-in.

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The FOCO bobblehead is the capsule's most unusual piece. FOCO is best known for licensed sports collectibles, and its appearance here alongside a streetwear drop signals something closer to collector-grade memorabilia than standard seasonal accessories. For a brand whose accessories category typically runs to camp caps and tote bags, it is a notably different kind of object to put in a weekly drop, and it will likely be the fastest piece to clear.

The full six-piece range is available at Supreme's U.S. and European stores and at supreme.com. Asia-Pacific access opens Thursday, April 4.

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