It was released through Cactus Jack, Grand Hustle, and Epic Records on August 3, 2018 as the fourth track from the former's third studio album Astroworld.
The song serves as a tribute to American disc jockey DJ Screw, who was from Scott's hometown of Houston, Texas and died from a codeine overdose in 2000.
[4] Writing for XXL, Scott Glaysher felt that "Swae Lee provides soothing vocals on the somber homage cut".
[5] Andrew Barker of Variety described the song as "meditative" and felt that it "is an appropriately molasses-paced tribute to Houston's chopped-and-screwed innovator DJ Screw".
Screw' redeems some of the complaints about Swae Lee's Swaecation while establishing that Travis' chemistry with the Rae Sremmurd crooner is perhaps the best of any of his repeat collaborators".