How Twista Became A Chicago Rap Legend

Twista leaves behind a very solid legacy. He’s a Chi-Town legend and was one of the first rappers in Chicago to make it in the mainstream. Today I will be breaking down the history behind his career. From humble beginnings in Chicago to the top of the music industry.
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[@lethalmfg1]

Appreciate the twista love. To me he's in my top 5. Adrenaline Rush is a top 5 album no skips. He represents the west side of the chi like me

[@divinedelaware7541]

That po pimp verse is legendary. Like a top 20 all time verse. Straight player shit to the core💯💯

[@justsuperLBee]

I’m from the NOLA(New Orleans, LouisianA) and bruh, we rock wit Twista. Great quiet humble dude too and obviously unique.

[@head1tmovement694]

Bone didn't start it. They first album was called Faces of Death. It was before they signed w Ruthless and it came out in 92. Twista was already in the guiness world book for the fastest rapper in 92

[@youngmenaceent]

Facts fam. I been sayn that since the 90s

[@sandubbz3889]

Really in 91 faces of death

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

Bone was into it more with three 6 than Twista.

[@LxrdBreezy00]

@@eatassonthefirstdatethats why they had that beef. Face of death sound like they read a 3 6 blueprint

[@koffin9429]

Nobody was rapping fast and singing like bone

[@Bob-te3le]

The greatest and coldest rapper ever hands down. Twista for life.

[@philmoe5392]

Great documentary on our local legend here in Chicago 🐐 Twista shaped my teenager years in the 90’s. Salute.

[@TremaineFletcher]

Adrenaline rush was coming out of every car in 97 on the west side.

[@lethalmfg1]

Facts i remember summer 97 and u couldn't go nowhere without hearing that album. All down Madison

[@willsalter8113]

It wasn’t just Out West. I’m from The Hunnids and we bumped Twista Out South. Out West had it juking on the rap shit from Da Brat, PsychoDrama, Do Or Die and Twista. I remember buying them underground tapes from 87th and bumping them.

[@LxrdBreezy00]

@@willsalter8113when i visit home in the hunnits mf still bang twista😂 he a real hometown hero

[@geegee2109]

My car on the east also!! That album was my shit!! Adrenaline rush, overdose... so many bangers!!

[@JoeJoe-tg3ed]

Over East too.

[@john.f.remedy.237]

I used to bump Unsolved Mystery off of Adrenaline Rush on repeat. Shit still bangs and he goes off…

[@OnAPlain88]

Unsolved Mysteries was my jam too!

[@tywayne3]

Yes, Adrenaline Rush, Unsolved, and Overdose!

[@kingjohnjohnEssex]

​@@tywayne3 man that overdose definitely banged through out my whole city in Saginaw Michigan #DanielHeightsProjects

[@kingmike3564]

Crazy, I been playing that on repeat recently

[@Dee-7414]

T summoned up the city with this one line, (M************ don't even consider getting caught ,cause when you talkin some some sh!t ,They're gonna be quick to let the Slugs lose). Unsolved mysteries.

[@dacarbonsun9839]

Twista is most definitely in my top 5. A lot of dudes try to claim that flow but with due respect nobody did it to his level. I still remember the first time po pimp dropped I was like wtf is that! I think I was the first one in my hood with Adrenaline Rush.

[@KeyHeir]

Lmao! I had the same reaction to Po Pimp

[@JayJay-kc4dn]

Ive found that album in second hand shop last year, love it

[@KeyHeir]

My all-time favorite rapper. Great lyricist, wide range of subjects, and so on. He's writing twice as much for one song and brings it every time

[@divinedelaware7541]

Shout out Crucial Conflict. They was Chopping it up on that Hay back then🔥🔥

[@Budder206SeaTackle]

Don't forget "N*gga lay it dwn on the ground it's a Showdown Don't you come around tryna Clown it a Showdown... yeah Crucial Conflict had some Cuts..

[@KSoloLoso]

Fun fact: Twista was on a episode on the TV show Head of the class

[@Bob-te3le]

Thank you know I'm gonna look that up and check out my goat.

[@blakebrown84]

Twista is a Chicago native who has been known his chopper style of rapping and for once holding the title of fastest English-speaking rapper in the world according to Guinness World Records in 1992, being able to pronounce 598 syllables in 55 seconds. I remember bumping Kamikaze and The Day After a lot when was younger, so I always had the whole album on repeat. He has worked with Pharrell Williams, Jamie Foxx, Kanye West, Anthony Hamilton, Do or Die, Pitbull, Sylenna Johnson, Too $hort, 8Ball & MJG, R. Kelly, T.I., Jazze Pha, Ludacris, Cee-Lo, Memphis Bleek, Freeway, Petey Pablo, Trey Songz, Lil’ Kim, Juvenile, Mariah Carey, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and many others.

[@In4mous1]

Let’s not forget he worked with Jay & P Diddy

[@blakebrown84]

Yeah he did worked with them and also Lil Wayne, T-Pain, E-40, Gucci Mane, OJ da Juiceman, Busta Rhymes, Boosie Badazz, Liffy Stokes

[@jasona9453]

Bruh we just watched the video. U said the same ish

[@DERRTYCHYBO]

Good bot

[@Dee-7414]

My Nug Take that champagne glass and raise it up. Make a toast to yourself for the survival in the world. That's so corrupt.

[@mondialman]

Well done! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Adrenaline Rush made him a legend.

[@DashawnJizzle]

Hell yea! Chi-Town baby! Appreciate this!

[@naswiipp]

He's a international legend.

[@youngmenaceent]

Yo fam, i appreciate u for this one. Hes always been in my top 10. Twista and Busta are the pioneers of the fast flow PERIOD!! Hell Busta is the only Nyc rapper i really f wit.. but Adrenaline rush is my favorite. 1st time i herd it i was hooked. I love that fast flow, No body ever mentiones twista when i comes to rap. And its sad, mostly because they cant keep up with what hes saying. Those who can, LOVE HIM.

[@Ims51]

Another great thing about twist, when he had to slow it down for songs like freaky thangs on Ludacris' album or celebrity overnight it was fire, he really changed it up on warm embrace. Twista is unique and definitely has respect by a lot of us who came up in the 90's .

[@6luealreadydead]

I just remembered "kamikaze" and "college drop out" were the first two unedited c d's that I bought on my own... i was more into Southern real 6acc then 6ut i forth 6oth those cd's 💿 when they first came out...i was in 8th grade... damn I'm old🤦‍♂️🤣😂🤷‍♂️

[@robikinger7292]

Twista was my favorite rapper growing up! He has so many fire albums and collaborations. Shits crazy! Awesome video

[@ThatboyAnt216]

I swear rappers from the Midwest dont get enough props its some good artist in the Midwest but only like 4 ppl do eminem,tech n9ne, bone thugs and nelly....and Twista dont get his props or just do's Twista really 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@gradymorrrowjr37]

I'm from Detroit and I know that Twista created the fast rapping he's the rapper that's in the Guinness Book of world record 💯

[@tristanroyal377]

He talented... Bone just got harmony with there's the sound different

[@AHamSandwich516]

One thing about Twista is he holds the crown for fast rapping

[@maralinekozial9131]

Na Twista Rebel XD , Bizzy Bone , Flesh N Bone & Eminem have all took turns having the record over the years , it's just Twista was the only one that actually made it officially into the Guinuss book 💯

[@appliancedude63]

Twista is definitely a Chicago legend. We still bump his music to this day. He is the king of Midwest rap imo. Bone don't even come close. Chicago definitely invented the style.

[@official_bren1098]

Him and Isiah Thomas from the same hood both goats 🐐

[@BennyFlaco]

Legend Twista! Thanks for the Video

[@In4mous1]

Twista wasn’t a notable feature on Is That Your Chick he Wrote the Song that was then used on Bleek album after Jay heard it working with Timberland who produced the song

[@biig_silva]

Bro.. The girl playing the Violin... I'm still in love with her ahah. Her name is Miri ben Hari and is dope AF! She also worked with Styles P on "We gonna Win", another great song 🙌🏾💯

[@LxrdBreezy00]

Clout you a mf bro. You be doing the rappers that really deserve the love. Twista lyrically and flow wise is a demon when you get what he sayin😂. Def a top teir rapper that get left out of convos. He had hits but can get crazy on wordplay. Its almost like he travelled back in time 😂. Still bump Twista since a shorty in back home in the chi

[@paperviewswim4348]

Amazing coverage good reporting

[@MissDee1222]

Chocolate fe's and redbones is my s#!%. I still play all his music from time to time. Glad he's getting his 💐

[@Deo721]

We appreciate you making this video about Twista

[@judha126]

Finally The twist gets his flowers 💐 Chicago goat 🐐

[@KrucialKAAAA912]

If yall type in feat. Twista mannnnnn from like 97-2000 my mans was killing features with artist we might not know but listen to his verses i fast forward to them or sometimes the songs just dope.

[@lethalmfg1]

Twista low key got a song with damn near everyone and it don't be no whack verse

[@KrucialKAAAA912]

@@lethalmfg1 big facts

[@ericjohnson5035]

Man Twista has had my ears for a very long time. His wordplay is incredible and and the song Sexy is my favorite joint by him and R. Kelly. The melody, the female singing on the hook plus the music was just bangin and then you had the King 2.0 of R&B Kell's on that joint and yes I still rock with R. Kelly no matter what they claimed he allegedly did. They railroaded his ass to make an example of a Black Superstar that had too much control over his fa base that's all. Hold your head up Kell's and don't drop the Soap lol

[@yungenoch7105]

Fire video fam brought back memories

[@jermaineransom4250]

Well done! 💪🏿✊🏿🫡

[@actionjacksonIV]

I'm Chicago thank you do Common sense next

[@thedopest]

great music and a great man

[@Mr.Majestic77]

Twista, GLC, Apache, Common, Da Brat, Do or Die, Crucial Conflict and Kanye West are the cornerstone pioneers of Chicago Rap 🎶 .

[@Dee-7414]

You forgot about psychodrama!

[@jasona9453]

@@Dee-7414ain’t nobody wanna see Buk back then. P-S-Y-C-H-O-D-R-A-M-A

[@Dee-7414]

@@jasona9453 What you talk about they still don't want to see Buk!

[@Dee-7414]

@@jasona9453 They was too much for the industry to handle pretty much everybody coming about the city was like that. in their own Little way, Just look at kanye.

[@midnitekreapa8372]

Also include Psychodrama, Triple Darkness and Snypaz

[@Mrchicity]

Good video 💯💯

[@yakyakyakperfect]

Your dad introduced to so many Fire albums. An MVP Fr

[@robertthompson2080]

Twista started it and i stand on it 💯💯💯💯

[@slewfeez]

It seems my guy was blackballed. How does the album go gold 2 years later and platinum 20 years later in 2007. He ghetto diamond sold iny mind

[@shonuff5297]

People was burning alot of mp3s around them years. Alot of people wasnt buying legit albums..

[@charlescolquitt8395]

Twista a chicago goat & rap legand

[@justineebourgeois3420]

Underrated!

[@devinharris7023]

L.A Rush twister was walking through the airport was crazy I was like yoooo I gotta race him🔥🔥🔥

[@Thespeedrap]

Heartbeat is my favorite Twista song.

[@jasona9453]

Dope song. I love the difference in tempo. Twist mastered that

[@MrCalverino]

I remember he popped up with Do or Die in the summer of 96'

[@createthebalance]

Amazing video!! Twista is definitely a legend in the books. Can you do a video on J Dilla if you haven’t already?

[@GregAvery-uf4oq]

Legends

[@anthonys3892]

I’m from Chicago and Kill Us All was my probably my favorite song from him growing up

[@jefeking2117]

Overdose my favorite I was born in 87 so I was young still have that whole album memorized lol

[@ydotgutta]

Overdose is by far the best Twista song! You still can ride Chicago blocks and ppl will go crazy hearing that fr

[@kalstonii]

I actually liked unsolved mystery a bit more

[@ydotgutta]

@@kalstonii tru that was a another classic off the album

[@maralinekozial9131]

I lived in West Garfield Park on the Westside & never knew my favorite rapper lived there till after I moved out in early 07

[@jashardwallington]

Underappicated midwest legend

[@antonioo6432]

How the hell did I miss all those adrenaline rush albums???? I thought it was only 1 adrenaline rush album omg. I know what I’m doing this weekend

[@MarkeySlaughter]

Celebrity overnight was on Need For Speed that was my go to song when i wanted to just ride around the city in the game 😅 Also Wetter was my Top 2 song of Twistas

[@Xxiv47]

It was actually midnight club 3 dub edition that overnight celebrity was featured in

[@jefeking2117]

Great video nice too hear your child Hood memory I sub too you

[@CJCrump]

Adrenaline Rush is still fire to this day...

[@louisianajaylongway2338]

Warm embrace my fav

[@bigpoppa5732]

Twista laid some of the fastest tracks EVER!!!

[@K__Broughton85]

Man good job… man you really did your homework

[@eddiewilson2184]

He very underrated

[@Dmack74]

I remember when he first came out with the funky toungue twista

[@charleswhiting2498]

Real Bone fans know Krazy was the only one that rap actual words fast. Bizzy Bone was just mumbling syllables. Lazy & Wish didn’t rap fast @ all. I love Bone, although they can’t do what Twista does. Only one close to Twista is Krazy. A Twista & Krazy duo album back in the 90s would have been everything.

[@LatifHZ-ww1tl]

I love the Purple Haze version of Adrenaline Rush

[@cloutcancun]

I like the original but I can definitely agree that version is better

[@LatifHZ-ww1tl]

@@cloutcancun like u said Purple Haze ain't got skips

[@lethalmfg1]

The purple haze version was a cruel bastardization. The original will always be superior

[@cloutcancun]

@@lethalmfg1I think his verses are better on ‘Purple Haze’. Especially his first one

[@lethalmfg1]

​@cloutcancun3840 we just gonna agree to disagree with this one. Salute u bro keep grinding

[@craigsimmons5591]

Twista da truth Midwest OG

[@coreymichae3747]

Adrenaline Rush and kamikaze still slap to this day

[@crookedkingz09]

Bone was saying Twista rapped fast but didn’t harmonize with his flow until he heard them. Twista said it Do or Die song that made him harmonize!

[@Bob-te3le]

Facts.

[@Dee-7414]

Remember it. There's a West Coast style of rap, a East Coast style of rap, Dirty South style of rap, Midwest style of rap is a little more complex. I will give you 3 examples. Tech 9 Kansas City. Twista Chicago, Bone Cleveland

[@birdbangbobaruni]

Insane dills

[@user-if9pn8su6z]

Never mind who started it 😳 Twista mastered it 👨‍🎓❤

[@detroitflex6257]

Twista used to be my favorite rapper

[@OGStoneVegas]

mista tung twista was my shit... kind of caught me off guard a few years later when he re-emerged on po pimp

[@josephknudsen6847]

Kid Sensation was the first fast rapper, he was on Sir Mix A Lots label where Everlast, yes that Everlast got his start. It was way before the Baby Got Back track.

[@andrewah15]

I absolutely agree. The girl playing the violin in Overnight Celebrity does look creepy! 😂

[@josephford5783]

Twister best fastest rapper , hands down, accuracy 💯

[@familyakafamo8310]

Twista is the coldest in the Midwest

[@WastedTalent369]

My big brother had his kamikaze tape on cd

[@r0bkush]

👀🔥

[@eddiewilson2184]

Adrenaline rush is a classic wtf

[@flintose927]

Can we get a video on The Dayton Family from Flint Town please?

[@Dee-7414]

What you know about that top authority, and bootleg dat my folks.

[@flintose927]

@@Dee-7414 I know a lot about them. Born and raised in Flint all my life.

[@Dee-7414]

@@flintose927 I'm from Chicago ,I do got a cousin that stays in ,Battle Creek though. So Shots out to all the real ones in the Mitten, And just like T.A .said , tell it to my 9, tell it to my 9, tell it to my 9. I'm not trying to hear dat sh!t , you're talking b!tch, Then boys was too raw and too real with T. V.

[@flintose927]

@@Dee-7414 then you know all about the song 79th & Halsted

[@Dee-7414]

Yeah, that's a conservative vice lord hood. He made a honest mistake. But in the song he let you know his own forever.. But on that album my favorite song is f. B. I..... What that boy's say m*********** FBI b****** , I'm prepared to die.. They all up on my d!ck just because I won't slang if they They drug supply, Jail ain't never scare me none ,f the feds and vice cops too. Distribution of cocaine is that all you can come and do police better running fast. Find yourself a better snitch, because that b****You got smoke rocks. So that means a word aint s*** if they give me prison time. Give me mind I'm not fake Since my click didn't snitch when I get out of my connection straight. They sent me to the penitentiary im coming out that b!tch straight up G

[@izocshow2158]

You mention all the good songs on kamikaze 24's featuring TI and one last time.

[@kalstonii]

Everybody go listen to Crysis with Tech9 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@ThatboyAnt216]

You forgot the song hopeful with faith evens

[@SuperCrazyPsycho731]

Big Daddy Kane My Ninja. I like you

[@Thespeedrap]

Whatever happened to Twista? Thanks for the video.

[@dv9856]

I think he lives in a gated community still in Crete Illinois, but I'm know about his music career.

[@jasona9453]

He’s a shooting instructor. Nice with it too.

[@InevitableAscension]

Top 10 all time easy

[@chiruffryder]

Cavalier, Tung twista, or Twista rapped with James Phillips “Bj”

[@Sosonny214]

One word barz. 😂

[@chione3175]

The legendary TRAXSTER/ Samuel lindley

[@AllOriginal5150]

A lot of people was rapping fast in the early 90s. Nobody stole nobody style. You can't bite somebody you never heard of. But BONE gets the most love and hate. BTNH #1

[@Bob-te3le]

Twista crushed them Bones easily.

[@AllOriginal5150]

@@Bob-te3le opinions are like booty holes.

[@brandonbaker5994]

1 thing u missed Kanye west produced po pimping

[@head1tmovement694]

For real?? I didnt know that either. Damn that camr out in like 96. Idk Ye was working way back then

[@naswiipp]

No he didn't. The Legendary Trackster produced that whole album. His style has been copied for decades from the east to the west and especially Memphis and down south.

[@head1tmovement694]

@@naswiipp i mean i could believe it bc they all from the Chi but i didnt think Kanye was doing beats way back then

[@head1tmovement694]

I just looked it up. It was Trackster. But Ye started doing beats and rappin the same year Po Pimp came out

[@Bob-te3le]

Cap. The Legendary Traxster did.

[@SuperCrazyPsycho731]

Super Wolf kicks 96 or whatever was called anyway. Local hip hop station used to play tongue twister before to straight up banning any kind of street rap. But back then he wasn't considered gangster rap. He hadn't chopped it up with do or die yet lol Then Super started ego tripping I guess

[@anthonytyler3474]

"Feel so good" off of adrenaline rush descibed every day life in the Chi. Street mfs probably had a day or 2 in the summer descibed by twista in that song. I know i did. Hearing that to this day brings me back to "rolling through the hood with Phillies and h*#s, straight pimpin with no where to go". My nigg.

[@maralinekozial9131]

Everyone here from Chicago that grew up in the 90's would automatically tell u that Mobbstabilty is actually just as much of a masterpiece as "Adrenaline Rush" if not even better liked by most of us here & only halfass rookie fans or fans from out of town or that don't live in the Midwest that didn't discover him before he finally blew up in 2003 would disagree with me about that!!!! Most of on here if not all of y'all only discovered him after he made Kamakazi & hooked up with Kanye😂😂😂😂💯 Also "The Day After" which is the follow up to that album is actually better than "Kamikazi" is & "Catagory : F5" is better than all of his other albums combined other than ofcorse for Adrenaline Rush & Mobstability cuz 90's Twista was the greatest ever back then & he was completely untouchable , if u don't know then u don't understand true lyricsm & lyrics & lyricists!!!! The only rappers of the 90's that even came close back then to him or was ahead of their time like him other than NaS , Bizzy Bone & obviously Eminem!!!!!

[@barrysmith5945]

FUCK THAT TWISTA IS A HIP HOP LEGEND

[@Bob-te3le]

Facts. Goat for me.

[@Thespeedrap]

The Day After is a very underrated album and surprisingly good during 2005 that's when Mainstream Hip-pop music started taking things a little bit cheesy with that snapping mess.

[@denniscole5105]

She said she want some Marvin gaye some Luther vandross

[@chiruffryder]

Chicago Westside always claimed Twista