★★★★★
It's nothing short of amazing to listen to Chicago rapper Carl Mitchell (aka Twista) spit rhymes. He's one of the few rappers whose stage name actually personifies how his rhymes sound and make you feel. But his rhymes can twist you both ways. They can spin and fling you up to higher ground, or they can hurl you down into the cesspool of cliché in the blink of an eye. He can slice and dice words like a razor-sharp Ginsu knife...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
In the meteorology of hip-hop Twista's career has gone from record temperature highs to barometric pressure lows over the span of two decades. When "Kamikaze" dropped it was hard to imagine any rapper being hotter, but for multiple reasons (including music industry politics) he was unable to maintain that momentum. What followed were underwhelming new albums that while still good by contemporary hip-hop standards did not hold up to Twista's previous efforts...
- rapreviews.com
2010-11-22
★★★★★
To some extent, ol' Twisty is nothing more than The Clapper, CLR and those fucked-up Bowflex machines: a gimmick that grows tired about ten minutes after the buyer's remorse sets in. In this case, his hook is that he's the original double-time MC, speeding up his rhymes to the point that he made the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's fastest rapper (now that's a committee I would pay to sit in on). With guests from Ludacris to Cee-Lo, and production help from Kanye West, R...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Seems like only yesterday Twista was bringing back the double-time raps to the mainstream, but after his huge debut and countless cameos, he's big willy and the list of guests here proves it. The frenetic up-tempo banger Hit the Floor with Pitbull is hawt, and track 12 uses a slow beat to illustrate how fast the mofo can rhyme...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
It's long been known that rappers don't major on subtlety, so it should come as no surprise to find Twista faking the explosion of his own carin the first minute of his fifth album. It's an immediate cue for anguished wailing on the part of diva Syleena Johnson, as she assures therapper "you're gonna make it!" as he fights for his life.And guess what...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Hip-hop's reigning contortionist, Twista, has built a 16-year career cramming syllables where they don't belong, at autobahn speeds. An enduring novelty, he's had his biggest success (and he's at his most palatable) pairing his breakneck flow with that of a slower, more reasonable collaborator: His hurried appearance on Kanye West's down-tempo "Slow Jamz" made for a lively contradiction. On his sixth album, a guest list including R...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
If the path his career has taken was a road through the windy city of Chicago, one could definitely say it was twisted. One of the first rappers signed to Loud Records back in 1992, he was launched into fame when the 1992 Guinness Book of World Records named him the fastest rapper in the world. Unfortunately his debut on "Runnin' Off at Da Mouth" (then known as Tung Twista) didn't even crack 100,000 units, and he promptly asked for his release...
- rapreviews.com
2010-05-01
★★★★★
Tetsuya 'Ted' Fujita had an impact on pop culture he could never have predicted in a million years. He passed away over a decade ago at the age of 78, but during his lifetime he was one of the pre-eminent worldwide experts on powerful weather phenomena. While researching tornadoes he developed the Fujita Scale, a simplified way of explaining the type of damage and destruction that different storms caused, rating them from F0 up to F5...
- rapreviews.com
2009-08-29
★★★★★
Twista's latest album has little to do with the 1997 album from which it takes its name. The original "Adrenaline Rush" marked Twista's break through as the singles "Emotions" and "Get It Wet" received heavy radio rotation. The album also marked Twista's change in style as his gangsta/playa persona was a sharp departure from the Muslim, positive Tung Twista found on 1992's "Runnin' Off At Da Mouth." "Adrenaline Rush 2007" on the other hand finds Twista taking a few steps back...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
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