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In an exclusive interview with DJBooth.net, Twista steps into the Booth to discuss his “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours,” approach to scoring big-name guest features, what Midwestern rappers need to do in order to achieve mainstream success in today’s music industry, and whose beats he thinks make him sound the absolute best—Kanye‘s or Traxster‘s?
Plus Twitter-talk, his EMI label deal, and the "Fakon"-version of "On Top" that leaked to the net.
Quotable:
DJ Booth: There’s a promotional video for the new album, and it states, “In a time where hip-hop is lost, one man will help find it.” So, two-part question for you: one, when exactly do you feel hip-hop went missing, and, two, why is Twista the right man to lead this search party?
Twista: Okay, that’s a two-part question, gotcha. I would say hip-hop didn’t come up missing, I would say people started thinking hip-hop came up missing. And no disrespect to Nas, because Nas is really one of my favorite rappers, period, he’s definitely in my top five, but when you make statements like, “Hip-hop is dead,” which, he was a genius when he made it, ‘cause he got everybody talkin’ about it, you create things in people’s heads. That started the whole vibe that hip-hop might not have been around, but really it just changes, man. The younguns come in and they do it their way. Then we get used to what they’re doing, and the people younger than them come in and do it their way, and it just keeps evolving.
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