Twista released his eighth solo album entitled, The Perfect Storm on November 9, 2010. In 2009, Twista appeared on the single "Legendary" with fellow Chicago rappers AK47 of Do or Die and Saurus and Bones. In 2008, Twista launched a new record label called "Get Money Gang Entertainment" and the album Category F5 with the hit, "Wetter". Twista appeared on the single " Hell No (Leave Home)" from Monica's album fall 2006 The Makings of Me. This album sold poorly compared to Twista's earlier albums. Its singles were "Give it Up" featuring Pharrell and "Creep Fast" featuring T-Pain. His next album, Adrenaline Rush 2007 came out in 2007. It featured the hit singles "Girl Tonite" featuring Trey Songz, "Hit the Floor" featuring Pitbull, and " So Lonely" featuring Mariah Carey. Twista's album The Day After was released in 2005. The Kamikaze album and its singles gave Twista a new level of success and rose his profile significantly within the rap community. The remix of the song "Jook Gal" by Elephant Man featured Twista and the YoungBloodZ. Kelly) the album sold around two million copies. Other singles included "Overnight Celebrity" and "So Sexy" (featuring R. Its first single " Slow Jamz" (also featured on Kanye West's debut album The College Dropout), featured West and Jamie Foxx and became a number-one hit in the US. Kamikaze came out in 2004 and debuted at the top spot of the American Billboard 200 album chart. 2 album, on the track "Twisted Heat." He also collaborated with Memphis Bleek on "Is That Your Chick" on "The Understanding" album.īeginning in 2002, Twista began recording his album Kamikaze with rappers like Kanye West and Ludacris. In 2000, Twista collaborated with Ruff Ryders and Drag-On on the Ruff Ryders: Ryde or Die Vol. 3 in 2002 and Volume 4: Tha Truth in 2006. The label later released Respect The Game, Vol. Twista then formed his own Legit Ballin' label, which released two compilation albums: Legit Ballin ' in 1999 and Legit Ballin' Vol. They released their first album, Mobstability produced entirely by the Legendary Traxster, in 1998. In 1998, Twista teamed with other Chicago area rappers to form the Speedknot Mobstaz.
The album also spawned a Billboard Hot 100 hit in "Get It Wet" produced by the Legendary Traxster, which peaked at #96. Adrenaline Rush became Twista's first charting album, as it peaked at #77 on the Billboard Hot 200. Twista had by then dropped the "Tung" from his stage name. This led to a Cwal's label deal with Atlantic Records, which released Adrenaline Rush in 1997. In 1996, he teamed with Chicago producer The Legendary Traxster and Cwal's Do or Die on the track " Po Pimp" produced by the Legendary Traxster, which became a hit single. His second album, titled Resurrection, was set to be released in 1994, but due to problems with his record label at the time Atlantic Records and marketing issues involving fellow Chicago rapper Common's album of the same name, the album was only released in the city of Chicago and thus got little national attention. In 1992, Mitchell released his first album called Runnin' Off at da Mouth under the name Tung Twista. "I could just see you now with the look of disgust up on your face, to see the way I'm still killin' it," Twista spits on "War Ready." But don't look away, or you'll miss a word.Carl Terrell Mitchell was born on November 27, 1973, and grew up in the K-Town area of the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois and began rapping at the age of 12. But on 2019's Summer 96 mixtape, he revisits the high stakes of his days before stardom.
Kelly-assisted "So Sexy," Twista became a bona fide Midwestern legend, rapping alongside Mariah Carey, Chris Brown, Lady Gaga, Pharrell, and many more for over a decade.
With that love-themed single, another Kanye collab ("Overnight Celebrity"), and the R. All his work culminated in 2003's ubiquitous "Slow Jamz" featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx, which finds West accelerating a Luther Vandross sample as all three artists pay homage to R&B icons. After releasing 1997's Adrenaline Rush-a regional classic that laid his quick-tongued, laser-precise street lyrics over slinky, eerie production-Twista formed Speedknot Mobstaz while guesting on songs with Diddy, JAY-Z, and Ludacris. He released two albums in the early '90s, but his first major look came in 1996 alongside fellow Windy City emcees Do or Die on their "Po Pimp," which was formative for the city's rap scene. Born Carl Mitchell in 1973, Twista grew up on Chicago's West Side and started writing raps as a preteen, eventually landing in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992 as the fastest rapper alive. There's fast-rapping, and then there's Twista, whose syllable-stuffing flows have put him in a class of his own and the company of music's all-time greats.