Twista has been in the game for quite some time, so it would make sense that he’d have some advice — and some props — for up-and-comers.
After his interview with HipHopDX, in a segment published on Saturday (March 9), the speed-rap legend took a listen to some heat by up-and-comer Dapper, and he had both compliments and constructive advice.
AD LOADING...
“Don’t be scared to stop sometimes, you know what I’m saying?” he said. “Switch it up a little. Switch up to some different shit.”
He continued: “You got to challenge yourself. Come up with it. But yeah, that’s dope, man. I like it a lot. That’s good shit.”
Check out the full interview below.
Twista certainly knows good Hip Hop when he hears it.
Elsewhere in the same interview, he shared his initial reaction to Drizzy when asked about the first time he listened to the Canadian rapper.
AD LOADING...
A little unclear on the exact moment, he began: “Probably coming back from a show on the road or at the studio, y’know, and not being around a lot of people when I was listening to it ’cause I was in my own creative space.
“It wasn’t like I was watching everybody vibe out to it; I’m sitting here listening to it myself, so I know a dope rapper when I hear it.”
“Once the n-gga said, ‘I do one song and use four flows,’ it was over right there,’” he said, quoting “Going in for Life” from the 2007 mixtape Comeback Season. “Y’know, ’cause I know I do a song and use four flows, so when I heard somebody else say that, instantly I was like: ‘This cat is about to be, like, the man.’”
The 50-year-old rap veteran also remembered listening to Jay Electronica for the first time.
AD LOADING...
“I just went crazy when I heard him,” he admitted. “He sounds like the pure essence of Hip Hop to me, y’know what I mean? Like if you looked up Hip Hop in the dictionary, there his ass go, right there.
“That’s what he sounded like to me, like just the pure essence of Hip Hop — lyrically, vocally, the whole intent, the way he sounds on Just Blaze’s music. Y’know, everything is just dope, so I like him as an artist.”
