24: Being that you are a legend in the game. My first question is how do you feel about the status of Hip Hop?

Twista: I feel like its over saturated. I feel like there’s too many artist in the game. I know that a lot of people want to do they thing and that’s no the problem it’s just over time things become too much. I feel like we can’t really do our thing to the fullest and everybody be able to get out of it what they was able to get out of it a few years back. I feel in a positive aspect music is always going to be needed and just to get a vibe from. I feel likes there’s room for every thing but definitely I want to hear more lyrical MCs…


24: You and Kanye west have history of great music. Are we going to hear you two get together on this new project to create more classics?


Twista: I definitely got a track that’s going to be heard on the project a little later called ‘All Right’ produced by Kanye and No I.D. on the drums. I thinks it a hot joint! Everybody going get to hear it on this project up and coming soon.

24: You are highly respected, what would be your advice to young rappers coming up in the game?

Twista: Take advantage of how you can promote or push yourself. Back in the days you would have to run to the video station and run to people and try impress them and do what you have to do to be apart of their system to put your self on. So now you got things like YouTube which just really help you as a whole. You can get everything from your promotional outlets and your studio. Just take advantage of the way technology has a hold on music today.

24: July 14th is the date is the release date right?

Twista: Yes. July 14th Category F5 yezzir.

24: What can we expect from Category F5 ?

Twista: Me still doing my thing. That’s one thing I tried to make sure I always do. I know what fans love from Twista or I feel like I know so I try to deliver on that same aspect. So when you get in the car or whatever type of vibe you have when you bumping them drums you still going to feel that same type of vibe. I don’t let my self go down, I don’t decline like that. I still come in seriously doing my thing. You’re going to hear new jams with people like Lil Boosie, R.Kelly, and Gucci Mane. You definitely going to hear some classic joints like my new ‘Do or Die’ joint. You going to get what you expect from Twista. As far how he delivers, mixed in with some new ideas and some new people you wouldn’t expect to hear me with.

24: The features you have on the album are all around from Kellz to Gucci Mane. How was it to work with them?

Twista: It was real fun to be honest. My thing is that I’m an artist in the game and I try to come hard to be well respected but it’s whole another level of fun, if you really a fan of music. Me being a fan of Gucci and them, it’s okay I wanna do a song with them. It’s like a new artist would want to do it too. With me being Twista and still being a fan. Its just that big of a deal when I get in the studio build a cut with them. I’m a scientist with music in the studio so I love just making them formulas work and fit.

24: Can you explain to the world what Category F5 means?

Twista: Category F5 is a tornado or a twister and you weigh it like you do a Earthquake on a Richter scale. A F5 is a mother fucker man that’s the ones that tear up everything. I felt that it was clear and suiting to just be like okay Twista coming with category F5 we tearing up everything. The highest intensity of a twister that you can encounter. When you read the definition of it. It sounds real Hip Hop. It sound like a hip hop theory the way it be throwing cars through the air like missiles at 100 miles per hour and debarking trees and ripping homes from the foundation. Its just from my era of Hip Hop they always sound like rap lyrics. It’s just the whole thing about that title and definition are definitely suiting for my album.

24: Your set to drop in the hot summer. With the hot singles such as ‘Wetter part 2.’ How that come about you making a part 2?

Twista: Really getting back in the studio feeling like we need to take it back to the basics and what we do. We develop to get that vibe back and then me and him got the same mind set as far as being a scientist with the music. We love the idea of trying to formulate something that the fans are going to like from the same perspective that they liked the first couple of years. So we would even go into the element and the sounds, certain things we used in past songs. I try to come with that swagger that’s why i kick it off  with that 97 pimp flow/flipping to the track speed cause I feel like that sounds refreshing to peoples’ ears. In their life, if they were a true Twista fan they would be like aw shit I’m feeling that. We just trying to give the fans what they wanted from that original perspective cause we know it would work .

24: The single is doing good. 21.2 million streams on Myspace and reached the #13 on the Billboard for R&B/HipHop charts.

Twista: Yeah man!

24: You did some work with the late creative Static Major. How was that?

Twista: It was a real big thing. The disappointing part not being able to actually work with him in the studio on the song. But I feel like to some crazy extent its apart of my calling to do songs. A lot of people may feel it’s disrespectful or call it what they may feel to do a song with a person when they’re not alive. But you know that person was a fan of your music and you were a fan of theirs. I look at it as helping them continue there message. So when I did the ‘Spit Your Game’ for Biggie joint I felt that whole vibe and same thing when I did the Static Major joint. Knowing that he was a fan of my music knowing that he helped write Aaliyah, my home girl from Chicago, music, we channeled that connection. He actually had songs that reflected him being a fan of my music so the song that I picked I can tell he was in that Twista mind state when he did it cause it meshed perfect. Every time I tell people I got him on the album I tell them that’s like my tribute.

24: Respect. You’ve started off with loud records and landed at Atlantic, now you’re on EMI/Capitol. To you what has been the best position and Why?

Twista: Definitely the new position. I’m definitely more concerned with a now then anything. So right now is definitely where I’m at and what I’m doing is in the best position for me. But as far as what happened, I feel like its dope to say I’m a rap artist that survived in the game for the time I’ve been here and I stayed on the same label for ten years and ate off music for ten years on the same label. I ain’t no different from a athlete been on one team for a long time now it’s time to move on, got traded to another team, still get my checks, still go out there and ball.


24: You signed this exclusive deal with SayNow.com. Can you explain that a little more?

Twista: That’s just like a phone number that people can call and actually leave messages and sometimes I actually answer. I usually catch em by surprise but usually you can leave a verbal message or a text and lets me know what’s popping. I go on there and check it often and answer people back. So its like basically my phone but its on the internet too. Hit me up 312 533 4611.

24: July 14th Category F5 in stores. Any last words you want to say the world?

Twista: Enjoy the piece. In some ways I’m back and in some ways I ain’t never went no where. Respect me as a vampire in this game, the Black Jack of the Rap that I am. I feel like the fans going to enjoy my delivery. Blow good to it, do whatever you do to it that you love while you bumping that Twista and I’m a keep on making music for the fans.