Twista admits to using a Ghostwriter

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Here's the thing....

I don't care if rappers have ghostwriters as long as they're up front with it. I've said that since day 1 of the Drake fiasco.

If I had a problem with ghostwriting across the board there would be no Eazy-E, Ye, or Dre in my playlist.

This Twista shyt is :manny: to me because he said his best shyt was him. He'd already established himself as "Twista" in hip-hop before he used ghostwriters on 3-4 songs, across a 25 year long career.

I'm sure Drake stans are salivating at the chance to use this interview to validate him....let me put an end to that.

Drake was accused of using ghost writers since day 1, and never addressed it, even after the reference track stuff. He just did soft ball interviews and dodged the question.

That is what I have a problem with. Because he built a career and legacy off someone else, and won't even admit it. And that's where Twista went full retard in the interview, saying stuff like that doesn't matter.

Fred.

Was he? Im not sure Meek said anything about that.
 

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Nothing new or surprising here.... Your favorite MCs have collaborated ideas, used writing pools, and have had verses written for them.....
 
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In what way?
basically cultivating division, making up shyt as they go along, persistently revising history and carrying on like these perceived "problems " with rap music are new. that purist shyt started late 90s and it's like liberals on the Internet...always got a problem with something
 
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Its spooky out here.... Game doing that 1992 mixtape with no features

But it definitely looks like there will be other writers



I see that boy Stat QUO in there

Its crazy that nikkas using ghostwriters for mixtapes... I understand albums but why on a mixtape?


EDIT.... Nevermind he deleted the video :lolbron:
 
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This is why no one is taking meeks side with the exception of a couple nikkas... hooks, bars, flows, cadences get tossed around all the time...

He shot himself in the foot... ghostwriting, ghost producing all goes on.. its not to the point where nikkas are writing WHOLE albums for nikkas.. i think thats where y'all getting confused... (with the exception of puff, dre, etc.)

I think it's funny all these internet message board hip-hop purists who romanticize rappers on some "they were alone in the lab with nothing but a pen and a pad" keep re-structuring the arguments around ghostwriting when this guy who's been in the game just basically laid it out in plain language.

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Was he? Im not sure Meek said anything about that.

Nickelus F. did an interview for Complex where he admitted he wrote on "Room For Improvement", which came out in '06.

They asked him to go into detail about what he wrote and he said he couldn't. He admitted he wrote at least one verse on "So Far Gone", '09.

He said he was not credited for it.

Nobody really paid attention to that, or random people on Twitter claiming QM, Hush, etc. was writing for Drake. Kia Shine claimed he wrote "Best I Ever Had", etc.

@SunZoo had a bunch of Tweets from back in the day, long before the Meek thing. This was '08-10, around there.

Fast forward to 2015, and Meek/QM happens.

So I'm :dead: at people talking about "well, why take Twista's word for it, that he didn't have help early in his career". Gee....I dunno, because we don't have proof and a time line, like with Drake?

Fred.
 
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