Twista: "Adrenaline Rush" I Was In A Zone I Knew Nobody Could F With Me, Treach Dissed Me So I ....

[Wacky D]

I'm saying in terms when people talk about good rap albums from 90s I don't see it mentioned too much...

Here is an example, they don't even have it as one of the top 40 rap albums of 1997

https://hiphopgoldenage.com/list/top-40-hip-hop-albums-1997/

its more of a backpack website.
they had company flow at #1.

they do have adrenaline rush in the honorable mentions tho, alongside a bunch of albums that were actually running the game that year. they didnt even put master p's ghetto d in the honorable mentions, but that one was a personal jab. LOL.

 

[Wacky D]

How was this overlooked?
Emotions & Get it Wet got plenty of radio play
it was played everywhere in the hood
if you’re talking about in terms of sales, I don’t know how it did, but the album was way too hood to appeal to white people.

That Twista was a hood classic off word of mouth and is exactly why Rocafella wanted to sign him.

yall gotta stop that "WHITE" chit.
it was more regional than a white/black thing.

twista always had white fans, at least by adrenaline rush. theyre the reason why i knew about him, and bought the album in the first place back in '98. they didnt play him on the radio up here, and it was the black folks who would ask me 'why do i listen to that'. not the white cats.

also, theres nothing especially hood about that album. its just standard gangsta gunplay content thats easy for suburbanites to follow. theres nothing intricate about the album in terms of hood content & nuances, nor is it slang-heavy. it doesnt alienate the white audience at all, even the girl records are moreso on the pimpish side, so white buls arent alienated by those cuts either.

Adrenaline Rush went gold in 1999 and platinum in 2019. I remember in the mid 2000s it was always on the Soundscan Top 10 Recurrent Album sales chart aka the top selling old albums weekly.

of course it was.

i hope youre not insinuating that he was some sort of underground hood rapper in the mid-2000s. this is when he was extra-mainstream, and adrenaline rush was the album that was always name-dropped as his best work. so of course that album was on that chart thru that whole period.

 

[Wacky D]

 

[LevelUp]

^Classic

 

[bigmanharris]

thats not what i said.

i said he had meh PROMOTION.(aside from performing on jenny jones)

I dont know how you got "production" out of that.

My bad dawg. I'm guilty of skimming thru like Jay said

 

[Marlo Barksdale]

yall gotta stop that "WHITE" chit.
it was more regional than a white/black thing.

twista always had white fans, at least by adrenaline rush. theyre the reason why i knew about him, and bought the album in the first place back in '98. they didnt play him on the radio up here, and it was the black folks who would ask me 'why do i listen to that'. not the white cats.

also, theres nothing especially hood about that album. its just standard gangsta gunplay content thats easy for suburbanites to follow. theres nothing intricate about the album in terms of hood content & nuances, nor is it slang-heavy. it doesnt alienate the white audience at all, even the girl records are moreso on the pimpish side, so white buls arent alienated by those cuts either.

Twista wasn't MTV, he was more BET Rap City and hood to hood word of mouth.

Twista got mad love on the East Coast too. He was on songs with Jay-Z ("Is That Yo Chick") and Puff Daddy ("Is It The End"). And he was spittin that pimp/player game.

He just got stuck with label issues from 1997 until 2003 that kept him from expanding. But nah, you're not gonna see many YT critics giving it up to Adrenaline Rush.

 

[CHICAGO]

oh shyt worrrrrd, the always overlooked midwest right?... i always said if both twist & do or die were west coast artists we would be discussing them as straight up legends no question

thank god bone hooked up with eazy or they might have ended up being underrated like them too who knows

TWISTA IS DISCUSSED AS A LEGEND.



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[MrRDU]

Never listened to it but I'll peep off the strength of this thread

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

Burying some heads like an Ostrich

 

[Wacky D]

Twista wasn't MTV, he was more BET Rap City and hood to hood word of mouth.

in the mid-2000s??

Twista got mad love on the East Coast too. He was on songs with Jay-Z ("Is That Yo Chick") and Puff Daddy ("Is It The End"). And he was spittin that pimp/player game.

He just got stuck with label issues from 1997 until 2003 that kept him from expanding. But nah, you're not gonna see many YT critics giving it up to Adrenaline Rush.

youre talking industry placements.

im talking about whats really going on up top. twista was non-existent amongst east coast rap fans, aside from a few guest verses. he was never on the radio either. and im not sure why youre bringing up pimp rap as some sort of selling point. that stuff isnt popular up here.

all im saying is, it wasnt a black/white thing with twista, and his content certainly wasnt "too black".
he was just a regional guy whose bread-n-butter was the midwest and parts of the south until he clicked up with kanye/rocafella.

 

[old boy]

TWISTA IS DISCUSSED AS A LEGEND.



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ok true, so i should have been more clear because there are levels to this. let's be honest, is twista even discussed on par with west coast legend from dallas one album d.o.c.? lol nah he isn't which is odd when you think about it

there is a respect thrown on the name of d.o.c. (deserved no doubt but fukk with me) that is not as strong for twista who gave us adrenaline rush, kamikaze, and the day after. a 3-peat of cooked crack through & through with big hits to boot. matter of fact the only person i ever see consistently beating the drum for twista being an elite lyricist is rakim allah because most times he's never even mentioned

 

[CHICAGO]

ok true, so i should have been more clear because there are levels to this. let's be honest, is twista even discussed on par with west coast legend from dallas one album d.o.c.? lol nah he isn't which is odd when you think about it

there is a respect thrown on the name of d.o.c. (deserved no doubt but fukk with me) that is not as strong for twista who gave us adrenaline rush, kamikaze, and the day after. a 3-peat of cooked crack through & through with big hits to boot. matter of fact the only person i ever see consistently beating the drum for twista being an elite lyricist is rakim allah because most times he's never even mentioned

DOC GETS REVERED DUE
TO HIS ACCIDENT.

IVE NEVER HEARD ANYONE
PUT HIM ABOVE TWISTA.

TWISTA IS ONE OF THE
MOST RESPECTED SPITTERS
IN THE GAME AMONGST ALL REGIONS.

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[Wacky D]

there is a respect thrown on the name of d.o.c. (deserved no doubt but fukk with me) that is not as strong for twista who gave us adrenaline rush, kamikaze, and the day after. a 3-peat of cooked crack through & through with big hits to boot. matter of fact the only person i ever see consistently beating the drum for twista being an elite lyricist is rakim allah because most times he's never even mentioned

DOC album had a bigger impact than any twista release.
plus he was a big part of the NWA/Ruthless movement.
granted, i think hes overrated by newer fans who hype him because of the NWA/death row affiliation and his career being cut short. but still, his impact was nothces above twista who's biggest release was kamikaze.

btw, "the day after" was TRASH.
ressurrection and AR2007 were much better.
ar2007 flew under the radar because "the day after" was so awful.

 

[pete clemenza]

Hell yeah he was in a zone. That album was straight flames!

 

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