Steve Lobel caught up with Twista in the studio for an episode of Live With Steve Lobel.
Most of their conversation, which spans six-minutes, deals with Twista’s hometown of Chicago. Twista and Lobel cover the up-and-coming artists from Chi-Town and Kanye West, one of the city’s most successful acts.
After explaining to Lobel that the term Chi-Raq is outdated and “it’s just Chi-Town” now, Twista explains how the city may have a few leading candidates, there isn’t just one sound that encompasses the city.
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“We’re a melting pot, Chicago or the Midwest, a lot of the music is driven by the south and what I hear coming from Atlanta or the whole South by [south west] which is dope, real dope,” he says during the clip. “You got artists like Chief Keef or Lil Durk taking the vibe of Chicago and putting it on their shoulders. You still have so many vibes.”
Lobel asks Twista if he’s “still cool” with Kanye since he “blew up.”
“We just haven’t talked in a long time,” Twista says. “Even though we don’t reach out to each other all the time, I’m pretty much in my zone. He’s in his zone. If we ever reached out, there’s no problem or anything like that. We just haven’t been around each other in a nice while.
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“As far as him coming up, doing his thing, you already seen it,” Twista adds. “That’s something I always seen, his ambition and where he saw his self and what he planned to do, he always had that vision. It was fun to see something that was just a vision come to life. It was fun to sit and watch it all manifest.”
Currently, the rapid rhymesayer is working on a new EP with Do Or Die. Twista also revealed that he recorded a handful of songs with Afroman, as well.
Check out the full interview below:
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