It is a blessing when remarkable people that I admire make time for me to interview them. Those conversations are reflections of us both, that’s why it matters what I ask.
One of the people I was blessed to speak with was multi-platinum Hip Hop icon Twista.
During our interview about his career growth, I asked this GOOD QUESTION: How has your flow changed since Kamikaze?
Twista answered, “The way I was doing my songs before was crazy because I was trying to get on. I was putting my all and then some into them. I was writing everything to perfection. But after Kamikaze blew up, the feeling I had of something either being wrong with me or where I’m from was lifted.
So now I know it ain’t nothing wrong with my flow. It ain’t nothing wrong with the way I’m putting it down. So, I started getting real loose with it. No time did I ever release an album with a song on it that I didn’t write … except The Day After. The thing I did different was record songs without even writing some of them.
My whole swagger and mojo is up so good that I’m able to walk in the studio knowing how the fans love me and how I put it down, They know what I’m talking about and how to relate to me, so let me just go spit it how I feel it. I did half the songs on this album without even writing them. On some of the songs I was able to get as intricate as I could when I write my rhymes.
But for the most part, by me not writing them and spitting them the way I spit them, it opened my flow up so I wasn’t so lyrical. It was a little more natural flow.” | By Mr. Joe Walker
