I’ve held conversations with people who consider themselves to be Twista’s biggest fan. They mention Adrenaline Rush as his first LP – which it isn’t. But who can really be mad if this album was their first experience with the Chicago icon formally known as Tung Twista.
On Rush Twista modified the blurring pace of his flow just enough to allow his vivid storytelling to be pictured clearly.
With production handled by The Legendary Traxter, Twista gave ears an epic delivery almost unmatched in 1997. This album is packed with a meticulously arranged array of consecutive rhyming lines that remains a blueprint for machine-gun-lyricism today.
Over the haunting piano keys of “Unsolved Mystery” Twista rhymes, “In the state of emergency urgently the ambulance will come, and then the law will come demand the gun / But bullshit irrelevance they need evidence, or trippin on elegance they be holdin out they hands for some / If anything they’ll hand ’em some, Or get wit him here come the victim he be shot up in his pants and lungs…cause he actin hard and ran his tongue”.
Every song on Adrenaline Rush has verses worth quoting entirely.
For proof of excellence see “Overdose”, “Death Before Dishonor”, “Emotions” featuring Johnny P, and all-time favorite “Get It Wet” featuring Ms. Kane.
This may not be his first album but it’s certainly a classic. |THIS.
[By Mr. Joe Walker]
