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Hip-Hop Icon Twista Sends Message to Father Pfleger Regarding His Recent Comments

Wednesday June 5, 2008 (Chicago, IL)- Hip-Hop Icon, Twista, is speaking out against Father Pfleger’s recent comments regarding Senator Hillary Clinton, remarking on Pfleger’s hypocrisy. A little less than one year ago, Pfleger used funds raised his Chicago church to erect billboards across the city criticizing rap lyrics, specifically targeting Twista among other rappers.

Pfleger also contacted McDonald’s and saw to it that the rapper was removed from a McDonald’s tour that he was originally contracted to participate in. Twista has released the following message for Pfleger.

“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Just last summer Father Pfleger said my words was trash to the community and I didn’t deserve to be on the McDonalds tour. It’s crazy how the tables turned in just under a year. Father Pfleger’s own words and opinions of Mrs. Clinton came In the worst way and now he expects for the world and his church to give him a full acceptance. Do you think its right that he apologizes and gets away with his words? Did he really lose anything? I lost a multi million dollar contract, he embarrassed and disgraced my name in public by his billboards calling my music trash. He even went as far as getting Bill O’Reily to get on TV to diss me as well, and not once did he ever call me or even ask me my opinion of my views and music.

All it took was the young generation to expose him of his true colors, big shout out to Youtube.com, for putting him on blast. Mr. Pfleger is in a much stronger position than I am. I represent the streets and hip-hop while he is a representative of God and I feel like he should have been a little more careful of his words too. I don’t look for any apologies from him, McDonalds, or even little Bill O’Reily. I keep it street and 100 by saying ‘LOOK WHO’S CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK’. “

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THE RETURN OF THE REAL ISH…10 YEARS IN THE MAKING… TWISTA…

ADRENALINE RUSH 2007ARRIVES SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Features “Give It Up” w/ Pharrell Williams

Production & guests include R Kelly, Lil’ Wayne, T- Pain, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Ceelo & Jazze Pha

· 1973, November 27 Carl Terrell Mitchell Born in Chicago, Illinois

· 1991 released Runnin’ Off at Da Mouth under the name of Tung Twista.

· 1996 teamed with fellow Chicago act Do or Die on the track “Po’ Pimp;” the track became a hit single, leading to a contract with Atlantic Records

· 1997 released Adrenaline Rush which went platinum. Many fans regard this album as Twista’s best album.

· 1998 Mobstability hit stores

· 2004 Kamikaze hits number-one on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart

· 2005 the game Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition was released and featuring three of Twista’s songs; “Sunshine”, “like a 24″, which featured T.I. & Liffy Stokes; and “Overnight Celebrity”, which featured and was produced by Kanye West

· 2005 “Hope” appeared on the soundtrack to the film, Coach Carter

· 2006 joined Kanye West & Keyshia Cole for the lead single “Impossible” on the Mission Impossible 3 Soundtrack

· 2007 Twista begins his Red Eye column with the Chicago Tribune, where he answers readers questions about ongoing social issues

· Spring 2007 Twista called out President Bush, condemning him as ‘bogus’ for vetoing a bill to withdraw American troops from Irag and inspiring Americans to not be afraid to speak out

· 2007, July 7th Give It Up w/Pharrell videopremieres on AOL

· 2007, July 11th Twista hosts ‘Behind the Cut’ Listening Event sponsored by NASCAR & Red Bull. This is the first collaboration between NASCAR and a hip-hop-artist

· 2007, July 31 Twista responds to McDonald’s decision to cancel his participation in the McDonald’s live tour

· RETURN OF THE REAL SH** ADRENALINE RUSH 2007 IN STORES SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Twista featuring Pharell Williams – Give It Up video

by Dru Hepkins

Unbeknownst to most, Twista’s tornado into the rap game began as far back as ‘91 – and he’s still here stronger than ever. There aren’t too many rap artists from the late 80’s or early 90’s that can boast of that kind of longevity. Twista can put another feather in his pimp hat for how he’s done it; the man is on pace for growing larger with each decade. Twista has risen from his notoriety as the Guinness Book of World Record’s “Fastest Rapper” in the 90’s, all the way to his smash hit single “Slow Jams” with Kanye West and Jamie Fox. In 2007 Twista has blown his way to NYC promoting his new album “Adrenaline Rush” out in stores this August and MVRemix had an exclusive sit down with the Chi-town icon.

MVRemix: Many people may not know that you’ve been on the scene since ‘91. Describe your entrance into the game.

Twista: I’m like Christopher Columbus baby – I been discovered and around for years! Nah [laughs], I won a contest to get on the radio. From that contest I met my first manager. From that manager, I met a promoter who worked for Loud Records in LA. A guy named Fade who worked at Loud heard my stuff and I was rapping all fast and shit–and no one else was doing that. We all set it off from there – that was in ‘91.

MVRemix: What were your musical influences at the time?

Twista: A lot of the stuff that I used to hear in the Taverns, you know? Like that my step pop used to play. He used to DJ in this Tavern around the way. So my very first influence was him playing a lot of blues and slow jams. But the movie that started it all for me was Crush Groove. Once I seen it that was it – it was on and poppin’ after that.

MVRemix: Would you say hip hop today is on a decline or are we in a good place?

Twista: I would say we in a cocoon like stage…and when it hatches I don’t know what the fuck is gonna happen [laughs].

MVRemix: So you’re pleased with what’s coming out lately?

Twista: Man, when you stop liking things, you really got to stop and wonder if it’s really just you getting old. Once you stop liking stuff that’s usually the case. You gotta think about what you was talking about as a young rapper, you know what I’m saying?

MVRemix: I know you’ve been asked a million times, but describe your affiliations with Kanye and the with the Roc.

Twista: I met Kanye in Chicago and I would always see him. A lot of times I’d go to his house and listen to different beats and just hang out. I used watch Kanye and my other man battle all the time. Kanye always thought he could beat everybody and him and my boy thought they could beat each other so we used to sit and watch them go at it. This was back before everything. We had regular, fun, hip hop times.

MVRemix: In the South it’s hooky and bouncy, in the east we look for lyrics, what’s the Chi-town hip hop scene like?

Twista: It’s a melting pot. We got a lot of Common, we got a lot of Kanye, but then you also got people like Mickey who was down with Cash Money Records at one time. You got the street and the style element with acts like me, Crucial Conflict, Do or Die – we got our own sound.

MVRemix: Is that a good or bad thing for blowing up into the mainstream?

Twista: It does make it harder. That’s kind of the same reason why it’s been so hard for the Midwest to get in, every coast caters to their audience. Everyone has to sell something to somewhere, and everybody on the outskirts sells to the middle. But it’s hard for us in the middle to really branch out to everyone else.

MVRemix: I know house is pretty big in Chicago. Do you listen to house?

Twista: Oh yea – for sure. House is big out there and sure it influences some of the music. You don’t realize but you could blend my whole album to a house track.

MVRemix: Are there any house DJ’s you pay homage to?

Twista: Fast Eddy. That’s my man right there. We gonna work together in the future too.

MVRemix: What would you say is the secret to your longevity?

Twista: Man – Chicago is like Count Crystal Lake and I’m Jason. [The industry] tried to drown [Chicago]. Then they tried to swim threw our city like shit is all sweet then I jumped out the water all scuffed up with the blade in hand just hacking mother fuckers up. Then it’s Jason more cheese part one, Jason more cheese part 2… and then you realize, no matter how many bogus deals I get, no matter how many fucked up sound scan albums he put out, Twista, “The Black Jason of Rap”, always keep coming back.

MVRemix: Besides your Guinness Book of Records recognized fast flow, what else sets you apart from the rest?

Twista: Hmmm… [pause] Aside from the fast flow… style. Even it it’s not fast, it’s the way I’ll rap to a beat. No matter what track I’m featured on, I take the way I flow over the beat to heart. I put my all into giving them what I think they want and what I think the track needs.

MVRemix: In your opinion, what’s your highest achievement thus far?

Twista: Not just music?

MVRemix: Anything, anything you’re most proud of or anything that made you look back and say, ok this is my pinnacle, or anything that made you say, “I made it.”

Twista: Man… [pause] That’s a good question. Everything I got. But I think it’s when I first bought my house, and when I was able to take care of my family. Flat out, being able to pay bills and take care of my family.

MVRemix: When did you buy the house?

Twista: Man… I can’t even remember. Recently though. Just recently.

MVRemix: Was there a memorable low point of your career where you were feeling “I just don’t know”.

Twista: Oh yeah. I wasn’t always a happy Atlantic [Records] artist. I’ve been going through a lot of trials and tribulations. I been rapping since 12 and I got a deal at 18. So I grew up in the industry and when I first got a deal that’s when niggas came at me with pistols and shit, that’s when I had to run and hide for my life and shit.

MVRemix: Our publication caters to an audience of hip hop lovers, many who are trying to get in the game or just simply fans of hip hop. As a successful artist with impressive longevity, what advice would you give to aspiring rappers looking at you?

Twista: Let ‘em bite in the neck 3 times and you’ll live long [laughs]. Nah, but like I said – stay youthful. Once you see the “Walk it Out” and the “Chicken Noodle Soup”, and you diss and put them in a category, understand it’s a style of music. They all blowin’ up so people must wanna hear it. So you got to figure “Okay, how can I not be into that?” But give them just a little to compromise. But stay young – try to understand all this young new music, and be smart and intelligent.

MVRemix: After the Imus situation, a lot of focus has been placed on the vulgarity of rap lyrics. What’s your take on the situation?

Twista: I think we straight. We just take a couple blows when somebody do something wrong and need somebody to blame. I think hip hop was cool and people just search around in other directions. What should be addressed was what was said. [Hip hop is] cultural music. It got huge but it’s still cultural music. That’s just how we feel and we understand it. Ain’t nobody getting mad. Don’t walk in our kitchen and tell is to turn our music down. The day my black sisters band together and say they don’t like it – then that’s when I’ll stop.

MVRemix: Your album. You came out with “Adrenaline Rush” in 1997, why “Adrenaline Rush” in 2007?

Twista: Just bringing it back. It’s 10 years later. I’m a numbers person and I like the number 7 and we coming back in 07. So it’s 07, 10 years later, let’s hit ‘em with an adrenaline rush again.

MVRemix: What will we be hearing in this album that we haven’t heard before?

Twista: Slow lyrics. People heard [slower lyrics from me] before – but not in the way you gonna hear it in this album. It’s enough to make a fan say damn – he snapped!

MVRemix: So is the fast rap thing something you eventually want to evolve out of?

Twista: I want to stay me, but I definitely want to give different things and a little something new every time.

MVRemix: Any parting words?

Twista: To hear more from Twista, grab that Speed knot Mobsters album, “Nation Business” coming to you in October. To a theater near you! [laughs].

MVRemix: And “Adrenaline Rush” of course.

Twista: Oh yeah, of course. Twista the Black Jason coming out in store near you!

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