Twista Follow

Flipping lyrics like a finely-conditioned rap acrobat,

Twista, formerly known as Tounge Twista, explodes on his

Creator's Way/Big Beat/Atlantic Records debut, Adrenaline

Rush.

Explaining the title, the artist says, "My style was

designed to pump listeners up, and when I went back and

listened to the recorded songs, the only name that made

sense was Adrenaline Rush."

Adrenaline Rush represents a true evolution. Six years

earlier, Twista introduced his swift Chicago flow to the

hip-hop scene on the landmark first album, Runnin' Off At

The Mouth. Though inspired by West coast and East coast

artists, he remembers merely "feeding off" of them. He

recounts, "The flow was there, but it's like I didn't have

a foundation. I was more about being flambouyant." (The