![]() “The Perfect Storm” attempts to put Twista back on the weather map for 2010, recognizing that the legendary rapper needs to appeal to both his commercial crossover base and his hardcore fast flow fans. These albums slowed Twista’s momentum even further, downgrading him from a once powerful hurricane into a much less devastating tropical storm. Our staff writers were brutal in their assessment of these albums, but also entirely fair in recognizing these were ultimately destined for clearance bins. ![]() To be fair though these albums could be considered classics compared to misguided side projects that featured Chicago homies and his Get Money Gang familia. What followed wereunderwhelming new albums that while still good by contemporary hip-hop standards did not hold up to Twista’s previous efforts. When “Kamikaze” dropped it was hard to imagine any rapper being hotter, but for multiple reasons (including music industry politics) he was unable to maintain that momentum. In the meteorology of hip-hop Twista’s career has gone from record temperature highs to barometric pressure lows over the span of two decades.
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