- Jimmy Fishbein
- Twista
“I’m known for a certain tempo of music,” says Chicago hip-hop veteran Twista. The tempo is remarkably fast—after all, the man otherwise known as Terrell Mitchell landed in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992, the same year he released his debut album, Runnin’ Off at da Mouth. More than two decades later and Mitchell is still at it—today he releases his ninth album, The Dark Horse.
“It’s my city, man. I think everybody represents the town they’re from, and it’s a part of their hearts—it’s just bigger than a location. Me being from Chicago I definitely want to always give back. I think just with age and over time, [I’m] in a position to do different things to come up with different ways to give back to the community. It started out with just rap shows, talent shows, and things like that. Now we’ve evolved to things like the [Sole] Expo, charity basketball games, and so many other things.”
“Reading, just chillin’ around reading a bunch of different things. I saw that one of the Beatles was considered a dark horse—I always forget his name too when I’m ready to tell somebody where I got the idea from [Editors’ note: George Harrison]. They called him the ‘dark horse’ because he was a writer yet you knew Paul McCartney and all of the other guys’ names more, but he wrote songs for the Beatles.
“So I’m always gonna make some noise on some level. Usually when I get mad I go hard. Somebody make me mad enough I shake everything up a little bit.”
