HipHopWired: What’s going on right now with your label Get Money Gang Entertainment? What’s your opinion on going independent? I don’t hold any hard feelings on any level. I look at him as a person that I know in the industry, like one of my associates. I was with Atlantic for ten years and there were a lot of instances where Craig believed in me and there were a lot of times when we argued. They told me to promote the record, I did, they gave me my release and we were happy. I promoted the record for as long as they wanted me to promote it until they said they would give the release because I had actually asked for the release. So artists like me and Fat Joe, if you’re an established artist it’s better, according to the way the industry is now, to take the independent route. For me, I couldn’t take one of these new deals, according to what they were about to do, because I was an established artist that was used to living a certain way. It was beneficial to both of us because they couldn’t invest the kind of money they invested in me the first time due to the company and industry changing. The other thing was that the people that I had relationships with at the label were gone, so I kind of knew that I wanted to move on and that Atlantic had wanted to move on into another direction as a company. I hated that my album kind of fell into that flock. I’m pretty sure any record label or any business, when you fire and hire people, you’re going to have some consequences and repercussions.
So, here you have a bunch of people getting fired and a bunch of people getting hired. My record dropped when my label was transforming from a record label into a multi-media company. TWISTA: If you notice, my Adrenaline Rush 2007 record was one of the first records that dropped in the midst of record labels trying to understand what was going on in the streets. HipHopWired: What do you think happened with your last release, Adrenaline Rush 2007, in terms of sales? Can you clear up how you ended up leaving Atlantic Records and the reasons behind the departure? As far as the subject matter and the ladies, we went in and did our thing for the ladies. 2” but it was really just a revisit of those sounds and elements to try and give you that original Twista feel. The “Wetter” joint happened to be the one that emulated the type of vibe that came from “Get It Wet.” That’s why we didn’t mind people giving it the title of “Get It Wet pt. It was more about going into the original sounds and into that original mind state. It was more of a broad prospective of us knowing that we wanted to kind of recapture that sound that we had when we first came out. I think it’s a well-rounded album when it comes to delivering that original Twista sound and also giving them music that they can bump that fits in the scheme of today. You will feel that vibe from the first Twista, that middle Twista during Kamikaze, and you will feel the vibe of the way I was putting it down for today. The rest of the production I got from the hot producers out that are making music for the artists that are out here today. I also have the producers that did songs on Adrenaline Rush do a part of the production. The good thing about Category F5 is that I have the producer that did songs on the Kamikaze record, do songs on this record. HipHopWired: As Kamikaze is your best selling album to date, can we expect you to try and rekindle some of the magic that worked for you then in terms of collaborations or producers? I would say that this is the perfect level of evolution where a Twista fan would expect me to be. I definitely feel like Category F5 will be in the argument as far as my top recording. Some people might say that they like Kamikaze the best, while others might like Adrenaline Rush the best. As far as the strongest album, it’s hard to say because people have different vibes and sounds.
TWISTA: I would say definitely that they can expect it to be where Twista’s evolution to be in ’09. With a title such as this, can we expect this to be your strongest album to date? HipHopWired: Now a Category F5 is the strongest tornado known.
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