Elsewhere, the vaguely uplifting (but ultimately perfunctory) 'Hope' fills Twista's 'sensitive thug' prerequisite. Bombastic strings, heart-rattling urgency, and Twista's sharpest punchlines make it the star of the record. Topics like these have been drained of what little juice they might have had by, among others, the nefarious Nelly.Īside from 'Slow Jamz', Kanye's production appears twice more, on 'One Last Time', and later, on 'Overnight Celebrity', which outdoes his previous crate-digging by jacking Lenny Williams' 70s Motown hit ''Cause I Love You'. Kelly event 'So Sexy'), a sequel to a song no one's heard ('Still Feels So Good') and another about rims ('Like a 24', featuring T.I., who also has a single about rims in rotation right now- sadly, his are only 22's). And if Kamikaze isn't an absolute abomination, its scope quickly reveals itself as limited: three songs about female ass (including the hilarious 'Badunkadunk' and the R. While Twista could rely solely on his ridiculous verbal agility on posse cuts like Memphis Bleek's classic 'Is That Your Bitch?', he hasn't got it in him to sustain an entire album. Unfortunately, based on the immediately quotable couplet, 'Got a light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson/ Got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson,' Kanye outshines him completely. This aside, Twista (formerly Tung Twista) sports perhaps the most dexterous flow since mid-90s Busta, and on 'Slow Jamz', he wraps his voice around a supremely accelerated Burt Bacharach-penned sample.

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