If you always rap fast, then that is the benchmark level a listener hears from you: you rapping fast.
But Twista never uses his technical expertise to its fully artistic extent. It really is impressive, and fights the belief held by many that rappers are amateur musicians. Of course, you can’t dismiss Twista without giving him praise for his breath control and articulation. Twista falls into that pitfall, and doesn’t use them. Long 3 or 4 syllable block rhymes simply seem foreign to the style, maybe foreign to even the very physiological pronunciation of words so quickly. My more general beef is that I’ve never heard any Midwest chopper rapper successfully merge quick rhythms with a tight technique on rhymes. If all the most popular songs from Twista are ones where he raps fast, then he is a fast rapper. Everyone has heard “Slow Jamz”, so that’s what Twista’s style has come to be epitomized as. This is also what you have to think about when you evaluate Twista, or any rapper who becomes notable for one style. If a listener or future rapper hears Eminem and not Slick Rick use extended block rhymes for the first time, then in a sense Eminem is the true originator, not Rick. Thus, in some sense, Eminem was the first one to make block rhymes awesome.
Eminem not only pulled off extended block rhymes well he put them in such a format and package, like the smash single for a major motion film, 8 Mile, and brought them to millions of listeners. Thus, it basically means that Eminem’s use of extended block rhyming is more important and more notable in the history of rap. Slick Rick didn’t go on to be a huge crossover hit and become as big as Elvis on a global stage to sell millions of records to have shows in Asia, Europe, and so on. So, I don’t care if Slick Rick rhymed 6 syllables in a bar in 1987 on some obscure song.
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