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Chicago has done it again. Zooming directly into musical traffic, Twista reintroduces his group, the Speedknot Mobstaz. Laboring in the work shed for the past seven years, the group is smoldering with a heated sophomore album Mobstability II Nation Business due out the first quarter of 2006. Members Twista, Liffy Stokes and Mayze are in lyrical overdrive. “This is my legacy, when I first came out with it, we all connected and I knew then what I know now and that is my crew is official. It's always a protocol to these things and I love doing music with my homies so finally, the time is right,” says a proud Twista.
Based out of the West Side of Chicago, the Speedknot Mobstaz began their journey together in 1997 in the prime of member Twista’s launching success from his first album “Adrenaline Rush.” Liffy Stokes and Mayze who met a year prior through the evolution of the music scene met Twista at a stop light in downtown Chicago where Liffy challenged him to a rap battle. Twista accepted the challenge, the guys pulled over on the side of the road and little did they know that very interaction birthed a lyrical beast now known as the Speedknot Mobstaz, remembers Liffy.
In 1998, the Speedknot Mobstaz released their first album entitled Mobstability. The album spoke to the streets; it showed a grimy side of Twista that had not been revealed from his first solo album. Mobstability reached gold and continues to rise to platinum status today. Unlike their first album, Mobstability II Nation Business is a project that covers issues across the board. Honing Harlem night tracks complimented by intricate details of real life stories and syncopated club beats built to last, the album will attract young ballers, grinders and blue collar workers directly.
“When I describe our styles I’d have to say collectively we are the good, bad and the ugly,” says member Mayze. I’m the good simply because no matter what I spit I always give you the light at the end of the tunnel. Whereas, Liffy is the bad, he’s going to stick you with nothing but true gutter facts and expose the details on his planned revenge for disrespectful. Then you got Twista who’s famous for coming with just blatent tongue twisting ugly ass rhymes almost unexplainable. All in all we stay mob!
Songs like “I Want In” yell an official street anthem, “When we recorded that song we placed a rule on ourselves and that was to go in the booth with no pens, no paper and just freestyle, just blow our own mind and it came and turned out to be one of our favorite songs,” explained Mayze. “Angel” takes it back to old school while we lace the listeners with today’s reality. The song talks about women in our lives that helped us get to where we are today, like our mothers, daughters and others that have come and gone” explained the Speedknot Mobstaz. “Heavenly Father” expresses our love for G-O-D and shouts out the trials we went through before the first album, and what we went through after the album and how we got to where we are today,” said Liffy Stokes.
“We are coming with nothing but hardcore raw Chicago rhymes that have never been released the way we do it. The Mobstaz are about to take over so if anybody has anything to say, speak now or forever hold your peace,” spoken from the Guinness Book of World Records fastest rapper, Twista