Twissman & Tayong- The Way She Moves video

Firstly there was The Album Before The Album, and then came the album after that, Twisted Revolution. Now signed to a new label, Twissman is back to claim his spot in the charts with a fresh sound and a summer anthem.

GlitterBow: First of all just tell us what you’ve been doing? You’ve been away for quite a while…

Twissman: Basically most recently I got signed to a label called Zy Records and I did an album with them, with a producer who’s formerly of Def Row called ‘Woo’ Allen- I’ll tell you a little info, it’s a 14-track album it’s got like some massive American and Swedish artists on it, it’s got Sway on it and a big Konvict collaboration as well. So that’s really what I’ve been working on just being in the lab with that. And then more recently I’ve come with the single, my new single with Tayong called The Way She Moves.

G: That tunes all about being in a club and admiring a girl, so what I want to know is if you’re in a club and you see someone nice, how do you approach her?

T: It’s not even a thing, I’m just watching the eye contact obviously, make sure the feeling’s mutual and then just roll over whisper a little, couple beautiful comments in her ear and we’ll see what’s going on. Make her feel a bit special.

G: That’s all good! The single definitely has a different sound to what people are probably used to hearing you on, are you trying to leave grime behind and experiment a bit more?

T: With me, I Can Take The Rain, Life’s Journeys and Women’s Psychology, they’re not the grimiest tunes they’re more like real life, and Women’s Psychology was even a slow jam, so I’m really versatile and I’ve seen that trends change and what’s needed in the game right now is that kind of music so I’m just moving with the trend.

G: What would your response be to people that are criticising artists for ‘selling out’ and going commercial?

T: I would basically say to stop being so small minded, because why can’t they give them credit as in to say people like Tinchy and Chipmunk are entrepreneurs for their age because they thought out the box. Grime’s a progression, it’s like a phase. So obviously if we spit grime and then we get older, everyone in grime’s talking about knives, but we don’t feel like we need to talk about that anymore, so if we get older and want to encapsulate a lot of people’s minds, the best way to do that is to hit a world-wide target audience, and people really are not listening to grime too much these days. Basically Chipmunks getting sales, I’m getting sales, everyone’s getting sales so you have to congratulate them really.

G: What’s the feedback that you’re getting off the single right now? Is it all good?

T: You know what I take criticism well, but I haven’t had one bad comment to my face. Obviously online there might be a few but everyone’s really liking the vibe and saying it’s a summer hit.

G: How did the collaboration with you and Tayong come about?

T: Ok it was a mad situation in Luton with me, Tayong and Aggro, and then something happened but then we put it all behind us and me and Tayong just started working with each other. We decided in a month to do an album, and we did an album in like two-weeks together.

G: Seriously?!

T: Yeah, yeah we did it quicker than expected.

G: A lot quicker! There must’ve been some mad chemistry from the beginning then…

T: Definitely every time we get in the studio there’s mad chemistry, there’s just hits straight away.

G: What’s he like then? Because he’s an artist, songwriter, a producer…

T: For a artist, I knew everyone in the industry and he’s one of nicest personality wise, he’s a very nice, well-spoken guy and thoughtful as well.

G: So I know the album like you said is in construction right now but have you got a date roughly when that’s coming out?

T: What it is, there’s no date but I know there’s going to be four single releases, it’s called This is Twissman, it’s definitely got Sway on it, definitely got G-Frsh on it, and definitely got Jimmy B on it. There’s a massive collab called Sumo on it, so look out for that tune as well.

G: What’s the vibe of the album going to be like? You’ve said you’re versatile…

T: Yeah it’s completely- you might even say its completely commercial, but there’s real tracks as well, and there’s a lot of girl tracks, a lot of club girl tracks, a lot of party tracks, yeah it’s kinda versatile.

G: A lot of people like myself don’t know a lot about you before Channel U and before you came out with your music, you were quite a big sportsman I hear…

T: I played all throughout my school and college- I played Rugby for Middlesex, South-East England. In London Scottish I won loads of medals- I gotta call them out still…I did play football when I was young, but I went to a posh school and they never did no football!

G: Also some people don’t know that you were stabbed quite viciously, how old were you when that happened?

T: I was like 17, 18, I was going to college and all that and I was just starting up my music and there was a lot of hate and it just happened.

G: How did that experience change you?

T: It just made me appreciate things, and made me appreciate my family and made me appreciate going for my musical dream, because I always had it as a little hobby but I was doing Law and Business and all that for A-Level so I was really focused on that, so I just stopped college completely and just focused on my music.

G: Who were the artists you were looking at, at that time? Who was out doing big things?

T: Oh like D-Double, he’s the don init and Kano, and Dizzee Rascal straight all day!…I used to like N.A.S.T.Y Crew a lot and then a year later, I just started meeting up with Stormin, Nasty Jak and all that, and it was just crazy I was meeting people that I was actually loving a year ago so it was nice man.

G: The UK music scene obviously is in a weird way and like I said earlier a lot of artists are getting criticism, but who do you rate musically?

T: Musically I’m gonna shout out three people from South like Giggs, Aggro and Tinie Tempah because I know all of them, and really and truly none of them would’ve expected this two-years ago, that’s all I’m saying. They’ve done really well, Aggro’s charted top-five UK, Tinie Tempah hit number-one. Other than that Chippie, Tinchy- I rate the people who are taking themselves out of the hood.

G: So what can we expect from you in the future? What are you going to be adding to the scene?

T: Wow, complete realness, I just relate my life and other people’s life. Obviously I’m looking to be doing lots of tours so everyone will get to see me and just basically supply music that everyone likes.

Good Luck with the Single Twiss!

The Way She Moves is OUT NOW!

POSTED BY: GLITTER BOW