Twista enters Guinness World Records as the fastest English-speaking rapper

Why it matters

Most rappers rap at one of a few standard syllabic densities. Chopper rap rejects the standard densities. The whole sub-genre is built on rapping faster than most rappers can rap. Twista is the first commercial-rap MC to make the speed the entire point of the records, and 1992 is the year the rap-industry-and-Guinness combined gatekeepers admitted what he was doing was, technically, a measurable record. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony would commercialize the chopper form further in 1994 and 1995, Tech N9ne would extend it into the 2000s and 2010s, and basically every later technical-rap MC who has worked at extreme tempos (Eminem's faster verses, Busta Rhymes, Logic, Token, Lupe Fiasco's denser passages) has done so on top of Twista's prior art. You can find the 1992 Guinness audio measurement online. He was a teenager when he set the record.