Twisted Black

Although he was born in Detroit, rapper Twisted Black (aka 145) entered the hip-hop game by way of Texas. With fellow lyricist Seed he debuted as one-half of Houston favorites One Gud Cide, who in 1996 released the full-length Look What the Streets Made. When the album did well on a local scale, the group was motivated to break through nationally with its follow-up album, Contradictions (1999), but Black landed a three-year jail sentence for assault entailing serious injury, and was unable to promote the release. While locked up he kept writing his rhymes and expected to pick ...