Mile of Music
Twan Mack
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Milwaukee hip-hop artist Twan Mack performs one of his final sets at Mile of Music 2024.
Milwaukee hip-hop artist Twan Mack performed at the 2024 Mile of Music festival in Appleton just months before his passing in November 2024. Mack described his sound as adult contemporary hip-hop, giving his audience "mental food." Features "Swade and Antoine Intro" with DJ Swadetrackz from his set at the Hilton Paper Valley Courtyard.
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Twan Mack
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Milwaukee hip-hop artist Twan Mack performed at the 2024 Mile of Music festival in Appleton just months before his passing in November 2024. Mack described his sound as adult contemporary hip-hop, giving his audience "mental food." Features "Swade and Antoine Intro" with DJ Swadetrackz from his set at the Hilton Paper Valley Courtyard.
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["Swade and Antoine Intro" by Twan Mack] [upbeat hip-hop music] ♪ Listen, it's a, a simple snare ♪ ♪ A simple kick, a simple hat ♪ ♪ I'm singing born, I'm never born, I really rap ♪ ♪ Control it boy, take the queen ♪ ♪ It's chess and never checkers ♪ ♪ Your twist inherently wrong ♪ ♪ I call you Chubby Checker ♪ ♪ The novelist super marvelous, he is not returned ♪ ♪ I turn your ### into ashes, leave you in the urn ♪ ♪ They put me in your division, so now I dominate it ♪ ♪ I've known as one of the best that wasn't nominated ♪ ♪ This way you know how to spin it ♪ ♪ I don't feel it, bro ♪ ♪ Call yo ### Mr.
Potato Head, 'bout to peel it, bro ♪ ♪ Appeal and process denied, wasn't feasible ♪ ♪ Lit you ### right in your whys ♪ ♪ Tell you to beat it, bro ♪ ♪ All I know, you been fallin' off while I'm gettin' on ♪ ♪ There's a work of genius about it ♪ ♪ 'Til you get it goin' ♪ ♪ If you come back empty-handed, yeah, you back hand ♪ ♪ I was born Antoine, just statement ♪ ♪ Call me Rap Man ♪ ♪ Calm your comrade down, control your dog ♪ ♪ Curious of what I came for?
♪ ♪ I want it all ♪ ♪ Am I worried 'bout what you do?
♪ ♪ No, not at all ♪ ♪ 'Cause you all get down to Twan Mack's sound ♪ ♪ Listen, calm your comrade down, control your dog ♪ ♪ Curious of what I came for?
♪ ♪ I want it all ♪ ♪ Am I worried 'bout what you do?
♪ ♪ No, not at all ♪ ♪ 'Cause you all get down to Twan Mack's sound ♪ ♪ Say ho!
♪ - Audience: ♪ Ho!
♪ - ♪ Say ho!
♪ - Audience: ♪ Ho!
♪ - ♪ Say ho, ho, ho!
♪ - Audience: ♪ Ho, ho, ho!
♪ - ♪ Say ho, ho, ho!
♪ - Audience: ♪ Ho, ho, ho!
♪ - ♪ Say ho!
♪ - Audience: ♪ Ho!
♪ - ♪ Say ho!
♪ - Audience: ♪ Ho!
♪ - ♪ Say ho, ho, ho!
♪ - Audience: ♪ Ho, ho, ho!
♪ - Twan Mack: ♪ Listen!
♪ [record scratching] ♪ Yo, like I would do my lane left the earth ♪ ♪ It really hit me hard ♪ ♪ Ecstasy Houdini, my man ♪ ♪ You've always been the god with crowds like this ♪ ♪ I'm ready to rap ♪ ♪ If you talking too much ish, I'm ready to smack ♪ ♪ I do calisthenics five days a week ♪ ♪ I stay prepared, bro ♪ ♪ But staples in your sink is damn right ♪ ♪ I take you there, Joe ♪ ♪ No carbonated water, sugar, no soda pop ♪ ♪ It's for meditating, so take cover the day I drop ♪ ♪ Listen, lotta cats reppin' my things ♪ ♪ Never been in Italian movies ♪ ♪ Tell you a Black man was never in the mob ♪ ♪ Everybody wanna be Gotti 'til the trial date ♪ ♪ Millions that you make from the street ♪ ♪ Let's see 'em outweigh fictional factors ♪ ♪ Lotta you actin' so Hollywood ♪ ♪ Steady be cappin', fantasy rappin' ♪ ♪ The molly good, approaching aggressive ♪ ♪ Probably get you back here ♪ ♪ I was born Antoine, just statement ♪ ♪ Call me Rap Man ♪ ♪ Calm your comrade down, control your dog ♪ ♪ Curious on what I came for?
♪ ♪ I want it all ♪ ♪ Am I worried 'bout what you do?
♪ ♪ No, not at all ♪ ♪ 'Cause you all get down to Twan Mack's sound ♪ ♪ Listen, calm your comrade down, control your dog ♪ ♪ Curious on what I came for?
♪ ♪ I want it all ♪ ♪ Am I worried 'bout what you do?
♪ ♪ No, not at all ♪ ♪ 'Cause you all get down to Twan Mack's sound ♪ ♪ Go side to side, side to side ♪ ♪ Side to side, go side, c'mon now ♪ ♪ Go side to side, side to side ♪ ♪ Side to side, go side, Appleton ♪ ♪ Go side to side, side to side ♪ ♪ Side to side, go side to side ♪ ♪ It go one, two, uno, dos, tres ♪ [audience cheering] I love Appleton.
If you love Appleton, let me hear you make some noise.
[audience cheering] If you love the Mile of Music, let me hear you make some noise.
[audience cheering] Let me hear, let me hear you say it, "I love that real hip-hop!"
- Audience: I love that real hip-hop!
- Twan Mack: Say, "I love that real hip-hop!"
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