The music industry has been swamped with the auto-tune, southern bass-heavy songs accompanied with dance routines, hipster lyrics, a tightened dress code and lackluster lyrical content. Although most established artists change and tweak their styles to bend with the ever-evolving music scene, Twista's formula has remained the same.

It wasn't that long ago when Twista's saturated the airwaves with hits like "Slow Jamz", "Overnight Celebrity", and "Girl Tonight". Although it's been two years since his last release, the rapper has stayed busy, appearing on various records with the likes of R. Kelly, Kanye West, Pitbull, Trey Songz and even Elephant Man.

After a nearly two-year hiatus, since his last solo album Adrenaline Rush 2007, Twista is back to grace us with his tongue twisting raps and dexterity. But where will Twista take us this time? Will he give fans an Adrenaline Rush or will they feel the aftershock of The Day After album?

The answer lies in the aftermath of his June 16th release titled Category F5. "The definition of it says it's a category of a twister where it throws cars though the air like bullets and it rips the bark off of trees, it tears down the foundations of homes," Twista tells BallerStatus when describing his seventh solo album. "It says all of that and I felt like that was in the whole scheme of Kamikaze, Adrenaline Rush, Twista and what I'm about."

How much damage can Twista's own Category F5 do? With tracks produced by Jim Jonsin, Swizz Beatz, Traxster, as well as features such as Busta Rhymes, Akon, Bobby Valentino, Young Jeezy, and his Midwest brethren Kanye West, among others, the music industry is bound to get dark, gloomy, and very windy.

"Wetter," the sequel to his 1997 hit single "Get It Wet," is the first single off Category F5. "A real fan that pays attention to my music will think of whatever they were doing when my first album Adrenaline Rush came out," the rapper said, referring to the single. "It's produced by the same producer, Legendary Trackster, and also this song has a 'Get It Wet' vibe to it. And that's the song that I did on Adrenaline Rush that was very popular. So when people hear it, they are like 'Man, that's that sound ... I know something sounds familiar,' so I want to re-introduce my fans to that sound again. I'm fully doing me to the fullest before I start introducing them to the other things that I am doing, like the other features and producers that I have on the album."

Unfortunately since Twista's last release, the trend of leaking songs via the internet has risen, ultimately contributing to the decline of record sales for both new and established artists. That's where Twista songs such as "Billionaire" and "On Top" came from. However, the feedback has been very positive, he says. With the different approach he took at creating the album, that feedback should be positive re-enforcement that he did something right. "That's really the biggest thing that I did differently with this album was try and find songs that I felt was jams already, before people started jumping on them," says Twista.

With six solo projects under his belt, and the seventh to come, Twista has learned valuable lessons throughout his career and his deal with Atlantic. They helped him develop his own label, Get Money Gang Entertainment, where EMI plays the distribution role for the endeavors. "When I define [GMG], I always define it as the bridge between the Midwest and the industry. The reason I say that is because you just have way more access to things when you stay on the East, West and Down South, you are closer to people. But in the Midwest, it's a little harder for us to get on."

Liffy Stokes, of Twista's SpeedKnot Mobstaz, and R&B singer Anya are some of the artists signed to the rapper's GMG imprint, both of which he's excited to present to the world once Category F5 takes the country by storm.

Although the Chicago native mentions label woes as his reason for the little hiatus, Twista's return is allowing fans to rekindle their love for the blinding speed of the rapper's style. Does Category F5 have potential to contend with the current wave of emo-rap? Will June 16th reveal Twista as a dated rapper who isn't fast enough to catch up with the "swaggerific" dance era? Or, will he return and show them, his fast flow can still churn out the hits.

Come June, we'll see.