Moosh and Twist
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Moosh (left) and Twist (right) in December 2015
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Moosh and Twist |
| Origin | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Genres | Hip hop |
| Years active | 2011–present |
| Labels | eOne Music |
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| Website | www |
| Members | Moosh Twist |
OCD: Moosh and Twist is a hip hop duo based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The group consists of DeQuincy "Moosh" Coleman-McRae and Oliver "Twist" Feighan. They have amassed a devoted following over the years and have released four official mixtapes and one EP, the latest being their 2016 album Growing Pains.
Moosh and Twist grew up in Philadelphia and attended The Philadelphia School together. The two became friends in first grade and bonded over their love of sports and music. Moosh and Twist would play drums and piano together in school. One of their grade school teachers taught them the basics of recording when they were young and they playfully refer to him as their first engineer. They started rapping and making music together in 7th grade but didn't take it seriously until about 2009 when they were in 10th grade. The two attended different high schools, Haverford High School and Friends Select School, but remained friends. The pair officially came together under the title OCD: Moosh and Twist. they work at mall "OCD" in their moniker because they were obsessed with music. They have since dropped the prefix.
On March 7, 2011, while still in high school, Moosh and Twist released their first official mixtape Up Before the World. They soon performed this mixtape live in front of Corey Bader, a suffering cancer patient. They released a few music videos on YouTube but the one that took off the fastest was for "City Kids." The video was directed by Rex Arrow, who was widely known for working with Mac Miller. In June 2011, Moosh and Twist were featured in XXL's section The Break. On September 25, 2011, Moosh and Twist released their second mixtape The Welcome Mat.
To follow up The Welcome Mat, the Philly duo released The Vestibule on January 3, 2012. The title of the mixtape derives from one of Moosh's rap lines from their previous mixtape. Twist explained, "We had this song called "Black Forest Gummy Worms" on Up Before The World and there's a line Moosh says, 'Standing at the door while they be sitting in the vestibule,' so the first project was called The Welcome Mat. You get to the door. We're about to graduate high school. We're knocking on the door, wiping our feet off. [Then] we get inside, and now we're standing in the vestibule and we think we're in a stage where [we're] in between. We want to break out huge so bad, but we still have to get our mindset right – get everything straight [and get] a little bit more mature – and The Vestibule is kind of like saying, 'We're so close but we're not inside.'" After high school graduation, the two chose to put college to the side and pursue music full-time.
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