--- title: Sign Language Interpreter Keeps Up With Twista at Concert description: Sign language interpreter Amber Galloway Gallego stole the show when she kept up with the fastest rapper of all time, Twista, at a concert. canonical: https://time.com/5655889/twista-sign-language-interpreter-amber-galloway-gallego/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-08-19T19:10:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:59.237Z og:title: Sign Language Interpreter Keeps Up With Twista at Concert og:description: No easy feat og:url: https://time.com/5655889/twista-sign-language-interpreter-amber-galloway-gallego/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c21ef4dfacf4a70/698a0199e76ad27796636527/amber-galloway-gallego-twista-sign-language.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Yeezy Taught Me In Concert - New York, NY og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sign Language Interpreter Keeps Up With Twista at Concert twitter:description: No easy feat twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c21ef4dfacf4a70/698a0199e76ad27796636527/amber-galloway-gallego-twista-sign-language.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sign Language Interpreter Keeping Up With the Fastest Rapper Ever Deserves Her Own Title > Sponsored content. 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Twista performs at the Yeezy Taught Me In Concert in New York on July 14, 2017. Johnny Nunez—WireImage/Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 19, 2019 7:10 PM UTC At 280 words per minute, Twista clocks in as the fastest rapper of all time, so when [sign language interpreter](https://time.com/5587386/society-netflix-sean-berdy/) Amber Galloway Gallego was able to keep up, word for word, with the Chicago rapper at a recent concert, the Internet was more than impressed. In a video clip that deservedly went viral, fans can watch Galloway Gallego not only keep pace with Twista (whom [_FiveThirtyEight_](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-fastest-rapper-in-the-game/) declared the fastest rapper of all time in 2014 based on speed and words per minute) but emphatically bring the heat with the dexterity of her signing skills. This isn’t the first time that Galloway Gallego, a certified American Sign Language interpreter for nearly two decades and advocate for equal access, has gotten some major love online for her work as a sign language interpreter; her distinctive moves have shared the stage with artists like Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar, the latter’s concert giving her one of her most memorable viral moments when she captured the essence of his expletive-ridden verse on [A$AP Rocky’s “F\*ckin’ Problems” at Lollapalooza in 2013.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k%5FcnlQmsScU) Watch Galloway Gallego’s mindblowingly fast signing with Twista below. > [](https://twitter.com/fakeshoredrive/status/1162915599548407809) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5655889/twista-sign-language-interpreter-amber-galloway-gallego/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5655889/twista-sign-language-interpreter-amber-galloway-gallego/"},"headline":"Sign Language Interpreter Keeping Up With the Fastest Rapper Ever Deserves Her Own Title","datePublished":"2019-08-19T19:10:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:59.237Z","description":"No easy feat","url":"https://time.com/5655889/twista-sign-language-interpreter-amber-galloway-gallego/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c21ef4dfacf4a70/698a0199e76ad27796636527/amber-galloway-gallego-twista-sign-language.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c21ef4dfacf4a70/698a0199e76ad27796636527/amber-galloway-gallego-twista-sign-language.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Yeezy Taught Me In Concert - New York, NY","caption":"Yeezy Taught Me In Concert - New York, NY","creditText":"Johnny Nunez—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5655889/twista-sign-language-interpreter-amber-galloway-gallego/","name":"Sign Language Interpreter Keeping Up With the Fastest Rapper Ever Deserves Her Own Title"}}]}] ```