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  • Kendrick Lamar to make first 2020 album appearance on Busta Rhymes’ album dropping Friday

    Kendrick Lamar to make first 2020 album appearance on Busta Rhymes’ album dropping Friday

    New 2020 Kendrick lamar verse

    Kendrick Lamar is arguably holding the most anticipated Hip Hop album right now. Rap lovers all over the world have been begging K-Dot and TDE as a whole to drop something from the expert lyricist. We might not be certain about getting a Kendrick project or single soon, but we are finally going to hear the ‘Money Trees’ rapper spitting bars for the first time in 2020. Thanks to Busta Rhymes.

    On Monday, October 26, Busta Rhymes shared the tracklist of his forthcoming album ‘Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath Of God’. From the tracklist, the album includes the long awaited track ‘Look Over Your Shoulder’ featuring Kendrick Lamar. This will presumably be the most exciting collabo from the project.

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    The album, which is set to drop on Friday, October 30th, is stacked with features from multiple Hip Hop heavyweights. Some of the guest appearances include Kendrick Lamar, Rick Ross, Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip, Pete Rock, Mariah Carey, Anderson .Paak, Rapsody and Mary J. Blige and Jamaican incarcerated artist Vybz Kartel.

    About Kendrick Lamar, rumors have been circulating that the poet might drop a surprise album before the year ends. TDE Punch, whom fans have been pressuring to give a word about the upcoming project, hasn’t confirmed if the album will indeed drop in 2020. The TDE boss keeps on responding with his usual ‘so soon’ answers. K-Dot recently explained why it takes him long to make an album in an i-D Magazine interview. Lamar clarified that he needs to find a new sound that will excite him in order to make a project.

  • Busta Rhymes Recalls An Incident Of 2Pac Choking A Soundman; Talks Going To Highschool With Biggie And Jay-Z

    Busta Rhymes Recalls An Incident Of 2Pac Choking A Soundman; Talks Going To Highschool With Biggie And Jay-Z

    Busta Rhymes hops on Fat Joe’s IG live to tell a few stories

    Busta Rhymes is a rapper who has been in the game for long, long enough that he had a chance to interact with hip hop’s biggest icons. Busta was recently interviewed by Fat Joe on The Fat Joe Show on Instagram live.

    The New York legend recounted a story where the late idol attacked a soundman while trying to help Leaders of the New School, of which Busta Rhymes was a member. The group was trying to get a soundcheck done but the soundman wasn’t having it. “We getting ready to do the soundcheck, but the soundman was on some bullshit,” continues Busta.

    “He’s shutting shit down and acting like he’s getting ready to leave. We kinda on some ‘damn, we really want to get this soundcheck done.’ The crazy thing is that Pac saw there was a little bit of friction going on. And he just came and involved himself in the situation. Pac turned to this white man and he was like ‘yo, I need you to cut this motherfuckin’ sound board on. Leaders of the New School are going to get their soundcheck done, right now. Fuck you talking about you ain’t turning on the equipment?’”

    “He just started spazzing on dude,” said Busta before continuing, “The man wasn’t trying to hear what Pac was talking about, so Pac just ran up on this motherfucka and started choking him. ‘You mothafucka!’ So we had to grab Pac, cause we ain’t askin’ for all of this, we just want a soundcheck! This ain’t war! But that’s the type of dude Pac was. He went out of his way to extend love.” Explained Rhymes while expressing the extent to which Pac was willing to show love.

    “He just started spazzing on dude, the man wasn’t trying to hear what ‘Pac was talking about, so ‘Pac just ran up on this motherfucker and started choking him. ‘You motherfucker!’ So we had to grab ‘Pac, cause we ain’t asking for all of this, we just want a soundcheck! This ain’t war! But that’s the type of dude ‘Pac was. He went out of his way to extend love.”

    The twerk it rapper also spoke about going to highschool with Biggie & Jay Z, and losing a rap battle to Hov. “In the process of me trying to get my shit together with it me and Hov ended up having a battle,” Busta explained. “Ultimately, Hov got the best of the battle in that moment because I was just starting to figure out how to master my fascination with the speed rap.”

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  • Busta Rhymes Announces E. L. E 2: The Wrath Of God Release Date And Cover Art

    Busta Rhymes Announces E. L. E 2: The Wrath Of God Release Date And Cover Art

    Busta Rhymes is dropping a new album at the end of the month

    Back in late 1998, Busta Rhymes released his third studio album E. L. E (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front. The album was for sure a landmark in the New Yorker’s career. The 19-song tracklist included the rapper’s highest charting track; What’s It Gonna Be Like with Janet Jackson. It peaked at number 3 on Billboard Hot 100. The album was also nominated at the 42nd Grammy Awards, in the Best Rap Album category.

    For the past decade, Busta’s fans have been anticipating a follow up to the original E. L. E. Plus rumors about the album’s sequel have been making rounds throughout the decade. In August of this year, Busta Rhymes’ friend and legend comedian Chris Rock announced in an Instagram video that E. L. E 2: The Wrath Of God was on the way. “You n****s can’t fuck with the God Busta Rhymes!” ranted the comedian before announcing the second installment 22 years after the original album came out.


    According to Busta Rhymes’ Twitter page, the ground-shaking LP has finally got a release date and a cover art. “THE PROPHECY WILL BE FULLFILLED…10.30.20 #ELETHEWRATHOFGOD”, wrote the fast-paced rhymer with an image that appears to be the cover of the project.


    This will be the 10th full length album from Busta Rhymes since his 2012 Year Of The Dragon.

  • Busta Rhymes first rap name was Chill-O-Ski

    Busta Rhymes first rap name was Chill-O-Ski

    Before Trevor George Smith Jr. was known as Busta Rhymes, he went by the moniker Chill-O-Ski.

    The name change would come when his rap group at the time, Leaders of the New School, opened up on tour for Public Enemy. Chuck D had given Chill–O–Ski the name Busta Rhymes after the ’80s NFL wide receiver George “Buster” Rhymes. People would ask Busta Rhymes to “Bust-a-rhyme” so he made the choice to keep the name.

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    Read: Busta Rhymes got his rap name from Chuck D

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  • Busta Rhymes passed on the beat for Nas’ “Halftime”

    Busta Rhymes passed on the beat for Nas’ “Halftime”

    The beat for Nas’ 1992 debut single, “Halftime,” was originally produced by Large Professor for Busta Rhymes.

    During a 2009 XXL feature on the making of Illmatic, Busta Rhymes revealed he was in the room in 1992 when the beat for “Halftime” was being created and Large Professor offered him the beat but he didn’t know what to do with it.

    “I went over [to Large Professor’s house], and he made the “Halftime” beat in front of me, and he was gonna give it to me at the time. I didn’t know what to do with it. I didn’t know why I didn’t know what to do with it, because I loved the shit out the beat. Then I heard it on “Halftime,” and I was like, Goddamn, I was a stupid ass for not touching this beat!“ Busta Rhymes told XXL

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  • Busta Rhymes voiced Reptar Wagon in The Rugrats Movie

    Busta Rhymes voiced Reptar Wagon in The Rugrats Movie

    Busta Rhymes voiced the Reptar Wagon on Rugrats and in the Nickelodeon Rugrats Movie which first premiered on November 8 and released November 20, 1998. In the Rugrats movie directed by Igor Kovalyov and Norton Virgien, you can hear Busta Rhymes rapping and saying,

    “I am Reptar! Hear me roar!”

    “I am Reptar, the king of Dinosaurs!”

    Watch Busta Rhymes voice Reptar Wagon in the 1998 Rugrats Movie.

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    Read: Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes went to high school together and they once battled in the cafeteria

  • Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes went to high school together and they once battled in the cafeteria

    Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes went to high school together and they once battled in the cafeteria

    Jay Z and Busta Rhymes both attended Brooklyn’s George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School and they’ve battled each other in the cafeteria. DMX and Notorious B.I.G are also famous alumni and they all attended school around the same time, Busta Rhymes and Biggie were born a day apart and Jay Z was two and half years older. 

    Over the years, Jay and Busta Rhymes have often reminisced about their teenage rapping rivalry during interviews. In a 2015 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, Jay Z mentioned that he once rap battled Busta in the lunch room. When Kimmel asked who won, Jay Z modestly shrugged and mouthed the word, “me.”

    Busta Rhymes has actually spoken on this a few years back on MTV, and gave a more in-depth recap than Jay of how it happened.

    “One day, somebody came up to me and was like, ’Yo, Hov is in the cafeteria.’ They weren’t calling him Hov at the time; they were calling him Jay. ’Do you want to step to him on some rhyme sh–?’ So I go. At the time, when we were rhyming, it was speed rap. That was the thing to do. I knew how to freak it, and he knew how to freak it. And at the time, he was so ill, ’cause of the people he was with at the time, Jaz-O and them, it was their thing [that style]. He kind of got the best of the situation. I got to give it up. He was so ill and his arsenal was so long that he had more than what I did. I spit my one rap, and my tank was empty real fast. He came with two or three after that, and I was like, ’Here we go.’ But I gave it my best.”

    “That was probably the fist time that I lost a battle that mattered. Jay-Z always exemplified greatness as an MC. He was a scientist with it.”

    In a different interview with Fuse

    “I didn’t know Biggie rhymed in school ’cause in school we was cuttin’ a lot of class and we was smokin’ a lot of weed and bullshittin’,”

    “I knew Jay Z was rhyming ’cause me and Jay Z battled in school, speed rapping. He had finessed the speed rapping phenomenally at that time and I was new with the speed rapping, but losing that battle to Jay in speed rapping is what made me one of the most dangerous speed rappers today … Jay know he can’t see me in no speed rapping today.”

    Watch Busta Rhymes explain how it went down.

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    https://youtu.be/qq4uJwjfIMk

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