It’s hard to believe today that there was ever a question of whether Busta Rhymes could achieve commercial success without selling out. But back in ’98, that’s just the position he was in. As the underground and mainstream scenes began to move apart like tectonic plates, Busta slowly but surely began to distance his self from the music he put out while affiliated with the Native Tongue Movement.
So while everybody else was living it up ’98, Busta looked to the upcoming millennium and uncertainty that surrounded it. With another year winding down and suspicions of the world coming to an end, he played on these themes throughout his album. If Prince provided a soundtrack for partying in ’99; then Busta provided the soundtrack for the riots, looters, chaos and destruction that everybody secretly prepared for. The first six songs (intro included) are straight fire. Nottz laced Busta with 3 straight bangers in the forms of “Everybody Rise,” “Where We Are About To Take It,” & “Extinction Level Event (Song Of Salvation.)” A fresh Swizz Beatz makes another banger with the Casio keys on “Tear Da Roof Off,” while he assembles the entire Flipmode Squad together for a space odyssey on “Against All Odds.”
Lyrically Busta is sharp and focused as you can feel his energy coming at throughout the speakers. After that he leaves end of the world theme alone for the most part, but it doesn’t even matter at this point. He hooks up with Mystikal to melt the booth down on “Iz They Wildin Wit Us & Getting’ Rowdy Wit Us?” and answered all crossover question on “What’s It Gonna Be?!” with the assist from Ms. Damita Jo.
But for the casual listener it started with “Gimmie Some More.” DJ Scratch flipped the opening theme for “Psycho” and Busta hit a home run. I mean the song is only 2 minutes and 39 seconds long and outside of the chorus most people don’t even know what he was saying. But Hype Williams created a fantasy world for Busta as he found his niche as Hip-Hop’s court jester/lyrical assassin. As cliché as the fish eye lens is now in a music video, it was so captivating back then.
Extinction Level Event is a well put together album and shows what good sequencing can do to lessen the blow of filler cuts. And don’t even get me started on those skits…
Gimmie Some More – Video
Busta Rhymes – E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front
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Yeah, this CD was tight. “Hot Shit Makin Ya Bounce” is still fire to this day.
redman, method man, bus-a-bus and odb
are the fourth fantastic of hiphop !
busta always had great videos.
red & mef, busAbus & funk doc, ol dirt and busta, odb & mef
ODB & redman, m.e.t.h.o.d man & ol dirty, Rhymes & Red, bust & meth
yeah…………………………………..great………………………………………..cool…………..
but a joint with the fourth …damn !!!! h.i.p-h.o.p high definition ! HH 3 dimension… ahhahh ! peace yall. greumst! plus a vid…………. to the death, lifeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
954 represent!!!!!
busta is the man, but like somebody (gotty?) said, i can’t take more than a few songs by dude at one time…never could…he’s just too much for me i think…he’s like some underground dude with a sick-ass flow but you just can’t vibe to the album for some reason…i can’t put my finger on it…but don’t get it twisted, busta’s got skills up there with the best to ever do it
sex-E
http://buzzcuts.uproxx.com/celebrity/2403
eva mendes is so fuckin fly…dope avatar btw…RIP
^^^ the bernie mac one
Man, though, back in the day when Busta would go and wear a fake muscle suit as a joke instead of all that giant, steroid shit.
DJ B-Mello: Blends Part 1
http://sharebee.com/468f0061
1. Intro
2. Alkaholiks – Likwit b/w The Riddim (Nubian Crackers)
3. Method Man – Method Man Remix b/w Ego Trippin (Part 3) (De La Soul)
4. Kool G Rap – Ill Street Blues b/w Cream (Wu-Tang)
5. Casual – That’s How It Is b/w Streiht Up Menace (Remix) (MC Eiht)
6. Masta Ace – Jeep Ass Nigguh b/w Mass Appeal (Gang Starr)
7. Whodini – Big Mouth b/w Sucker MC’s (Run DMC)
8. New Edition – Once In A Lifetime Groove b/w Jump Around (Pete Rock Remix) (House of Pain)
9. Salt N Pepa – Tramp b/w Flip Da Script (Premier Remix) (Da King & I)
10. Salt N Pepa – Shoop b/w Flip Da Script (Premier Remix) (Da King & I)
11. Super Lover Cee & Cassanova Rudd – Girls I Got Em Locked b/w Big Trax (JVC Force)
12. KRS One – Hip Hop vs Rap b/w It’s Yours (TLA Rock)
13. After 7 – Can’t Stop b/w Check The Rhime (A Tribe Called Quest)
14. Chill Rob G – Let The Words Flow b/w King of the Beat (Pumkin)
15. Pharcyde – Passin Me By b/w Passin Me By (Fly As Pie Remix) (Pharcyde)
16. Dimples D – Sucker DJ’s b/w Creator (Pete Rock & CL Smooth)
17. Wu-Tang Clan – Cream b/w It Ain’t Hard To Tell (Nas)
18. Rakim – Heat It Up b/w Peter Piper (Run DMC)
19. Gang Starr – Just To Get A Rep b/w Bust A Cap (Nubian Crackers)
20. Black Moon – How Many MC’s b/w Lubrication (Kwest Da Madd Ladd)
Side B
1. Intro
2. Nas – It Ain’t Hard To Tell b/w Grand Groove pt. 2 (Tragedy)
3. Mary J Blige – Love No Limit b/w Yes You May Remix (Lord Finesse)
4. Poor Righteous Teachers – Shakila – Rough House (Rough House Survivors)
5. Patra – Queen Of The Pack b/w Get Lifted (Frankie & The Pacemakers)
6. Stephanie Mills – Something In The Way b/w Deep Cover (Dr Dre)
7. T La Rock – It’s Yours 95 b/w Ruffneck (MC Lyte)
8. Naughty By Nature – It’s On b/w Fakin The Funk (Main Source)
9. Organized Konfusion – Fudge Pudge Remix b/w Da Nubian (Nubian Crackers)
10. TCF Crew – Hardest Working Lover b/w Only When I’m Drunk (Alkaholiks)
11. Roxanne Shante – Big Momma b/w Scenario (Remix) (A Tribe Called Quest)
12. Zhane – Mr DJ b/w They Reminisce Over You Remix (Pete Rock & CL Smooth)
13. Big Daddy Kane – How U Get A Record Deal? b/w Protect Ya Neck (Wu-Tang)
14. MC Lyte – Ruffneck b/w How I Could Just Kill A Man (Cypress Hill)
15. Ultramagnetic MC’s – Poppa Large b/w Request Line (Rockmaster Scott & The Dynamic Three & Funky Soul Makossa (Awesome Foursome)
16. Flava Unit MC’s – Roll Wit Da Flava b/w Da Mystery Of Chessboxing (Wu-Tang)
17. Onyx – Shiftee b/w Down With The King (Run DMC)
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Sherm – that would be me sir. I can listen but only in small dosages & I’m usually bored after the first few songs off any of his albums.
@ Gotty – i can’t figure it out, i mean dude is dope as fuck by anybody’s standards…and it ain’t like i don’t listen to full albums by eccentric sounding rappers…busta’s just a fuckin anomoly…he’s got like 3 or 4 bangers u can vibe to per album but as far as throwin a cd in and lettin it ride, busta just don’t got it
Busta>Redman.
If there was one video I’d pick to showcase Busta, it’d be this.
Hype did him proper.
Great stuff.
@ TC – i disagree wholeheartedly
Redman makes albums that are bangin from front to back, that you can listen to over and over (and over and over…..)
nah, id say Red ova Busta.
http://www.listaholic.com/7-of-the-largest-drug-busts-in-history.html
i know i’m a year off here, but this is one of my favorite joints of all time by one of my favorite rappers of all time…
Slick Rick – The Art of Storytelling:
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this shit was like my soundtrack for a summer
The Coming by Busta is a classic, that cd u can wyle out to from the intro to the outro, real hype crazy shit on all the songs.
U mean albums you can listen to over and over again.
Busta has way more range than Reggie. Red only appeals to that one particular kick-back-roll-up-da-L demographic. Hell, Redman was on The Coming and they did the lil’ cypher joint but he still spread himself out and “It’s A Party” for the ladies that love Hip-Hop and “Woo-Hah” for the niggas to get wild to. Don’t you find it strange that Red’s first platinum album was the half-baked Doc’s Da Name? He finally realized you can make dope music that has commercial appeal after like half a decade.
And y’all tripping if you can’t listen to the majority of this Busta album right here.
Dilla hooked Busta up with that Do It 2 Def joint, and he was the first and still the only one to collaborate w/ Ozzy to this day in Hip-Hop that I know of.
Any have the following mp3…
Kim Hill – Nutshell
Morgan Spacek ft Rapahel Saadiq – I Miss U
Vice Lounge – Aqua Negro
@ Tru School
I don’t think Dilla was on this album. I know he hooked up Anarchy and Genesis but I’m sure Rockwilder did “Do It To Death” off top of my head
The Coming is the shit…past that, i don’t think Busta has an album that even cracks the 3 cig mark…his later albums suffer from too much conceptualization imo…dude tries to make his shit too deep and too profound…he mixes a few catchy, radio-friendly singles in that sell records for him, but on the whole his albums are boring imo
@ Sherm
For the record:
I’m sure Busta has the longest 4 Mic streak in The Source with the first 5 albums getting it. Back when The Source “meant something” I suppose.
And The Big Bang? Would have got 4 Cigs from TSS as well.
And I don’t think you’ve heard his albums in a while because they’re far from deep. If anything they’re overloaded with shoutouts to his “niggaz & bitches.”
But he makes bangers regardless. With the type of music he made, he was never set up to be “the greatest” but then again, nor was Redman.
fuck the source, i think his albums are spotty at best…he’s definitely one of the best spitters out there but dude’s albums are garbage…especially since he switched his style and tried to become a drug dealing killer type dude…he’s always been able to come up with unique shit that changes the game, but only that one song is really hittin….gimme some mo’, dangerous, put your hands where my eyes can see, touch it…all dope songs on albums that just aren’t that memorable
Buss is tight because he worked with Dilla, and on every album (see even Anarchy). Those beats are all fuckin awesome. Yea his album were always more a compilation of great productions rather than a cohesive whole, but their still worth a listen. Def can’t sleep on Buss
before “Babies Making Babies”, there was “Kissin’ In The Crates”, a 4 volume set of soulful gems compiled by my homeskillet Apple Jac. these compilations were recorded between 2001 & 2002 and for those of you who may be like “where have i heard the name Apple Jac before?”, i posted a dope mix of his entitled “Obscurely Familiar” around these parts earlier this year.
some of these joints may be familiar to us because they’ve been sampled by some of our faves recently, and some haven’t but all and all, this is good quality music that we can all get down with point blank period.
Vol. 1 http://www.zshare.net/download/16790325f02e0f83/
Vol. 2 http://www.zshare.net/download/167914996ea1f67d/
Vol. 3 http://www.zshare.net/download/1678630284f4e2d9/
Vol. 4 http://www.zshare.net/download/16786376d427a334/
and here’s the director’s cut, which is basically songs that didn’t make the transfer from 90min cassette to 74 minute cd’s.
Director’s Cut http://www.zshare.net/download/167926974e361765/
give the homie a holla at myspace.com/applejac, let him know what you think. more heat on deck, we got crates mane…
aw damn ^
& busta was only on that drug shit for an album. he’s already off that.
Without question Busta is crazy with his. One of the most unique MC’s to ever grip the mic, but that Reggie Noble is something special. Both are nice but I’ve got to go with Reggie.
bussa on the corner? r u effin’ me? like my sister said
if you’re 40 years old and still on the block, your plan failed. go back to school.
that remedial ish from busta’s last joint made me wanna vomit.
and reggie noble is steroid free. unlike Bus. lol!
For my tastes,
RED >>>>>>>>> Busta
just based on pure style and mic skills
Reggie over Busta any day.
@TC
You’re right about Dilla not doing anything on ELE. It sure did sound like something he could’ve done though. I have to say that even though Bus isn’t the greatest, he knows how to put together a solid album. I wonder if LL’s first 5 albums all got at least a 4 in the Source?
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