Possessing a hyper-literate, intellectual style of rapping augmented with d… Read Full Bio ↴Possessing a hyper-literate, intellectual style of rapping augmented with dizzying elocution that would tongue-tie even the fiercest auctioneer, Busdriver is eclectic and eccentric enough to cite vocalese jazz singer Jon Hendricks as a primary influence. Born Regan Farquhar, the Los Angeles MC was introduced to hip-hop culture early – his father wrote the screenplay to one of the earliest films focusing on hip-hop, Krush Groove. He began rapping at age nine, releasing his first record at age 13 with his group, 4/29, named after the 1992 L.A. riots. By the mid-'90s, Busdriver was a regular at the Project Blowed open mic, where he would meet future collaborators and underground luminaries like Aceyalone, Abstract Rude, and Freestyle Fellowship. And shortly after, the vinyl did flow.

Busdriver guested on upward of 20 singles, and by 2001 he could no longer be contained by guest spots, releasing his first full-length, Memoirs of the Elephant Man (1999). There were just as many detractors as supporters for his singular style, which was so densely packed it made his chosen name seem a reference for multiple-personality disorder, and the lo-fi production also left more listeners scratching heads than nodding them.

His next album, This Machine Kills Fashion Tips (2002), continued in a similar manner before being trumped by better production and more focused rhymes on Temporary Forever the same year. Joined by another West Coast avant-garde MC, Radioinactive, and the breezy, fractured pop of electronic producer Daedelus, Busdriver released yet another odd puzzle piece in 2003, The Weather. Fear of a Black Tangent followed on Mush in 2005. After moving to Anti-/Epitaph, the rapper issued RoadKillOvercoat, which featured production from Nobody and Boom Bip. His second Anti- release, Jhelli Beam, appeared in 2009. In 2010 he put out a full-length mixtape of unreleased gems and illegal remixes called Computer Cooties. It was released as a free album. 2010 saw Bus toiling over a new album that will shock fans and confuse the unconverted into unwilling servitude. It is called Beaus$Eros and was released on February 21, 2012 on Fake Four. Beaus$Eros forgoes the lightening-speed rhyming that defined his style in favor of a diverse, off-kilter brand of pop and post-hip-hop.

Suing Sony
Busdriver Lyrics

I apologize to the lawyers who've been waiting in the hall, this next case isn't on the sign in sheet

If you have a pulse I'm yours
I'm putty shaped like a t-shirt
I've not learned to die yet
But touch my sandwich, there's fly larva droppings on the toppings
I have a pie chart of the pop teens

Hot springs success rate in the sex slate
So I'm chasing this ambulance

Holding the sky high heap of paper, that's been signed
While answering my sci-fi beep and pager
Reminding me I'm in excruciating pain

But my face is a wide eyed screen saver
So why don't I comply to cheap labor
And while it's raining itemized receipts
But I hurt too and need some consultation
My name encrusted in hot donut glaze

And it's close to an amount that equates to a new me
Yes I need a new me
'Cause the other new me said I'm a newly wed married to a warn head shot force fed slop
From a company, who are they?
I'll sue them (Sue you)

I'm suing Sony
I'm suing Sony
Due to defamation of a character from a fictional character that was based on me
Caricature of me and a porcelain figurine that gave me poor skin and liver and spleen complications
I'm suing Sony
I'm suing Sony

So much as disturb a single paint brush bristle
And I won't just make your blood drizzle
I'll arms race with a scud missile
I'll drown you in the legalese of a lawsuit
Pause and mute you, why?

'Cause I'm bored stiff
And to get me out of this couch you need a forklift
While I'm here I'm a world champ channel browser, rabble-rouser
With a 64 bit thing or something or other

You've awakened me from my comfortable coma
And I've run to record in Kev's dirty laundry
Unearthly quandary, Leimert G, songs free
You lied, if you were a zen master

What would you have me procreate under leaking gases
If you work at lens crafters
How come I can't see with these reading glasses
I'm gonna fucking sue you through and through

I'm suing Sony
I'm suing Sony
Due to defamation of a character from a fictional character that was based on me
Caricature of me and a porcelain figurine that gave me poor skin and liver and spleen complications

You see, I'm suing Sony
Yeah, I'm suing Sony
Due to defamation of a character from a fictional character that was based on me
Caricature of me and a porcelain figurine that gave me poor skin and liver and spleen complications

Writer(s): Regan Farquhar, Kevin Moo

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