Born to parents Geraldine Green (1947) and Trevor George Smith Sr, and he has a younger brother, Paul Smith. His parents divorced when he 10 years old. Busta’s time during the year of 1983 was that of change, his parents got divorced and his way of thinking was altered, during that year he also changed his religious beliefs and re-named himself ‘Born Justice God Allah’ because of the supreme sorts of names that he now believed in and looked up to. He discovered hip hop music through listening to the Zulu Beats Radio Show, something influenced him from that show and three years later he would form a group. Busta also went to school in the United Kingdom, where he lived in Blackpool, Preston and Morecambe. Ended up graduating from George Westinghouse High School in downtown Brooklyn.
As a youngster he played basketball, football and soccer.
His Panamanian baby-sitter, Aunt Mitzi, made him listen to all the rap radio stations. So, He would sit there at 2 in the morning rapping when he was supposed to be sleeping. I just couldn't be too loud or Mitzi's poodle would start dancing around and barking. One night, the poodle barked and Mitzi took my radio away. So he said, "I don't need that radio. I'll write my own rap songs." Busta Rhymes later became part of a B-Boy crew with mainly latinos, a couple of white kids, and Busta, the only black one. When he was about 10 years old after he moved from Brooklyn to Long Island, where he became a member of the crew when it was a big contest happening which the leader of the crew, Johnny Juice watched. Busta just came up to him like, "Are you Johnny Juice?" and Johnny answered like "Yeah." and he said he wanted to be down with this crew. He started poppin' and Johnny said he was dope so he said "We're about to do this contest" and they wanted to put him down with them, but he didn't know the routines. But they put him down anyways and they lost the contest because they didn't know where to put him in the routine. The next contest they had was more of a battle, for the crown of best b-boys in Long Island and they had their crew there and they won. Busta destroyed these other guys, when he was poppin. Johnny Juice says "even if you listen to his rhymes now, you can tell by the way he rhymes and the way he moves around he's really dope on the popping shit".
Before his leap to stardom, Rhymes, was a rambunctious middle-class kid from Long Island who wrote "rap poetry" and dropped out of high school to pursue a music career. "I really thought he'd be a dancer," says his mother, Geraldine Green. "At family cookouts he would win all the dance contests. He was always a showman." He reminds his worst job: “I used to work as a stock boy at a department store called Cheap John’s,” he says. “I knew that I couldn’t really wrap my head around doing that kind of work. Even if your heart is not in something, your mind has to at least be able to be willing to do it. So, I took the job and I worked for about two weeks, and then I quit.” Why?
“They just had me doing too much. I had to line up the roach sprays on the shelves and make sure they were all in order, facing the same way, with the logos facing the front. The dishwashing liquids, the detergents, the boxes that they came in when they came from the actual shipping companies that they were manufactured at. After I lined them up on the shelves, I had to cut up the cardboard boxes, fold them up neatly and tie them up so that they could do the recycling thing with them. After a couple paper cuts too many, and hands that were calloused and ashy and bruised, I said ‘this is definitely not the thing for me to continue to be doing.’”
Busta adds, “I used that as inspiration to go into the studio all the time when I had a free moment. After work, during my lunch break, traveling back and forth to work … to just apply myself creatively, and the opportunity finally came one day when I was downtown.” At 17, Rhymes landed a six-figure record deal.
LONS signing with Elektra
His first name as a rapper was Chill-o-ski, but he thought it was a corny name, and Chuck D from Public Enemy gave him a new name, Busta Rhymes. He got the name from an american football player from the eighties, George "Buster" Rhymes, and people always asked him to "Bust-a-rhyme", so the choice was easy. In the end of the eighties he met Charlie Brown at Turtlehook Middle School and they formed Leaders of the New School with Dinco "The rhyme scientist" D and Milo In De Dance (aka The Cut Monitor). They were on Rush Management. They was signed to Elektra Records December 12th 1989. First Recorded Appearance: “Mt. Airy Groove” from the Rubaiyat compilation, Elektra 1990. A&R Dante Ross heard about Leaders of the New School from Hank Shocklee [Bomb Squad] and Chuck D [Public Enemy] and them.He says "I knew they were one of their burgeoning groups and I also knew they didn't have a record deal. I heard they were performing and I went to check them out. I had just got my A&R gig at Elektra. I went there, saw them perform, grabbed them right after the performance and told them they had a record deal if they wanted one. LONS released 2 albums, "A future without a past" in 1991, and "T.I.M.E." in 1993. In 1992 Busta's girl was pregnant, but the baby died right after he was born, and Busta had big personal problems after that, but he got great support from his group members. In 93 they where divided because of ego in the group.
A couple of other things that made him well known before his solo career was a couple of cameo performances, among them A Tribe Called Quest's remix of "Scenario" with Leaders Of The New School, and the "Flava in ya ear remix" with Craig Mack and Rampage.
It took Busta three years before he released an album for Elektra, in 1996 he released "The Coming" with the hits "Woo hah! Got you all in check" featuring Rampage and "It's a party" featuring Zhane. while recording his debut album, he left the studio to check on his new SUV. He'd recently purchased the Toyota Land Cruiser, a giant vehicle that gives the impression of driving on an elevated track, for $40,000. Rhymes took the elevator down and came out on Broadway, in lower Manhattan, at 11:30 p.m. His ride was gone. Furious, he marched back inside and closed the door in the recording booth. "There was nothing I could do at that point, so I just vented that angry energy into three songs," he says. Woo-Hah!! Got You All in Check, one of the tracks he completed by morning, went on to become a street anthem and crossover hit, his first ever.
There was a short gap between the release of Busta’s first album and his second album, but it came sooner than people imagined it to. Busta was sceptical about bootleggers copying the new album so for reviewing purposes he only sent out album samplers. In 1997 he released his second album, "When Disaster Strikes", and after that, his popularity exploded. 1998 became a very good year for Busta, he started his own clothing line, BUSHI designs, and released his third album "Extinction Level Event (The final world front)" and Flipmode Squad's debut "The Imperial". Flipmode Squad at that point included Busta Rhymes, Rah Digga, Spliff Star, Rampage, Baby Sham & Lord Have Mercy.
1999 became a year with problems for Busta, he had to visit the courthouse a couple of times because of child support, and police stopped his car and found an unregistered gun. He lost the case about child support, and he got a 5 year probation for the other case. Now Elektra started to shut him down with less studio time and promotion for his next album. Busta didn't like that, and took his squad over to J Records in 2001 after his fourth release in 2000, "Anarchy".
J Records
His first album at J was "Genesis", with the hits "What it is" featuring Kelis, "Break ya neck" & "Pass the courvoiser part 2" featuring Pharrell and P. Diddy. Now he is CEO for Flipmode Records. In november 2002 he released his most fervent album so far, "It Ain't Safe No More" with the singles "Make it clap" featuring Spliff Star, and a remix of it featuring Spliff Star and Sean Paul. Other achievements in 2002 was the movie roles he had in "Halloween: Resurrection" and "Narc". In 2003 his SUV was shot up with 6 bullets while he was in the Violator offices, that happened just a month after a couple of people shot inside their offices. The collaboration with Mariah Carey & Flipmode Squad named "I know what you want" on "It ain't safe no more" became Busta's biggest hit so far.
Aftermath
In February 2004, Flipmode Squad joined Aftermath Records, New members was added to the squad: M. Dollars, Labba and former Blackstreet Chauncey Black joined them. In March he got a six month probation sentence after pleading no contest to a charge that he assaulted a woman during a concert in Fall River, Massachusetts, in December 2002.
In November 2005 the first official single off the album "Touch it" was released to radio. The video premiered in December. He is now the father of four children (born in 93, 99, 00 and 02). In February, while making the second video for "The Big Bang"- the "Touch it remix" ft. Mary J. Blige, Missy, Rah Digga, Lloyd Banks, Papoose and DMX, one of his bodyguards, Israel Ramirez, who recently started working security for Busta as his jewelry handler, was shot and killed shortly after midnight outside of the Kiss The Cactus Production studio in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, NY. According to eyewitnesses, the shooting was a result of an argument that began inside the studio and continued outside.
The Aftermath chief Dr. Dre said before the release of The Big Bang that ”All of sudden I’m hearing people in the streets talking about hos Busta’s back. In my mind, he never left, and that’s why I wanted to fuck with in the first place. He’s got that drive, and he never stops trying to top himself. Anybody who knows Busta knows that he’s always gonna come with heat." His third video from "The Big Bang" was released 10th May, "I love my bitch". The video features actress Gabrielle Union and the Black Eyed Peas' Will.i.am, who produced the song, but Kelis who is featured on the song, was not in the video. The single also features Kelis, but she's not featured in the video. Also changed is his appearance, as he has cut off his trademark dreadlocks as part of a personal renewal. "Eight years of court appearances later and I was awarded custody of my children," he explained. "My hair was remindful of the unnecessary rocks in my career and life. So it was time to shed the locks... I've got my career and family right." "The Big Bang" was released 13th June. The fourth video was released in July, "New York shit" and the fitth video came out in August, "In the ghetto". The album was certified Gold in that month too. This month he was also charged with an assault after the Amsterjam Music Festival on Randalls Island, and he was ticketed after police saw him talking on his mobile while driving past a Manhattan police station.
On January 3rd 2007 he turned himself in to police custody after he allegedly attacking someone on Boxing Day. Lt. John Grimpel said a man told police that Rhymes, had punched and kicked him repeatedly after an argument over money. On May 3rd was arrested on a drunk driving charge by police in New York City. Officers stopped Rhymes at about 12:40 a.m. because the sport utility vehicle he was driving had overly tinted windows, officers then smelled alcohol on the rapper's breath and he was subsequently arrested. was released on $7,500 bail, set by Judge Tanya Kennedy. After a 8th May court appearance, he was free to drive. Rhymes' lawyer said a judge ruled against a prosecution motion to suspend the rapper's license following the driving-while-intoxicated arrest. He also turned down a plea deal that day that would have sent him to jail for one year, the Manhattan district attorney's office said.
Bus appeared in a Super Bowl finale commercial for Pepsi Max Diet in February. Busta Rhymes pleaded guilty on 23rd January to assault, two driving infractions and weapons possession, avoiding a trial and the yearlong prison sentence recommended by prosecutors. But Judge Larry Stevens disagreed with prosecutors that Rhymes deserved time behind bars. Instead, he sentenced him to three years' probation and 10 days of community service for beating a fan who reportedly spat on his car in August 2006, and then assaulting his driver, Larry Hackett, that December. Rhymes was also fined $1,250 for driving with a suspended license in 2006 and driving while intoxicated in 2007. "I just want to say that I'm very grateful to the judge, I'm very grateful to the system. I believe in the system. It hasn't failed me personally yet," Rhymes, dressed in a crisp black pinstripe suit, said outside the courtroom.
"I'm just glad that all of this is finally behind me and I can go back to doing what I do best - making great music and great films and being a people person," he said.
His 8th solo album "Blessed" was set for a release in July 2008. First he called it "When Hell Freeze Over" then he changed it to "Back On My B.S.", a title Pharrell helped him come up with, last it was changed to "Blessed" in April 08. Rhymes was added to Projekt Revolution 2008 (summer tour), He was joining Linkin Park, Chris Cornell, The Bravery, and Ashes Divide on the main stage. After the first week of touring he had to leave the tour because of business matters; Late July he left Interscope, because they couldn't agree with Busta how to handle the final version of the album.
Motown
In September 08 he his new deal was announced, with Motown/Universal. He then re-titled his album to "Back On My B.S." The first single was released in October 2008, called "Arab Money" featuring Ron Browz. 2 remix videos with different guests were later releases in February 09. The second single, "Hustler's Anthem 09" was released in Febuary too. The third single's video "Respect My Conglomerate" was released in March. "Back On My B.S." was released May 19th 09, and entered the Billboard chart at #5, after a lot of delays; 1st July 08, 9th Dec. 08, 10th Feb. 09, 24th March 09). In June, the video for "If you don't know" was released. The video for "World Go Round" will be released soon.
It's All Good
Busta Rhymes Lyrics
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Let me talk to you baby
I've got some shit to share we your freaky ass, ha
I like the way you freak it baby, I love your style
The way you stick your tongue in my mouth and act wild
The way you give me them little fights and little tussles
Bite the back of your neck weaking your leg muscles
She don't care, ready to fuck anywhere
Make a nigga want to bust 'til my legs cripple
Put your breasts in my face, tell me bite the nipples
You got me breathing hard, the whole shit
Kiss me on the chest, my belly button
Baby, start to kiss the whole dick
Strap you up, one time
Slap your ass up, two time
And watch you jingle
I love the way your whole ass wiggle
The way she turning me on and make my little freak wanna giggle
Before the dick paid the pussy a visit
Grabbed the pussy from the back a stuck my fingers all in it
Chorus:
Have you ever went over your freak's house to chill
And the both of you understood
That y'all could chill with the talking 'cause y'all were straight fucking
And for both of y'all, it's all good
Sometimes you try to play it off but you know you can't
Now a nigga dick hard like wood
You tried the macaroni-salad-the-sweet-pussy-delight
I'ma fuck it every time I could
My freak start stripping
I take a closer look, her pussy dripping
Flipping, you know I ain't tripping
Got my heart skipping, anticipating the fun
Baby, kiss the dick one more time and start the dick suck
I like the way you lick it, the way you suck it
The way you tell me you want the right dick to fuck it
The dick rest upon the pussy right here like wool
Grab my ass and pull, say you want your pussy whole full
Now talk the dirty shit, I like it like that
The way you swing your waist and throw all the pussy back
Baby got me all in the pussy, I ain't joking
She turning round, bending over, spreading her ass wide open
Oh yes, so I can get all in
She say she like the way the dick make the pussy feel from deep within
And when it slip out, she stick it right in
I love her just the way she is and how handle her biz
Chorus to fade...
The lyrics of Busta Rhymes's "It's All Good" depict a sexual encounter between the singer and his partner. He really enjoys her style, the way she kisses and behaves. He loves how she initiates fights, and he is also enthralled with her body. Throughout the song, Busta Rhymes describes various sexual acts that he and his partner participate in. He openly speaks about his desires and enjoys the freedom that he has in the relationship.
The song is also about the understanding of two people who know that they can have a conversation without words. Sometimes when you're intimately involved with someone, you both can sit together and not say a word, but you both know what each other is thinking. This song is about the moments of intimacy that people share with their partner, where words do not describe the experience of just being with someone.
Overall, "It's All Good" is a very sexually explicit song, but it is also about the freedom that comes from being with someone that you can be yourself with. From Busta Rhymes’s perspective, the way his partner behaves is her way of expressing her love for him.
Line by Line Meaning
Let me talk to you
I want to have a conversation with you.
Let me talk to you baby
I want to have a conversation with you, my dear.
I've got some shit to share we your freaky ass, ha
I have something to share with you, my sexually adventurous partner.
I like the way you freak it baby, I love your style
I enjoy the way you express your sexuality and your unique approach to intimacy.
The way you stick your tongue in my mouth and act wild
I enjoy passionate kissing and the uninhibited way you express yourself during sexual activity.
The way you give me them little fights and little tussles
I enjoy the playful aggression and intimacy that we share during sexual activity.
Bite the back of your neck weaking your leg muscles
I enjoy teasing and pleasing you to the point where you physically respond in a pleasurable way.
The type of chick who always want to take it there
You are the type of person who is always eager to engage in sexual activity.
She don't care, ready to fuck anywhere
You are not concerned with location or other external factors when it comes to engaging in sexual activity.
Make a nigga want to bust 'til my legs cripple
You arouse me to the point where I want to ejaculate until I cannot physically stand anymore.
Put your breasts in my face, tell me bite the nipples
You want me to engage with your breasts and nipples in a pleasurable manner during sexual activity.
You got me breathing hard, the whole shit
You have me aroused and panting heavily during sexual activity.
Kiss me on the chest, my belly button
You enjoy engaging with different areas of my body during sexual activity.
Baby, start to kiss the whole dick
You enjoy engaging with my penis in a pleasurable manner during sexual activity.
Strap you up, one time
I will use a condom for safe sexual activity.
Slap your ass up, two time
I will engage in playful spanking during sexual activity.
And watch you jingle
I enjoy observing your body move in a pleasurable manner during sexual activity.
I love the way your whole ass wiggle
I enjoy observing your buttocks move in a pleasurable manner during sexual activity.
The way she turning me on and make my little freak wanna giggle
You are arousing me to the point where I feel playful and euphoric during sexual activity.
Before the dick paid the pussy a visit
Before engaging in sexual activity, I touched and aroused your vagina with my fingers.
Grabbed the pussy from the back a stuck my fingers all in it
I touched and aroused your vagina from behind with my fingers.
Have you ever went over your freak's house to chill
Have you ever gone over to engage in sexual activity with someone who shares your sexual preferences?
And the both of you understood
Both partners were aware that the visit was for the purpose of sexual activity.
That y'all could chill with the talking 'cause y'all were straight fucking
Both partners were comfortable with not engaging in conversation due to the intensity of the sexual activity.
And for both of y'all, it's all good
Both partners agree that they enjoy the sexual activity and the arrangement is mutually satisfying.
Sometimes you try to play it off but you know you can't
Sometimes you attempt to conceal your sexual arousal, but it is impossible to hide.
Now a nigga dick hard like wood
Male partner is aroused and sexually excited.
You tried the macaroni-salad-the-sweet-pussy-delight
A sexual euphemism for engaging in pleasurable vaginal licking or oral sex.
I'ma fuck it every time I could
I will engage in sexual activity with you as often as possible.
My freak start stripping
You suddenly begin to remove your clothing to initiate sexual activity.
I take a closer look, her pussy dripping
I notice bodily fluids indicating sexual arousal on your genitalia.
Flipping, you know I ain't tripping
I am unconcerned by your sexual arousal and in fact find it pleasing.
Got my heart skipping, anticipating the fun
I am excited and aroused by the prospect of sexual activity with you.
Baby, kiss the dick one more time and start the dick suck
Oral sex is initiated.
I like the way you lick it, the way you suck it
I find your oral sex technique pleasurable.
The way you tell me you want the right dick to fuck it
You communicate your desire for intercourse and express your preference for the penis size or shape that is most pleasurable for you.
The dick rest upon the pussy right here like wool
The penis is in a position for insertion during intercourse.
Grab my ass and pull, say you want your pussy whole full
You express your desire for deeper penetration during sexual activity.
Now talk the dirty shit, I like it like that
You engage in erotic talk during sexual activity, which I find appealing.
The way you swing your waist and throw all the pussy back
You move your hips in a pleasurable manner during sexual activity.
Baby got me all in the pussy, I ain't joking
You are arousing me in a pleasurable manner during intercourse.
She turning round, bending over, spreading her ass wide open
You position yourself for deeper penetration during intercourse.
Oh yes, so I can get all in
I am pleased by your sexual position and intend to penetrate deeper.
She say she like the way the dick make the pussy feel from deep within
You express your enjoyment of deep penetration and the pleasurable sensations it produces.
And when it slip out, she stick it right in
If the penis slips out during intercourse, you quickly reposition it for continued pleasure.
I love her just the way she is and how handle her biz
I appreciate and respect your unique approach to sexual activity.
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: SHAFFER SMITH, JERROL WIZZARD, CHER LLOYD
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@kylewilliams2269
true definition of Netflix and chill
@nuknuknuk111
Kyle Williams lol
@morpheus9394
WHAT you guys in the states never got to hear this great track??? That's crazy. And the intro is so funny and sick. Great track.
@lion0dee332
This tune is too epic busta in his prime
@dgmobbdeep
Yeah my man. The 90's. Missing this decade so much.
@bigelakafatdaddychannel5002
This song is hot
@Ringolero
Classic track!
@gizzmo8024
Afroman's Crazy Rap bites this hard.
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@fumez
Beautiful lyric =)