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.
The Don & The Boss
Busta Rhymes Lyrics
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Wah gwan, baby?
Wah gwan, baby?
Wah gwan, baby?
Shake it fi di boss
Get naked fi di boss
X-rated fi di boss
Bumpa so big
Like Nicki Minaj
Like Nicki Minaj
Like Nicki Minaj
Kartel is a mystery
Nancy Drew can't fix it
Put my dick on ya lipstick
Yeah, ha-ha, she kissed it
Xerxes get victories
Bumbohole get dismissed
Conglomerate's in business
Fuck bwoy wives and bitches
Ho-ho, ha-ha, he-he
She come back again like frisbee
Issa fling, so she miss me
My girl, miss who? Mississippi
My mind is a district
District 9 restricted
Iq high with big spliff
My crew time, is this it?
Shake it fi di Don
Get naked fi di Don
X-rated fi di Don
Best playlist fi di Don
Bumpa so big
Like Megan Thee Stallion
Like Megan Thee Stallion
Like Megan Thee Stallion
Bus' Rhymes ah di champion
Coulda never find a betta option
Me nuh wan' none ah yuh friend dem
Somebody pussy smell like onion and scallion
Come 'tand up wit a champion
Gun barrel bigga dan di Grand Canyon
All ah mi thug dem ah bad man
Mek we get rid ah all ah unnuh, subtraction
Eh, bloodcat wah gwan?
You get anodda Godzilla King Kong song
One world boss, one rass Don
Don't play with mi money, not a fraction
See dat will cause a wrong reaction
Shot fly 'til you hear it way down ah Boston
Two ah we god, weh you ah look pon?
World Boss a alien and me a martian
Shake it fi di boss
Get naked fi di boss
X-rated fi di boss
Best playlist fi di boss
Bumpa so big
Like Nicki Minaj
Like Nicki Minaj
Like Nicki Minaj
Shake it fi di Don
Get naked fi di Don
X-rated fi di Don
Best playlist fi di Don
Bumpa so big
Like Megan Thee Stallion
Like Megan Thee Stallion
Like Megan Thee Stallion
The song "The Don & The Boss" by Busta Rhymes featuring Vybz Kartel is a dancehall jam that celebrates the life of a gangster and his influence over his area. The lyrics talk about the lifestyle of the Boss and the Don, two powerful figures in the music industry that can get anything they want. The song has an infectious beat that makes it perfect for dancing and having a good time.
The chorus of the song talks about shaking it for the boss and getting naked for the boss. It also talks about having the best playlist for the boss and the Don. The first verse is from Vybz Kartel's perspective, and he talks about how he is a mystery that no one can solve, mentioning his past with the law. He mentions putting his "dick on ya lipstick" and laughing about it, and how he dismisses those who try to bring him down. In the second verse, Busta Rhymes talks about how he is the champion and how no one can defeat him. He mentions how his gun is bigger than the Grand Canyon, and that anyone who messes with him or his money will get a wrong reaction.
Line by Line Meaning
Wah gwan baby?
Greetings, what's going on?
Shake it fi di boss
Dance provocatively for the boss.
Get naked fi di boss
Undress sexually for the boss.
X-rated fi di boss
Engage in explicit sexual acts with the boss.
Best playlist fi di boss
Play the best music for the boss.
Bumpa so big
Large buttocks.
Like Nicki Minaj
Similar to Nicki Minaj, a female rapper known for her curves.
Kartel is a mystery
Vybz Kartel, a Jamaican dancehall artist, is enigmatic and difficult to understand.
Nancy Drew can't fix it
Even fictional detective Nancy Drew would be unable to solve the mystery of Kartel.
Put my dick on ya lipstick
A crude sexual reference to oral sex.
Yeah, ha-ha, she kissed it
Laughing about receiving oral sex from a woman.
Xerxes get victories
Xerxes, an ancient Persian king, was victorious in battle.
Bumbohole get dismissed
Derogatory term for a gay man being rejected.
Conglomerate's in business
A group of companies working together has been established.
Fuck bwoy wives and bitches
Derogatory term for cheating on a man's partner.
Ho-ho, ha-ha, he-he
Laughter or amusement.
She come back again like frisbee
A woman returning to have sex again.
Issa fling, so she miss me
A casual sexual encounter where the woman is not emotionally attached.
My girl, miss who? Mississippi
A rhyming phrase indicating that the singer's woman is loyal and not interested in other men.
My mind is a district
The artist's thoughts are complex and intricate.
District 9 restricted
A reference to the science fiction movie District 9, where aliens are restricted to living in a certain area.
Iq high with big spliff
The artist is intelligent and smokes large joints.
My crew time, is this it?
The singer is questioning if this moment is the peak of their success.
Bus' Rhymes ah di champion
Busta Rhymes is the winner or best in his field.
Coulda never find a betta option
There could never be a better choice than him.
Me nuh wan' none ah yuh friend dem
The singer does not want to associate with the listener's friends.
Somebody pussy smell like onion and scallion
Derogatory term for a woman's genitalia smelling bad.
Come 'tand up wit a champion
Stand up and be associated with a winner.
Gun barrel bigga dan di Grand Canyon
The artist's gun is larger than the Grand Canyon, a natural wonder in the United States.
All ah mi thug dem ah bad man
All of the singer's criminal associates are tough and dangerous.
Mek we get rid ah all ah unnuh, subtraction
The singer wants to eliminate all of his enemies.
Eh, bloodcat wah gwan?
What's up, my friend?
You get anodda Godzilla King Kong song
Another powerful and imposing song from the artist.
One world boss, one rass Don
One leader in charge, one powerful figure.
Don't play with mi money, not a fraction
Do not mess with the singer's money or finances at all.
See dat will cause a wrong reaction
This will lead to negative consequences.
Shot fly 'til you hear it way down ah Boston
The gunshot will be heard far away, even in Boston.
Two ah we god, weh you ah look pon?
We are both great and powerful, what are you staring at?
World Boss a alien and me a martian
Kartel is an out of this world figure and the singer is from another planet.
Like Megan Thee Stallion
Similar to Megan Thee Stallion, a female rapper known for her curves.
Shake it fi di Don
Dance provocatively for the Don, a leader or boss.
Get naked fi di Don
Undress sexually for the Don.
X-rated fi di Don
Engage in explicit sexual acts with the Don.
Best playlist fi di Don
Play the best music for the Don.
Bumpa so big
Large buttocks.
Bus' Rhymes ah di champion
Busta Rhymes is the winner or best in his field.
Coulda never find a betta option
There could never be a better choice than him.
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Adidja Azim Palmer, Trevor Smith Jr.
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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