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December 30, 1998

Q&A: Busta Rhymes

"I owe my career to having no Plan B. No other plan of survival. Failure is not an option."

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When Disaster Strikes

Busta Rhymes' follow-up to The Coming, his 1996 solo debut, is a complicated suite about the end of the century from hip-hop's high-volume majordomo. Inevitably, rap's recent tragedies haunt the music: In "Things We Be Doin' for Money," a two-part jam, Rhymes finds himself in an escalating altercati...

2009 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Extinction Level Event - The Final World Front

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Woo-hah! Busta Rhymes is hip-hop's Godzilla, a fire-breathing giant whose marketable cuddly side has kept him perpetually serialized in apocalyptic-themed blockbuster albums; no matter their overblown conceits, they always deliver a few of the spine-tingling moments that had attracted you in the first place. Rhymes was still a teenager when he moved from his Flatbush, Brooklyn, birthplace to Long...

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