Busta Arrested Again

26 year-old Busta Rhymes and his business manager, Gerald Odom (25), were picked up in New York City for third degree criminal possession of a loaded, unregistered, .45 caliber, semi-automatic handgun | in an open bag and marijuana in Odom's pants pocket.

On Sunday night, at 11:30 Busta had been pulled over for driving erratically, including making three unsafe lane changes, in a '95 Mercedes on 11th Avenue, near 18th Street, in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, when the contraband was found.

Despite the prosecutor's requestfor a bail of $3500, the pair was released on Monday morning, on their own recognizance, and a court date was set for January 28th. Busta Rhymes has no criminal record, but, if convicted, could face up to seven years in jail.

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Song Stories

“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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