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Busta Rhymes is a rapper and producer hailing from Brooklyn, New York, United States who was born on the 20th of May 1972. He is one of the most respected rappers of his generation and has released nine studio albums since his debut in 1996.
Born Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr to Jamaican parents in Brooklyn, New York, Busta Rhymes came from the same fertile breeding ground as many of the biggest rappers of all time. While he might not have achieved their commercial success, very few other rappers around command the kind of respect that Busta gets from everyone who knows anything about Hip-Hop. Moving to Long Island, New York with his family at the age of 12, Busta would attend George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School alongside Jay-Z, DMX and The Notorious B.I.G before graduating High School in 1991 from Uniondale High School. School, however, was already in the back of Busta’s mind by then.
In 1989, he’d formed his first rap group with fellow New Yorkers Charlie Brown (Bryan Higgins), Dinco D (James Jackson) and Cut Monitor Milo (Sheldon Scott) while still at Uniondale High School. They called themselves Leaders Of The New School and generated such a buzz that before Busta had graduated high school, his group had opened for the mighty Public Enemy and landed a record deal with Elektra Records at the tender age of 17. His first record with Leaders Of The New School was released in the same year he graduated high school, 1991, and while “A Future Without A Past…” wasn’t an enormous commercial success, it was critically adored, and gave the group three top ten singles on the Billboard Hot Rap singles charts.
However, as the group grew in popularity, Busta started grabbing the lion’s share of the public’s attention, stealing the spotlight from the other members of the band. This began in 1992 after he stole the show on a guest spot on A Tribe Called Quest’s track “Scenario”, and despite releasing their second record in 1993, the band split up on the set of MTV’s hip-hop show Yo! MTV Raps. This left the stage set for a solo career, and in 1996 he released his debut solo single “Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check”. The track was a smash hit, peaking at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and proving beyond reasonable doubt that Busta gone solo was a force to be reckoned with.
Busta’s name got even bigger in 1998 with the release of his third record “Extinction Level Event (Final World Front)”, which made him a star in the U.K and Europe and continued his imperial phase in his home country with the best reviews of his career and hit single “What’s It Gonna Be?!” which featured Janet Jackson. Since then, it would be easier to compile a list of the artists that Busta hasn’t worked with, with Nas, Eminem, Pharrell and Nicki Minaj naming but a few. His flow is impeccable, his style unmistakeable, and over twenty-five years into his career, he still has the power to take a track and make it a hit. For that, Busta comes highly recommended.
Read moreWhatever your opinion on Busta Rhymes, there’s two things about him that you can’t really deny. One, he’s been one of the most recognisable figures in U.S. urban music for a good couple of decades now; how many people with even a passing interest in that genre could claim never to have heard of him? Secondly, Busta’s never really gone away; you could probably argue that he was one of the first artists to make an art form out of the feature, probably being more notable for his guest spots than his own tracks - recently, too, he’s continued to reinvent himself, working with the likes of Tiesto, Linkin Park and Nicki Minaj. That’s not to play down his impressive solo back catalogue, though; there’s banger after banger in there, from ‘Break Ya Neck’ to ‘Woo Hah! (Got You All in Check)’ to the classic ‘Pass the Courvoisier’. His live show, perhaps unsurprisingly, is designed around his sheer force of personality, as much as anything else; in front of a huge banner emblazoned with his name, he eschews the traditional hip hop penchant for a hype man sharing vocal duties, although does seem to be frequently backed by an entourage doing nothing in particular. In September, he’ll make his first UK festival appearance at Bestival, after cancelling a slew of shows on these shore earlier this year; expect a hit-packed party-starter of a set from one of rap’s true originals.
Can we all just agree that Trevor Tahiem Smith Jr. definitely has the best stage name of any musician in the hip hop circuit? Away from the controversy and bravado, you cannot deny that Busta Rhymes is a universally recognisable name and has been a staple appearance on charts on both sides of the Atlantic since the release of his first album 'The Coming' in the mid-90s.
Despite having consistently recorded and released music over the past fifteen years, he is a far more elusive live performer so therefore whenever he does announce tours the fans flock to hear classics such as 'Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See' in all their glory. Accompanied by a huge entourage onstage including some rather redundant female dancers, Busta really does obey all the conventions in the hip hop book when it comes to his live performance yet the audience just goes with it and it makes the whole show incredibly fun. The only person really taking it seriously is Trevor himself, everybody else is just enjoying dancing like crazy to the beats of 'What's It Gonna Be?'.
Lil' Kim not showing up sucked, but what sucked even more was waiting absolutely FOREVER for Busta Rhymes to come out, and then him taking FOREVER to perform because he wouldn't stop complaining about his mic. Super annoying. Mind you, once he started performing it was awesome, but he still only played for 45 minutes or something. It was disappointing as I've been wanting to see Busta Rhymes for many years now. But I'm still happy I got to see him.
An amazing experience to say the least I've waited for years to see him live and I was just blown away from start to end. Still one of my favourite hip hop artists of all time
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