Busta talks about smashing his head through a windshield when he first heard Eminem

[RajWatts]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...h-his-head-upon-first-hearing-eminem-20140702

Calm Down," Busta Rhymes' frenetic, breakneck new track from his forthcoming album Extinction Level Event 2, finds the veteran rapper trading 60-bar verses with Eminem, whose rhymes range from the sublime to the sophomoric. It's not the duo's first collaboration — see 2006's "I'll Hurt You" — but for Busta, it represents the once-dominant strain of punchline- and allusion-based hip-hop.

"It's a bare bones hip-hop, fundamental, boom-bap record," the rapper tells Rolling Stone. "It's samples, hard kicks, hard snares and a whole lot of fukking bars of rapping with both metaphors and punchlines. It's a friendly reminder to today's generation of what this whole thing is based on."

As with his Q-Tip collaboration on "Thank You," the rapper says he was inspired by the competitive nature of his collaborator to work harder on his verse. "When you wildin' with artists that you respect and you know they ain’t playing no fukking games, I look forward to these moments because he is going to bring the best out of me," says the rapper. "I know that I ain't gonna play with him in the same way that he’s not going to play with me. And the beautiful shyt about that is that we are supposed to make each other better and bring the best out of each other."

Busta's admiration for Eminem goes back to the late Nineties, when he first heard Eminem's Slim Shady EP while traveling as part of the Smokin' Grooves tour. Before the two had ever met, Busta almost suffered a medical injury from hearing Em's flow.

"We were on the Smokin' Grooves tour in the back of one of the venues," recalls the rapper. "Wyclef has this big-ass studio on his bus so we always wanted to go hang out and he was playing the Slim Shady EP. Before I could actually get on the bus, I was standing on the three little steps that you walk up to get on to the bus and I was nodding my head so fukking hard, going crazy, that I hit my head on the windshield and broke the whole fukkin' windshield of Wyclef's bus. It fukked the whole glass up.

"The fukking shyt that I was hearing from him created an animal instinct reaction," added the rapper. "There was no thought that went into the way I reacted; it was just so powerfully compelling that i just bugged out. And there are very few moments like that, for me, that made me feel like that. When I first heard him, I didn’t know if he was white or black or where he came from. All I knew is what he was making me feel like made me almost push my head through a windshield."

Rhymes said he hopes to release Extinction Level Event 2 sometime this fall.

 

[Art Barr]

that is more than likely true.

if you ever heard slim shady the ep.
that was one of the best releases in rap history.
plus, it is easily rap's best independant ep of all time as well.

when i heard slim shady the ep,..
i posted my first full record review and also said how eminem was going to be the artist that we know him as today.

people said i was buggin, and i said if you don't understand the level of talent you hear, you really don't know top tier emcee'n.

slim shady ep = the truth



art barr

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

Busta Rhymes is too damn animated for his own good

 

[jerzboy]

Not gonna lie, the first time I heard Em I was pretty shocked too. shyt actually made me pause in my steps.

So much goes in to what made me react this way. One of those artist that u never forget the first time u hear them.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

Eminem is a helluva lyricist...

But his industrial like flow doesnt habe enough SOUL to hold my.attention

and lately his flow is unbearable....sounds like a chainsaw on superspeed

 

[Pink Slime]

i can believe it

my homie crashed and almost flipped his car jammin to "my name is" when that shyt first came out

that ep was powerful. nothin like that since

 

[ORDER_66]

MY FAVORITE EMINEM ALBUM.... EVER.

 

[Poppa_Dock]

get black out crazy over sounds brahs

 

[RajWatts]

 

[Taadow]

Busta Rhymes is too damn animated for his own good

Naw, his forehead is just too IMPERIAL, MUTHAFUCCAS!!

IT'S THA FIRST FLIPMODIAN FO'HEAD!!

 

[AlmightySu]

Slim Shady EP is definitely a great independent album I still bump that shyt every now and then

 

[TrifeGod]

I first heard Em on the Lyricist Lounge joint and that shyt was ill but I can't sit here and say I saw a star in the makin' I just knew he had a unique flow and was unorthodox ..I remember listenin to Infinite his first lp I think and vibed to that shyt but i lost it

 

[Ohene]

musta been playing low down dirty.

 

[Ohene]

first time i heard Em was "My Name is" and i was instantly a fan. I was only 7 years old though. Damn man, time flies.

I remember what I think was the first time i heard it though. Summer of 1999 in Downtown Toronto in my moms van on the radio.

 

[Pink Slime]

I'm still mad I sold the original pressing of the EP for like 40 bucks
Tho I made a mint around the time before the SSLp was about to drop and mtv was blowing him up with "my name is". There were a lot of low qual leaks and the bad meets evil joints floating around the net so I compiled all I could find and burned a ton of Cds to sell on eBay as the LP before it dropped. I made 4 figs off that . Probably get arrested/sued if I tried that shyt these days