From the moment Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige were announced as the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show performers, the world has been waiting to see what comes next from legendary artists.
Now, in partnership with filmmaker F. Gary Gray, Pepsi has created an incredible Halftime Show trailer, titled The Call in the lead up to what could be the greatest 12 minutes in music entertainment the world has ever seen.
Many of their peers have expressed their astonishment in social media after watching the trailer, including Busta Rhymes, Ice T, Kxng Crooked and Uncle Murda.
Busta Rhymes has shared some great news about his next body of work. The follow up of Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath Of God is officially complete, according to the legendary rapper himself.
Busta has recently took to Instagram where he shared the update on the upcoming project and dropped a shout-out to DJ Kay Slay, who is fighting COVID19 at this moment.
“New Album Done. DJ Kay Slay you on my mind while I’m recording King. Keep Fighting!! We need you and we got too much shit left to do.” said Busta in the caption while previewing new song snippet, giving shout out to Kay Slay and Dr. Dre:
“We gettin’ gutter while I’m listenin’ to Kay Slay/ Or West Coast, looks like it’s Dre Day,” he raps on the track.
Not only has Dr. Dre appeared as a character on Grand Theft Auto Online: The Contract, but the legendary producer has added six new tracks to the game.
One of the tracks is titled “ETA,” featuring Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg and Anderson .Paak. The studio session was featured in the game but real-life in-studio footage has just surfaced online.
In the video, legendary hip-hop artists are vibing to the new music and having a good time along other Aftermath affiliates Xzibit, The D.O.C., Spliff Star, Fredwreck, Mike Epps, Anthony Anderson, Deon Cole, Truice Young and Special Ent.
DJ Kay Slay drops new project, titled “The Soul Controller,” which features guest appearances from Papoose, Snoop Dogg, Too $hort, Raekwon, The Game, Young Buck, AZ, Benny The Butcher, Busta Rhymes, Conway The Machine, Fat Joe, Ghostface Killah and others.
Conway The Machine is featured on a track titled “Respect The Architect” which also features Busta Rhymes, Benny The Butcher and PRAYAH.
You can bump the East Harlem hip-hop historian’s new EP below:
About a week ago, Rockstar Games announced a new story of Grand Theft Auto, entitled The Contract, features new music from Dr. Dre.
The main theme song is titled “ETA,” and it features Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, and Anderson .Paak and it can be heard in the trailer for The Contract.
Additional vocals come from BJ the Chicago Kid, Marsha Ambrosius and Xzibit and it contains a sample of “You’re the One for Me” performed by The Edwards Generation.
The Fugees icon Wyclef Jean has recently set down with hiphopisreal.com where he talked about Busta Rhyme’s reaction when he heard Eminem for the first time and explains why beef between Eminem and Canibus should had never happened.
“My Eminem experience, it was so…it was Eminem and Canibus. So, here is my Eminem experience, Busta Rhymes will tell you. When he came on my tour bus, he literally broke my tour bus
“He trashed my tour bus. You still owe me for my tour bus. But you know, Busta’s a giant. What are you gonna tell him? He will take you apart with one hand. He went crazy! Till today, I have nightmares of this thing. Busta trashed my beautiful tour bus after listening to this Eminem song.”
“My whole dream was to get Canibus with Eminem. That was my dream. I so wanted that to happen. I know that Eminem had so much love for Canibus. Canibus and Eminem are two of my favorite rappers of all time. I wish beef between them had never happened. I’m a huge fan. Eminem is a complete genius and so is Canibus in his space.” – said Wyclef Jean
In the recent episode of My Expert Opinion, Math Hoffa and the rest of the crew debate about who would win if Eminem and Busta Rhymes did the Verzuz Battle.
Some individuals in the room think its Eminem the winner, the rest think its Busta who comes out on top.
At one point, Math Hoffa says: “Lets do not sleep on Eminem. He is a monster. I think the only person that it makes sense for Busta Rhymes or Eminem is each other.”
On which, battle rapper who goes by the name Vado, replied: “We got a better chance to find an unicorn than this happening.”
Hopsin has recently set down with Stevie Knight for a long interview and at one point, Lost Angeles-born rapper was asked to name his top five rappers dead or alive. Here is what Hop responded:
“Eminem, Kxng Crooked, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliot and Ludacris.” on which Stevie Knight responded: “Damn, I never heard of that line-up.”
Then Hopsin continues: “Eminem because he is just f**king Eminem. Kxng Crooked has crazy flow, crazy flow patterns, crazy flow cadences, till this day unpredictable… I know a lot of people identify me with Eminem and all that he is a big part, Crooked I, I am telling you I have studied this man’s flow.”
In Pitchfork’s episode of Critical Breakthroughs, Busta Rhymes breaks down some of his biggest songs, including “Calm Down,” featuring Eminem.
“If you want a clear display of what the fundamentals of hip-hop is and an art of emceeing, “Calm Down” is the case study. I sent the record to Eminem with 16 bar verse. He sent it back with like 40 bar verse. I’m like ‘man, what the f**k is going on. You are not gonna do this to me on my song.’ I sent back my verse with 45 bars. He sends back 56 bars. I sent mines back 62 bars. He sends back 66 bars. I’m like, look bro, who we making this record for at this point? are we making this record for consumers or we are just battling each other now?”
“But that’s the beauty and the competitive nature and spirit we both have cause we care that much. We love it that much. No one wants to be a weak link. It’s no longer a business at that point. It’s just that fiery passion that still burns in the souls of both of us as true incredible Swordsmen of the sport and we love the opportunity to display the skill set at the most highest level of just raw emceeing. That was so much fun.” – says Busta Rhymes
In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, NME Magazine quizes artists on their own career to see how much they can remember. This week their guest is hip-hop’s juggernaut Busta Rhymes.
Interviewer: You were nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance at the 2000 Grammys for ‘Gimme Some More’. Who beat you?
Busta Rhymes: Damn man! I can not remember, you might have to help me with that one!
Interviewer: You lost out to your friend Eminem’s ‘My Name Is’.
Busta Rhymes: Eminem is one of my favorite MCs ever. We have done multiple records together and even on his latest album, ‘Music to Be Murdered By’, the track ‘Yah Yah’ used my vocals from ‘Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check’. He is one incredible motherf**ker! Wyclef Jean was the first person to play ‘My Name Is’ to me, before it was even out. We were on tour together and he had a six-song EP from Eminem. When we played ‘My Name Is’, I could not believe it. I went so crazy on his bus that I shattered his windshield with my head! I could not believe the s**t that Eminem was saying and Dr. Dre’s production was unbelievable – at the time, nothing existed like it in the whole game.
For the full quiz, you can visit NME Magazine here.
Hot Boy Turk has recently went live on Instagram to make sure that nobody comes close to Lil Wayne’s album catalog, including heavy hitters like Jay Z, Eminem and Busta Rhymes. Turk says:
“I put up my little brother Lil Wayne against any one of you ni**as. Old school, new school, whatever school. None of your catalog can f**k with Wayne. Period. Lil Wayne against any one of you ni**as. Jay Z, T.I., The Game, Busta Rhymes, Eminem. Ni**a whoever!”
Turk even went further and said that they can’t win against Lil Wayne even if they were all together. You can watch the video below:
Legendary hip-hop artist Busta Rhymes, who has new album out right now, has publicly named the rappers that he wants to challenge on Verzuz battle and they are some heavy hitters. Possible opponents include Eminem, Jay Z and Lil Wayne.
It was rumored that T.I. and Busta Rhymes were going to clash each other on Verzuz but it didn’t happen. Busta told Complex magazine: “These are all glorious moments. We’re celebrating each other and having fun and we getting the opportunity to show some competitive sh*t.”
“The nature of what this culture has been built on from the very beginning is to be competitive, whether respectfully competitive or disrespectfully competitive continued. But just for the record, I never asked to do a Verzuz with T.I. — this was presented to me by Joe Crack.” added Busta Rhymes.
In the same interview, Busta revealed who he really wants to battle: “I do not want to do no corny Verzuz. I would not do one with anyone whose catalog is not crazy. I would love to do a Verzuz with somebody I am a fan of…I would love to do a Verzuz battle with Eminem, I would love to do a Verzuz with Lil Wayne. I would love to do a Verzuz with Hov (Jay Z).”
“I would love to do Verzuz battle with somebody I am a fan of. I would love to battle Eminem.” – Busta Rhymes (Nov. 5, 2020)
Eminem and Busta Rhymes have previously collaborated on tracks several tracks that include: “Calm Down” (2014), “Touch It” (Remix) (Live) which also featured Mary J. Blige, Rah Digga, Missy Elliot, Lloyd Banks, Papoose and DMX (2006), “I’ll Hurt You” (2005) and “Hail Mary” which also featured 50 Cent and is a diss track towards Ja Rule.
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