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Trevor George Smith Jr. (born May 20, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York), better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes, is anAmerican rapper
and actor signed to Universal Motown. He began his rap career in the group Leaders of the New School, andthen released his debut album,
The Coming, in 1996. He has since released 1997âs When Disaster Strikes, 1998âs E.L.E.(Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front,
2000âs Anarchy 2001âs Genesis, 2002âs It Ainât Safe No More, 2006âs The BigBang and 2009âs Back on My B.S. His ninth studio album, The
Chemo, will be released early 2010 an ...read more
Trevor George Smith Jr. (born May 20, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York), better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes, is anAmerican rapper
and actor signed to Universal Motown. He began his rap career in the group Leaders of the New School, andthen released his debut album,
The Coming, in 1996. He has since released 1997âs When Disaster Strikes, 1998âs E.L.E.(Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front,
2000âs Anarchy 2001âs Genesis, 2002âs It Ainât Safe No More, 2006âs The BigBang and 2009âs Back on My B.S. His ninth studio album, The
Chemo, will be released early 2010 and is said to be 80%completed.
Born to parents Geraldine Green (1947) and Trevor George Smith Sr, and he has a younger brother, Paul Smith. His parentsdivorced when he
10 years old. Bustaâs time during the year of 1983 was that of change, his parents got divorced and hisway of thinking was altered, during
that year he also changed his religious beliefs and re-named himself âBorn Justice GodAllahâ because of the supreme sorts of names that he
now believed in and looked up to. He discovered hip hop music throughlistening to the Zulu Beats Radio Show, something influenced him from
that show and three years later he would form agroup. Busta also went to school i United Kingdom, where he lived in Blackpool, Preston and
Morecambe. Ended up graduatingfrom George Westinghouse High School in downtown Brooklyn.As a youngster he played basketball, football
and soccer.
His Panamanian baby-sitter, Aunt Mitzi, made him listen to all the rap radio stations. So, He would sit there at 2 in themorning rapping when
he was supposed to be sleeping. I just couldnât be too loud or Mitziâs poodle would start dancing aroundand barking. One night, the poodle
barked and Mitzi took my radio away. So he said, âI donât need that radio. Iâll write myown rap songs.â Busta Rhymes later became part of a
B-Boy crew with mainly latinos, a couple of white kids, and Busta, theonly black one. When he was about 10 years old after he moved from
Brooklyn to Long Island, where he became a member ofthe crew when it was a big contest happening which the leader of the crew, Johnny
Juice watched. Busta just came up tohim like, âAre you Johnny Juice?â and Johnny answered like âYeah.â and he said he wanted to be down
with this crew. Hestarted poppinâ and Johnny said he was dope so he said âWeâre about to do this contestâ and they wanted to put him
downwith them, but he didnât know the routines. But they put him down anyways and they lost the contest because they didnâtknow where to
put him in the routine. The next contest they had was more of a battle, for the crown of best b-boys in LongIsland and they had their crew
there and they won. Busta destroyed these other guys, when he was poppin. Johnny Juicesays âeven if you listen to his rhymes now, you can
tell by the way he rhymes and the way he moves around heâs really dopeon the popping shitâ.
Before his leap to stardom, Rhymes, was a rambunctious middle-class kid from Long Island who wrote ârap poetryâ anddropped out of high
school to pursue a music career. âI really thought heâd be a dancer,â says his mother, Geraldine Green.âAt family cookouts he would win all the
dance contests. He was always a showman.â He reminds his worst job: âI used towork as a stock boy at a department store called Cheap
Johnâs,â he says. âI knew that I couldnât really wrap my head arounddoing that kind of work. Even if your heart is not in something, your mind
has to at least be able to be willing to do it. So, Itook the job and I worked for about two weeks, and then I quit.â Why?âThey just had me
doing too much. I had to line upthe roach sprays on the shelves and make sure they were all in order, facing the same way, with the logos
facing the front.The dishwashing liquids, the detergents, the boxes that they came in when they came from the actual shipping companiesthat
they were manufactured at. After I lined them up on the shelves, I had to cut up the cardboard boxes, fold them upneatly and tie them up so
that they could do the recycling thing with them. After a couple paper cuts too many, and handsthat were calloused and ashy and bruised, I
said âthis is definitely not the thing for me to continue to be doing.ââ
Busta adds, âI used that as inspiration to go into the studio all the time when I had a free moment. After work, during mylunch break,
traveling back and forth to work ⌠to just apply myself creatively, and the opportunity finally came one daywhen I was downtown.â At 17,
Rhymes landed a six-figure record deal.
LONS signing with Elektra
His first name as a rapper was Chill-o-ski, but he thought it was a corny name, and Chuck D from Public Enemy gave him anew name, Busta
Rhymes. He got the name from an american football player from the eighties, George âBusterâ Rhymes, andpeople always asked him to
âBust-a-rhymeâ, so the choice was easy. In the end of the eighties he met Charlie Brown atTurtlehook Middle School and they formed Leaders
of the New School with Dinco âThe rhyme scientistâ D and Milo In DeDance (aka The Cut Monitor). They were on Rush Management. They was
signed to Elektra Records December 12th 1989.First Recorded Appearance: âMt. Airy Grooveâ from the Rubaiyat compilation, Elektra 1990.
A&R Dante Ross heard aboutLeaders of the New School from Hank Shocklee [Bomb Squad] and Chuck D [Public Enemy] and them.He says âI
knew theywere one of their burgeoning groups and I also knew they didnât have a record deal. I heard they were performing and I wentto
check them out. I had just got my A&R gig at Elektra. I went there, saw them perform, grabbed them right after theperformance and told
them they had a record deal if they wanted one. LONS released 2 albums, âA future without a pastâ in1991, and âT.I.M.E.â in 1993. In 1992
Bustaâs girl was pregnant, but the baby died right after he was born, and Busta had bigpersonal problems after that, but he got great support
from his group members. In 93 they where divided because of ego inthe group.
A couple of other things that made him well known before his solo career was a couple of cameo performances, among themA Tribe Called
Questâs remix of âScenarioâ with Leaders Of The New School, and the âFlava in ya ear remixâ with Craig Mackand Rampage.
It took Busta three years before he released an album for Elektra, in 1996 he released âThe Comingâ with the hits âWoo hah!Got you all in
checkâ featuring Rampage and âItâs a partyâ featuring Zhane. while recording his debut album, he left the studioto check on his new SUV. Heâd
recently purchased the Toyota Land Cruiser, a giant vehicle that gives the impression ofdriving on an elevated track, for $40,000. Rhymes
took the elevator down and came out on Broadway, in lower Manhattan, at11:30 p.m. His ride was gone. Furious, he marched back inside and
closed the door in the recording booth. âThere wasnothing I could do at that point, so I just vented that angry energy into three songs,â he
says. Woo-Hah!! Got You All inCheck, one of the tracks he completed by morning, went on to become a street anthem and crossover hit, his
first ever.
There was a short gap between the release of Bustaâs first album and his second album, but it came sooner than peopleimagined it to. Busta
was sceptical about bootleggers copying the new album so for reviewing purposes he only sent outalbum samplers. In 1997 he released his
second album, âWhen Disaster Strikesâ, and after that, his popularity exploded. 1998became a very good year for Busta, he started his own
clothing line, BUSHI designs, and released his third album âExtinctionLevel Event (The final world front)â and Flipmode Squadâs debut âThe
Imperialâ. Flipmode Squad at that point included BustaRhymes, Rah Digga, Spliff Star, Rampage, Baby Sham & Lord Have Mercy.
1999 became a year with problems for Busta, he had to visit the courthouse a couple of times because of child support, andpolice stopped his
car and found an unregistered gun. He lost the case about child support, and he got a 5 year probation forthe other case. Now Elektra started
to shut him down with less studio time and promotion for his next album. Busta didnât likethat, and took his squad over to J Records in 2001
after his fourth release in 2000, âAnarchyâ.
J Records
His first album at J was âGenesisâ, with the hits âWhat it isâ featuring Kelis, âBreak ya neckâ & âPass the courvoiser part 2âfeaturing Pharrell
and P. Diddy. Now he is CEO for Flipmode Records. In november 2002 he released his most fervent album sofar, âIt Ainât Safe No Moreâ with
the singles âMake it clapâ featuring Spliff Star, and a remix of it featuring Spliff Star and SeanPaul. Other achievements in 2002 was the movie
roles he had in âHalloween: Resurrectionâ and âNarcâ. In 2003 his SUV wasshot up with 6 bullets while he was in the Violator offices, that
happened just a month after a couple of people shot insidetheir offices. The collaboration with Mariah Carey & Flipmode Squad named âI know
what you wantâ on âIt ainât safe no moreâbecame Bustaâs biggest hit so far.
Aftermath
In February 2004, Flipmode Squad joined Aftermath Records, New members was added to the squad: M. Dollars, Labba andformer
Blackstreet Chauncey Black joined them. In March he got a six month probation sentence after pleading no contest toa charge that he
assaulted a woman during a concert in Fall River, Massachusetts, in December 2002.
In November 2005 the first official single off the album âTouch itâ was released to radio. The video premiered in December. Heis now the
father of four children (born in 93, 99, 00 and 02). In February, while making the second video for âThe Big Bangâ-the âTouch it remixâ ft.
Mary J. Blige, Missy, Rah Digga, Lloyd Banks, Papoose and DMX, one of his bodyguards, Israel Ramirez,who recently started working security
for Busta as his jewelry handler, was shot and killed shortly after midnight outside ofthe Kiss The Cactus Production studio in the Greenpoint
section of Brooklyn, NY. According to eyewitnesses, the shootingwas a result of an argument that began inside the studio and continued
outside.
The Aftermath chief Dr. Dre said before the release of The Big Bang that âAll of sudden Iâm hearing people in the streetstalking about hos
Bustaâs back. In my mind, he never left, and thatâs why I wanted to fuck with in the first place. Heâs gotthat drive, and he never stops trying
to top himself. Anybody who knows Busta knows that heâs always gonna come withheat.â His third video from âThe Big Bangâ was released
10th May, âI love my bitchâ. The video features actress GabrielleUnion and the Black Eyed Peasâ Will.i.am, who produced the song, but Kelis
who is featured on the song, was not in thevideo. The single also features Kelis, but sheâs not featured in the video. Also changed is his
appearance, as he has cut offhis trademark dreadlocks as part of a personal renewal. âEight years of court appearances later and I was
awarded custodyof my children,â he explained. âMy hair was remindful of the unnecessary rocks in my career and life. So it was time to
shedthe locks⌠Iâve got my career and family right.â âThe Big Bangâ was released 13th June. The fourth video was released inJuly, âNew York
shitâ and the fitth video came out in August, âIn the ghettoâ. The album was certified Gold in that month too.This month he was also charged
with an assault after the Amsterjam Music Festival on Randalls Island, and he was ticketedafter police saw him talking on his mobile while
driving past a Manhattan police station.
On January 3rd 2007 he turned himself in to police custody after he allegedly attacking someone on Boxing Day. Lt. JohnGrimpel said a man
told police that Rhymes, had punched and kicked him repeatedly after an argument over money. On May3rd was arrested on a drunk driving
charge by police in New York City. Officers stopped Rhymes at about 12:40 a.m. becausethe sport utility vehicle he was driving had overly
tinted windows, officers then smelled alcohol on the rapperâs breath and hewas subsequently arrested. was released on $7,500 bail, set by
Judge Tanya Kennedy. After a 8th May court appearance, hewas free to drive. Rhymesâ lawyer said a judge ruled against a prosecution motion
to suspend the rapperâs license followingthe driving-while-intoxicated arrest. He also turned down a plea deal that day that would have sent
him to jail for one year,the Manhattan district attorneyâs office said.
Bus appeared in a Super Bowl finale commercial for Pepsi Max Diet in February. Busta Rhymes pleaded guilty on 23rd Januaryto assault, two
driving infractions and weapons possession, avoiding a trial and the yearlong prison sentence recommendedby prosecutors. But Judge Larry
Stevens disagreed with prosecutors that Rhymes deserved time behind bars. Instead, hesentenced him to three yearsâ probation and 10 days
of community service for beating a fan who reportedly spat on his car inAugust 2006, and then assaulting his driver, Larry Hackett, that
December. Rhymes was also fined $1,250 for driving with asuspended license in 2006 and driving while intoxicated in 2007. âI just want to
say that Iâm very grateful to the judge, Iâmvery grateful to the system. I believe in the system. It hasnât failed me personally yet,â Rhymes,
dressed in a crisp blackpinstripe suit, said outside the courtroom.âIâm just glad that all of this is finally behind me and I can go back to doing
what Ido best - making great music and great films and being a people person,â he said.
His 8th solo album âBlessedâ was set for a release in July 2008. First he called it âWhen Hell Freeze Overâ then he changed itto âBack On My
B.S.â, a title Pharrell helped him come up with, last it was changed to âBlessedâ in April 08. Rhymes wasadded to Projekt Revolution 2008
(summer tour), He was joining Linkin Park, Chris Cornell, The Bravery, and Ashes Divide onthe main stage. After the first week of touring he
had to leave the tour because of business matters; Late July he leftInterscope, because they couldnât agree with Busta how to handle the final
version of the album.
Motown
In September 08 he his new deal was announced, with Motown/Universal. He then re-titled his album to âBack On My B.S.âThe first single was
released in October 2008, called âArab Moneyâ featuring Ron Browz. 2 remix videos with different guestswere later releases in February 09.
The second single, âHustlerâs Anthem 09â was released in Febuary too. The third singleâsvideo âRespect My Conglomerateâ was released in
March. âBack On My B.S.â was released May 19th 09, and entered theBillboard chart at #5, after a lot of delays; 1st July 08, 9th Dec. 08,
10th Feb. 09, 24th March 09). In June, the video for âIfyou donât knowâ was released. The video for âWorld Go Roundâ will be released soon.
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