Focus was shifting from groups to individuals, and the beats were getting darker. The Coming typifies what had changed in hip-hop since ’93, when the final L.O.N.S. In ’97 Busta told VIBE “ometimes I hear shit in a beat that ain’t even there … I put my rhythm inside the rhyme flow and make it feel like a sample.” Something about the energy and individuality with which Busta can deliver even a simple couplet make his choruses and hooks seem more like ageless samples than lines he actually delivered. track “The Case Of The PTA,” the “Woo Hah!!” refrain, or his “Oh My God!” exclamation, the list of notable Busta ad libs and one-liners is nearly endless. His dungeon-dragon “Rahrr Rahrrr!” that first appeared on the ’91 L.O.N.S. Busta’s mouth has always been his greatest asset, but it’s not just the speed at which he operates or his ability to turn several phrases on a single dime that’s so impressive it’s his ability to take even just two syllables and make them his own. Busta creates cadences that seem impossibly complex as he dances around the beat like it’s a simple nursery rhyme. Busta looked toward the camera, “Please don’t film this, B.” Whenever Busta spoke, Charlie Brown looked toward the camera with a sort of bored exasperation that said: “I’m over this.” As the interview ended, the group retreated into a huddle of heated conversation. During the interview, it became clear that relations in the group were strained at best. In 1993, Yo! MTV Raps visited the Brooklyn Heights Promenade to interview the Leaders Of The New School. No disrespect it’s just true.” It’s hard to rival Busta’s presence once he takes ahold of the mic, and that proved to be too much for L.O.N.S. As VIBE wrote in ’97: “ack in his days with Leaders Of The New School, Busta stood out like a red apple in a bushel of green ones. was the dreadlocked, loudly dressed Busta Rhymes. The one thing that always stood out for L.O.N.S. were nonetheless overshadowed by worthy competition like KRS-One, A Tribe Called Quest, and Wu-Tang Clan. Complex, jazzy, with tag-team rhyme schemes to-go, L.O.N.S.
Both were par for the course in terms of the early-’90s East Coast sound. put out two albums, A Future Without A Past (1991) and T.I.M.E. The families of Charlie Brown and Dinco D, the other two members of L.O.N.S., moved to Uniondale for the same reason, so when the three met in high school in 1986, there was an instant connection. Around 1983, Busta’s family moved from Brooklyn to Uniondale, Long Island in search of a life away from the city streets. He was, of course, one-third of the Leaders Of The New School, a group that formed when the three members met in Long Island. The “Woo Hah!!” video’s popularity on MTV gave Busta his first real exposure to a mainstream audience, though he had been in the hip-hop scene for years. The song and video are, quite literally, classic Busta. All the while Busta moves about in the way that only Busta can move as if filmed using stop-motion, his limbs repositioned by each drum beat and sample repetition. In the video, Busta stomps around in several different outfits, each more outrageous than the last: a shiny yellow coat and matching hat what seems to be a black leather Santa outfit with a hole in the hat for his dreads a robin’s egg blue getup with white stars that matches the blue-walled room he’s dancing in a kind of medieval purple velveteen lounge outfit - and that’s not even all of them.
That entrance came when the video for “Woo Hah!! (Got You All In Check)” started churning through heavy rotation on MTV. Those would have been tough waters to enter for an East Coast rapper, but Busta has a knack for making an entrance. All Eyez On Me sold more than 500,000 copies in its first week, and Pac was at the peak of his powers. All Eyez On Me came out in February 1996, just a month before Busta’s album dropped. That’s when he released The Coming, which turns 20 tomorrow: his first album after leaving the Leaders Of The New School, and the one that proved he was more than just another member of an early-’90s rap crew.īusta’s solo career entered him into a hip-hop world that arguably belonged to Tupac. Dre and LL Cool J in the aging-rapper gym club, Busta was a lanky 24-year-old and one of the most promising young MCs on the east coast. Long before Busta Rhymes passed the Courvoisier to Diddy, before he was Janet Jackson’s robot lover, and before he joined Dr.
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