Back on my bullshit indeed

It's an age old story: respected MC signs to Dr. Dre's boutique label, promises instant classic, gets held up 4 years then leaves. The shocking twist in Busta Rhymes' case is that he actually released a record, even if it was the technically proficient yet emotionally dead Big Bang. It wasn't the Busta full of pre-millennial angst that we could all count on for shit-crazy party tracks, it was the other one: the annoying bastard who showed up on every remix he could find and spat the exact same verse, every single time. He was the Samuel L. Jackson of rap without the self-decrying sense of humour.

So the Big Bang was a bust. The first single from Blessed brought a little light into everyone's lives with a return to animated, crazy form and outrageous faux-Hype Williams video. Then Busta fucked it all up and dropped a song with Linkin Park, which predictably flopped. After swapping labels and retooling the album, we got Arab Money and an inevitably disappointing rap career by Ron Browz, a song with T-Pain (because that's crazy, right? That's what the kids like?), a stock standard collaboration with Lil' Wayne and Jadakiss (a-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) and finally World Go Round, which transcends mere awfulness with Jelly Roll's interpolation of You Spin Me Round. Not that anybody (at all) (anywhere) is talking about it, but the song exists and I'm sure it's out there on the internet if you really want to subject yourself to it. The fact that Flo-Rida already has one terrible remake of it sitting somewhere near the top of the charts aside, I feel the need to put things in perspective.

This is Busta Rhymes, not some bullshit mixtape rapper with no music history who just needs a hit. He was on Tribe records. He was one of Dilla's closest collaborators. Sure, he lost his spark after Anarchy, when the world didn't end, but he doesn't deserve the slow death that this garbage is sure to consign him too. Someone put the poor bastard out of his misery and lose the master recordings to this shit before he embarrasses himself more.