He still kept the crowd live as he performed his four Billboard 200 hits “My Way,” “679,” “Again” and “Trap Queen” to Busta’s delight as he two-stepped on the side of the stage.
One of the main highlights was when Lil’ Kim joined MJB on stage to perform “I Can Love You Better.”Īs soon as New Jersey’s golden child Fetty Wap took the stage, the crowd went berzerk. Slowly pacing across the stage, it was evident that Zoovier was still ailing from his leg injury following a motorcycle accident in September. She held her own as the only songstress with her own set ( Mariah Carey only sang for “I Know What You Want” with Busta) as she flawlessly sang ’90s favorites like “Be Happy” and “Love No Limit” and turned the stage into a dancery with her GIF-worthy moves. When “Real Love” dropped, MJB didn’t have to do much as the crowd took over singing duties. The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul emerged to perform “You’re All I Need To Get By” with Meth. Meth and Red proceeded to dominate the stage like it was 1999. When the beat for the 1999 hit “Da Rockwilder” dropped, that was the cue for another surprise performer, Redman, to appear. After performing “Incarcerated Scarfaces,” he brought out Method Man for the Wu-Tang Clan crowd-pleasers “C.R.E.A.M” and “Ice Cream.” Meth then took over and went into his two-decade old banger “M.E.T.H.O.D Man” which was greeted with roars from the audience. Without introduction, Raekwon quietly made his way to the stage. Throughout the show, he performed hits like “Make It Clap” featuring Sean Paul, “Woo Hah (Got You All In Check),” “Arab Money,” “New York Shit” and “Break Ya Neck.” With Spliff Star by his side, he launched into the double platinum banger “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See.” He then took the energy to 100 when he went into the “Ante Up” remix with a surprise appearance from M.O.P. After dancers in African-inspired garb swayed and boogied across the stage, Busta appeared in Coming to America-esque fashion. In the meantime, check out Pitchfork's extensive breakdown below, and show some love to Busta Rhymes for giving us so many bangers to begin with.Keep your FOMO at bay with a swift recap of the night’s most memorable moments below.īusta Rhymes Talks ‘Hot for the Holidays’ Lineup, Protein Shake Fiasco & Working With Aziz Ansariīusta Buss’ entrance was fit for a king. Once we put the words, and we got to the destination, it was party and celebration time because we knew we had it."Īnd of course, Busta would go on to work closely with Dre once again on The Big Bang, an album that had him reinventing his entire approach both physically and in the studio read more on Busta and the Doc's dynamic making the album right here.
He was just giving me the navigation system on how to reach the destination. "He literally hummed the way the melody-the flow pattern of it. "Dre contributed significantly to the chorus," he reveals. He didn't bother none of that process, cause I finessed the skillset to the point where Dre let me take the lead on that." "But when Dre is in the room with you he's so meticulous about each thing that sometimes it makes the process a little more challenging, but the end result that much more phenomenal." Upon hearing the uptempo beat, Busta knew exactly how he had to approach it.
"He would step out, and that would give me a little more freedom to do it the way I like to do it," continues Busta. I was lucky enough in this particular process across these two days to actually get these five songs off without Dre being in the recording session the entire time." Dre is so meticulous and he's such a micromanager he'll have you say a line over forty or fifty times. Dre was shooting Training Day. I had two days with him in the studio, so I slept in the studio and stayed the entire forty-eight hours.
"When I did I was in the middle of shooting the Halloween movie," reflects Busta.