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Nov 2023
1h 34m

Busta Rhymes: "His Death Stopped My Care...

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About this episode

If you enjoy hearing about inside the music industry and its artists, I recommend you check out my conversation with will.i.am, which you can find here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m-2QhqdlfI

From Trevor to Busta, love of the rap game to global success, and rock bottom to rebirth. This is Busta Rhymes as you’ve never heard him.

Trevor George Smith Jr. or ‘Busta Rhymes’, first reached fame with the hip-hop group, ‘Leaders of the New School’, and began his solo rap career in 1996, since then has released 11 studio albums and received 12 Grammy Award nominations for his work.

In this conversation Busta and Steven discuss topics, such as:

  • Growing up in the hood
  • Starting out in music
  • Becoming an MC by accident
  • Using rap as a way out of work
  • Becoming addicted to entertaining and the reaction of people to his raps
  • Rapping to protect himself
  • Selling crack at 12 years old
  • Failure not being an option for his father
  • His father standing in the way of his musical career
  • Getting booed off stage early in his career
  • His mother signing his record deal at 17 years old
  • What lessons he would tell his kids to reach success
  • Why you need to be selfish to reach success
  • His manger dying in 2012
  • How his manager taught him ever he knew
  • His emotional down turn
  • How his whole life was going in a totally different direction
  • Why he couldn’t figure himself out
  • Being on steroid pills
  • How his son thought he was going to die


You can listen to Busta’s newest album ‘Blockbusta’, here: https://spoti.fi/40UxsvS


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