Busta Rhymes - Mixtape (feat. Q-Tip, Method Man, Raekwon, Big Daddy Kane, Redman, Brand Nubian...)

1. Raekwon & Busta Rhymes - Death Wish 0:00 2. Method Man & Busta Rhymes - What's Happening 2:45 3. Busta Rhymes & Q-Tip - Gettin' Up 6:08 4. Raekwon - MTV Cribs (feat. Busta Rhymes) 8:17 5. A Tribe Called Quest - Come On Down (feat. Big Daddy Kane & Busta Rhymes) 11:00 6. Phife Dawg - Nutshell Pt. 2 (feat. Busta Rhymes & Redman) (prod. by J. Dilla) 14:42 7. Brand Nubian - Alladat (feat. Busta Rhymes) 18:21 8. Pharoahe Monch (feat. Lady Luck, Redman, Method Man, Shabaam Sahdeeq & Busta Rhymes - Simon Says (Remix) 22:28 9. Busta Rhymes Vs Los Vampiros - Dangerous 28:36 10. Busta Rhymes (feat. Q-Tip) - Who's That? (prod. by Green Lantern) 32:12 11. Busta Rhymes (feat. Q-Tip) - Ill Vibe (DL's Easy Going Remix) 34:38 12. Frankie Cutlass - Pay Ya Dues (feat. Busta Rhymes, Cocoa Brovaz & Keith Murray) 38:08 13. Method Man, Redman, Nas & DMX - Cold Streets (feat. Busta Rhymes) 41:15 14. Conway, Busta Rhymes & Aaron Cooks - Ghost Musik 44:55 15. Kool G Rap & Busta Rhymes - O.G. Status 49:43 16. Busta Rhymes & Snoop Dog - Talk About You 52:59 Busta Rhymes was born Trevor George Smith Jr.in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, on May 20, 1972, to Geraldine Green and Trevor Smith Sr., both from Jamaica. At age 12, Smith's family moved to Uniondale, Long Island. For a short while, Smith attended George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School in Brooklyn with future rappers Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace and Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, and attended Samuel J. Tilden High School with Edward "Special Ed" Archer and Roderick "Chip Fu" Roachford of Fu-Schnickens. Smith eventually graduated from Long Island's Uniondale High School in 1991. Busta also spent time in Britain during the early 1980s where he resided with his maternal aunt. She lived in Morecambe and he spent two summers there with his mother and younger brother. He went to Skerton Community High School while he was staying in the area. He told GQ in a 2020 interview, "One summer when we went down there I was 12, my brother was eight, so my aunt made sure that we actually went to school in England. Regular school and then we went to karate school too. We also were on some breakdancing that was so crazy, we ended up actually getting work to breakdance in clubs as minors. And our cousins used to run us around and they used to advertise us as TJ and Paul." In 1986, Smith, alongside fellow Long Island natives Charlie Brown (born Bryan Higgins), Dinco D (born James Jackson) and Cut Monitor Milo (born Sheldon Scott), formed the East Coast hip hop group Leaders of the New School. The group's big break was when they became an opening act for hip hop group Public Enemy. Public Enemy's Chuck D gave Busta Rhymes and Charlie Brown their respective stage names. Leaders of the New School began recording in late 1990 and released their debut album A Future Without a Past... in 1991 on Elektra Records. In early 1992, the group appeared on A Tribe Called Quest's posse cut "Scenario". In 1993, they released T.I.M.E. (The Inner Mind's Eye). Smith gained popularity from his advanced rhymes as well as his unique style that was not common of many New York rap artists at the time. Raised by two Jamaican parents, Smith embraced his heritage in his music and image as an artist. Smith was the only member of the group to wear dreads and use Jamaican slang, or patois, in his raps. Smith's unique style added an element to the group that allowed for rapid success. Soon after, however, internal problems arose because of his increasing popularity, and the group broke up on the set of Yo! MTV Raps. By the summer of 1992, Rhymes began making guest appearances on songs by several artists such as Big Daddy Kane, Another Bad Creation, The Notorious B.I.G., Brand Nubian, A Tribe Called Quest, and KRS-One, as well on the interludes to Mary J. Blige's debut What's the 411? and R&B trio TLC's second album CrazySexyCool. He also appeared on the album jacket of fellow hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest's Midnight Marauders, with a host of other fellow hip-hop pioneers. In early 1993, he appeared in a cameo role in Who's the Man? with his fellow Leaders of the New School group members. That same year, he appeared as part of an ensemble cast in the Forest Whitaker-directed Strapped which also starred rapper and actor Fredro and Bokeem Woodbine and co-starred alongside Ice Cube and Omar Epps in the John Singleton film Higher Learning.