Busta Rhymes Jr. Quotes

• I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

  Busta Rhymes Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Introduce, Level

• I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I’m sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Help, Appreciate

• At the end of the day, man, you can’t protect yourself from a haymaker that’s coming in toward your face if you don’t see it coming.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Protect

• Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places.

  Busta Rhymes Jr.

  Topics in Opportunity

• Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It’s a platform where we could offer information, but it’s also an escape.

  Busta Rhymes Jr.

  Topics in Truth

• For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that’s the most reward thing in the world.

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  Tags in Award

• I called the album ‘The Chemo’ because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.

  Busta Rhymes Jr.

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  Tags in Seems

• I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people’s personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture.

  Busta Rhymes Jr.

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Quality

• I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain’t really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain’t Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?

  Busta Rhymes Jr.

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Culture

• I have a song called ‘Decisions’ that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It’s about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.

  Busta Rhymes Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Song, Features

• I started growing my hair in December ’89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain’t combing my hair no more. I don’t have too.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Started, Growing

• I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I’m looking real sideways and the picture’s ugly as hell, I don’t want you to have the picture like that!

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Glad, Picture

• I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or ‘A Tribe Called Quest.’ I miss albums like those.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Reminded

• I’m trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don’t only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Set, Trying

• I want you to see that I’m looking. Look at me look at you. I’m cool with that.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in See, Looking

• It’s almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Safe, Way

• I have no trouble being a good dude because that’s what I am.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trouble

• I’m a fan of making films. Whether I’m on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I’d like to do more acting.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stage

• New York is traditional New York, you know what I’m saying? It’s the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.

  Busta Rhymes Jr.

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Traditional

• Whether it’s working on five or 10 different things at the same time, I’ve got to stay in people’s faces.

  Busta Rhymes Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Things, Working

Busta Rhymes Jr. (27)

Birth:	20th May, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Rapper, Record Producer

About

Busta Rhymes Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is an American rapper, producer, and actor. Early in his career, he was known for his wild style and fashion, and today is best known for his intricate rapping technique, which involves rapping at a fast rate with a lot of internal rhyme and half rhyme, and to date has received eleven Grammy nominations for his musical work. MTV has called him "one of hip-hop's greatest visual artists." He has appeared in a number of films and TV shows. He has been nominated for 1 Billboard Music Award during his solo career.

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