When is busta rhymes next album

Trey Songz, NeYo — they used to be the singers we went to for melody lines. That was important for me as an artist coming up, trying to be different, looking or diverse influence — and getting pushback for it. You have to grow out the soil, water the plant. It was beautiful to watch an artist grow and become something special as I took time off from releasing music commercially. I did, however, need to pay attention as I was curating a new body of work.

I deviated from that theme, and recorded another album that — well, circumstances transpired. Yeah, and I wanted to put out different records with Epic too, to see how they treated them before giving them something monumental. That would have been a dream come true. I left Epic, went to Empire. We married our ideas. It went beyond conversation into something that could be implanted company-wide.

It is clear that I have been talking about these times — the moment we find ourselves in — sine my first solo album. That shit is going on now. I turned the album in first week of October. I just paid attention. I asked questions. The answers were fascinating, and ironically, those responses came true: Big Brother shit was implemented.

Civil liberties were questioned. Phones got tapped without permission. The biggest difference between now and then is that now the shit is happening in front of everyone.

We all have to pay attention, now. I just hope that people are here and present enough, this time, to accept the information. There are not many people in our business lucky enough to be able to still have every single ingredient that made them great available to them in the present. The only person who is not with us is the late, great J Dilla. Yet, he is still a part of all this. Busta Rhymes has been a staple in the music industry for 24 years now and for him to still be relevant in is something truly special — especially since not many artists are fortunate enough to have that type of stature.

He additionally did a profound job at inspiring others to join him see the above before and after comparison. The apocalyptic predictions in the initial Extinction Level Event were a tad bit early, but with Extinction Level Event 2 , Busta Bust is doubling down to the core.

Paak, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige and more. In addition, Busta broke a barrier as he successfully got Kendrick Lamar on the album for his very first album placement of the year. The apocalypse has been a consistent theme for you, particularly in album titles: Apocalypse , The Coming , Anarchy , Extinction Level Event.

Is the end of the world something you think about a lot? We challenge ourselves in different ways, because we are conditioned to be easily led in the wrong direction, even when we know it's the wrong direction. And none of that s is by accident; all of this s is by design.

But they are all dealing with the same interest: to dig deep and get closer to the truth about the s the powers that be try so hard to keep us away from… [Yet] people are so conditioned to not believe the truth when they see it that even when it's put in that space, they're still in denial.

That's what I was alluding to… So in the music, I try to always point out just how long this agenda has been going on.

And yeah, we're going to have fun and we can party and bulls, but there is another side of life that we got to pay a little closer attention to, because s is happening right in front of our face that they are intentionally keeping us distracted from. So in the midst of all this, you're putting your time and effort into songs that you want people to hear.

How do you cut through all that noise as a musician? That's pretty much the greatest challenge. How do you get people, with all this s that you got to cut through, to pay attention enough to what you have to share with them and give them not only enough for them to listen, but enough for them to take what they listen to and actually apply it in some kind of way in their real life, time, and space?

Because you have to still feed it to the people in a way that is going to overwhelmingly flatter their taste buds. They're not going to be trying to listen to no s if it doesn't appeal to them. Only the creative part of that is what you can control. It's a challenging process, but it's a beautiful one. Because when you do get it, to that place where you feel comfortable enough to let it go, that's where the control is no longer yours.

That's when you've got to trust that the people is going to take it from there and digest it the right way.

As long as you did your part, you did what you were supposed to do. This story appears in the November issue of Entertainment Weekly , on newsstands now or buy it here. Home Music Busta Rhymes wants you to dig deeper. Busta Rhymes wants you to dig deeper. By Alex Suskind.