Why is busta rhymes so big

This is not good. I need to call an ambulance for you. You need to go to the Emergency Room. I just started crying. I couldn't believe that this is what I was being told.

I'm walking around here and not knowing that I'm actually one bad draft of air away from death. March 10th was the day that I had the surgery and March 12th, I believe we went to Nipsey's memorial at the Staples Center.

Oh wow. March 9th, that's our national holiday , which might have also contributed to why you drank so much…. We was definitely celebrating Big. And we knew that Nipsey's memorial for his passing was happening too, it was just all of that combined,. I'm a strong advocate of being disciplined and being militant. And that's when it had to happen on a divine level. You made your most incredible album, but you don't look healthy.

I didn't like that conversation. I'm driving back to the crib and on the way I see Dexter Jackson, the Olympic bodybuilder. So I hit him in the DM and asked for help. And he said, "If you're serious, I need you to move to Jacksonville for 30 days. But the way, I'm gonna deal with you, you're gonna need your respiratory right. And, also making a decision to be determined enough to invest in yourself is an even more of a beautiful thing.

So, when we get out there Dex trained me three times a day, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. And then two times a day on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. It was really excruciating. I was so beat up that I would just eat, train, and sleep. I didn't really have the strength to do anything else. From June last year all the way to this picture that y'all seen that, with the six pack, which we took that picture about four weeks ago. The thing I say about saxophonists—a lot of people play tenor saxophone, there's only one John Coltrane.

There are a lot of MCs, but immediately, Busta Rhymes—there's a sound, there's an attitude, there's an agility that only you do. Was that always in the making? My voice was always what it was. My moms always told me when I was born I sounded like a little dinosaur.

My father had a deep voice. The attitude, the charisma, the showmanship, and the animation, that always was a part of who I was. I'm of Jamaican descent, so reggae and dancehall culture, this is what was what I was raised on. Even watching rock bands, back in the days, the way them dudes would perform, jumping off of shit and laying down on the stage? I always wanted to be a part of those big, over the top moments.

That's just a part of my personality. The way for me to be able to stay up past curfew, in particular when my parents were having company, was to be a showman.

I mastered the James Brown split and did all types of different dance moves, so I became entertainment for the adults. And that spilled into me being introduced to hip-hop, falling in love with that and feeling like I didn't have do the James Brown split no more just to the music my parents listen to.

I could start pop locking and breakdancing, something that's more for me , and my age group. That turned into me wanting to learn how to DJ, which turned into wanting to learn how to MC. Whatever was the thing that was gonna get the most spotlight and shine.

So, your pops and your moms, they were both native Jamaicans? Which province? My mother and father were country people. My moms was from St. Ann and my father was from St. Yeah, absolutely. And I was always around that whenever I went to Jamaica. That's where they would consider the upper echelon to live.

But they owned a sewing factory which used to manufacture clothes and they owned this big manufacturing plant, so my Aunt D and Uncle D were the more wealthier and successful ones. My mother's other sister Aunt Velma, she lived in Morecambe, England at the time, so we went down there to spend two summers.

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 because my government name is Trevor Junior. We actually got memorabilia still from then, we got the flyers, a couple of newspaper clippings.

My moms held onto all of that because she thought, "Wow, my kids are turning into little superstars. In terms of hip-hop, what was your revelation moment?

What was the first record that you heard where you said, "I gotta do this"? That was the defining moment for me when I said, "This is what I wanna do for the rest of my life. And I'm gonna learn how to do it and Imma be nice as a motherfucker. What was the verse that you heard and you're like, "Okay. That's me"? Those two over Wonder Mike were the ones for me. Master Gee, to me, was the best MC outta all three of them.

Until I later found out that ain't none of them write their verses. But I just loved the way Master Gee sounded. How do you go from that to then writing your own rhymes and then having enough courage to be in a cypher and then freestyling?

I think that just comes once you decide you wanna do it, for real. Once you make that decision and the ship leaves the dock, it ain't no turning back, right? Especially once you start walking outside your house and telling people that this is who you are and this is what you do now.

Especially from our time, and our era, wasn't none of this social media people can hide behind that and get an algorithm jumping even if they not rhyming seriously and get the biggest buzz just because they got a bunch of numbers on the views. We had to actually substantially back up the shit we say. Everything was show and prove. So as you embark on this uncharted territory of tryna create this reality that you have to make people believe?

First hand? You go through enough situations, whether it's battling, whether it's just free styling in friendly competition moments, whether in the middle of somebody's show you get out and do your little one song at some of those, you know, hole-in-the-wall spots somewhere. All of these things combined get you to a place where you have gotten enough reassurance that you're ready to actually do it on a bigger level.

And, those reassurances help you to continue to get the confidence you need to push the envelope that much more. And you walk into those situations, or you nosedive head first without a parachute into them situations, feeling confident enough to just let the outcome be whatever it's gonna be. And it gets to that place where it almost don't even matter how challenging it is to turn that crowd up. You start to figure out what you gotta do in the moment to turn them up, even if nobody else could.

At least, that's what it was for me. At the same time, there's this kid, Christopher Wallace, who's also starting to rhyme. And another kid named Shawn Carter is also getting a little reputation. Were you in actual battles together? Well, I never saw B. His name was buzzing as an MC for sure. I never actually saw Hov rhyme at school, outside of the little battle me and him had in the lunchroom.

Hov and B. Hov was more laid back, but still had this big iconic charisma about him because Hov was getting money in the street. Hov was already kinda looking like he was bossed up.

Hov was clean. His Tommy Hilfiger game was crazy. And he used to come to school with the big Gucci length chain that Kane wore on the Long Live the Kane album. Hov had one of them shits in school. Hov was smart, he did his thing with class but when he was walking through the hallways you know he just seemed like he was on his boss, cool shit.

You never saw Hov perspire. Yeah, that's the truth. I was pretty much just getting my feet wet with it. And he had the edge that day. And it actually was a good experience for me because I'm so competitive that it turned me into the speed rap God that I am now. We blew tree in school, and Big definitely moved with the goons in school. I didn't see Big rhyme until he was done with high school. I thought wow, finally the bro found his way.

He was going there to get a check, as was I, and he needed a ride back to Brooklyn. I was with my man and the car was so small there wasn't any real space in the back seat. Big ended up getting in the back seat. And it was the funniest thing to look at with him back there. New York City streets were super screwed up so we hitting all type of potholes.

When Big got in his crib he told me to come pull up. So I come in the crib and see Ms. And this is right before Ready to Die came out. And Biggie had a double cassette deck, a JVC boombox, and he was dubbing his cassette, his whole album on Memorexes. He had this line, just like a drug spot, waiting to get copies of his album. And I was looking at him.

This is during the era when the bootleg n-ggas was around and we used to try to beat them up, and Big was the first person that I ever saw do this. He was giving his album away for free. I was completely confused by this. And why you doing this? And he said, "Yo Bus, look.

If every n-gga in the hood is playing my shit and I gave it to them? First of all, they gonna want to bang my shit because they got it from me personally. In the first photo, the rapper is standing sideways, showing off the profile of his stomach. In the second photo, he seems to have shredded all the excess weight and is now sporting a new set of six-pack abs. The trainer says Busta sometimes chooses to walk up 16 flights of stairs, instead of taking the elevator, to get to his studio in New York City.

The rapper also changed his eating habits by hiring a chef to prepare his meals, that included lean meats like chicken, salmon and bison, and the trainer says Busta cut down on his alcohol intake.

Busta Rhymes challenges T. The rapper says he feels as energetic as ever as he prepares for the release of ELE2 coming on Friday Oct. Argos AO. Headlines U. Privacy Policy Feedback. Friday, Nov 12th 5-Day Forecast. Busta Rhymes, 48, unveils his dramatic weight loss transformation and newly chiseled torso as he raves about being in the 'best shape' By Deirdre Simonds For Dailymail.

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Less than a month later, Busta rented a home for himself, his chef, and his security guys. He and Jackson got straight to work, training three times a day on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and two times a day on Tuesdays and Saturdays. We just watched movies and recorded songs. Went to bed early, got up, and got back to work. Olympia competition. More important, he is sleeping better, moving better, and, as he says, in a better position to support and protect his people. And I was raised to protect and provide for my family and my people.

I have to contribute in any way I can, even if that means engaging in physicality to ensure survival. And when all people are on the same accord? That power is even more incredible. Busta Rhymes whipped himself into shape in old-school fashion, focusing on bodybuilding exercises from trainer Victor Munoz. Try these two supersets for a Busta-level pump.

Directions: Do the exercises back-to-back with no rest.