Busta Rhymes released his first album, The Coming, in 1996. Sixteen years later, Busta has announced the title of his ninth album.
Taking to Twitter, Busta confirmed RapRadar.com’s Elliott Wilson’s statement that Busta’s newest album would be titled Year of The Dragon.
The title is a reference to one of Busta’s monikers, the “Dungeon Dragon,” which is also a reference to A Tribe Called Quest’s song “Scenario,” which features Rhymes. Additionally, it is currently the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac calendar.
The album will be Busta’s first since signing to Birdman’s Cash Money label, which he joined in 2011.
[July 8]
UPDATE: Rap Radar has revealed the cover art for Busta Rhymes’ upcoming album Year of the Dragon.
[July 9]
UPDATE #2: Busta Rhymes has announced that his free album Year of the Dragon will release on August 20th.
UPDATE #3: Busta Rhymes has revealed the tracklist for his upcoming free album Year of the Dragon. Features include Rick Ross, Trey Songz, Robin Thicke, Cam’ron, Lil Wayne and more. Check the tracklist below.
[August 8]
UPDATE #4: Busta Rhymes has stayed true to his word and released the free album Year of the Dragon. Head over to Google Play to download the LP.
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YMCMB….. and thats when you know it’s time to hang em up! >_
co sign
fuk busta sellout
ITS NOT GONNA BE A YMCMB ALBUM ITS GONNA BE STRAIGHT EASTCOAST HEAT
Wow this album is gonna be ass.
Year of the Dragon? This album gon be FIYAAAA!!!! (see what I did there? lol)
Busta Rhymes is cool as fuck. I dont know his old shit but he dope since he wit YMCMB. swag
Bandwagon idiot. You got the internet, search for his old shit.
So far I hadn’t heard anything good, hope none of the songs he had put out isn’t on the album.
Busta, Snoop, Fat Joe, 50 Cent, Ludacris, Nelly, Nore etc need to leave the game….These dudes are long pass their expiration date.
U must be 14 years old. if not u should be ashamed.
Agree except Luda!
Word, Luda still got mileage and he ethered Drake. Ludaversal gonna be tight, cosign on everyone else though
you stupid, luda is still great, and I thought the same about Fat Joe after he dropped JOSE 2, but then he returned with Darkside and it was straight dope
Is he giving a shout out to that Mickey Rourke movie?
YMCMB will make his album go PLAT. Just get Drake and Weezy on a hit single, etc. BOOK THAT SHIT!!!
Sounds like a Sisqo album. I’m not expecting a classic like “The Coming” but hopefully its at least a solid Busta album
so e.l.e. 2 with chris rock on a bunch of skits was just scrapped then huh? before that it was to be called chemo lol make up ur mind bust
man i believe bussa buss is gonna show you who he is on this one. gonna be better than nas. i bet
i know busta’s a part of the ymcmb powerhouse, but he’s still an old ass nigga. won’t be buying his album, i don’t care how many features from drake, tyga, nicki are on there.
Sisqo dropping a new album !
I was thinking the same shit, that”s funny
Hell Naw LMAO !!!!!!!!! Now That’s Some Funny Shit..
LMAO YOU JUST CRACKED ME UP
he was better when he was younger when he was with LONS all the way up to Aftermath and Flipmode. now hes just a sell out like everyone else. his old shit was way better.
WOO!!!! I hope he includes some dance tracks with Weezy and David Guetta!!! Hip-hop-dance!!!!!!!!!!
niggas need to stfu with that old ass nigga shit yall act like u gone be in your 20s forever let that man do him and make his money
Hope Premo is on it now.
how are dudes still thinking this is gonna be a classic. and u dont really think premo is gonna be on there right? this album gonna be filled with wayne drake nicki tyga, this is gonna be a pop album
FUUQQ YEEZ MY NIKKAS
FINALLY IT HAPPENED – JUST GOT A NEW RIDE – A CAM A RO CONVERTIBLE.GOT APPROVED FOR 26 LARGE. BEEN 5 YRS SINCE IVE GOTTEN SHYT APPROVED, BUT NOW ALL MY CRE-DIT SHEET GONE. ALL OF IT.
IF YOU STRUGGLING WITH THAT CREDITT HISTORY ISHH, GET RID OF ALL DAT TODAY – CALL THESE PEEPS AT 8^8^8-9-2-7 -3-3-5-6. . THEY DO AMAZING WORK AND THEY ARE CHEAP AS FUQQ. GOT RID OF ALL MY SHYYT IN NO TIME.
MY HOMEBOY WAS IN THE GUTTA TOO, AND HE CLEANER THAN ME NOW-gettin a condo!!
Hit em up – THEY WILL HELP U!!
Corny. As. Fuck.
sick cover, album will be horrible tho
That’s the album cover will be the killa! He’s changed from E.L.E. 2 to the Year of the Dragon. That’s Conglomerate/YMCMB Style!
the album will be wack. Cash money makes bullshit
This has all the makings of a classic. Bidrman executive producing and Busta spitting. He’s a perfect fit for the YMCMB family. How come Jay doesn’t have top talent from NYC like YMCMB does? Isn’t Jay supposed to rep NYC? Or does he not care about anything other than money and devil-worshipping?
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GOOD JOKE.
horrible
Dope.
Tight cover…album will be just as shitty as the last one though.
busta aint shit never been shit twista and bone was always better
Spliff Star’s Artist, King Jul disses Veteran MC Busta Rhymes for stealing his ideas & fires back on this remake of Busta Rhymes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDA02Ke-jfg
lyin ass nigga, jul wrote in the comments it aint a diss, besides who’d be stupid enough to go against a vet like buss?
Yeah I agree with a lot of you kats. Busta is sweet. However since he signed with Cash money, that gives him a high amount of doubt now. Only people signed with Cash money are fucking clowns and helping with keeping black culture in the toilet. Now why in the world would busta want to be affiliated with them. Unless he is selling out. I don’t see him going anywhere but further down since he with them. Shame too.
Im cool on this new busta bull shit..i will just f with his old shit,,dont like the way he reinvented him self..FO you aint hard old man.
expect 50% of album to be decent, 50% of it to suck
album will be straight trash
Mixtape looking album cover
I’m already expecting this bullshit to have YMCMB, therefore it’ll be trash, so Busta Rhymes and his family deserves to die.
Busta bin playin skyrim too much.
i dont expect anything special from this lp
no hate cuz busta is a legend but FUCK YOUNG MONEY. i listen to hiphop. not pop music
peace
been playing skryrim too much! Ha that shits funny as hell!!!
Skyrim, really? That’s the Rathalos from Monster Hunter mang…Learn games.
Whatever. This nigga is a rapist. So he should be dying in jail.
@Mortis
That bitch admitted she was lying, so your comment is irrelevant. Go fuck yourself.
legend yes,but his run been over,went from aftermath,and mad other labels in between,to young money,you talking boss shit,but you work for lil wayne? he should be running his own shit by now,and this cover is wack
gilbere forte’s year of the dragon earlier this year will be better than this…
What a cheap fucking cover.
busta on young money beats?
i’ll pass
Bout time Busta got his he just getting his like evry1 else call him a sellout woteva but dudes a legend wont be a classic but will have sum sick songs. busta on carter iv interlude killed it besides tech. respect the elders man respect
SINCE BUSTA SIGHNED 2 YMCMB … NO THANKS
busta rhymes – year of the faggot
sit down old man you desperate hanger on. busta rhymes is a big burly homo. and his music sucks now.
grow up.
i like the cover
FUUQQ YEEZ MY NIKKAS
FINALLY IT HAPPENED – JUST GOT A NEW RIDE – A CAM A RO CONVERTIBLE.GOT APPROVED FOR 26 LARGE. BEEN 5 YRS SINCE IVE GOTTEN SHYT APPROVED, BUT NOW ALL MY CRE-DIT SHEET GONE. ALL OF IT.
IF YOU STRUGGLING WITH THAT CREDITT HISTORY ISHH, GET RID OF ALL DAT TODAY – CALL THESE PEEPS AT 8^8^8-9-2-7 -3-3-5-6. . THEY DO AMAZING WORK AND THEY ARE CHEAP AS FUQQ. GOT RID OF ALL MY SHYYT IN NO TIME.
MY HOMEBOY WAS IN THE GUTTA TOO, AND HE CLEANER THAN ME NOW-gettin a condo!!
Hit em up – THEY WILL HELP U!!d
just cuz he wit young money doesnt mean he will have all young money beats…he was with aftermath and on that album there was only one dre beat…he can work with whoever he wants..that dude go hard!
there were like 6 or 7 dre beats on “The Big Bang”, but yea I agree that busta goes hard on almost everything
Yeah there was 6 Dre beats and a Mr Porter beat on The Big Bang, but yeah it doesn’t mean this’ll be littered with YM beats. Besides he’s signed to Cash Money not Young Money.
FUUQQ YEEZ MY NIKKAS
FINALLY IT HAPPENED – JUST GOT A NEW RIDE – A CAM A RO CONVERTIBLE.GOT APPROVED FOR 26 LARGE. BEEN 5 YRS SINCE IVE GOTTEN SHYT APPROVED, BUT NOW ALL MY CRE-DIT SHEET GONE. ALL OF IT.
IF YOU STRUGGLING WITH THAT CREDITT HISTORY ISHH, GET RID OF ALL DAT TODAY – CALL THESE PEEPS AT 8^8^8-9-2-7 -3-3-5-6. . THEY DO AMAZING WORK AND THEY ARE CHEAP AS FUQQ. GOT RID OF ALL MY SHYYT IN NO TIME.
MY HOMEBOY WAS IN THE GUTTA TOO, AND HE CLEANER THAN ME NOW-gettin a condo!!
Hit em up – THEY WILL HELP U!!,m,
Pretty dope album cover
I’M CONCERNED THAT IT’S GONNA BE YMCMB ALBUM. FEATURES BIRDMAN, WAYNE, KHALED, ROSS, WALE, MEEK MILL, ACE HOOD, DRAKE, TYGA & CHRIS BROWN. HOPEFULLY I’M WRONG BUT I DOUBT
http://i.imgur.com/sAwu5.jpg
That’s what I called originality.
It’s a free album who gives a shit
LMAOOOOOOOO
LMAOOOOOOOO
Bus-A-Bus probably gonna fuck around and get sued for this
That Dragon is taken straight out of Capcom’s Monster Hunter video game. It’s an exact photoshop.
I just can’t belive this bitch spent 5 thousand dollars on a fucking free album.
Why does it matter to you? You woulda went out and bought the entire album? No single, no hype, dropping in two weeks? Thought so
lol. Free. That’s great business.
Music isn’t always business.
Im not getting this garbage fucc busta signed 2 nigga who signed 2 another dumb move
awful features
This ain’t a album looks like a compilation to me only 2 songs dolo and the rest is all features ??? C’mon Busta !! Im give this album a listen and HOPE to GOD Busta dont get on all those ymcmb pop beats smh .
not complaining that its free but damn, looks awful. trey songz and rick ross on the same song? makes me wanna vomit .. miss old busta wit gimmie some mo & shit
some more pop bullshit by Busta
I can’t wait for this compilation album!
hahahaha Busta’s first compilation…besides Flipmode Squad’s debut
When an artist starts releasing albums for free you know the end is near.
wack features
I like the cover, looks like ELE. It’s ashame we didn’t get collabs with Nas and Roc Marciano instead of fucking Gucci Mane.
The only song worth lookin forward to is “Wine & go down” with Vybz Kartel…the rest is stupid stuff, no wonder this shit is for free…Busta wake the fuck up…
I like Busta, but everybody knows that it aint about hip hop at YMCMB its about selling pop and go pop. Still I hope Busta proves me wrong…because in the end, Good Hip Hop is Good Hip Hop!!
too many wack features, gay ass lil wayne & fake ass officer ricky!
@hip hop.
agreed. I think its funny how all of these older rap heads (Busta, 50, etc.) keep putting out albums for free cause they don’t want to face the facts that nobody would buy their albums with all the wack features and lame attempts to be on the radio. Why not to a Justin Beiber feature on every track while your at it. Team us with some legends and stay in your lane!!!
^^. Are u crazy? Wayne is grandpa for 50 in the music business. Wayne first album was 96 or 97. He is just whack now
wayne was wack then and still is just cause someone been in the game for a long doesnt make them good
I never heard a busta song in my life, but hiz debut album gon be instant classic, cuz he on YMCMB. WE DA BEST. swag
busta’s not the only one youve heard ymcbfag
i expect this is the same quality as hnic pt 3 a diss a pointment
best busta rhymes album has got 2 be genesis, with songs like bounce and holla
u must’ve nvr heard ‘the coming’, ‘when disaster strikes’, or ‘e.l.e.’ cuz ‘genesis was cool, but it wasn’t fuckin with none of them. matter fact, busta ain’t made shit fuckin with none of his first 3 albums since!
The Big Bang was my #1 Busta LP. He sounds so good on Dr Dre beats. Then E.L.E. followed by When Disaster Strikes
its sad to see iconic hip hop leaders try to stay somewhat relevant in what people nowadays call hip hop busta snoop dogg etc… music needs to change
FUUQQ YEEZ MY NIKKAS
FINALLY IT HAPPENED – JUST GOT A NEW RIDE – A CAM A RO CONVERTIBLE.GOT APPROVED FOR 26 LARGE. BEEN 5 YRS SINCE IVE GOTTEN SHYT APPROVED, BUT NOW ALL MY CRE-DIT SHEET GONE. ALL OF IT.
IF YOU STRUGGLING WITH THAT CREDITT HISTORY ISHH, GET RID OF ALL DAT TODAY – CALL THESE PEEPS AT 8^8^8-9-2-7 -3-3-5-6. . THEY DO AMAZING WORK AND THEY ARE CHEAP AS FUQQ. GOT RID OF ALL MY SHYYT IN NO TIME.
MY HOMEBOY WAS IN THE GUTTA TOO, AND HE CLEANER THAN ME NOW-gettin a condo!!
Hit em up – THEY WILL HELP U!!cfff
FUUQQ YEEZ MY NIKKAS
FINALLY IT HAPPENED – JUST GOT A NEW RIDE – A CAM A RO CONVERTIBLE.GOT APPROVED FOR 26 LARGE. BEEN 5 YRS SINCE IVE GOTTEN SHYT APPROVED, BUT NOW ALL MY CRE-DIT SHEET GONE. ALL OF IT.
IF YOU STRUGGLING WITH THAT CREDITT HISTORY ISHH, GET RID OF ALL DAT TODAY – CALL THESE PEEPS AT 8^8^8-9-2-7 -3-3-5-6. . THEY DO AMAZING WORK AND THEY ARE CHEAP AS FUQQ. GOT RID OF ALL MY SHYYT IN NO TIME.
MY HOMEBOY WAS IN THE GUTTA TOO, AND HE CLEANER THAN ME NOW-gettin a condo!!
Hit em up – THEY WILL HELP U!!cfffjk
Hate it or love it busta been if front of that cam , since 91 or 92, till now. Rockin that shit. Would i have liked to see busta signed to Good as apposed to ymcm you damn right. I think Ye might have been a better fit , wit collabs, with Q tip, Pusha , Sean, Ye, and common. But its busta bus so this might be alright being we haven’t heard material yet can’t judge until you have heard the Music
co-sign. good music would have been powerful powerful shit. fuck those ymcmb fake mother fucker wannabe legends
G.O.O.D. and YMCMB are the same trash.
Fuck your free album nigga, I don’t need your charity.
Well, you don’t have to download it.
It’s your choice!
wow you sound like a got damn idiot. a legend gives you an album for free and you spit it back in his face. even if the shit was trash, it’s fucking free. what is the matter with you? why are you even on this website? would you rather pay $12 for a frisbee, or be given one? and maybe it’s dope, idk i haven’t listened. but you sir are an ignorant fool.
^^ Sorry if you got butthurt baby.
do an album with dmx or mop produced by dr. dre. Sing fast in each song of the album like look at me now. THats is gonna be dope helll yeahhh!!!!!
That will never happen, but it would be cool.
Only reason he’s releasing it for free is because he knows it would flop!!!
Yet another Weed Plate
Best Busta Rhymes album for me is “Genesis”. Dre’s beats on there were epic.
Agreed.
listening to it now and its wack
If it’s free, why is Google asking me for my CREDIT CARD #?????
busta a beast but this shit wack no dilla on this one. smh
try to download but wants my credit card. fuck that
ANY IDEA HOW TO GET THIS IN THE SHITY UK?
http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/407554905/Busta+Rhymes+%22Year+Of+The+Dragon%22?tab=summary
see i knew it busta would have been better off with GOOD as opposed to ymcm .The Beats fit the Mc over there
Word Up man
Lol Busta knows he will not sell so he gives his music for free.
Busta is a shame for eascoast hiphop. Which eascoast rappers signs with YMCMB?
that said Busta is 43 years or something so he aint YOUNG MONEY?
Are there no REAL eascoast mc’s anymore? Who just make eascoast hiphop without dirty south artist and beats?
Its time to end this YMCMB shit its bad for hiphop!
Yet u reppin Gucci? So Icy?
hold up aint u tht cat that goes around respecting these bitch rappers. and busta at young money na man thats fuked up.
a free album doesnt need a credit card info
Google play sucks. Just download it off datpiff http://www.datpiff.com/Busta-Rhymes-Year-Of-The-Dragon-mixtape.387074.html
http://www.datpiff.com/Busta-Rhymes-Year-Of-The-Dragon-mixtape.387074.html
wow busta a free album….. shame the guest are terrible gucci mane lil wayne and officer ricky? i think ill give it a miss should have raekwon or methodman instead of the sell out artists.
The album is DOPE. I’m serious.
You’re right.
This is seriously a very dope release, if you forget the terrible features.
Busta goes hard on every verse, wow!
I’m happy to say, this is a good download.
Did Hi Tek get paid for the beat on “Doin it Again”? Ted Smooth straight jacked that beat from round + round.
Why don’t you idiots go listen to the album instead trying to down it on this blog. It’s a great album.
I swear the lamest hip-hop fans congregate on this site.
well i don’t feel any kinda inspiration in this album. week beats, boring lyrics, wack featurings. leader of the poo school
features make me scared to listen to the album lol. Busta released a couple straight classics so I always got high expectations for him but these features worry mr
The features fuck everything up, but Busta keeps it hot on every verse.
I downloaded it and is trash. I don’t recommend it to y’all
DIE NOW
DIE A MILLION DEATHS!
so wack and pop it doesn’t even deserve a download. Recycle bin with the quickness.
this free album has birdman written all over the cover and tracklist. look at that,birdman the dragon flaming at the cash money/ymcmb roster. busta did u had some wine and went down on bird man?
where i can download it free?
trash album of the year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9b2ZNCeank
Hiphop ladies & gentleman!!!
I just wanted to see what everybody was talking, this shit ain’t free on there. I got this from a another site that was actually free. No one stays true to what they do anymore, all about a dollar no the craft. How you gone be in the game for that many years and change up like that to please a certain crowd. Rap music ain’t what it use to be things done changed!
AAWWWWW SHIIIIIIT! DOPEZT BEATZ SINCE B.O.A.T.S BIIIIIITCH! JEAH!
I was pop lock n droppin it ta dis shiizzzzle hell ya nigga
out of all places, why choose Google Play…DatPiff is the most preferred source for free hip hop albums
I gotta agree with most people on this thread…the features are not convincing…with a album title and cover like that, you’d expect more solid features like his Wu friends, Method Man, Raekwon, RZA beats, Dilla beats, not Gucci Maine,and Rick Ross
the lyrical artist are themselves killing hip hop now with these wack features…
google play doesnt even work in my country… wtf
Neither in mine lmao
try datpiff.com
i see why this album is free cause it’s weak as hell. I was expecting a rapid fire flow like he been doing on all the remixes like look at me now wit chris brown but he brang nothing new 2 the table. He’s became one of those rappers who a snap on somebody else shit but when it come 2 his own stuff he can’t deliver.
sadly i have to agree with you i was expecting shit like from back in 2000.. very dissapointed by this album
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