Busta Rhymes has made no secret of his admiration of Eminem, and is even willing to call out a collaborator on wax to defend the Detroit rap legend.
In an interview with former NBA players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson on their All The Smoke podcast, Busta revealed that he was forced to check a fellow artist on a track they recorded together after they made disparaging comments about the self-proclaimed Rap God.
Busta didn’t reveal the identity of said artist, but he did say the record has yet to come out.
“I got a song coming out with an artist that I had to address about his testimonial and opinion on Eminem too. I had to check him on his own song in rhyme form.
“What makes these moments special is when you can be honest on these records. We ain’t gotta front, so don’t out yourself in a situation and then ask me to rhyme with you ’cause I’m going to check you — and you can’t argue with me ’cause I’m the fucking elder statesmen and a timeless great.”
The Flipmode Squad frontman also checked Dr. Umar Johnson over his controversial claim that Eminem can’t be considered one of the greatest rappers of all time because he’s white.
“I’ma keep it a buck: I don’t think nobody can fuck with Eminem,” Busta declared. “I’m sorry, Dr. Umar, stop it. And there’s a lot of shit that Dr. Umar says that I agree with, but this is one particular [topic] that he’s way off the kilt with.”
Watch his comments at the 2:18:30 mark below.
Busta Rhymes and Eminem famously teamed up in 2014 on the song “Calm Down,” which saw the lyrical veterans assert their status as two of the greatest rappers of all time.
Explaining how the heavyweight collaboration came about, Busta told Complex: “After marinating on the record for some time, I felt like this would be an incredible record for Eminem to get on … We left the song with [Em’s manager] Paul Rosenberg but we didn’t actually get any feedback about whether he was going to jump on it.
“About six weeks passed by, my partner Shaheem Reid reached out to Riggs Morales, who was an A&R at Shady Records at the time. He came by the studio to hear the song, and two weeks later, we finally got a confirmation from Paul that Em had got the beat and that he’s fucking with it.
“A few months passed by, and I got a call from Paul. He wanted to meet me in the studio. He came and played Em’s verse, and I was blown away. What was interesting to me though was that Em did a 42-bar verse. Because we’re known for pretty much fucking everybody up when we get on records with other artists, it became a competitive process.
“I went back and I wrote 50 bars. We then scheduled a mix session for the song and when I got to Detroit, he listened to my verse, heard that it was 50 bars, he went back and turned his 42 bars into a 60-bar verse. At that point I went back and turned my 50-bar verse into a 62-bar verse.
“And then Em made his verse a 64-bar verse. It started off from just doing a dope, high-energy Hip Hop record into us respectfully competing and damn near battling each other.”
Whenever a white man does great an entire community of black people get jealous and start racto talking. Sports music movies. Don’t matter they all act like jealous woman when we’re up
Shut up you daft racist prick.
Shut up you daft racist prick.
Shut up you daft racist prick.
Thing is, Eminem doesn’t even claim white folks either. Hell always stand next to a brother, yet blacks hate him for no apparent reason, other than him being white.
I dont bump em, listen to every record once, not in my top 50 but can respect those that do, honestly outside a sports venue anthem havent heard em bumpin since stan
anyone that says he cant rap just hatin, just not my particular content or beat type for that matter
Dope MC but his shit has aged horribly. Nobody wants to listen to a whiteboy spittin about raping his mom, getting molested by his uncle, and how much he hates his babymama and Christina Aguilera.
Can’t remember the last time he spoke on any of that, but ok.
you are nothing but a clown if that is what you think about Eminem. In the age of internet you have no excuse not to do your research. Unless you’re making this stupid statement on purpose.
you are nothing but a clown if that is what you think about Eminem. In the age of internet you have no excuse not to do your research. Unless you’re making this stupid statement on purpose.
I’d be curious to see your top 50. No em is a statement
pac big outkast bizzy ugk souls 8 ball mjg rakim kool g rap krs tribe most of wu devin scarface e40 ice cube killer mike big krit nipsey twista esham nas jay hell throw busta in there too brotha lynch all get play b4 em & thats just off the top of my head
Top 50 hahahahah
Anyone that says Em isn’t top5 is just hating, I love Em but i definitely don’t always like his beat selection but his lyricism is on point. He’s not a casual listen, there’s double and triple entendres laced throughout. Putting UGK above Em is just ridiculous.
Agreed, when I hear someone say something like that… I stop talking to them about rap. That shows me you haven’t listened to him in the last 10 years.
I remember long before I heard Em like that, Busta Rhymes was on Power 99 talking about this white boy he heard that was cold. Busta never had a problem giving people their flowers and he’s ALWAYS fucked with Em.
Game
you are nothing but a clown if that is what you think about Eminem. In the age of internet you have no excuse not to do your research. Unless you’re making this stupid statement on purpose.
And here comes Benzino in 3..2..1.
Ems biggest battle is mgk… and its an arguable battle… hes never had rap beefed with anyone seriously. I guess ja rule but he needed the entire g unit, busta, dmx, game dre etc to jump ja.
Are you a teenager? If you think MGK is his biggest battle or if lines that said “weird Beard” were dope… then that tells me you may not be well versed enough to talk about this.