Busta Rhymes is the latest rapper to be called out by Funk Flex for not releasing much in the way of new music in a while.
After successfully calling out the likes of Juelz Santana, Conway The Machine and Fabolous in recent weeks, the Hot 97 DJ has now turned attention to the Flipmode general challenging him to get a new track into his hands in the next six days.
“Busta Rhymes, you making a lot of tour money. I see you putting out independent records, holding onto a lot of bread. You been getting money for alooooooot of years,” Flex said on his radio show on Thursday night (August 18).
“If anybody sees Busta Rhymes, you call him and you at him and you tell him I challenge him to get me a song in six days. Busta Rhymes, do you accept the challenge or not?”
Flex then turned his attention to the greater Hip Hop community, telling them: “You challenge me, I challenge you. You challenge me to get those songs before the DSPs. You challenge me to get those songs before Apple, before Spotify. Before YouTube, before Tidal. I’m gonna do my job.”
He then asked Busta once more: “Are you going to accept the challenge — yes or no? You let me know.”
Many of Busta’s contemporaries such as Questlove, Royce Da 5’9″, Consequence, DJ Premier and others flooded Flex’s comments, excited at the prospect of new Busta music.
Following Flex’s call to action, Busta took to Twitter to accept the challenge. “The Smokin’ Section is what it’s called…. WE EXCEPT EVERY CHALLENGE,” he tweeted, followed by some smoke emoji’s. “LET’S DANCE!!”
The “Woo Hah!!” rapper hasn’t dropped his own commercial record since teaming up Mariah Carey on “Where I Belong,” taken from Busta’s acclaimed 2020 studio album, Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God.
As a featured artist, he appeared alongside Redman last year on the posthumous Phife Dawg single “Nutshell Pt. 2,” and he’s done a couple of collaborations with Stylo G and LION BABE.
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It was reported earlier this week that Busta linked up with Nas, Swizz Beatz, The-Dream, Jadakiss and Dave East for a late-night studio session. Whether it will produce a collaboration is yet to be known.
Meanwhile, Busta Rhymes is set to be named a BMI Icon at the 2022 BMI R&B/Hip Hop Awards in Miami next month.
Held at LIV Nightclub on September 7, the private event will be hosted by BMI President & CEO Mike O’Neill and BMI Vice President, Creative (Atlanta) Catherine Brewton.
Busta has enough material to drop an entire album without even thinking about it. I expect Busta to hit Flex with multiple songs!
So basically corny funk flex is trying to get these washed up artists one last chance
Ummm Busta aint washed up you bugging
The syphilis has eaten ur brain…
This is so corny and old people. Smh.
What u bringing to the table? Syh!!
Flex should call out Hov in the new music challenge.
I’ll pass on that. Sideshow Bob version of JayZ is severely lacking. Nothing he put out for yrs is worth a replay…..Shave off the palm tree branches so we can get the real JayZ back. Seriously, his hairdo screams Beyonce is in charge of his image now.
SIDESHOW HOV LMAOOOOO
Washed up artist. Busta Rhymes is one of the best ever to do it. You stupid young kids don’t know what good hip hop is. Go listen to bitch ass Drake or any new artists who don’t write their own music!!!
BUSTA DROPPED THE BEST ALBUM OF 2020. HE CAN CHILL FOR A BIT UNTIL HE’S INSPIRED. FOH FLEX.
Call out QTip and we good
Dead on point homie
YES!
Busta had an album (fire by the way) just dropped 2 years ago….he already said he has another album done as well….not sure what the hold up is, but hey, i know that he must get his business str8
HERE COMES DJ ARTHRITIS!!!! HOT 97 SHOULD DONATE A DJ BOOTH IN A NURSING HOME WHERE HE BELONGS!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! GTFOH DJ DINOSAUR!!!!
Nobody leaves HipHop unless they don’t love it anymore trick you GTFOH
Someone need to slap the dog-shiz out of Flex, I got $10 for whoever smack him around first. Why only $10 cause that is all his opinion is worth! I think he is another hip-hop Fruitcake… HMM…
Busta and Tip reformed Tribe and dropped the best album since Donuts so I’m not seeing where Busta or Q-Tip fell off whatsoever