Busta Rhymes Talks Battling Jay-Z In High School

    It is no secret that Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z and The Notorious B.I.G. all attended high school together in Brooklyn. While it is nice to imagine the three legends holding ciphers on the regular, Busta says he only battling Jay-Z once; and took a lose for the first time. 

    Busta was on MTV’s Rapfix Live when he recalled squaring off with a young Shaun Carter. “One day, somebody came up to me and was like, ‘Yo, Hov is in the cafeteria,’ ” Busta told Sway. “They weren’t calling him Hov at the time; they were calling him Jay. ‘Do you want to step to him on some rhyme shit?’ So I go. At the time, when we were rhyming, it was speed rap. That was the thing to do. I knew how to freak it, and he knew how to freak it. And at the time, he was so ill, ’cause of the people he was with at the time, Jaz-O and them, it was their thing [that style]. He kind of got the best of the situation. I got to give it up. He was so ill and his arsenal was so long that he had more than what I did. I spit my one rap, and my tank was empty real fast. He came with two or three after that, and I was like, ‘Here we go.’ But I gave it my best.”

    Both young men went on to be two of the most successful rappers on their era. Even in a high school cafeteria Busta could see Jay’s immense talents. “That was probably the fist time that I lost a battle that mattered,” he said. “[Jay-Z] always exemplified greatness as an emcee. He was a scientist with it.”

    35 thoughts on “Busta Rhymes Talks Battling Jay-Z In High School

    1. Jay and Busta are beasts.

      WTF is up with HHDX though; check that opening paragraph:

      “While it is nice to imagine the three legends holding ciphers on the regular, Busta says he only battling Jay-Z once; and took a lose for the first time.”

      Dumb fucks. :S

      1. @Chris
        It’s kinda funny you saying shit about grammar when you can’t get “you’re” right, you fucking idiot.

      2. @the.watcher:
        It is kind of funny that you are saying shit about Cris’s grammar when you can not even spell his name correctly. Idiot.

      3. @Jeffy8
        While your first sentence features impeccable grammar, I’m sorry to say that your second sentence is only a sentence fragment. I am taking points off. Please don’t have your diabetic mother come up to the school asking me why I failed her child. I’m tired of telling the other kids not to laugh at the one-legged bitch.

      4. Wow. Calm yourselves. HHDX needs to be grammatically correct, not the commentators – coz they’re actually providing some official news etc.

        And sentence fragments are only an issue on Microsoft Word etc. If you read a book or two, you’ll they’re used quite frequently for particular reasons i.e. calling someone an ‘idiot’ in a short and concise way. “Idiot.”

    2. But Busta aleast 2 years younger than jay so he probably that much etter then cause he runing around with jaz kane and who else

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      1. Jay-Z and Busta went to high school together..with Biggie too. Jay-Z dropped out early though. I don’t know about the rest of them.

    4. i thought that busta was so dumb because of all the shit he is lately doing that he went never to school

    5. Who the hell is editing this site?

      It’s “loss” not “lose and holy shit, at least get Jay’s name right. It’s “Shawn” not “Shaun.” I mean, c’mon.

      1. “Busta says he only battling Jay-Z once; and took a lose for the first time.’

        You gotta be fucking KIDDING me!! Who edits these stories before they go online!?

    6. Based on this article and article alone, J-23 can’t write (or proofread) for shit, and that’s a damn shame considering how many people visit this site on the daily. Makes you wonder whose desk he/she bent over. I can find you 20 obscure bloggers with better skills, or at least the decency to proofread.

      1. I didn’t began to actually pay attention to how many errors occured in this article until the 2nd time I read it… J23 step it up bcuz spell check is now part of modern day technology on ALL computers!!! LOL

    7. @Jeffy8
      It is kind of funny that you are saying shit about the watcher’s spelling, when you can’t even place the apostrophe correctly. It’s Cris’ you fuck.

    8. your checkin the spelling so your missing the storie?

      come on now, that’s no reason not to comment constructively

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