Got a chance to hear a few tracks from the forthcoming Busta album. Titled The Big Bang, it's due to drop around May time over here - if Bus can keep himself out of trouble, knarmean! His manager James Cruz of Violater (50, Missy etc) came over to play about 9 tracks and was very New York about it - mo'fo wouldn't play the music until people stopped talking. Guessing, unless you live under a rock, that you've heard Touch It (remix) which Pap kills and also the Kelis joint 'I Love My Bitch' which is a fairly standard party jam produced by Will. I. Am. Why do people rate that dude? I guess he sells records so you can't hate on that, but I just can't get with his sound or BEP in general. It just makes me feel eurgh, ya know!
For Bus fans, this will be another album that touches the right buttons, but I'm not fully convinced he's yet to become an album artist. Give the guy a single and he'll smash it; put him on a remix and he'll steal the 'scenario' but a full 13 tracks of that brick-breaking, super-speedy snarl? It's too much for me.
That said there are two particularly excellent tracks on the record - namely Green Lantern's, Rick James sampling Ghetto Life, which is disgusting. Barely there beats, but ball-breaking bass, snaking sax and that 70s sample make this definitley rewind worthy. There's also a Dre track called Buried Alive, which is on a whole 'Stan' vibe where Bus kills someone for hitting on his wife or something - it was hard to make out because his vocals were distorted by the bass. Regardless, Dre's inventive use of spades and dirt as the back-beat make it certainly one of the most unusual things he's done in a minute. Elsewhere Dre drops a rhyme apparently written by himself and NOT Jay Z on Imagine, which is where he and Bus wonder what would happen if there were no hip hop. Involves street corners and prison, apparently.
Otherwise, there's a Tim beat which is your standard Southern banger, a pretty darned good track featuring Swizz Beats called New York Shit that does just what it says on the tin, another Dre tune called Loyalty (maybe) featuring Missy and a tight-ass Sha Money XL made, Stevie Wonder featuring number that sees Bus get his political on.
Of the 10 tracks I heard, there was say 3 or 4 that I really wanted to hear again. Regardless, the Aftermath/ Interscope machine is in motion and I predict Bus could just get the career-making album he's long dreamed of - or minimum sell a couple of mill regardless.
See for yourself when it's released next month.
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