SOHH Exclusive: Busta Rhymes Talks With MC Lyte About The Origin Of His Name
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00:00 I would they would always ask me to bust a rhyme because you know I was when I
00:03 would rhyme I would rhyme with the aggression and the animated performances
00:08 and shit so after a while Chuck D was just like bust a rhyme bust the rhymes
00:14 remind me of a football player the way you rhyme and perform all aggressive and
00:19 shit so he said there's a football player by the name of bust the rhymes
00:26 that played for the Minnesota Vikings in 1985 your name should be bust the rhymes
00:33 and I ain't like the bust apart I should just kind of trash to me so I left and
00:41 you know my pops used to take me to bust the brown and get shoes I never wore
00:44 them shit. Fuck me up. Bust the brown shoes is trash anything attached to the name
00:53 bust was just trash to me so Chuck and them was like yo just try it and see how
01:00 people like it the way it works with your performance and you whenever we
01:05 want you to rhyme we always ask you to bust a rhyme anyway so that's what you
01:08 embody that so I tried it and people liked it and I went with it and it was
01:18 a part of just learning how to grow. Well it was T-E-R in the beginning.
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