Richard Meyrick

Now I’m not a great lover of R&B, but this single isn’t half bad. I’ll be honest and say I’ve never heard of Plies, and I think he sounds a lot like Busta Rhymes. I’m not a complete ‘noob’ in this genre though, as I haven’t lived under a rock for the past few years, so I have heard of Ne-Yo. As Plies is signed to Atlantic records, a label which has a pretty good reputation of producing platinum selling artists such as Dr.Dre and Snoop Dogg, I expected a good tune. And a good tune I got.

Musically ‘Bust It Baby’ isn’t great as they use the standard R&B backing track as all other R&B artists do, but the name drop of Ne-Yo in ‘Bust It Baby’ is a great selling point. Ne-Yo does too much in this song to just be ‘featured’ as he sings every chorus and one of the verses! Plies raps all but one of the verses and says ‘Bust it’ in the most annoying tone possible in the intro and chorus.

‘Bust It Baby Part 2’ has great potential to sell well as it’s a decent track. It has also been nominated in the Best Rap/R&B Collaboration category at the Ozone awards, so it’s worth checking ‘Bust It Baby Part 2’ out if you like R&B.