Busta Rhymes Teams Up With Linkin Park to ?Touch the Souls of the Common People? on N
 

Busta Rhymes tells Rock Daily he’s got something special cooking for his December 4th album Back on My BS: a song with Linkin Park called “It Looks Like We Made It” that’s produced by Cool and Dre. “It feels like Rocky won the fight or something,” he says of the triumphant track. “It reminds the people who are successful to go and help those that havent been so successful, and represent the unity between people. This song speaks volumes to the globe — it aint just about the ‘hood, it aint just about the suburbs, its about everybody. This is one of those songs that cant be described better than touching the souls of the common people.”
Rhymes says Back on My BS will hearken back to the golden age of hip-hop, and that he picked out the title “because people havent seen the Busta Rhymes that they have grown to know and love.” “Not that they havent been getting the traditional party records, ’cause I always do that better than anything,” he clarified, “but the whole thing when I come out with the outfits, the hat, the coat.” So what does that mean for the LP? “Im promising the same track record I always set for myself, which is the phenomenal collaborations that people dont usually do before I do ‘em, to continue as a legacy,” he says, momentarily forgetting the Jay-Z/Linkin Park album Collision Course. “You can definitely expect something super duper stellar. Hot energy joints and songs that are a little bit more approachable arent going to feel as dark, even though I got a lot of situations to talk about, ’cause of the last year. I still have so much to be happy for.”
The situations Busta refers to are likely his myriad looming court dates. “Im trying to resolve the legal situation,” he says, turning to wax philosphical on larger legal issues: the Congressional hip-hop hearings. “Theyre getting ready to pass laws on what we are and arent allowed to say,” he says, quite alarmed. “Thats totally against what the United States Constitution is. In the eyes of the U.S. government, were undesirables cause we dont have a birthright. And its unfortunate but this is a real thing that not a lot of people are aware of.”


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