Busta Rhymes

Released: March 26, 1996

Songwriter: Busta Rhymes Easy Mo Bee

Producer: Easy Mo Bee

[Intro]
Word up, let me just fuck with your mind, please
Aye! Ayo, yo, yo, yo! Let me fuck up your mind
On time, showin' you the rhythm
As I get wreck and get raw
Yeah, I be the man, comin' off, that be raw
It's Busta Rhymes, givin' you much more
So—

[Verse 1]
Yo, y'all (y'all) one more time I come
Knucklehead flow that make you act real dumb
Yo (yo), I burn your food like Florence
Run up in your crib like my name was search warrants
Shut your mouth, nigga—don't you complain
Fix you up, mix you with cut like pro-caines
Oh! Insane to your brain
Right on your subconscious, I leave my shit stain
I be the mostest with rhyme overdoses
Hot stepping over shit like Ini Kamoze's
Sick lyrics like multiple sclerosis
Focus, while I display flows ferocious
Weak niggas just fall and keep tumbling
Distribute lyrics like I'm hand to hand herb hustling
Hardcore like Quick Draw McGraw
Fuck what you heard, you ain't heard this before

[Chorus]
I make sure everything remains raw
I make sure everything remains raw
I make sure everything remains raw
I make sure everything remains raw

[Verse 2]
Yo—when I step in the place I leave damages
'nuff bandages on pussy from miscarriages
Yo—watch me bring the newest recipe
Fuck you up quick and condemn you all with leprosy
Let me hit you with flows, that come various
(Hah) send you home and make you lie bout your alias
(Ha-ha) niggas can't see my routine
When I round up my Flipmode niggas and get cream
Hey, you! You know what the fuck I mean
Now I'm on the scene, stepping through like Mean Joe Green
Now I'm making you feel the extreme
Till I black you out then turn on my real high beam
Oh shit, now I got your brains fried
Once you inhale smoke from my flow, carbon monoxide!
Use your imagination, let me take you higher
Rain hail snow earthquakes, Earth Wind & Fire
Yo, hit the dirt, get on the floor
I'm that outlaw nigga living right next door
You should just roll out the red carpet
All movin' targets, I got you open like supermarkets
Yo yo—there's only five years left
While niggas is scared to death they breathe they last breath
Days of my life goes on, word is bond
I make you feel my proton, neutron, and electron
Yo, I be the number one icon
Word to the holy Qu'ran, I rock on and on
On and on, hey, on and on and on
You won't understand when I form Voltron

[Chorus]
Hahahaha—everything remains raw
I make sure everything remains raw
I make sure everything remains raw
I make sure everything remains raw

I make sure everything remains raw
I make sure everything remains raw
I make sure everything remains raw
I make sure everything remains raw

[Outro]
Word is bond, niggas don't really understand shit
Niggas don't motherfuckin know y'all, hahah
Flipmode is the motherfuckin Squad y'all, hahah
I make sure everything remains raw, hahah
Word is bond, niggas don't know the real shit
There's only five years left! Word is bond
Niggas don't know though
There's only five years left! Hahah
Remember that nigga, all you, remember that
There's only five years left! Hahaha

Busta Rhymes is a Grammy-nominated rapper, producer, and actor. Born Trevor George Smith, Jr. on May 20, 1972 in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, he would later move to Uniondale, Long Island but attended high school in Brooklyn with the likes of JAY-Z, The Notorious B.I.G., and Special Ed. Prior to his graduation from Uniondale High School in 1990, Busta joined Dinco D, Charlie Brown, and Cut Monitor Milo to from Leaders of the New School. The group opened for Public Enemy and their frontman Chuck D gave Chill-O-Ski the name Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George “Buster” Rhymes.

Leaders of the New School released two albums, A Future Without a Past… (1991) and T.I.M.E. (The Inner Mind’s Eye) (1993), before splitting after an intense interview with Yo! MTV Raps. Busta’s popularity began to rise with his appearances on A Tribe Called Quest’s “Scenario” in 1991 and its remix in 1992, as well as the remix to Craig Mack’s “Flava in Ya Ear” in 1994.

This led to Busta releasing his platinum debut album The Coming in 1996, featuring the platinum single “Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check.” Busta’s subsequent four albums all went platinum, while It Ain’t Safe No More… and The Big Bang achieved gold status. He also released several international hits, including “Dangerous,” “What’s It Gonna Be?” with Janet Jackson, and “I Know What You Want” with Mariah Carey, as well as being featured on the #1 hits “Don’t Cha” with the Pussycat Dolls and “Look At Me Now” with Chris Brown and Lil Wayne.

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