![]() Not only was “Woo-Hah! Got You All in Check” a Top 10 single, it also established Busta Rhymes’ persona: a kind of Urban-Goth Coyote, a trickster figure who was all about impending doom, gettin’ into the womb, and shakin’ the room. He went in a footnote, he came out a star - and he honed that star with subsequent cameos (the remix of Craig Mack’s “Flava in Ya Ear”), the last LotNS album in 1993, and his first solo album, The Coming, which pretty much took over the world in 1996. He went “Rawr, rawr like a dungeon dragon” in his big Caribbean/Flatbush voice and rhymed that with “Your pants are saggin’ ” and muttered and stuttered and toasted and growled through a chorus and a half of pure hip-hop energy, almost completely blowing away Q-Tip and Phife and everyone else on the track. He was Busta but he wasn’t Busta for real until he popped up at the end of A Tribe Called Quest’s 1991 The Low End Theory, anchoring the world’s greatest posse cut, “Scenario”. Busta Rhymes was a member of the acclaimed Long Island crew Leaders of the New School, but that means nothing, really.
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