The 2023 BET Awards took place Sunday, 25th June at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater with many awards being awarded to those who deserve them. Busta Rhymes was one of those who were honoured by the BET Awards with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The iconic rapper whose real name is Trevor George Smith Jr and known as Busta Rhymes accepted his award with a heartfelt speech while tearing up. The I Know What You Want rapper reflected on his career and shared his wisdom.
Rhymes who is known for his fastest rap on his hit Break Ya Neck, the track clocks in at an impressive 9 words per second, making it one of the quickest rap songs out there, while accepting his award he urged rappers to stop fighting one another and focus on putting out great music to cement their legacies.
He started his speech with a powerful note, “So, I’m gonna wear it on my sleeve. I do wanna cry,” said the rapper as he wiped tears from his eyes. He went on to give a shout to his six kids. “My oldest child was a 3-year-old in the ‘Woo-Hah!!’ video back in ’96. He’s 30. He’s right here. I went on, and I had five more kids after that. So, I got six beautiful children. Five out of the six of them is here, T’ziah, Mariah, Cacie, T’khi, Trillian and the young boss who’s home.”
Rhymes shared how he “never” wanted to a solo artist and that he felt “scared” when his group, Leaders of the New School broke up in 1994.
“I ain’t never wanted to be a solo MC,” he revealed. “I ain’t like the responsibility of making a full song. I’m good with getting to the 16 bars and busting everybody’s ass and getting up out of there.”
He went on to share that, “So, I got kicked out of the group, and I was scared.” Four years after the Grammy nominee went on and launched his solo career with an album that was released in 1996.
“I knew all of the receptionists that worked at the studios, and I would call them — ‘Who’s working in there tonight?’ And they would tell me, and I would go to this little weed spot”
“I would act like I was working in those studio rooms the night before and I forgot something in there. ‘Y’all, I left my rhyme book. I gotta get something. I gotta look for something. Good to see y’all. Can I come through?'” continued Rhymes.
“And when they asked me what was I doing, I said, ‘Let me go in the booth and do it.’ I ain’t telling you my rhyme until you let me in the booth, and I go in the booth and I spit.”
The musicians would want his verse on the song, so he’d later return to his professional team and tell them, “‘Yo, send that invoice for five grand, send that one for 10 grand, send that one for 15 grand. $30-40,000 a week, I ain’t got to split it up with nobody in the group. I liked that. Long story short, by default, I pioneered the feature.” By doing so he was able to provide for his family.
Rhymes went on to share how he was sharing love and kindness to other rappers when approaching them and went on to give his gratitude to those who stuck by him throughout his career.
“I see so many people in here that I’ve known and I’ve grown with for a long time, and y’all watched me grow, and I love y’all, and I know y’all love me. But I’m a real giver of love. Sometimes I know I might overwhelm you. I wanna hug you, and I won’t let you go. I shake your hand.” He continued, “stop these little petty beefs that we be doing.”
“Y’all messing up the bag. Y’all messing up the energy. I don’t like when I talk to these dudes that run these streaming platforms and they talking about, ‘You know, we turning the consumer off because there’s so much little this and little that going on with you rappers.’ We’re gonna stop that. We’re gonna love each other, and we gonna get to this money.”
Rhymes finished off his speech with, “We’re gonna stop this narrative like we don’t love each other, this divide thing. It’s corny. It’s tired. It’s whack,” he said.
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