Busta Rhymes

The Source (11/97, p.159) - 4 Mics (out of 5) - "...WHEN DISASTER STRIKES is truly...a young man fulfilling his destiny....Busta Rhymes is winning because he has enough skills and charisma....Busta just may be the real future of the funk."
Rap Pages (12/97, p.93) - "...a new LP from Busta with more than a healthy respect for the radio and upbeat dance tracks to keep you moving in the club..."
Rolling Stone (10/16/97, p.108) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...a complicated suite about the end of the century from hip-hop's high-volume major-domo....rap's recent tragedies haunt the music....these tunes are so quick minded, witty and rhythmically on that they blast through hip-hop's current impasse..."
New Musical Express (9/20/97, p.55) - 7 (out of 10) - "...the global doom-predicting WHEN DISASTER STRIKES is a less than instant but eminently well-formed follow-up to his debut album..."
Entertainment Weekly (9/26/97, p.78) - "...Rhymes' rat-a-tat rasp remains hip-hop's most original voice; still, despite help from Puffy Combs and Erykah Badu, this comes off more like a free-associative collision of skits and verbal pyrotechnics than a coherent album." - Rating: B>

Busta Rhymes' follow-up to The Coming, his 1996 solo debut, is a complicated suite about
the end of the century from hip-hop's high-volume majordomo. Inevitably, rap's recent
tragedies haunt the music: In "Things We Be Doin' for Money," a two-part jam, Rhymes finds
himself in an escalating altercation, only to wake up in the middle of the night, recognizing
the possibly murderous situation as a nightmare. He phones a sleepy friend, a gu... More >