Busta Rhymes Discusses Motown Deal And "Arab Money"

[Elano]

Busta Rhymes has had an interesting week. After previewing his new album, unveiling news about a new release date and a new dance, Busta's gotten the chance to perform in London, even after overcoming a conflict with the UK High Court. After all of this, he has been able to come out and reveal his new found joy.
In a recent interview with Tim Westwood, of Westwood Radio, Busta spoke on all of this.
"A lot has changed in the last two months since I last seen you. They detaining me for 12 hours in the immigration," he said, speaking on his immigration hold up before his recent London show. His attitude has also changed to one of joy.
" got a new label situation. I got a new album release date, December 9. I'm happy,"

The songs on his new album may feature some songs that were set to release on his final Interscope album.
"First and foremost, all the records that was gonna come out on the last records was my records," says Busta. "So at the end of the day, my records are on the new label."
He also spoke on what the label move meant and how he felt about his former label, saying, "Big up to Interscope because they put up two hot leak records for me."
A new song that's got some people talking, for better or worse, is "Arab Money." Speculations of a politically incorrect connotation swarmed the song at first, but Rhymes spoke on what it should be taken to mean.

"It's called 'Arab Money.'...'Take the Money' or 'Arab Money'," he said before speaking on his interpretation of the song. "Sometimes, people like to twist things. We ain't mockin' the culture. we ain't tryin' to be disrespectful. Ain't no racism going on right here. If you listen to the song, you see that we are actually acknowledging the fact that the Arabian culture, a middle East culture is one of the few cultures, that value passing down hard work riches that's been built amongst the family."
"It would be nice if a lot of other cultures did the same thing. Feel me? So, I would like for it to be like that in my culture where we could build things to the point where we got so much that we don't need to rely on other cultures to contribute majorly in a financial way, or in whatever other way, to societies, communities or whatever governments we might live in. So, we are actually biggin' up the culture. At the end of the day, I want to be like that. I think a lot of us want to be like that."
His new album is set to hit stores December 9. He is also featured on JakeOne's White Van Music.

[thuglord]

Busta should retire, "Arab money" is wack as fuck! No way he's gonna drop another dope album as the last one.

[hellrazor86]

Arab Money is a disgrace.. everythin on this joint is wack... hmm tha beat is tolerable

One

[Al Bundy]

the beat is the only good thing about the song

[Lunatic]

the beat is the only good thing about the song

co sign

[Archetype]

Busta's been bringing back old school him though lately, and with the exception of this song I've been rooting for him a lot. Keep it up Busta.

['EclipZe]

 

[Rugged Monk]

We get Ay-rab money  The shit gangsta.


LMAO...we gets neo-con money! We gots Mossad money....we gets MJ money.....ahhh the possibilities are endless!

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

I never thought Busta was that ill to begin with.  I hated "Wooh-hah" when he first came out, that song sounded like a joke to me, I couldn't take it seriously.

[Lord Funk]

I've never seen anything that made me cringe as much as Busta doing that dance on the Westwood video. He needs to sit his old ass down and shut the fuck up. 'Arab Money' is an embarrassment to hip-hop.

[Meho]

^^ Co-sign. I always thought Arab Money was garbage but then I saw Busta doing that retarted, Soulja Boy wannabe dance and I almost threw up.

[Archetype]

I never thought Busta was that ill to begin with.  I hated "Wooh-hah" when he first came out, that song sounded like a joke to me, I couldn't take it seriously.

WHAT?!?! 
not a big hip hop guy eh?

I figured someone like you would be into A Tribe Called Quest and Busta's earlier shit. Woo ha was def not his first solo venture. He was even a five percenter which means you will probably praise him as one of the greatest mc's of all time now.

[Al Bundy]

I never thought Busta was that ill to begin with.  I hated "Wooh-hah" when he first came out, that song sounded like a joke to me, I couldn't take it seriously.

WHAT?!?! 
not a big hip hop guy eh?

I figured someone like you would be into A Tribe Called Quest and Busta's earlier shit. Woo ha was def not his first solo venture. He was even a five percenter which means you will probably praise him as one of the greatest mc's of all time now.

lmao

[Chief]

song isnt great, but it aint bad... busta is one of my fave rap artists though, so kindas sucks he's off aftermath.

[eazye]

song isnt great, but it aint bad... busta is one of my fave rap artists though