The aptly titled debut album “The Coming” finally got the emcee on his own two feet. The Leaders of the New School dropped two solid old-school LP’s in 19, before, quite likely, Busta’s ego (and ability) needed room for itself to grow.
“Rarrr Rarr, like a dungeon dragon!” a young Busta spit with an intensity and raw energy so powerful that it is still is reflected on as one of the greatest single verses of all-time. In retrospect, this is a highly underrated album because people seem to stray from it in conversations about greatness nowadays.īusta hit the scene harder than any other emcee with an amped up verse on Tribe Called Quest’s masterpiece posse cut, “The Scenario”. Am I biased? Probably, but that does not lessen the impact of a release that sounds as good as it did then a decade later. I had already burned a whole through the disc playing it so much–it was nice to see others realizing how goddamn hot this album is. As marijuana smoke permeated the amphitheatre air in Columbus, Ohio, my friends and I witnessed some special performances, but I never had seen someone get a crowd amped so early in the night as Busta did showcasing tracks from his seminal release “When Disaster Strikes…” that dropped the previous year. You bet your ass it was a phenomenal show. In 1998, as an impressionable Sophomore in High School, I ventured out to The Smoking Grooves tour concert that featured the likes of a pre-“Behind the Front” Black Eyed Peas, Gangstarr, Cypress Hill, Public Enemy, Mya, ODB, Wyclef Jean and perhaps, most importantly, an energized Busta Rhymes rockin’ the once trademark dreads.
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