busta rhymes singles poll

i will prob vote for 'i love my bitch' but i at least have 2 consider voting for 'arab money' 4 real

Initial reaction is Gimme Some More, but thats based mostly on tons of memories tied to it. I need to re-listen to a lot of these to give them a fresh ear.

It's "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See."

I have to vote Woo Hah but I really like I Know What You Want and Flip Mode's Cha Cha Cha

i was thinkin gimme some more then realized how much of a srs gem "touch it" was

CALL THE AMBULANCE PUT THE BODY IN THE STRETCHER CARRY HIS ASS OUT

"touch it" sucks so hard

1 put your hands
2 what's it gonna be (utter classic)
3 woo ha
4 gimme some more
5 pass the courvoisier

that list, exactly

i would maybe switch out "pass the curvoisier" for "i know what you want", that song is great

"Shorty (Put It on the Floor)" (with Fat Joe, Chingy and Nick Cannon)

the f is this

there's probably 10 really great-to-good songs on this list, kinda more than i expected tbh

there's also 10 that are just total embarrassments

"light your ass on fire" and "don't touch me" are my other two faves

oh and "fire it up" is a super-classic

"Touch It" isn't terrible but there are like 6-7 better songs on this list.

"Put Your Hands..." is one of my favorite songs of all time.

"Shorty (Put It on the Floor)" (with Fat Joe, Chingy and Nick Cannon)

the f is this

― J0rdan S., Sunday, January 8, 2012 11:27 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is actually kinda dope, great Just Blaze beat from his '03 era flirtation with hip house retro, honestly one of the only songs from the last 10 years on this list that i'd ever want to listen to again

break ya neck is an underrated banger

monstars anthem ftw

you guys saying Touch It is bad are terrible. I mean, it's ok to ignore Papoose on it.

Woo Hah!! is the one for me, especially the Origin Unknown Remix.

i know what you want

break ya neck is an underrated banger

― sisilafami, Sunday, January 8, 2012 11:55 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un0RtP2KQ88

you guys saying Touch It is bad are terrible. I mean, it's ok to ignore Papoose on it.

― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, January 8, 2012 11:55 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the o.g. "touch it" solo track is bad, the posse cut remix is a disaster

thank u

Woo Hah!! is the one for me, especially the Origin Unknown Remix.

That remix is amazing

remember hearing "woo hah" as a kid and having no idea what was going on with this music

remember hearing "woo hah" as a teenager and having no idea what was going on with this music

^

for once papoose is not the primary problem on a song

hate touch it

voted 'eyes to see,' used to bang that rhythm on desks in high school

'gimme some more' a close second, partic for the intro skit

dangerous, gimme some more, break ya neck after that

I had no idea goons hated "Touch It." It's one of my top 5 Busta songs easy :/

ugh

you hold that era of swizz beatz in way too high of esteem

Put Your Hands, Gimme Some More or Break Your Motherfuckin Neck, Bitches.

"Touch It" isn't terrible but there are like 6-7 better songs on this list.

I lowballed the hell out of this; I still like "Touch It" tho

srsly tho, if you aren't picking a track from the 90s here you are doing this poll wrong

yeah "touch it" is a dope song and beat! don't know what you guys are taling about... especially this version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUrBMU0cCUk

without even listening to that i'm very willing to accept that reed dollaz was much better over that beat than any famous rapper

another great "Woo Ha!!" remix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ooBeUPgdY

Gimme Some More blew my brain when I first heard/saw the video, so that.

Yeah
As a shorty playing in the front yard of the crib
Fell down, and I bumped my head
Somebody helped me up and asked me if I bumped my head
I said "Yeah"
So then they said "Oh so that mean we gon, you gon switch it on em'?"
I said "Yeah, Flipmode, Flipmode is the greatest"
Knowing as a shorty, I was always told
That if I ain't gon' be part of the greatest
I gotta be the greatest myself

^^^ don't think this really happened TBH.

those first 10 singles comprise an astonishing run of high quality

I'd push it to 15 even.

I'm not a big fan of "Do the Bus a Bus" personally

anybody with more time than me wanna make a spotify playlist??

I'm pretty impressed that only ~4 of these are missing

voted for 'dangerous'. could've chosen 'gimmie some more' and 'break ya neck' also

^^ also, 'i know what you want' and (especially) 'what's it gonna be' = absolute classics, obv.

oh shit I forgot about "Tear Da Roof Off"

I'd forgotten that "I Love My Bitch" comes across like it has 2 lines in it

"Get Out!!" is one of the saddest trend-hopping songs ever, it felt like Busta's whole career just came to a screeching halt for a while after that dropped

otm

This should have been been a single, for the snare alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRSehnq0TfE

i discovered "get down" off that album when doing the timbaland poll, was areally pleasant surprise

no busta album track will ever top "everybody rise" though -- i've said this elsewhere but ELE is imo one of the best-produced rap albums of the late 90s

Everybody Rise is so great. Nottz killed those first 3 tracks (post intro).

1 put your hands
2 what's it gonna be (utter classic)
3 woo ha
4 gimme some more
5 pass the courvoisier

― J0rdan S., Sunday, 8 January 2012 4:23 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'd order this 1, 2, 5, 4, 3, but otherwise total cosign.

That 5 is good but put Dangerous on top to make it 6.

I think Extinction Level Event was the first non-Beastie Boysish / Run DMC-style hiphop album I ever got into.

Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See, by a fair distance

I'm pretty impressed that only ~4 of these are missing

Does the American version not have Woo-Hah? I'm seeing that one and presumably some others.

I'm missing:

"Light Your Ass on Fire" (featuring Pharrell)
"Shorty (Put It on the Floor)" (with Fat Joe, Chingy and Nick Cannon)
"We Made It" (featuring Linkin Park)
"Why Stop Now" (featuring Chris Brown)

... so basically everything that actually NEEDS to be there is there

oh wait I found "Light Your Ass on Fire"

also found "We Made It"

"Light Your Ass on Fire" is great, dude

"Light Your Ass on Fire" is in the same camp as "Touch It"; it's a good song but come on look at like the first 10-15 singles he released (hell you can go out to 20 and still find O_O amazing shit; this is a remarkably tough field)

i'm also in the "'touch it' isn't THAT bad" camp but yeah nowhere near the best

"put your hands" closely followed by "gimme some more"

"Light Your Ass on Fire" my fave of the post-ELE ones.

love "new york shit"

its an old diamond d beat or obv sample he used, right?

is Anarchy not on Spotify? It may be my favourite Busta record. FIRE and The Heist and Enjoy Da Ride and a bunch of other jams. It had lots of chimes and childlike sounds and sounded really weird and creepy. (It also had way too many skits and filler with Lenny Kravitz iirc.)

you know what else was dope? the first rah digga record (p much the only actual flipmode-while-flipmode-were-a-thing spinoff, right?)

is Anarchy not on Spotify?

please see the Spotify playlist upthread

must be a us-only album then for some reason

o_O at djp's dn

forgot about 'what it is'

registering my love for it

man it was nice forgetting that "arab money" ever existed for a couple years

lol:

Chorus: "Bismillāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm. Al ḥamdu lillāhi rabbi l-'ālamīn"
Translation: "In the name of God, most Gracious most Merciful. All Praise is due to God, Lord of the worlds.
The chorus used in video is the same chorus as the original.
Busta Rhymes: "As-Salamu Alaykum Warahmatullah Wa Barakatu"
Translation: "May Peace and blessings of God be upon you" (A Greeting)
What was used in the video: "While I stack another billion and give it to the block fool"
Diddy: "Al hamdu lillah"
Translation: "All Praises to God"
What they rhymed the phrase with: "With my billions pilin'"
Swizz Beatz: "Habibi"
Translation: "My Love (Masculine Form)"
What they rhymed the phrase with: "While she feedin' me linguine"
Akon: "Bismillāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm"
Translation: "In the name of God, most gracious most merciful."
What they rhymed the phrase with: "Straight cash when I come in, let me exchange the currency cause it's all foreign"

wait waht

those are lyrics from the remix

no, I mean... what were they thinking

i think they were thinking "may peace and blessings of god be upon you while I stack another billion and give it to the block fool"

haaaaaaaaay "Everything Remains Raw" was a double a-side with "Woo-Ha" wah that was my vote

voting for "woo-ha"

The Woos Have it I think

how was this not a single?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mre6F-UoW3E

thats like the moment the Neptunes realized they went to far and dialed back into minimal cricket noises for snoop the next year

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i heard 'i love my chick' & 'arab $' back-to-back in a bar tonight (and i didnt put them on)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

this is currently making Spotify justify its entire existence, thanks DJP you alma mamma you

wow always thoguht "put your hands" was the obvious consensus favorite

Fair enough results. Surprised there weren't more for Dangerous.

i'd have voted for "what's it gonna be"

"thank you" makes me so happy when it comes on the radio

i'm jealous, it hasn't gotten a drop of radio play in the U.S. :(