Busta Rhymes has shouted out Billie Eilish for her knowledge of Hip Hop soon after she revealed her love for one of his best-known songs.
HipHopDX was on the Grammys red carpet on Sunday (February 4) when the “What Was I Made For?” singer made her way down the aisle. During a brief interaction, the 22-year-old was asked about the first rap song she ever learned and answered “Look At Me Now” — Bussa Buss’s duet with Chris Brown — though she declined to spit the verse.
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The New York City native came across the footage and reposted it to his Instagram on Monday (February 5) with the caption: “IT DON’T STOP!! AS THE BLESSINGS CONTINUES IN THE BIGGEST BLOCKBUSTA WAY… @billieeilish THANK YOU. #GRAMMYS2024 #BLOCKBUSTA ALBUM AVAILABLE AND STREAMING EVERYWHERE RIGHT NOW!! [mind-blown emojis]”
Check out Busta’s digital salute below:
On January 30, the legendary rapper stopped by British entrepreneur Steven Bartlett’s The Diary of a CEO podcast, where he took exception to the narrative about so-called “oldheads” not having time for up-and-comers.
“I’m never gonna listen to the narrative of the elder statesmen or the older MCs don’t really respect what the new guys is doing. That shit is bullshit,” he said.
“Speaking for myself and the type of artist I surround myself with, we don’t feel like that. We don’t move like that. When we was young artists, we wanted the big dudes to put their arms around us.”
He continued: “Chuck D gave me my name, Big Daddy Kane used to let me come to his crib, he put me on his albums, De La Soul, they did the same shit for us. I feel like it’s only right we do the same shit for the next generation of muthafuckas, especially if they dope.
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“And I’m a fan of a lot of these new artists. I wanna work with them ’cause they still inspiring me to wanna go in the studio and stay razor blade sharp with my shit. And I see a lot of them paying homage. There’s a lot of muthafuckas walking around with hairstyles like how I used to wear it with my dreads.”
Busta concluded by saying: “I just wanna make sure they know we not only here for them to give them the answers and the mentorship and the guidance and the information. I also want them to know we love them too, we fans of what y’all doing, we see you paying homage and we want y’all to know we paying homage to y’all too.”
