Busta Rhymes had shed some light on the verse on one of his songs, which hears Biggie took shots at 2Pac, in the midst of their infamous feud.
During a recent episode of the All The Smoke podcast, Bus-A-Bus revealed the backstory behind Biggie’s verse on “Dangerous MC’s,” explaining how it came together without Big actually putting pen to paper.
“We had another session. We in the same studio. No Big. Interestingly, I don’t know if anybody wrote their rhyme or even a piece of it. But, nobody laid their shit because motherfuckas wanted to see what Biggie was going to do,” he began.
“Never got the Nas and Meth verse. I got to Soundtracks the third day. Elevators fine. Big and Cease come. They pull up. Meth and Nas came two days in a row now. No Biggie. So, they was not coming on the third day.
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“We in the motherfuckin’ stu[dio] at the time, Branson is selling the most incredible bud in the hood and he would sell them in these jars that look like motherfuckin’ pickle jars… mason jars. Cease would roll the blunts and Biggie would come with the Branson jars. He rolling weed. Blunt after blunt after blunt and Biggie just sitting in one of the studio chairs — got the wheels on it that roll around — he’s sitting in that shit just doing this while a beat was playing” he added while bobbing his head from side-to-side.
He continued: “One hour, two hours, he just smoking. He ain’t writing nothing. About three hours in I’m like ‘My n-gga you ain’t going to do this verse my n-gga?’ That n-gga said, ‘I’m ready Buss.'”
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The “Break Ya Neck” rapper recounted poking fun at Biggie in disbelief for not writing anything down, only to witness him effortlessly lay down his verse as soon as he stepped into the booth.
“Diamonds on my neck, chrome drop-top/ Chillin’ on the scene, smokin’ pounds of green/ Oooh-wee, you see, the ugliest/ Money-hungriest, Brooklyn Loch Ness/ Nine millimeter cock test, wan fi’ test?/ And the winner is, not that thinner kid/ Bandanas, tattoos, my skin never bruise/ Land still cruise, Frank White…” he rapped.
“Diddy had been searching for verses that might have been laying around that was never released commercially that Big had recorded and I told Diddy that I had this verse for a long time,” Busta revealed, while serving as the creative director on the song’s revamped version.
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Speaking on former NBA stars Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson’s All the Smoke podcast, the Brooklyn rap legend reflected on his “incredible” relationship with ‘Pac and one particularly memorable studio session with the All Eyez On Me MC.
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“When ‘Pac got back from [Atlanta, where he shot an off-duty police officer], ‘Pac became super [paranoid] because he felt like the cops were out to kill him no matter what state he was in,” he said.
“He had gotten a wild arsenal. He kept an MPC beat machine in the crib and I literally watched him write about seven songs to the same Isley Brothers sample. Each song was about different shit. I couldn’t understand that.
“After a while, I get tired of hearing the motherfucking beat. I don’t wanna hear that beat to write no more songs to it. I write the one song to it, I’m off the damn beat. He wrote seven songs to the same beat!”
Lil Cease previously revealed that The Notorious B.I.G. wanted Busta Rhymes and Nas to help him take on 2Pac during their infamous feud in the mid ’90s.
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During an interview with The Art of Dialogue in 2022, the former Junior M.A.F.I.A. rapper explained that Biggie was eying his fellow New Yorkers to join him on the J Dilla-produced track that would serve as a response to ‘Pac’s “Hit ‘Em Up.”
