Last night, word broke that Busta Rhymes has been dropped from Interscope Records after a heated phone conversation with label head Jimmy Iovine. The unconfirmed report started on 50 Cent's official website (along with the majority of most rumors on the internet), but what gives this news some teeth is the reaction from Interscope.When an Interscope rep was contacted by SOHH.com for a statement...
Walk with me. It's the tail end of 2001. It's been been a see-saw year in music...and otherwise. Guns N Roses gets back together (kinda). Aaliyah dies in a tragic plane crash. The band Franz Ferdinand is formed. Jay-Z and Nas shake up the hip-hop world with their scathing diss tracks The Takeover and Ether. And elsewhere, two other hip-hop greats, though an unlikely pair, were in the lab...
Last night, Busta Rhymes held a listening session with the press for his new album "I'm Blessed" and lost his temper. According to *"Complex":http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/04/11/busta-rhymes-lashes-out-at-journalists/* , a handful of journalists appeared less than enthusiastic about the album and sat there stone faced while it played. Busta didn't take too kindly to their body language and ...