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Evening Standard
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David Smyth

Busta Rhymes – Blockbusta album review: New York rap giant is still thinking big

More than a quarter of a century since Busta Rhymes shouted “Woo-hah!” and got us all in check, the New York rap giant is still thinking big. His face forms a nuclear mushroom cloud on the cover of this 11th album, which follows its far from understated predecessor, Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God.

Weighing in at a hefty 19 tracks, with not one but three goliaths in the production credits – Pharrell Williams, Timbaland and Swizz Beatz – we may be a long way from him scoring five platinum albums in a row in America at the turn of the Millennium, but he clearly still has clout.

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