Posts Tagged: busta rhymes
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"Look At Me Now" And Five Other Good Rap Songs From This Week

The venerable Busta Rhymes shows us what people mean when they talk about an MC "blacking out" on a track. He rhymes so fast, enunciates so clearly, without pausing to take a breath, you'd think he'd lose consciousness. In so doing, he steals this song—with it's huge and spacious beat, which was produced by club music maestro Diplo and sounds like it will explode dance floors like the Yin Tang Twins "Wait (The Whisper Song)" did six years ago—from proprietor Chris Brown and fellow guest star Lil Wayne both.

Here are a bunch of other good rap songs that came out this week.

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Rihanna, "S&M"

This new Rihanna video is pretty great in an old, candy-painted, classic-days-of-MTV-surrealism way. Directed by Melina Matsoukas, it's like Busta Rhymes meets Tom Petty meets Cyndi Lauper meets Devo. With Perez Hilton bound and gagged and made to crawl around on all fours like a dog.