Classic Verse: Busta Rhymes on A Tribe Called Quest’s “Scenario” (Video)

I'm feeling kind of old school today, so it was only natural that I had to select one of my all-time favorites tracks for this week's Classic Verse, A Tribe Called Quest's "Scenario" featuring Leaders of the New School, unquestionably one of the greatest posse cuts in hip-hop history. While just about every verse on this one is a classic, the way a young, skinny Busta Rhymes absolutely destroys the mic makes his a classic amongst classics. This is the verse that I judge all other Busta verses against.

First, check it out (lyrics are below the video). Busta's verse is at the end:


"Watch, as I combine all the juice from the mind
Heel up, wheel up, bring it back, come rewind
Powerful impact BOOM! from the cannon
Not braggin, try to read my mind just imagine
Vo-cab-u-lary's necessary
When diggin into my library
Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!
Eating ITAL stew like the one Peter Tosh-a
UH uh UH, all over the track, man
UH, pardon me, UH, as I come back
As I did it yo I had to beg your pardon
When I travel to the Sun I roll with the squadron
RRRRRROAW RRRRRRROAW like a dungeon dragon
Change your little drawers cause your pants are saggin
Try to step to this, I will twist you in a turban
And have u smelling rank, like some old stale urine
Chickity-choco, the chocolate chicken
The rear cockdiesel but chicks they were kicking
Yo, bustin out before the Busta bust a nut the rhyme
the rhythm is in sync (UHH!) the rhymes are on time (TIME!)
Rippin up the sound just like a radio
Observe the rhyme and check out the scenario!!"

Sometimes somethings so good that all you can do is swear: Holy motherf**king s**t that is ill. There's a reason they put his verse on at the end of the song - there's no way anyone could follow that, and the rest of the crew on this track aren't exactly novices. If you're like me you've spend countless hours in the car blasting "Scenario" and trying to nail Busta's verse (I particularly like yelling "Chickity-choco, the chocolate chicken!" for some reason), and if you haven't, I highly recommend you give it a try. On a side note, have we considered testing Busta for steroids? The dude's enormous now, but back in the day he couldn't have been much over 150. Even Barry Bonds didn't put on that much size.

If you've got a classic verse let me know at nathan(@)refinedhype.com.