Snoop Dogg unveils the music video for “Murder Music,” the lead-single from his forthcoming album, Algorithms, and his first release under the Def Jam umbrella. But only in spots.Snoop Dogg Hits New Yorks Streets With Benny The Butcher Jadakiss And Busta Rhymes In Murder Music Video The Imperial isn't even close to being a perfect album, or even a great one, but most of it is pretty entertaining, and in spots it's even quite brilliant. With the exception of the guy who seems to disappear for several tracks at a time, everyone in the Squad receives a proper showcase on The Imperial, some more successfully than others, and the end result is the rare crew album that actually belongs alongside the others in the Busta Rhymes catalog, as opposed to it being a weed carrier compilation recorded by people simply along for the ride. Rampage, Rah Digga, Spliff Star, Baby Sham, and the sorely underused Lord Have Mercy all make perfect foils for Busta's wild antics, as they are able to mostly maintain the same level of energy that their leader possesses: the only aspect of these tracks that generally fail them are the instrumentals themselves, some of which sounds as though they were stolen from an entirely different project.
Sucks for you, Busta: there was going to be a bouncy castle and everything.įINAL THOUGHTS: Flipmode Squad's first (and, to date, only) group album, The Imperial, holds up surprisingly well today (at least the first two-thirds, anyway), much more so than most of the Busta Rhymes solo albums, mainly because he doesn't have to shoulder the burden of carrying all sixteen tracks (although he appears on nearly all of them anyway). This makes me want to rescind the E-vite I had sent to the Flipmode Squad to attend my niece's fifth birthday party: they seem to being nothing but violence to the table. The night at the club ends poorly, though, with someone getting shot during the second half of the skit that frames the song. I've always liked the sound of this DJ Scratch-produced track: it sounds enough like one of the better Busta solo songs to help bring in that audience, but throws in some new twists to sound unique, so that the rest of the Flipmode Squad would sound comfortable performing over it, had Busta been charitable enough to allow that to happen. The first single from The Imperial finds Busta Rhymes hanging out at the club with Rampage and Lord Have Mercy on some “guys night out” type of shit, or at least that's what I'm led to believe, since all these three talk about is getting pussy and commenting on how long the line to get in has grown. The night before the trip, the newly formed trio took in a monster truck rally, finding themselves impressed with the man announcing the evening's events, who had named himself Lord Have Mercy because his parents were hippies, and invited him along for the ride.
While purchasing supplies at an A&P, (primarily Ozarka bottled water, Flintstone vitamins, and six cans of regular Pringles), a homeless neighborhood boy that referred to himself as Spliff Star to whoever was listening started hanging around Trevor and his cousin as if he belonged, and Busta was too singularly focused on his vision quest to shoo him away. He recruited his cousin Rampage the Last Boy Scout to ride shotgun, so that he would always have someone to talk to. He believed that he could only discover himself by leaving behind what he thought defined him as a person, so he rented a Hyundai and planned a cross-country road trip. After his former crew, Leaders Of The New School, disbanded, Busta Rhymes decided to clear his head.
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