If you enjoy hearing about inside the music industry and its artists, I recommend you check out my conversation with will.i.am, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m-2QhqdlfI From Trevor to Busta, love of the rap game to global success, and rock bottom to rebirth. This is Busta Rhymes as you’ve never heard him. Trevor George Smith Jr. or ‘Busta Rhymes’, first reached fame with the hip-hop group, ‘Leaders of the New School’, and began his solo rap career in 1996, since then has released 11 studio albums and received 12 Grammy Award nominations for his work. In this conversation Busta and Steven discuss topics, such as:

Growing up in the hood

Starting out in music

Becoming an MC by accident

Using rap as a way out of work

Becoming addicted to entertaining and the reaction of people to his raps

Rapping to protect himself

Selling crack at 12 years old

Failure not being an option for his father

His father standing in the way of his musical career

Getting booed off stage early in his career

His mother signing his record deal at 17 years old

What lessons he would tell his kids to reach success

Why you need to be selfish to reach success

His manger dying in 2012

How his manager taught him ever he knew

His emotional down turn

How his whole life was going in a totally different direction

Why he couldn’t figure himself out

Being on steroid pills

How his son thought he was going to die

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