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The following is a production discography of American rapper and record producer Busta Rhymes . It includes a list of songs produced, co-produced and remixed by year, title, artist and album.
| Year | Song | Artist | Album | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | "Sound of the Zeekers @#^**?!" | Leaders of the New School | A Future Without a Past... | N/A |
| "Teachers, Don't Teach Us Nonsense!!" | produced w/ Leaders of the New School | |||
| "Monday We'll Be Together" | Strictly Business (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | |||
| "The Beauty Shop" | Nikki D | Daddy’s Little Girl | ||
| "Shining Star" | ||||
| 1993 | "Bass Is Loaded" | Leaders of the New School | T.I.M.E. (The Inner Mind's Eye) | N/A |
| "Noisy Medication" | ||||
| "The Difference" | ||||
| "Keep Steppin' On" | Another Bad Creation | It Ain't What U Wear, It's How U Play It | ||
| "Strive to Be" | ||||
| "Wicked Act" | Buju Banton, Busta Rhymes | Voice of Jamaica | ||
| "Can't Get Any Harder" (C&C Remix) | James Brown | Universal James | produced w/ Leaders of the New School | |
| 1994 | "Straight Loonie" | Keith Murray | The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World | produced w/ Erick Sermon & KP |
| "Looking at the World" | Rampage | Red Oktoba | N/A | |
| "Do You Want It" | Rampage, Busta Rhymes | N/A | ||
| "Come wit It" | Rampage | N/A | ||
| 1996 | "Abandon Ship" | Busta Rhymes, Rampage | The Coming | N/A |
| "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check" | Busta Rhymes | produced w/ Rashad Smith | ||
| 1997 | "Wild Hot" | Busta Rhymes, A Tribe Called Quest | Rhyme & Reason (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | produced w/ The Ummah |
| "Rampage Outro" | Rampage, Busta Rhymes, Spliff Star, DJ Scratch | Scout's Honor… by Way of Blood | produced w/ DJ Scratch | |
| "Intro" | Busta Rhymes, Dolemite | When Disaster Strikes... | ||
| "Turn It Up (Remix)/Fire It Up" | Busta Rhymes | When Disaster Strikes... and Music from the Motion Picture Can't Hardly Wait | co-produced w/ Spliff Star | |
| "Turn It Up" | When Disaster Strikes... | N/A | ||
| "There's Not a Problem My Squad Can't Fix" | Busta Rhymes, Jamal | N/A | ||
| 1998 | "The Imperial Intro" | Flipmode Squad | The Imperial | N/A |
| "Last Night" | N/A | |||
| "Freestyle" | The Mix Tape, Volume III: 60 Minutes of Funk (The Final Chapter) | N/A | ||
| "On Your Marks, Get Set, Ready, Go!" | Busta Rhymes | The Rugrats Movie: Music from the Motion Picture | N/A | |
| "This Means War!!" | Busta Rhymes, Ozzy Osbourne | Extinction Level Event: The Final World Front | N/A | |
| 2000 | "Harriet Thugman" | Rah Digga | Dirty Harriet | N/A |
| "Curtains" | N/A | |||
| "Fire" | Busta Rhymes | Anarchy | N/A | |
| "Ready for War" | Busta Rhymes, M.O.P. | N/A | ||
| 2006 | "Been Through the Storm" | Busta Rhymes | The Big Bang | co-producer w/ Dr. Dre; prod. by Sha Money XL & Black Jeruz |
| 2013 | "Pardon My Ways" | Busta Rhymes, Q-Tip | The Abstract and the Dragon | N/A |
| "Thank You" | Busta Rhymes, Q-Tip, Kanye West, Lil' Wayne | N/A | ||
| 2020 | "E.L.E. 2 Intro" | Busta Rhymes, Chris Rock, Rakim, Pete Rock | Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God | produced w/ Nottz |
| "Outta My Mind" | Busta Rhymes | produced w/ Dready | ||
| "E.L.E. 2 The Wrath of God" | produced w/ Nottz | |||
| "Deep Thought" | N/A | |||
| "You Will Never Find Another Me" | Busta Rhymes, Mary J. Blige | N/A | ||
| Year | Song | Artist | Album | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | "Beware of the Rampsack" (Smak-U-Bak Rampsack Mix) | Rampage | N/A | remixed and add. prod. w/ Alge Rashad |
| 2007 | "Oh My God" (The Super Busdown Remix) | Mark Ronson, Lily Allen, Busta Rhymes | N/A | N/A |
| "I Got It from My Mama" (Busta Rhymes Remix) | will.i.am | N/A | N/A | |
| 2010 | "C'mon (Catch 'Em By Surprise)" | Tiësto, Diplo, Busta Rhymes | N/A | prod. w/ Tiësto & Diplo |
Trevor George Smith Jr., known professionally as Busta Rhymes, is an American rapper and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the moniker Busta Rhymes, after NFL and CFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes. He has received 12 Grammy Award nominations for his work, making him one of the most-nominated artists without winning.
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The Big Bang is the seventh studio album by American rapper Busta Rhymes. It was released on June 13, 2006, by Aftermath Entertainment, Flipmode Records and Interscope Records. Production for the album took place during 2005 to 2006 at several recording studios and was handled by Dr. Dre, Swizz Beatz, Mark Batson, DJ Scratch, J Dilla, Timbaland, Mr. Porter, will.i.am, Sha Money XL, JellyRoll, Black Jeruz, Nisan Stewart and DJ Green Lantern. The official cover artwork was revealed on May 7, 2006. The tracklisting was released on the 15th.
The Coming is the debut studio album by the American rapper and record producer Busta Rhymes. It was released on March 26, 1996, by Flipmode Entertainment and Elektra Records. The album contains contributions by the Def Squad members Redman, Keith Murray, and Jamal; as well as Q-Tip, Zhané, Leaders of the New School, and several Flipmode Squad members. It was produced by DJ Scratch, Easy Mo Bee, and the Ummah, among others. It serves as Rhymes's first solo album after the breakup of Leaders of the New School two years prior, and his first full-length project after numerous guest appearances on other songs with artists such as A Tribe Called Quest, the Notorious B.I.G., Heavy D and the Boyz, and Mary J. Blige.
The Ummah was a music production collective, composed of members Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, and the late Jay Dee of the Detroit-based group Slum Village. Occasional members included Raphael Saadiq, and D'Angelo. In addition to producing nearly the entirety of A Tribe Called Quest's fourth and fifth albums, the Ummah provided backing tracks and remixes for a notable array of hip hop and contemporary R&B artists, including Busta Rhymes, Whitney Houston, Keith Murray, the Brand New Heavies, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, and Jon B. The group was so named because two of its members are devout Muslims. The word "ummah" is Arabic for "community", "nation", or "brotherhood". Generally, the term refers to the global Muslim population.
"Woo-Hah!! Got You All in Check" is a song by American rapper Busta Rhymes. It was released on January 7, 1996, by Flipmode Entertainment and Elektra Records as his debut solo single and the lead single from his debut studio album, The Coming (1996). The song was both written and produced by Rhymes and Rashad Smith. It contains additional vocals by Flipmode Squad member and Rhymes' cousin Rampage, credited as Rampage the Last Boy Scout. A critical and commercial success, the song peaked at number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100, and also peaked at the same position in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. In the United States, the song was released with several remixes of the song and "Everything Remains Raw", also appearing on The Coming, as its B-side. The single received a nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance at the 39th Grammy Awards, losing to "Hey Lover" by LL Cool J. In addition, its music video, directed by Hype Williams, received a nomination for Breakthrough Video at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards.
"Gimme Some More" is a song by American rapper Busta Rhymes. It was released as the second single from his third studio album Extinction Level Event: The Final World Front on October 26, 1998, by Flipmode Entertainment and Elektra Records. The song was written by Rhymes and its producer DJ Scratch. The violin riffs that accompany the main beat are sampled from the opening theme to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho, composed by Bernard Herrmann. It is often considered to be the very summit of Busta's complex, breathless, high-speed rhyming delivery most prominent in his early work.
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"We Made It" is a single by rapper Busta Rhymes featuring American rock band Linkin Park. The song was to be on Busta Rhymes's eighth studio album, Back on My B.S., but was then cancelled off the track list because the album was released on a different label as "We Made It" was Busta Rhymes's last song on Interscope. The song was produced by Cool & Dre, with additional production by Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson. The song was released on April 29, 2008. It was Busta Rhymes's final release on Aftermath Entertainment.
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Bernard Edwards Jr., known professionally as Focus..., is an American record producer from New York City. He gained major recognition upon signing with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment in 2002. During his tenure with the label, Edwards worked with artists including Dre himself, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross, John Legend, the Game, Ice Cube, Busta Rhymes, Fabolous, 50 Cent, Schoolboy Q, Joe, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez, Beyoncé, Lil Wayne, Mac Dre, and Marsha Ambrosius, among others.
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The following is a discography of production by Q-Tip, an American hip hop musician, record producer, and DJ. All songs credited as "produced by A Tribe Called Quest" were produced by Q-Tip, with the exception of "True Fuschnick", "Heavenly Father", and "La Schmoove" by Fu-Schnickens, which were produced by Ali Shaheed Muhammad. Q-Tip's contributions as a member of The Ummah production team are also listed. Q-Tip has also been credited under the pseudonyms "The Abstract", "The Lone Ranger", and "Qualiall".