Busta Rhymes Trivia

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Birth name: Trevor Smith Jr.

Date of birth: 20 May 1972 

Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA 

Nickname: Busta Rhymes

Height: 6′ 2″ (1.88 m) 

• Trevor John Smith was born in Brooklyn, New York, and is of Jamaican heritage.
• At the age of 12, his family moved to Uniondale, a suburb of New York City on Long Island, where he was raised and eventually met up with other rappers from the growing New York area hip hop community.
• He graduated from George Westinghouse High School Downtown Brooklyn, the same high school attended by famous MC’s Notorious B.I.G. and Jay-Z.
• Trevor then moved up north to a county called lancashire were he got a part time life guard job at a local swimming pool near his home town of lancaster.
• In 1990 busta decided to move back to the U.S.A to become a rapper as he become talented on the streets of liverpool and a small town called morecambe.
• Arrested and charged with criminal possession after police found a loaded, unregistered pistol in his car. The police also found a small bag of marijuana on Gerald Odom, Rhymes’ manager, who was riding in the car at the time. Odom was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana and criminal possession of a weapon. [27 December 1998]
• Son, T’ziah, b. 1993 by former girlfriend Joanne
• In 2003 signed to Shady/Aftermath records, Eminem and Dr. Dre’s record company.
• Nickname was given to him by Chuck D of Public Enemy, and was taken from University of Oklahoma halfback George “Buster” Rhymes.
• The video for “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See” features a recreation of a well-known scene from the 1988 Eddie Murphy film Coming to America. 
• Busta has made a habit of appearing on other artists’ songs to do only the hook, bridge or chorus; he has done this for artists such as Big Pun (“Parental Discretion”), Black Moon (“The Onslaught”), Nas (“Suicide Bounce”), Puff Daddy and Notorious B.I.G. (“Victory”), The Game (“Like Father, Like Son”) and Obie Trice (“Oh!”).
• On December 31, 1999, BET named “Woo-Hah!! Got You All In Check” the # 3 video on its list of the Top 100 Videos of the 20th Century. “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See” was # 39.
• His concert rider reportedly includes a box of ribbed condoms.
• In the filming of Finding Forrester, he arrived on set two minutes late, prompting Sean Connery to give him a late slip. 
• His first group, the Leaders of the New School, disbanded during November 1993 broadcast of Yo! MTV Raps. 
• Daft Punk’s “Technologic” was sampled by Swizz Beatz for Busta Rhymes’ single “Touch It”. 
• In 2004, he signed with Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment.
• During a video shoot, fellow rapper Tony Yayo and his entourage left abruptly after a heated exchange with the producer Swizz Beatz. A shooting had occurred leaving one of Busta Rhymes’ bodyguards, Israel “Izzy” Ramirez, dead. The New York Police Department are investigating the incident. Since the death, Tony Yayo as well as Busta Rhymes have been tight lipped about the incident, forcing the police to subpoena the rappers to testify. One result of the ongoing controversy surrounding the street credibility of rappers is that most will not talk to police.
• Has been confronted once by an underground rapper, Tragedy Styles. 
• Owns a green Lamborghini, nicknamed “Peppermint”. 
• He appears in the video game, Def Jam: Fight for NY, as “Magic”.
• His remix of “Touch It” has been at the top of UK DJ, Semtex’s chart for 15 weeks in a row.
• He was supposed to appear on Punk’d where he was going to get pranked by Britney Spears, but Ashton Kutcher strongly opposed her. 
• Busta Rhymes cut off his dreds late 2005 because he signed to a new label, was going to release a new album, and wanted to finish it off with a new hair style. 
• Busta Rhymes’ song “Gimme Some Mo’” contains a sample from the movie Psycho. 
• Busta Rhymes’ new album (The Big Bang) was leaked onto the internet on May 29 2006, almost two weeks before the retail date, the album was released on the 13th of June, 2006. 
• 2006 has seen the release of his seventh studio album, The Big Bang. The cd became his first #1 album of his entire career.
• Busta is a Muslim, he has publicly stated that he embraces Islam as being part of his life. He adds, “I used that as inspiration to go into the studio all the time when I had a free moment. After work, during my lunch break, traveling back and forth to work … to just apply myself creatively, and the opportunity finally came one day when I was downtown.”
• On August 20, 2006, he was arraigned for charges of third-degree assault after attacking a man who reportedly spat on his car in New York City on August 12 after the AmsterJam Music Festival on Randall’s Island.
• On October 24, 2006, he appeared at Manhattan Criminal Court as the district attorney’s office attempted to amend previous charges against him to include weapons possession for a machete found in his car. The judge, ShawnDya Simpson, refused to add the charge and adjourned the case.
• On February 20, 2007, Busta refused a plea deal offered by the prosecutors office for the assault of his former driver, Edward Hatchett. The deal would have entailed six months in jail and pleading guilty to two assaults, the attack on Hatchett, and the attack on the former fan.
• On March 18, 2008 a judge in New York City sentenced Busta to three years’ probation, 10 days’ community service, $1250 in fines (plus court costs), and to enroll in a drunken driving program.
• On September 25, 2008, he was temporarily refused entry to the UK due to “unresolved convictions”.
• Due to controversial content, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has banned the album. Back on My B.S. was released internationally, but because of one song, “Arab Money”, it is not available to buy as a CD there.
• On October 14, 2009, a Brooklyn judge ordered Busta to pay a concert goer $75,000 in compensation for an assault alleged to have occurred in 2003″.